found along Interstate 80, just west of Cheyenne....

The Abe Lincoln Project

Abe Lincoln’s Life Face Mask

Abe Lincoln's Life Face Mask - Based on a photo by M. Spencer Green

Lopsided Lincoln

Alexander Calder performs his "Circus"

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This video excerpts scenes of Alexander Calder performing the “Circus” from a 1955 film by Jean Painleve.

Follow your artistic dreams. It’s the only job in the world where you can get paid to play like a kid and be regarded as a genius for it.

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Foreign Policy: The Top 10 Stories You Missed in 2008 Don't miss them this time.

Briton saved dozens in hotel A millionaire private equity broker from London has emerged as a hero who stopped Islamic terrorists from massacring Britons and Americans in their attack on Mumbai.

LAX Tops Nation In Stolen, Missing Luggage Items "Easy pickings?" "Easy pickings." "I wouldn't put anything valuable in LAX" These two LAX employees would only talk if we concealed their identities. "I saw thefts within the first few weeks of working there." They both say there are organized rings of thieves, who identify valuables in your checked luggage by looking at the TSA x-ray screens, then communicate with baggage handlers by text or cell phone, telling them exactly what to look for. (via)

What is truth serum? Indian officials plan to inject captured Mumbai terrorist with the "truth serum," sodium pentothal, but history tells us that the technique isn't up to the task

Particulate Emissions From Laser Printers Do laser printers emit pathogenic toner particles into the air? Some people are convinced that they do. As a result, this topic is the subject of public controversy. Researchers have now investigated what particles the printers really do release into the air.

Black Garlic Introducing a simple food with a wonderfully complex flavor. Black garlic is sweet meets savory, a perfect mix of molasses-like richness and tangy garlic undertones. It has a tender, almost jelly-like texture with a melt-in-your-mouth consistency similar to a soft dried fruit. Hard to believe, but true. It’s as delicious as it is unique. (via)

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A Fragment Theory Of Deja Vu
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Prized sculpture destroyed on trip to Art Basel Miami
How to Stretch a Canvas

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William Eggleston: I am at war with the obvious

Allan McCollum. The Dog From Pompei, 1991.

Allan McCollum:

Cast glass-fiber- reinforced Hydrocal. Replicas made from a mold taken from the famous original "chained dog" plaster cast of a dog smothered in ash from the explosion of Mount Vesuvius, in ancient Pompeii, in 79 A.D. Produced in collaboration with the Museo Vesuviano and the Pompei Tourist Board, Pompei, Italy, and Studio Trisorio, Naples, Italy.

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Liu Jianhua : Yiwu Survey

Liu Jianhua : Yiwu Survey (2006)

hat tip: trendbeheer

stray bullets

Right Thing to Wear at the Wrong End of a Gun There are bulletproof leather jackets and bulletproof polo shirts. Armored guayabera shirts hang next to protective windbreakers, parkas and even white ruffled tuxedo shirts. Every member of the sales staff has had to take a turn being shot while wearing one of the products, which range from a few hundred dollars to as much as $7,000, so they can attest to the efficacy of the secret fabric.

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Man of steel (rare Richard Serra interview)
Liveblogging a pending asteroid strike

Futility Closet - Allied Reptiles In February 1945, the British 14th Army had surrounded a mass of fleeing Japanese in a mangrove swamp in southern Burma. In the swamp were thousands of saltwater crocodiles, averaging 15 feet long, but the Japanese refused to surrender...

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Kraftwerk - Radioactivity (live)
Video Inside the Chernobyl Sarcophagus
Jack Kerouac reads from Doctor Sax in 1961
The Weather Underground (feature length doc)

Michel de Broin, Dead Star, 2008

image: thanks to the artist and Eyebeam

Michel de Broin

Eyebeam

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Sinking head

A view of Bali-born sculptor Nyoman Nuarta's workshop. There are more than 100 of his sculptures on display at the NuArt Sculpture Park in Bandungin West Java, Indonesia.

from Tin Green's photostream
hat tip: 鏡

Microminiature Art

Time:

Who says you can't put a camel through the eye of a needle? (Nikolai) Aldunin has fit seven through this one. The artist works between the beats of his heart, in order to keep his hands perfectly still.

He uses a microscope to see the work.