.: Lakes & Oceans n' Dr. Tyson

Randall Munroe's "Lakes and Oceans" has everything you need to cultivate an appreciation for the vasty depths and the ocean blue.

Click pic for full-sized chart

Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson's (@neiltyson) Tweets:

Apollo in 1969. Shuttle in 1981. Nothing in 2011. Our space program would look awesome to anyone living backwards thru time.

If gridiron were a timeline, w/ Big Bang at one goal, then cavemen to now spans thickness of single turf-blade at other goal.

Need a distraction today? Not only does 12+1=11+2, but the letters "twelve plus one" rearrange to give you "eleven plus two"

I've come to conclude that Fettucini Alfredo is just Mac-and-Cheese for food snobs.

It's just unfair that "a lot" is still two words, yet "inasmuch" "heretofore" "unforeseen" & "stomachache" are each one.

If you removed all the arteries, veins, & capillaries from a person's body, and tied them end-to-end...the person will die.

If the surviving miners are heroes (rather than victims) then what do you call the NASA & Chilean Engineers who saved them?

Just to settle it once and for all: Which came first the Chicken or the Egg? The Egg -- laid by a bird that was not a Chicken

Geek e-mail signoff: No trees were killed to send this message, but a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.

A bullet fired level from a gun will hit ground at same time as a bullet dropped from the same height. Do the Physics.

TheBigBangTheory: When geeky scientists can be main characters in a hit primetime series, you know there's hope for the world

.: Stuff That Caught My Eye

 "The Bomb Runner". The bike is a 2011 Sportster Forty-Eight 1200

THE GIFT
Two custom Taylor Guitars crafted from some of the rarest woods in the world. A visit to Taylor Guitars’ factory in Southern California, including round-trip private air transportation plus three nights’ accommodation at the Lodge at Torrey Pines. A five-year supply of Taylor Guitars apparel and accessories.
STARTING AT $150,000

Dean Guitars

100 Faces, by Karin Jurick -Titled BUST-ED, the project features individual loose studies of the human head, each painted from actual mugshots [with names concealed for obvious reasons]. For the past 100 days, she has painted the 4" x 4" portraits on masonite, one each day.

.: Roberto Matta

Roberto Matta...  Matta's Art Gallery

"Trois invisibles"

"D'âme et d'Eve"

Matta's The Earth Is A Man ... Il Albero Giovanne

Roberto Sebastian Antonio Matta Echaurren was born in Santiago, Chile in 1911. He studied architecture at the Universidad Catolica in Santiago. In 1933 Matta traveled to Paris and worked for two years as a draftsman in the Paris studio of famed architect Le Corbusier. While visiting his aunt in Madrid, he met Federico Garcia Lorca and Pablo Neruda. Neruda introduced Matta to Salvador Dali and Andre Breton. Impressed by Matta's drawings, Breton invited him to join the Surrealist group in 1937.

Here is his Tolomiro-Todomiro

"La Dulce Acqua Vita"

"Omnipuissance du rouge"

"La faune des phanne"

"Elle loge la folie"

"Foot-coreography"

A general view of several works by Chilean surrealist artist Roberto Matta that form part of a retrospective exhibition celebrating the 100th anniversary of the artist's birth, at the Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno in Valencia, eastern Spain. The exhibition runs from 15 February to 01 May 2011.

Roberto Matta: Video #1... Video #2

.: The Holden Efijy

The Holden Efijy

The Holden Efijy is a concept car created in Australia by Holden. It is based around the iconic Holden FJ.

More shots here & here

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.: Cool Tilt-Shift Van Goghs

Serena Malyon, an illustrator in her third year at the Alberta College of Art & Design, has taken the classics works of Vincent Van Gogh and added a contemporary twist. Using Photoshop, Serena has added the ’tilt-shift’ effect to Van Gogh’s paintings, providing a fresh perspective on these masterpieces.

.: Pagani Automobili

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