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8 years agoExpression BlueOracle
Wonderful Portrait Film Photography by Nolwen Cifuentes
Nolwen Cifuentes is a French-Colombian photographer, based-in Los Angeles. “I got a 35mm Canon camera when I was 12 that my mom bought me and it's still the same one I use today, 15 years later, to shoot a lot of my images. It's like an extension of my hand a bit, I know that camera so well. I've been shooting professionally about 2 years.”
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8 years agoHow-to BlueOracle
Eat the Squash Blossom
I don’t cook with flowers much; I tend to find them either very bland (pansy, carnation) or too delicate to use as anything but a carefully placed garnishes (nasturtium, herb flowers like basil). But squash blossoms are a bit different. They’re easy to find during the summer and fall in farmers markets, they’re hardier and more flavorful than most flowers, and because they’re essentially a byproduct, they fit in nicely with my refrain of Use The Whole Plant.
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8 years agoExpression BlueOracle
NSFW The Absurd and the Nude: Giuseppe Palmisano Gathers Stories
We ran across the work of Italian photographer Giuseppe Palmisano this morning, and love the absurdity and overall fun he seems to be having with his subjects. We did a little Google translate on his site to see what he was all about, and he notes "it is as if I have lived and I returned from a time to gather the stories of people living today." Okay, maybe Google translate needs to work on it a little bit?
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8 years agoExpression BlueOracle
Pinup Pioneers: The First Underwater Photoshoot – In Pictures
When Bruce Mozert gazed into the waters of Silver Springs, Florida, in 1938, he saw nothing but possibilities. Here are his earliest underwater shots, with queens of the deep doing underwater archery, sipping cocktails, reading the paper – and even frying fish.
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8 years agoRelated Link BlueOracle
Fleeting Wonders: Millions of Balls Saving Los Angeles From Drought
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8 years agoCurrent Event BlueOracle
Fleeting Wonders: Millions of Balls Saving Los Angeles From Drought
Yesterday, the Los Angeles Shade Ball Cover Project rolled to a halt, rounding off years of work. With a shout of "shade balls away!" Los Angeles city officials overturned a row of sacks and sent 20,000 of the jet black objects cascading down into the Los Angeles Reservoir. The new recruits joined those from previous releases (which have been occurring weekly for over a year), and raised the total ball count to 96 million. They now blanket the entire surface of the 175-acre basin.
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8 years agoExpression BlueOracle
From a Synagogue to a Pizzeria, an Alternative Tour of Stained Glass in NYC
Although it's an art form more associated with medieval cathedrals, there is stunning stained glass in New York City. Some of the most lustrous examples are found in museums — the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s “Autumn Landscape” (1923–24) by Tiffany Studios dazzles with its glimmering waterfall winding below fall trees; the Brooklyn Museum’s “Hospitalitas” (1906–07) by John La Farge has realistic depth in its depiction of a robed woman dropping flowers against a rich landscape of blue.
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8 years agoExpression BlueOracle
Clutter
Somewhere in the world, there must be people who actually take a moment to unsubscribe from all those e-mails—newsletters and sale alerts and publicity blasts—that clutter their inboxes. Rather, I mean, than simply deleting them every single day. One doesn’t like to calculate the time costs of these things; it’s too depressing.
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8 years agoExpression BlueOracle
NSFW Student Activism Has Been Flaring Up Around the World—Here’s What the Protests Looked Like
From Chile to Myanmar, activists are speaking out against skyrocketing tuition, police brutality, and censorship. Students have a legacy of activism, spearheading protests against the Vietnam War and sit-ins advocating for civil rights. Their rallies, marches, and boycotts have been vital to conquering the status quo and advancing conversations on issues ranging from LGBT equality to financial reform.
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8 years agoAnalysis BlueOracle
News about the success of a new Ebola vaccine may be too good to be true
Was the Ebola vaccine 100% effective, or 100% lucky? The good money is on a percentage somewhere in between, but in truth, we will never know. For three reasons, we cannot know if the vaccine really worked, or how well. Those reasons are the lack of placebo comparison, the way the investigators diagnosed vaccine failure and the possibility of statistical flukes.
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8 years agoRelated Link BlueOracle
Wild West Ghost Town Emerges from Watery Grave
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8 years agoAnalysis BlueOracle
Wild West Ghost Town Emerges from Watery Grave
Drought conditions in the Western part of the United States have allowed an old Nevada town once submerged deep beneath Lake Mead to emerge from its watery grave. Founded in 1865, St. Thomas was initially settled by Mormons drawn by Muddy Creek, a tributary that flows into the Colorado River, located 22 miles away. When the Mormons left in 1871, outlaws — including horse thieves and cattle rustlers— moved in. The town was eventually settled by people attracted by the region’s prime farming land.
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8 years agoInteractive BlueOracle
Permafrost: Choose Your Own Adventure
You're heading in. Choose your weapon: The black one with grooves. The solid black one. The canary-colored one. The faded black with silver markings. The fire red with orange stripes. The flat, mat black one...
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8 years ago
It could just be a typo. I can correct it in the description, but obviously not in the article. 5" would be quite elfin indeed! ;)
Posted in: The Best Time I Rejected Minimalism
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8 years agoAnalysis BlueOracle
The Hidden Connection Between Morality and Language
Janet Geipel of the University of Trento in Italy posed fictional scenarios to German-, Italian-, and English-speaking college students in each student’s native language and in a second language that they spoke almost fluently. What Geipel found in her July 2015 study is that “the use of a foreign language, as opposed to a native language, elicited less harsh moral judgments.” She concluded that a distance is created between emotional and moral topics when speaking in a second language.
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8 years agoRelated Link BlueOracle
Oracle bones and unseen beauty: wonders of priceless Chinese collection now online
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8 years agoExpression BlueOracle
Sunday Sweets For Book Lovers Day
It's Book Lovers Day, my friends, and I know *JUST* how to celebrate! Assuming you can convince your guests these are actually edible, of course...
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8 years agoReview BlueOracle
Of all the best-dressed lists, Vanity Fair’s is the most reliably deranged
According to the magazine, one of the world’s most chic women is the Countess of Wessex – among other bland celebrities and royals. Are these people truly fashionable, or has money been confused with style?
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8 years agoExpression BlueOracle
The Best Time I Rejected Minimalism
I stripped my closet down to the basics. It totally didn't take... One chilly day in January, I realized that everyone I knew was giving away everything they owned. There were chatterings over Facebook about a book called The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up, written by an elfin, 5' Japanese woman named Marie Kondo. Curious, I went to the Toronto Public Library website to place a hold: 442 holds on 59 copies.
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8 years agoExpression BlueOracle
Harry Houdini and Arthur Conan Doyle: a friendship split by spiritualism
The author and the illusionist might seem an odd couple, but a shared interest in the afterlife made for an unlikely bond and a bitter rift. In 1920, two of the biggest celebrities of the age met for the first time. One was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the famed creator of the great detective Sherlock Holmes, and the other was Harry Houdini, the illusionist and escapologist...
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8 years agoExpression BlueOracle
Faces and Silhouettes Created with Folded Sheets of Fabric
English artist Benjamin Shine has recently made an impressive installation at the Canberra Centre. In his artwork The Dance, he shaped dancers’ faces and bodies from 2000 meters of suspended tulle. From a step back, these veiled sculpture reminds us of realistic paintings. With folded, ironed and sewed sheets, he managed to reproduce silhouettes, shadows and light.
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8 years agoExpression BlueOracle
The Story of Your Life
How you arrange the plot points of your life into a narrative can shape who you are—and is a fundamental part of being human. In telling the story of how you became who you are, and of who you're on your way to becoming, the story itself becomes a part of who you are.
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8 years agoReview BlueOracle
Here's the first look at Westworld, HBO's sci-fi western starring Anthony Hopkins
HBO just unveiled the first trailer for Westworld, a new series coming next year. Starring Anthony Hopkins, much of it looks like it could be a conventional western, but the teaser trailer has enough futuristic flashes in it to show that something else is going on — especially if you've seen the source material, Michael Crichton's 1973 movie of the same title.
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8 years agoAnalysis BlueOracle
What Drives Mass Hysteria, Human Stampedes, and Fads?
From Black Friday stampedes to scapegoating Jews in the Holocaust, social delusions are a barometer of the state of a society. An excerpt from the new book "A Colorful History of Popular Delusions", by Robert E. Bartholomew and Peter Hassall.
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8 years agoImage BlueOracle
Curious Baby, by Karim Iliya
We quietly approached the mother and baby humpback whale keeping to the surface, yet making our presence aware to the mother. This is a baby humpback whale calf that was approximately 1 week old. As with most babies, this creature was curious. I could not help but wave and smile at the newborn whale almost three times my length. Its curiosity got the better of it, and emerging from under it's mother's fin it swam towards me, approaching less than 30 centimeters from my face.
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