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Epic Translation Fail [Video]

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An excerpt from the primary level of Korean conversation courses with Christine Jang. All this Korean girl wants it to teach her students how to ask for Coke.

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Gale-Force Wind Portraits by Tadao Cern

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Lithuanian photographer and artist Tadao Cern has been working on a series of hilarious wind-pushed portraits entitled, ahem, Blow Job, that depicts individuals enduring gale-force winds directly to the face.

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Exquisite Papercraft Stop Motion Video for Ödland

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I was absolutely floored watching this enchanting stop motion video directed by Vincent Pianina and Lorenzo Papace for a song called Østersøen that was also written, composed, and recorded by Papace for his band Ödland off the album Sankta Lucia . What strikes me most about the video is the transitions between scenes, as objects change scale or as the camera zooms in to reveal alternate dimensions embedded in the smallest of areas. You’ll watch it two or three times before you see everything.

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Gale-Force Winds Directly to the Face

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Lithuanian photographer and artist Tadao Cern has been working on a series of hilarious portraits entitled, ahem, Blow Job , that depicts individuals enduring gale-force winds directly to the face. Say goodbye to the next 15 minutes, he’s taken 100 portraits so far.

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Before I Die, I Want To…

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” Before I die, I want to…. ” is the brain child of photographers KS Rives as a result of the end of the polaroid era, and Nicole Kenney where they asked the simple question: What do you want to do before you die?

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A Colossal Vacation

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I’m heading out for a week or so on vacation and may or may not have access to the internets where I’m going. I actually intend on posting daily but anything could happen once I’m kicking back on a beach for the first time in a couple years. So, in case I become incapacitated with relaxation, I’ll leave you with some of my favorite art, design and culture blogs as of late

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Maurice Sendak 1928-2012

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Influential children’s book author and illustrator Maurice Sendak , creator of Where the Wild Things Are , has died. You can find his obituary on the New York Times .

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A Hard-Hitting, Toy-Mincing, Stop-Motion Music Video for Delta Heavy

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This new stop-motion music video for Delta Heavy is pretty incredible. Watch as a cavalcade of classic boardgames from your childhood meet an untimely demise, all for the sake of dubstep

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Modified Social Benches

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These are Modified Social Benches by artist Jeppe Hein , which are located throughout the city of De Haan in Belgium, for the contemporary art event Beaufort04 . The bench designs borrow their basic form from normal park benches, but are altered in various degrees to make the act of sitting on them a conscious physical endeavour

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The Sculptures of Ron Ulicny

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If there’s a theme on Colossal that appears more often than any other, it’s artwork involving ordinary objects and materials that are repurposed or reconfigured to create new, unexpected things. Portland sculptor Ron Ulicny has made a living for himself creating just such artworks.

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