Just to prepare ourselves to some harsh realities when oil runs out and learn from the Cuban experience... Following the collapse of the Soviet Union and the embargo imposed by the United States, Cuba saw its oil supplies stop abruptly. Food production rested heavily on oil: faced with the possibility of starvation, low energy ways of producing food had to be implemented: it not only improved the health of soil and environment but also of the inhabitants of the island.

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Axel N.
Erlandson (1884-1964)
�You would think that as the trees grow, the formation would change. But they don�t. This chair will remain about the same height. The legs, arms and back will get larger in circumference but the shape will remain about the same.
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No other figure today or in known history went so far in demonstrating the potential that trees have to offer to the art of arborsculpture. With only a fourth grade education and a strong will to teach himself, Axel Erlandson�s work �set the bar� for all aspiring arborsculptors.

http://www.arborsmith.com/treecircus.html





















for your viewing pleasure~~~~ONE TRILLION DOLLERS!!!!

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From: SANTOS 707 (108640900)
To:
Date: Mar 7, 2009 5:13 PM
Subject: for your viewing pleasure~~~~ONE TRILLION DOLLERS!!!!


All this talk about "stimulus packages" and "bailouts"...

A billion dollars...

A hundred billion dollars...

Eight hundred billion dollars...

One TRILLION dollars...

What does that look like? I mean, these various numbers are tossed around like so many doggie treats, so I thought I'd take Google Sketchup out for a test drive and try to get a sense of what exactly a trillion dollars looks like.


We'll start with a $100 dollar bill. Currently the largest U.S. denomination in general circulation. Most everyone has seen them, slighty fewer have owned them. Guaranteed to make friends wherever they go.












A packet of one hundred $100 bills is less than 1/2" thick and contains $10,000. Fits in your pocket easily and is more than enough for week or two of shamefully decadent fun.













Believe it or not, this next little pile is $1 million dollars (100 packets of $10,000). You could stuff that into a grocery bag and walk around with it.












While a measly $1 million looked a little unimpressive, $100 million is a little more respectable. It fits neatly on a standard pallet...

$100,000,000 (one hundred million dollars)









And $1 BILLION dollars... now we're really getting somewhere...











Next we'll look at ONE TRILLION dollars. This is that number we've been hearing about so much. What is a trillion dollars? Well, it's a million million. It's a thousand billion. It's a one followed by 12 zeros.



You ready for this?

It's pretty surprising.


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Ladies and gentlemen... I "give" you $1 trillion dollars...











(And notice those pallets are double stacked.
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So the next time you hear someone toss around the phrase "trillion dollars"... that's what they're talking about.








http://www. pagetutor. com/trillion/index. html


Robyn over at http://artpropelled.blogspot.com/

introduced me to the photographic work of Hans Silvester, and to the exquisite adornment of the people of the Omo Valley in Ethiopia...and they were simply too beautiful not to share here!





























You can see more of his images here... http://www.xarj.net/2008/omo-tribes-ethi..opia-body-painting/








Prime foto dell'Alice di Tim Burton!







http://www.badtaste.it/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7064&Itemid=91

First photos of Tim Burton's Alice

As promised, the scans of the Disney magazine in which the first images of Tim Buton's Alice in Wonderland have arrived: here is Alice and some concept images!

Yesterday we told you about the new Disney tri-annual magazine, D23, and the fact that on there are the very first official images of Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland.


Today we show you the scans of these images, obviously inviting you to procure the magazine yourself (even if it is hard to come by in the USA, we imagine).


It deals with two conceptual designs and in the first photo is Mia Wasikowska in the role of Alice. The conceptual designs show a few moments in the film: tea with the Mad Hatter (note also the presence of the Cheshire Cat), performed in the film by Johnny Depp, and the scene where Alice shrinks, in the beginning of the book.


Adapted by Linda Woolverton (The Lion King) from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There (the two famous novels by Lewis Carroll) for Walt Disney Pictures, the film's two lead performers are Mia Wasikowska in the role of Alice and Johnny Depp in the role of the Mad Hatter.


... The film will be released March 5, 2010 (scheduled for US release on this date as well via IMDB).




Bruce Lee ping pong






Lasciami entrare - clip

this scene took me by surprise, as did the whole movie, Let the Right One In.

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Les r�seaux sociaux en ligne ont red�fini le mot "ami" avec une nuance de plus. On peut d�sormais avoir comme "amis" des gens qu'on ne connait ni d'Eve ni d'Adam et qui n'ont pas n�cessairement fait quoi que ce soit pour le m�riter. Et vice versa.
Il serait plus pr�cis de d�finir ces gens comme des "contacts" ou des "connaissances", au moins initialement, m�me si certains parmi ces personnes peuvent effectivement �tre des amis en devenir, sans pour autant perdre de vue que les amis se m�ritent. Il faut donc prendre le temps de d�couvrir quelqu'un, de lui parler, d'�changer, le tout dans un respect mutuel. Les utilisateurs de ces sites, en particulier les plus jeunes, d�finissent leurs "amis" sur MySpace ou Facebook de la m�me mani�re qu'ils d�finissent ceux, en chair et en os, qu'ils fr�quentent dans la vie r�elle mais sans le temps et l'effort normalement requis pour gagner et garder leur amiti�: rendus pr�somptueux par des rapports en ligne rapides, faciles et superficiels, ces gens et la soci�t� en g�n�ral vont au devant de gros probl�mes...

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They glow in the dark. Thanks.
Ils brillent dans le noir parce qu'ils sont fluorescents. Ils ne sont pas fluorescents parce qu'ils brillent dans le noir.








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Pour en voir plus et davantage: Cheerful Madness!! boutique chez Spreadshirt and Cheerful Madness!! boutique 2 chez Spreadshirt. Merci.











Danke

The Laughing Gnome- David Bowie

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Pour les enfants que nous �tions pendant les ann�es 70.


"Pinkie Pou" �tait une s�quence intercallaire en prise de vue r�elle mais anim�e en pixillation (stop motion) dans l'�mission "L'ile aux enfants". D'autres exemples de cette technique d'animation sont "Lardux" et "Tom Thumb". Le monsieur qui interpr�tait le magicien "Pinkie Pou" nous a malheureusement quitt� en Novembre 2008. Il a �t� interview� en 2005 par Casimirland.com, � voir ici

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