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Archive for April, 2016

Reimagined Movie Posters By Tomer Hanuka

Illustrator Spotlight: Tomer Hanuka


This Week’s News

Breaking News

Palestinians create seed bank to save their own Heritage
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/23/palestinian-seed-bank-farming-heritage?CMP=share_btn_tw

Chernobyl today;
https://news.vice.com/video/holiday-in-chernobyl

Michigan Senate passes Ban on sale of fetal tissue, which is already illegal. (Priorities, there are no other problems in Michigan right now)
http://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/2016/04/27/senate-passes-ban-already-illegal-sale-fetal-tissue/83599890/

Brazil’s Race and Class Divide;
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-36147135

Iraqi’s storm parlament;
https://www.yahoo.com/news/thousands-protesters-break-baghdad-green-zone-001154398.html


Saturday’s Songs

Sara Watkins

Kate Tempest

Tim Heidecker

Tijuana Panthers

Astronautalis
http://consequenceofsound.net/2016/04/top-10-songs-of-the-week-429/3/


GSGS Landsat Images

http://eros.usgs.gov/imagegallery


Resin And Wood Rings

Snowy Mountains and Undersea Worlds Encapsulated Within Wood and Resin Rings


School Murals By Okuda San Miguel

Okuda San Miguel Transforms the Walls of an Italian Kindergarten Into a Prismatic Fairytale


Sculpted Animals By Edouard Martinet

Edouard Martinet’s Masterfully Sculpted Animals and Insects Made from Bicycle, Car, and Motorcycle Parts


UK’s Doctor Problems

When you worry more about tax breaks for people who have more money than they can spend, over caring for the average people..

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-36134103


Around The World With Solar Power

http://recode.net/2016/04/24/solar-impulse-hawaii-california/


Digital Art By The Frisbeeman

http://thefrisbeeman.deviantart.com/gallery/?catpath=%2F&offset=0


Layered Resin Floor At Museum für Neue Kunst

1,400 Square Feet of Candy-Colored Resin Layered Onto the Floor of a German Museum


Watercolors By Maja Wronska

New Architectural Watercolors by Maja Wronska


Waves Off Australia

Photos of Monumental Waves Crashing in Australia by Warren Keelan


Cuban Ballet In Photos

Glorious Photos Of Cuban Ballet Dancers Taking To The Streets


The Azerbaijan Civil War

Via Vice News;
https://news.vice.com/article/in-photos-the-disputed-lands-of-nagorno-karabakh


Baghdad In the 1960s

http://photography.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/24288/baghdad-through-latif-al-anis-lens


Three Centuries Of American Prints

http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/exhibitions/2016/three-centuries-of-american-prints-from-the-national-gallery-of-art.html


Cityscape Paintings By Jeremy Mann

New Oil-Based Cityscapes Set at Dawn and Dusk by Jeremy Mann


Really New News

Breaking News

Um, what Planet 9?
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/news/cassinifeatures/feature201604082/

State of Emergency over suicides at Canadian 1st Nation town;
http://www.680news.com/2016/04/11/attawapiskat-first-nation-declares-state-of-emergency-after-suicide-attempts/

Indigo Children;
http://www.vice.com/en_uk/video/the-chosen-ones-indigo-children-gavin-haynes

Iraqi Central Banker arrested;
http://www.iraqdailyjournal.com/story-z12917705

Syrian Refugee may go to Rio Olympics;
http://tracks.unhcr.org/2016/03/syrian-refugee-eyes-rio-olympics/

The little Podcast that reshapes amateur Basketball;
http://splitsider.com/2016/04/how-pistol-shrimps-radio-turned-calling-recreational-womens-basketball-games-into-an-essential-podcast/


Burmese New Year – Everyone’s Getting Wet


Bali, Manipulated Photos


Music Monday, On Thursday

Black Mountain

Miike Snow (nice dance number)

Leyla McCalla


Beautiful Photos By George Amies


Candle Wick


Cliff

http://georgeamies.deviantart.com/gallery/?catpath=%2F&offset=0


Crazy Balancing Photos

No Photoshop?? Definitely some manipulation..

Photographer Spotlight: Florent Tanet