Remarkable 5.7m-high recreation of Apollo 11.

Heartbreakingly Beautiful Portraits of Shelter Dogs (get out your hankies)

TRAER SCOTT is a fine art photographer with a background in portraiture and animal photography.
Her work has been featured in O, Life and People magazines and in the Boston Globe newspaper.
She lives in Rhode Island with her husband and two rescue dogs.



http://www.aspcaonlinestore.com/products/98071-shelter-dogs











More pictures and interview:
http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/traer-scott-shelter-dogs-2

"Every dog reacts differently to a camera. Some immediately perceive it as the voyeuristic device that it is and refuse to look at you. They will literally duck, hide or turn in circles to avoid ever having the camera meet their eyes. Other dogs interpret the camera as a direct threat. Watching through the lens as a dog lunges straight at your face is a very humbling yet cinematic experience. After a few years of this, I have now trained myself to click the shutter when this happens. So far no real damage has been done to me or my cameras. Other dogs are not patient enough to wait for the treat I am offering in exchange for a few still moments. While trying to stay in a sit, they start squealing and wriggling their little bodies, barely able to stay attached to the ground. If I take too long, I get a big, sloppy tongue planted on my lens. Then there are the Oracles. As soon as a camera is pointed at these dogs, they just fix their gaze on you and pour out volumes. They seem to be telling a story much longer and more epic than the one their short lives can accurately narrate. The Oracles (very often Pit Bulls) seem to transform from spastic and slobbering to prophetic and back again all in the time it takes to snap a few photos."

This is What Happens When You Give Thousands of Stickers to Thousands of Kids

This December, in a surprisingly simple yet ridiculously amazing installation for the Queensland Gallery of Modern Ar, artist Yayoi Kusama constructed a large domestic environment, painting every wall, chair, table, piano, and household decoration a brilliant white, effectively serving as a giant white canvas. Over the course of two weeks, the museum’s smallest visitors were given thousands upon thousands of colored dot stickers and were invited to collaborate in the transformation of the space, turning the house into a vibrantly mottled explosion of color. How great is this? Given the opportunity my son could probably cover the entire piano alone in about fifteen minutes. The installation, entitled The Obliteration Room, is part of Kusama’s Look Now, See Forever exhibition that runs through March 12.

http://blog.qag.qld.gov.au/before-the-first-dot-yayoi-kusama%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%98the-obliteration-room%E2%80%99-2011/
http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2012/01/yayoi-kusama-obiliteration-room/?src=footer
















More pics at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/stuart_addelsee/6643534481/in/photostream/
And: http://www.flickr.com/photos/stuart_addelsee/6643532207/in/photostream/

I saw my neighbor mowing his lawn today.

In Iowa.

In January.



I, like many, have been pretty good at pretending that we (humanity) would be able to take action against global warming. But I'm not so sure anymore.

Peter Frampton's Dream Guitar (of Frampton Comes Alive fame) , Recovered 32 Years Later

The story begins in 1970, when Frampton and his old band Humble Pie scored a gig playing two sets a night at the Fillmore West in San Francisco. Frampton says the first night was a rough go: The guitar he was using fed back at loud volumes and made soloing a chore. After the show, an audience member approached him and offered to help.

"He said, 'Well, look, I have a Les Paul that I've sort of modified myself a little. Would you like to try it tomorrow?'" Frampton tells weekends on All Things Considered host Guy Raz. "I said, 'Well, I've never really had much luck with Les Pauls, but you know what? At this point, I'll try anything.'"

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That guitar — a shiny black number with an added pickup — became Frampton's signature instrument. He continued to use it with Humble Pie, and in his solo material, played it almost exclusively for years. It even made the cover of his classic 1976 live album, Frampton Comes Alive!

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In 1980, while Frampton was on tour in South America, the guitar was put on a cargo plane in Venezuela, en route to Panama. The plane crashed right after takeoff.

"Basically I'm thinking, 'It's gone,'" Frampton recalls. "But the thing is, I'm also sitting in a restaurant where I can see the pilot's wife. She's waiting in the hotel for her husband, who, unfortunately, didn't make it. So we were all overcome, because people lost their lives as well as our complete stage of gear."

What Frampton didn't know is that the guitar had survived....

Read more: http://www.npr.org/2012/01/07/144799712/framptons-dream-guitar-recovered-decades-later
Or Listen: http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=144799712&m=144840341

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Take a break from the moran olympics and enjoy some "culture" (dialup warning)

The website http://www.booooooom.com/ had a contest to remake a famous work of art using photography.

There were a LOT of great submissions. I'll post a few, but to see the variety and talent go to: http://www.booooooom.com/2011/10/04/remake-submissions/ (it may take a while to load them all)





Picasso's “Weeping Woman” remake by Frances Adair Mckenzie



Frida Kahlo's “The Two Fridas” remake by Claire Ball



Lichtenstein's “Woman in Bath” remake by Andrew Tamlyn



Joan Miro's “Young Woman Escaping” remake by Alma and Ed



Van Gogh's “Bedroom in Arles” remake by Joshua Louis Simon



Matisse's “Dance” remake by Samantha Madonik



El Greco's “Gentleman with his hand on his chest” remake by Jodi Tychkowsky


MORE! http://www.booooooom.com/2011/10/04/remake-submissions/