French artist Jean-François Rauzier creates hyperphotos in which he combines both infinitely big and infinitely small things in one same image. He found his way by juxtaposing, duplicating, twisting images with Photoshop, making it possible for him to reproduce human vision more accurately. This way, he generated a genuine numerical puzzle, in which the pieces, cut out, 'drawn again,' come up along on top of the imagination of the artist. On Rauzier's site, click on 'portfolio,' then choose a category, then a photo. Keep clicking to zoom in. Meer bij The Presurfer.
Photographer James Mollison travelled around the world and took pictures of children and their sleeping space. The pictures are now a part of his book called ‘Where Children Sleep.’ The difference between the children’s places to live is shocking. Not every child has a warm and nice home to grow up in.
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Ships and boats are ancient inventions whose rise parallels the spirit of human adventure. From antiquity to modernity great powers have relied on shipping to expand empires, while grand liners transported tourists to far flung places previously only accessible to the imagination.
But the rise of air travel and decline of shipbuilding have left coasts and rivers littered with abandoned ships, boats and shipyards, that may not look pretty but provide a fascinating retrospective subject for photographers and maritime enthusiasts.
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Katamari Damacy is a video game for the PlayStation 2. The game plays on the idea of the ‘snowball effect.’ Players take control of a tiny, sticky, little ball, and are challenged to grow it to an enormous size. When they begin, their ball can only pick up little items, such as paper clips and thumbtacks. As more and more items collect on the ball’s surface, however, it becomes bigger.
Now you can turn any web-page into a game of Katamari Damacy with the Katamari Hack. Just copy and paste the below script into the location bar on any site. Then hold down the right-click button on your mouse.
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Dat kan! Sargasso is een collectief van bloggers en we verwelkomen graag nieuw blogtalent. We plaatsen ook regelmatig gastbijdragen. Lees hier meer over bloggen voor Sargasso of over het inzenden van een gastbijdrage.
He is head of the world’s biggest family – and says he is ‘blessed’ to have his 39 wives. Ziona Chana also has 94 children, 14-daughters-in-law and 33 grandchildren. They live in a 100-room, four storey house set amidst the hills of Baktwang village in the Indian state of Mizoram, where the wives sleep in giant communal dormitories.
The family is organised with almost military discipline, with the oldest wife Zathiangi organising her fellow partners to perform household chores such as cleaning, washing and preparing meals. One evening meal can see them pluck 30 chickens, peel 132lb of potatoes and boil up to 220lb of rice. Coincidentally, Mr Chana is also head of a sect that allows members to take as many wives as he wants.
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Tot het eind van de Koude Oorlog heeft de BVD de CPN in de gaten gehouden. Maar de dienst deed veel meer dan spioneren. Op basis van nieuw archiefmateriaal van de AIVD laat dit boek zien hoe de geheime dienst in de jaren vijftig en zestig het communisme in Nederland probeerde te ondermijnen. De BVD zette tot tweemaal toe personeel en financiële middelen in voor een concurrerende communistische partij. BVD-agenten hielpen actief mee met geld inzamelen voor de verkiezingscampagne. De regering liet deze operaties oogluikend toe. Het parlement wist van niets.
A placebo is a simulated medical intervention. Sometimes patients given a placebo treatment will have a perceived or actual improvement in a medical condition. Placebos can have a surprisingly positive effect on a patient who knows that the given treatment is without any active drug, as compared with a control group who knowingly did not get a placebo.
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Death is a normal part of life. While most people die with predictable reasons, some people die rather ironic deaths. The world has seen numerous deaths in which the universe seemed to have conspired with fates to make an ironic statement.
Some of these deaths include historical figures, royalties, celebrities and inventors. Remembering these various accounts of ironic deaths never fail to bring an eerie kind of sense.
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Mitoza is an animated choose-your-own-adventure. You start with a seed and then have to choose from 2 options at each step. There are lots of variations. You could end up with a flying saucer beaming up a giant cow’s udder or a bunch of flies performing Hamlet.
Mitoza is created by Gal who says he does Flash things. He was inspired by the games of Amanita Design.
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Directing, cinematography, and editing by Dave Kaufman. Painting by Holton Rower.
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Op een vroege zomerochtend loopt de negentienjarige Simone naakt weg van haar vaders boerderij. Ze overtuigt een passerende automobiliste ervan om haar mee te nemen naar een afgelegen vakantiehuis in het zuiden van Frankrijk. Daar ontwikkelt zich een fragiele verstandhouding tussen de twee vrouwen.
Wat een fijne roman is Venus in het gras! Nog nooit kon ik zoveel scènes tijdens het lezen bijna ruiken: de Franse tuin vol kruiden, de schapen in de stal, het versgemaaide gras. – Ionica Smeets, voorzitter Libris Literatuurprijs 2020.