Duck Goes Moo!

Pixcetera has a beautiful collection of images of abandoned and decaying buildings and interiors:

More here

My friend Mike was nice enough to invite me down to Cuba, MO to his parent’s lake house and to watch the fireworks out on the lake.  I managed to take some nice pictures, but they fail to capture the absolute awesomeness of it all.

I also did some experiments with some long exposure times and wiggling the camera:

I couldn’t think of a better way to celebrate Health Care passing then to show a series of political cartoons from both sides of the aisle:

John Cole, Scranton, PA, The Times

Mike Lester, Rome News-Tribune, Rome, GA

Steve Greenberg -- Los Angeles, CA

Gary McCoy, Illinois -- The Suburban Journals.

David Fitzsimmons,Arizona Daily Star, Tucson AZ

Joe Heller, Wisconsin -- The Green Bay Press-Gazette

Bob Englehart, Hartford, Connecticut -- The Hartford Courant

All comics hotlinked from Cagle.com

Smashing Magazine has a photo article featuring some amazing images from India:

See more here on Smashing Magazine:

German architecture company Vitra has a campus dedicated to exploring and showcasing their innovations in modern architecture.  One of the more amazing buildings there just opened: the VitraHaus.

Located on the northern side of the campus in front of the fenced perimeter of the production premises, the VitraHaus joins two other buildings in this area, the Vitra Design Museum by Frank Gehry (1989) and the Conference Pavilion by Tadao Ando (1993).

 

- from DesignMilk.com

The complexity of the interior space arises not only from the angular intersection of the individual houses but also from the integration of a second geometrical concept. All of the staircases are integrated into expansive, winding organic volumes that figuratively eat their way through the various levels of the building like a worm, sometimes revealing fascinating visual relationships between the various houses, at other times blocking the view. The interior walls are finished in white in order to give priority to the furniture displays.

 

- from DesignMilk.com

Simply breathtaking, though perhaps not big on privacy, though I imagine this is not the main point. I just wish the horizon was a little more verdant, but perhaps this is just winter time and they are having a seasonal shortage of foliage.

I was browsing around DeviantArt for dune-related imagery and found a bunch of really neat bits of fan art:

Dune art 1 by ~teyekanik

God Emperor of Dune by *NathanRosario

Dune - St Alia of the Knife by *gorrem

Dune: Swordmaster of Ginaz by ~jubjubjedi

Fremen Mahdi by =Andalar

Baron Harkonnen by ~drywipen

Fremen Warrior by ~kunkkunk

Fremen Warrior by ~originalnilson

Shai-hulud by ~AdoC

Wormrider by ~acoldoldkodiak

Here’s one from the “Gee, I wish I thought of that” category.  Someone created a blog of nothing but pictures with three things: Tom Selleck, a waterfall and a sandwich:

Featured Sandwich: Italian

Featured Sandwich: Meatloaf

Featured Sandwich: Panini

See more here

I did a google image search on “Steampunk Pinup” just to see what would come up:

Steampunk Pinup by ~Colorful-Ayako

SteamPunk Pin Up by ~stock4profs

Steampunk Circus Doll 7 by *mizzd-stock

BIZARRE Magazine

Heliograph

The Scoundrel's Lounge

Bye Helmets came up with an interesting way to advertise their line of helmets.

No, apparently they do not actually make helmets that look like a bunch of hands… which would be pretty cool if you ask me.   Not sure what the back would look like though.

This is an fun little video for song “Candy Girl” by the band Soviet.  Not the highest production, best acting, or even that great of a song, but I really liked this video for some reason.

VectorTuts has an article that showcases WWII propaganda:

The Travelers Zone has some amazing pictures of Bora Bora:

Okay, the pictures aren’t originally theirs, and many of the images are no longer available, but the ones I included with this post are pretty nice.

Somethings just are beyond any kind of explanation…