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The colliding worlds of Hugo Barros

Collage artist Hugo Barros challenges the limits of reality with his artworks centred around an often surreal collision of vastly different worlds.

Inspired by modern art movements like Constructivism, Futurism, as well as post-1968 architecture, Barros creates his otherworldly and apocalyptic scenes evocative of that heady post-1968 period of architectural exploration.

Some of these collages feature floating surfaces of a giant scale, recalling Superstudio’s Earth-devouring Continuous Monument. Others superbly juxtapose disaster and architectural stability, challenging structural equilibrium and suggesting kinetic building.

Angular forms strike off obliquely from the viewer, plunging into cities or blocking out the moon. Here, the artist seems to be introducing the type of dynamic composition often seen in the work of the Constructivists or the Futurists. This is the type of art that makes us all wish we were as talented.

You can see loads more on Hugo Barros’s tumblr.

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Someone on @reddit made a Hillary Clinton Pantsuits Rainbow, and it’s beautiful.
Via @pourmecoffee.

Someone on @reddit made a Hillary Clinton Pantsuits Rainbow, and it’s beautiful.

Via @pourmecoffee.

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Chewing in Venice

Eww!

Luxembourg based artist Simone Decker created a provocative art installation of small-scale bubble gum wads positioned throughout Venice, photographing them to appear as large sculptural works. The collection, called “Chewing in Venice 1 & 2″, was created in 1999.

You can see more of Decker’s work on her site.

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Why employees shouldn’t have hours
The traditional 9-to-5, 40-hour work week is just that: traditional. It’s a fossil from an era when the number of hours an employee clocked on a production line was a simplified measurement of productivity. Although the nature of work has clearly changed, businesses are still automatically adopting this rigid schedule without considering its effects on both employees and happiness - two things that should fall together seamlessly.
Full article on LinkedIn.

Why employees shouldn’t have hours

The traditional 9-to-5, 40-hour work week is just that: traditional. It’s a fossil from an era when the number of hours an employee clocked on a production line was a simplified measurement of productivity. Although the nature of work has clearly changed, businesses are still automatically adopting this rigid schedule without considering its effects on both employees and happiness - two things that should fall together seamlessly.

Full article on LinkedIn.

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Les Souffleurs - Commandos Poétiques

Part performance, part staged intervention, and Described as “an endeavour to slow down the world”, the blowers whisper poetry, philosophy and inspiring words from great literary works to people through their long tubes, called rossignols (meaning nightingales).

Love it.

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Xbox One: the most restrictive game console ever made
If the Xbox One is the future of gaming, then that future is as grim as everyone feared.
Worth a read.

Xbox One: the most restrictive game console ever made

If the Xbox One is the future of gaming, then that future is as grim as everyone feared.

Worth a read.

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Beautiful time-lapse videos of Paris, built out of thousands of photographs

French film-maker and photographer Mayeul Akpovi has produced a series of time-lapsed stop-motion videos called “Paris in Motion”, documenting his trip around the City of Light.

From sun-drenched gardens to the interiors of huge convention halls, these short but sweet videos shows you the flow of life in Paris in just a few minutes.

You can see the second and third videos here -

  1. https://vimeo.com/50467187
  2. https://vimeo.com/66056982

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I’m anybody’s equal but nobody’s superior.
I heard this a few weeks back, and it’s stuck with me. Shami Chakrabarti on @BBCWomansHour.

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For anyone that ever wondered how London’s old Routemaster buses didn’t fall over, this is apparently how they found out.
Per police regulation, employees of the London General Omnibus Company put the 60-person bus to a “tilt test,” pushing it on a 28-degree angle.
Photo dated April 8, 1933.
Via The Lively Morgue.

For anyone that ever wondered how London’s old Routemaster buses didn’t fall over, this is apparently how they found out.

Per police regulation, employees of the London General Omnibus Company put the 60-person bus to a “tilt test,” pushing it on a 28-degree angle.

Photo dated April 8, 1933.

Via The Lively Morgue.

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Qantas creates one-of-a-kind novels that last only as long as your flight
Qantas aims to provide a unique flying experience by offering specially curated books called ‘Stories For Every Journey’ for its passengers. These books are one-of-a-kind because each one is created to last just as long as the duration of your flight.
Cute idea.
The Australian airline worked with Droga5 and publishing house Hachette to create this series.

Qantas creates one-of-a-kind novels that last only as long as your flight

Qantas aims to provide a unique flying experience by offering specially curated books called ‘Stories For Every Journey’ for its passengers. These books are one-of-a-kind because each one is created to last just as long as the duration of your flight.

Cute idea.

The Australian airline worked with Droga5 and publishing house Hachette to create this series.

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Letter’s of note: people simply empty out
In 1969, publisher John Martin offered to pay Charles Bukowski $100 each and every month for the rest of his life, on one condition: that he quit his job at the post office and become a writer. 49-year-old Bukowski did just that, and in 1971 his first novel, Post Office, was published by Martin’s Black Sparrow Press.
15 years later, Bukowski wrote the following letter to Martin and spoke of his joy at having escaped full time employment.
You can read the letter here.
Via @LaMujerObrera

Letter’s of note: people simply empty out

In 1969, publisher John Martin offered to pay Charles Bukowski $100 each and every month for the rest of his life, on one condition: that he quit his job at the post office and become a writer. 49-year-old Bukowski did just that, and in 1971 his first novel, Post Office, was published by Martin’s Black Sparrow Press.

15 years later, Bukowski wrote the following letter to Martin and spoke of his joy at having escaped full time employment.

You can read the letter here.

Via @LaMujerObrera

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Things Come Apart

For his latest project photographer Todd McLellan takes apart all sorts of gadgets to shoot the gears, cogs and springs that make up their innards. Aptly titled Things Come Apart, the project presents both a neatly laid out anatomical dissection of the objects as well as “action” shots of those devices seemingly in motion, mid explosion.

In an interview for the Smith Journal McLellan was asked if he ever put stuff back together, to which he replied “I think something like the phone would be easy, but the rest of the stuff… I could probably put some of it back together, the typewriter absolutely not. The Camera, not a chance.”

You can see more here.

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Seems the rumours were true: Yahoo’s board has approved a deal to buy Tumblr for $1.1bn (£725m)
Yikes. I take this position.

Seems the rumours were true: Yahoo’s board has approved a deal to buy Tumblr for $1.1bn (£725m)

Yikes. I take this position.

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Loving Faried Omarah’s work. Check it out.

Loving Faried Omarah’s work. Check it out.

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Our solar system, to scale.
Via @jamescowdery

Our solar system, to scale.

Via @jamescowdery