Microphotography – a world of fantasy
Ferris Beuller said, and I quote “Life moves pretty fast, if you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”
Never a truer word spoken in my humble opinion. With that in mind I share with you the following Microphotography and video link. Remember you saw it here first cereal fans!
DECAY
A zombie themed movie shot by students at Cern’s Large Hadron Collider is now available to watch in full online.
The 75 minute film was directed and written by PhD physics student Luke Thompson and follows a group of students trapped underground at the world’s largest particle accelerator as malfunctioning equipment turns scientists into zombies.
Decay took two years to make and cost around $3,000 (£1,860), with the amateur crew borrowing digital SLR cameras for filming and sticking to areas other than the sensitive LHC tunnels themselves.
Enjoy the film! I have and can highly recommend it. Jolly good yarn it is too.
Women are Heroes
Just a brief one; if you haven’t checked out this website please do so, fantastic photography, great idea, good cause.
Reblogged
This is where the Zombie Apocalypse will start.
Turning Tokyo’s daily commute into Art. Michael Wolf is a German photographer based in Hong Kong, hiswork is influenced by life and architecture of mega cities. “Many of his projects document the architecture and the vernacular culture of metropolises.”You can see a previous post on his series Architecture of Densityhere. Michael Wolf’s exhibition ‘Paris Street View’ is running until December 15th at Kulturhaus Osterfeld in Pforzheim, Germany.
Urban leg-end
This image of a can of Diet Coke with Bacon floats around on the internet, like a ‘greasy Joe’s special’ on a Sunday morning after a night on the tiles. It even has a Facebook page, along with numerous article posts showing its Bacon and Coke glory. Sure enough the picture exists; but does the actual product exist, or will it ever? Why would you want it to? Wrong. Now Lincolnshire Sausage flavour, that’s different.
There is a theory that Diet Coke with Bacon was tested as a new flavour in Texas, and other states, but was never released to the public. These claims date back to as early as 2008. There’s another theory that this is just another hoax laid down by the good pig farmers of the world using photoshop. But what is the real answer?
Scott Williamson, the VP of Public Affairs and Communication for Coca-Cola said, “No, there is no Diet Coke with Bacon. But Elvis did ask us for it!” actually the Elvis bit I made up, Scott never actually said that. Sorry.
So there you have it, folks. Now you can sleep easy tonight, or if you love the bacon perhaps not. Just one more question though, why would you do it for a can of Diet Coke? Bacon and Diet, that’s one hell of an oxymoron?
This real can of Diet Coke with Lemon clearly shows how easy this was to photoshop:
So, there you have it! It’s a fake!
However, Bacon Soda DOES exist, but only in the US of A. Dammit! Rumour is however, that Coke are looking at a number of other flavours aside from Lemon, Cherry and Lime. It has been mooted that Orange, Blackcurrant, Blueberry and Marshmallow flavours are on the cards.
Not really, I lied.
What would you add to the Coke line up though?
Immortalised Electronically
The 172nd birthday of Auguste Rodin, widely thought to be the father of modern sculpture, has been celebrated with a Google doodle.
Unless you use Bing or Dogpile (Ha you remember that?) you have probably seen the above Google doodle already today. But who is this gentleman? Well….
French sculptor Auguste Rodin‘s birthday is being celebrated with a Google doodle today! Considered the father of modern sculpture, iconic masterpieces such as The Kiss and The Thinker are among his best known works. Rodin was born in Paris in 1840 and by the time he was 60 was a world-renowned artist.
Rodin possessed a unique ability to model a complex, turbulent, deeply pocketed surface in clay. Many of his most notable sculptures were roundly criticized during his lifetime, because they clashed with the predominant figure sculpture tradition, in which works were decorative, formulaic, or highly thematic.
The 19th century bohemian, who sculpted with amateur models and street performers, was oft compared to Michelangelo.
And he enjoyed a colourful life, marrying his lover of 50 years – Rose Beuret – in 1917, the year of his death. Doh, timing!
So next time you are visiting gay Paris, why not pop in to the Musée Rodin was founded in 1916 and holds the largest Rodin collection, with more than 6,000 sculptures and 7,000 works on paper. Plan your visit.
Happy 172 birthday August, oh and fantastic beard sir!
