Escher Blowout 2: contest of photoshopped Escher images on the famous Worth1000. One of the works that were used more often to create the images was Hand with Reflecting Sphere. Take a look there, there are some awesome creations.

BTW, previous posts about Escher here and here. (via Optical Illusions Etc...)

Posted by Bibi at 02:07 AM in Fun, Fun, Illustration, Photography, Photography | Comments (3) ||

Makiko Azakami creates some incredible objects with paper. These objects are toys and paper sculptures full of details - you can see why her hobby became a work. She participated of more than 30 exhibitions, including many solo exhibitions and her illustrations were used in magazines, posters and ads across Japan. (via Paper Forest)

Posted by Bibi at 05:40 PM in Art, Craft ||

Hollywood Pinup - classic cheesecake pics of silver screen starlets. Some very nice pictures of actresses and few actors (tough guys session) from 40s and 50s. (via TackyTimes)

PS.: about Bardot visit her foundation for the welfare and protection of the animals.

Posted by Bibi at 05:13 PM in Actors, Pin-ups | Comments (2) ||

Stunt City: an amused Rexona deodorant commercial. For some information about it read I was on fire in Stunt City. (via MeFi)

Posted by Bibi at 04:35 PM in Video ||

Visible Earth: a catalogue of NASA images and animations of our home planet. Amazing images with a very good resolution of countries, agriculture, atmosphere, biosphere, oceans, hydrosphere, land surface, cryosphere and more. BTW, here is the gallery of photos of my country and my city. (Thanks André!)

Posted by Bibi at 03:38 PM in Astronomy, Photography, Photography, Science, Science | ||

Real Chicago: Chicago-Sun Times Photo Essay - from the files of Chicago Sun-Times. Pictures from 40s to today.

Most of these photographs were taken on the spur of the moment, in an uncertain situation, with quick and instinctive framing, by photographers who were standing right there whether they were supposed to be or not.

(via PCL LinkDump that will have two guests posting on the next week.)

Posted by Bibi at 02:31 PM in History, Photography, Photography ||

Bildarchiv der Kunst und Architektur is the archive page of Marburg, a site of pictures about art and architecture. There are tons of pictures, 1.7 million illustrations that you can order. The problem: is all in German. (via The Cartoonist)

Posted by Bibi at 02:07 PM in Art | Comments (2) ||

Art of Science Competition

This spring we asked the Princeton University community to submit imagery produced in the course of research or incorporating tools and concepts from science. [...] The resulting assembly of images presents a fascinating and beautiful cross section of the arts and sciences at Princeton. It celebrates the aesthetics of research and the ways in which science and art inform each other.

(via del.icio.us/popular)

Posted by Bibi at 01:14 PM in Art, Science, Science ||

Some things to read:

- Secrets of the A-List Bloggers: Lots of short entries (via del.icio.us/joi_ito)

- New Scientist: 11 steps to a better brain

- Wired: Time's Up, Einstein

Posted by Bibi at 01:01 PM in Blogs, News, Science, Science ||

10 Things to Do With Old PCs: it's an useful article with tips and tricks about what you can do with an old computer or monitor. I think I read a Portuguese version of this article on the magazine Info Exame but it isn't online. One of the ideas, Turn it into an aquarium, seems very cool, but I'm not sure if this will work here, because my cats will love it. (via Lifehacker)

Posted by Bibi at 12:34 PM in Technology | Comments (2) ||

Hug Over a Distance: an intimate interface for remote couples by Florian Mueller. One friends said that is crazy, I think that is interesting.

You take the koala and rub its belly, which in turn sends out a hug signal, visualized by a little animation. Your partner is wearing a stylish vest, which nobody around her can identify as a piece of wearable computing. However, the vest contains a wireless receiver, which receives the hug signal. Inside the vest are small air compartments which inflate quickly all around her body torso, giving a sensation similar to a real hug. The hug is discretely received, because others cannot "see" the hug.

Don't forget to watch the video to see how it works. (via we make money not art)

Posted by Bibi at 12:06 PM in Technology ||

The Japanese artist Mari-Chan has a super cute site, full of lovely things. Illustrations, tons of original charaters and stuff to buy. Thake a look also on her special pages Ikenie and her page about sound. (via male.dei)

Posted by Bibi at 11:36 AM in Illustration ||

One year ago I started this blog blogging only in Portuguese with bigger posts, but after some months I gave up. It seems that was just a few weeks ago that I started to post, inspired on some of my favourites blogs and I never expected have so many readers as I have now.

Well, I just want to say thanks for all the visits, comments and links. Thanks so much for all the good things! I promise that I will try to keep my visitors happy and amused.

Obrigada! Thanks! Merci! Gracias! Danke! Grazie! Tack! Arigatou! Dankon! :)

If you have any questions, comments, observations or something, please tell me. And now excuse me, but now I have some work to do here. ;)

Update: thanks for the link Howard and Curt!

Posted by Bibi at 09:25 AM in Blogging | Comments (19) ||

Useless dates related to your birthday. You can calculate the dates with round decimal numbers, round binary numbers or planet years. Very curious, but as they said, it's not so useful. For example I have to throw a party on September 24th of this year (Saturday) to celebrate my 10,000th day at 14:20. (Thanks André!)

Posted by Bibi at 04:07 PM in Curious things, Tools | Comments (2) ||

Hedy Lamarr: the official site with news, biography, quotes, photos, filmography and trivia. If you don't know her work on cinema I recommend you start with Extase more for the impact of the scenes of this movie and its story on cinema history than for its story. (via RetroGraphix)

Posted by Bibi at 03:30 PM in Actors ||

Fine Arts in Hungary from the beginnings in the Romanesque period up to the mid 20th century. Wonderful site with a huge list of artists, biographies and works. (via Plep)

Posted by Bibi at 03:02 PM in Painting, Sculpture ||