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Gunkanjima

"Gunkanjima is an island built upon a reef in the early 19th century because of a coal mine in the reefs and quickly became a densely populated island 1 km in diameter and 5300 people living packed together, working the mines." Wouldn't wanna be there when night falls, looks pretty scary, ...

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Manhattan in the near future?

This is what will happen if we don't listen to Al Gore and his presentation of the global warming issue, An Inconvenient Truth. Also check out the whole slideshow, there are some great pictures in there like The rising Dubai skyline. Now don't mind me while I go burn some more fossil ...

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How ’bout that

"In de gloria" sketch featured on Jay Leno. How 'bout that Ex-Playmate Reveals exactly what goes on in the Hugh Hefner's bedroom. Damn gay porn, that's nasty. First pirated HD DVD movie hits BitTorrent. "at 20GB each, this could spell the eventual end of the Usenet binaries", was said on ...

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Karl Meersman

Clint Eastwood; Kim Clijsters; Keith Richards; Prins Laurent Karl Meersman is an illustrator, cartoonist and designer based in Belgium, who is particularly known for his caricatures of Belgian politicians and celebrities.

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Anime-Style Simpsons artist gets hired by Matt Groening

Remember my earlier post about the picture above, well it got so popular over the internet that the designer was contacted by Matt Groening's comic book company to make a comic in this style. Long story short: Bongo Comics, Matt Groenings comic book company, is hiring me to do the pencils for a ...

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The Pirate Bay Wants to Buy Sealandand and offers citizenship

So it's like this, BitTorrent tracker The Pirate Bay has announced that their intentions are to buy a small country or island, where no copyright laws exist since it's in international waters. They set sight on an old gun battery from World War II off the coast of England, called Sealand ...

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Rubber Johnny

Rubber Johnny is a 6 minute experimental short film and music video directed by Chris Cunningham in 2005, using music composed by Aphex Twin. The name Rubber Johnny is drawn from a British slang for "condom" as well as a description of the main character. The DVD comes with an art book, ...

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Coffee with a drop of milk

This is a fascinating picture of a drop of milk touching a hot cup of coffee, apparently it took the artist a lot of time to take the picture at the right time. And here's an artist that does nothing but take pictures of fluids, with a highspeed camera that is.

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2007

Let's just knock it all out of the way now.... Here are some new year's eve Flickr sets.

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RIP: James Brown (1933-2006)

Singer James Brown, the self-proclaimed "godfather of soul", who billed himself as the hardest-working man in show business, has died. He was 73. Brown was taken to hospital on Sunday at Emory Crawford Long hospital in Atlanta for treatment of severe pneumonia and died at 1:45am on Monday ...

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