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POPS'The slap heard around the web' Communications technologies are now delivering unprecedented volumes of information. This story clearly shows that this "information" can be used in powerful ways. Used properly, it may just be possible to improve societies by publicizing unacceptable behavior that was previously "secret". One obvious issue is "transparency" versus "privacy".
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POPSExploring the Sinister Catacombs of the City of Light Popularly called the catacombs, the Mines of Paris comprise tunnels running for literally hundreds of kilometers, spread over several levels in a maze of echoing mystery. Out of bounds to the public since 1955, for decades the cataphiles have claimed it as their own.
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POPS3D chalk art on pavement by Kurt Wenners Street artist Kurt Wenners uses pastel chalk & paint to transform streets & pavements in over 30 countries into 3D images. He uses a style known as anamorphic street painting to create amazing illusions.
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POPSPaddy Art A group of farmers have created 'murals' by planting rice in different colors in Japanese paddy fields Its a lot more creative and engaging than crop circles.
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POPSamazing 3D murals painted on the sides of buildings The incredibly lifelike scenes are actually huge works of art, painted on the side of perfectly intact buildings... The paintings, which have fooled many, were created by John Pugh, who specialises in trompe l'oeil - or 'trick of the eye' - art.
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POPSIndoor Mural This is are indoor murals that try to make you think you are outside instead of inside. Hey, if I wanted to be outside I would have stayed there. Good looking work but not for me.
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POPSThe UFO Conspiracy Unidentified Flying Objects have been recorded in various forms since the creation of man: drawn crudely on Stone Age murals chiseled in Egyptian stone noted in the journals of ancients like Alexander the Great even described in the ship’s log of Columbus. Documented contacts number in the millions worldwide. Just hours before he landed in the new world, Columbus made note of a bright object flying from the sky into the water and then exiting to return to the skies. Many photographs of UFOs remain unexplained. The modern era of “flying saucers” began on June 24, 1947, with Kenneth Arnold’s sighting of nine UFOs over the Cascade Mountains.
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POPSLazy Bloggers Post Generator example "OMFG! I just found out I have not updated this since the long board was invented... You would not believe how tidy my house now is. Seriously!. I am totally and utterly flat out with feeding the little people, waiting for the onshore winds, just generally being a slave to anyone unfortunate to cross my path, my day is filled with fluorescent light from the second I am woken by murderous Teletubbies to I see my darling's 10000 text messages. I am not growing up. can't they see I am blogging. I swear on the bones of my ancestors if one more person emails me to ask why I haven't posted today I will start posting pictures of toe fungus, or fecal murals. Go with God, good friends. Seriously?."
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POPSArtificial Sand Dune to House New Museum According to this blog post on Gizmodo, the new Museum of Modern Arab Art in Doha, Qatar is being built in an artificial 350,000 square foot sand dune. It won't be completed until 2011, but in the meantime take a look at the mock-up.
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POPSStreet Art (II) not only walls and murals, many examples and tips how to humanize cold urban environment