Author Archives: Niall Murphy
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Witness to the Oslo bombing, New Zealand sales rep Cameron Leslie gives his muscular perspective on the horrific events of July 22nd.
“Secondly, also for the fact that when the blast went off I was on the eighth repetition of a 165-KG bench press, uh, you know, that’s quite a lot of weight.”
“…we heard an announcement over the speaker phone to evacuate the area as quickly as possible, people started leaving, uh, naturally I finished my sets and then quickly made my way to the second level.”
In short: it was heavy, but he handled it.
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Not all that surprising really. Apple’s designers, as we know from the iCloud logo, are big fans of the Golden Ratio.
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Secret Carpentry: a snake skeleton carved into the handle of an axe by Canadian sculptor Maskull Lasserre, who extracts delicate human and animal anatomical forms from common objects.
If you like this, you’ll love what he does with computer software manuals and coathangers and the branches of trees.
By Alex Schmidt for White Whine (a hilarious collection of first world problems where you should probably go this minute).
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Porcelain Unicorn by director Keegan Wilcox beat out 600 other entries to win the Grand Prize for the 2010 Philips Parallel Lines “Tell It Your Way” short film competition, judged by Ridley Scott.
The challenge was to create a three-minute film using only six lines of dialogue: “What is that?”, “It’s a unicorn”, “Never seen one up close before”, “Beautiful”, “Get away, get away”, and “I’m sorry”.
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Eight times a day, the vendors of a market in the Thai province of Samut Songkhram, about 70 km southwest of Bangkok, retract their awnings and counters as the commuter train – on whose track the market operates – passes through without stopping.