The above (photoshopped) photobomb has been doing the rounds on the internetz for a few days now. Radiohead’s Thom Yorke at the Louvre.
The delighted original snapper has now been found.
Or you could just jump straight to the original pic and see what the cloners had to work with.
They’re the Faces Of Sydney is who they are. Thousands of portraits of individual people compacted to provide a representative male and female “look” for the 160,000 residents of Sydney’s City of Villages.
The oldest was 93 and the youngest two weeks. Some 54 per cent of participants described their ancestry as Anglo Saxon Celtic, 3 per cent as Indigenous Australians, 4 per cent as having South American ancestry and 11 per cent Chinese ancestry. Participants reflected the diverse or homogenous ethnic origins and age structure of the local population.
More faces of Sydney pix here.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLKVx60I5BM&feature=player_embedded#!
Speed-flying or speed-riding is a new and insanely dangerous extreme sport: part skiing, part paragliding.
It claimed 9 lives last year and – as you watch these loons descending from the 4km high (13,000ft) summit of Mount Eiger in the Swiss Alps – you’ll see why.
Page 99 is a website based on a quote from the late english novelist, publisher and critic, Ford Madox Ford:
“Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you.”
Here’s the link.
If you can’t be arsed signing up to avail of the service, this is page 99 of Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake:
Well? Is the quality of the whole revealed to you?
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR_8SDNQ0ks&feature=player_embedded
A trippy little experiment from UK animator, Cyriak Harris.
If you’ve never seen his work, we strongly recommend you check out this, then this and, if you have a brain-cell left in your head, this.
The man’s a genius. Benoit Mandelbrot would have been proud, God rest him.
Karl says he’s seen ’50 Fist Dates’ and it’s not a bootleg.
For your viewing delectation: 23 of the most awesomely crap bootleg DVD covers out there.
