30 minutes ago at the National Lottery head office.
Mmf.
(Pix: Oisín Kane)
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— Susannah Hooker (@hookerthebooker) April 9, 2013
It’s a movement, apparently.
(Thanks Mick Veal)
Quidditching – because Dragonballing is so fifteen minutes ago.
Launched by schoolboys on 2ch, Japan’s largest bulletin board.
Expect a broomstick tsunami in the coming days.
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Raymond Keogh writes:
Spotted this trend setting hipster horse in Trá an Dóilín, An Cheathrú Rua. Thought you might like.
The biannual Concurs de Castellis human tower competition in Catalonia, Spain is a well documented affair, but these near-aerial photographs of thronged castellers at the 2012 event are unique.
Sharing his experience with Colossal, photographer David Oliete sez:
[The] XXIV edition took place during the 6th and 7th October 2012 with the participation of 32 teams from all around Catalonia and a live audience of more than 20,000 people. During the competition, the higher and difficult to build a tower is, the more points a team gets. Every human tower is usually between six and ten levels high. Teams are made of between 100 to 500 women and men. Young and light members form the top of the tower while heavier members form the base.
The “castells” have also been one of the most important cultural traditions in Catalonia for more than 200 years. “Strength, balance, courage and common sense” is their motto. In 2010, the castells were declared by UNESCO to be amongst the Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity”.
The rest of the 38 image set can be viewed here.
Previously: VIDEO: Eye Candy: The Human Tower
Barbara Millicent Roberts pre and post maquillage by artist and designer Eddi Aguirre.
Artist, writer and space nut Ron Miller imagines what the night sky might look like were the moon to be replaced by various planets of the solar system.
Consider the rules of physics temporarily suspended, whereby all planets retain their current atmospheric conditions and don’t tear us asunder with their immense gravitational fields, etc.
Above (starring as ‘the moon’): the moon, Mercury, Mars, Venus, Neptune, Uranus, Saturn and Jupiter.
What if we had a planet instead of a moon? (Ron Miller, io9)
A series of superimpositions created for a 2010 History Channel promo by photographer Seth Taras entitled ‘Know Where You Stand’. Taras recreated the angles of images taken of various historical events around the world in an early example of the ‘then and now’ trope.
Above: the 1937 Hindenburg Crash, the Berlin Wall in 1989, the 1944 Normandy Landings and Hitler in Paris in 1940.