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http://laughingsquid.com/beautiful-...-made-from-hubcaps-and-other-scrap-materials/

British artist Ptolemy Elrington creates striking animal sculptures out of hubcaps, shopping carts, and other scrap materials. He leaves most of his sculptures unpainted, relying instead on the metallic finish of his materials to create gleaming silvery creatures. He also creates figures, planes, and other things out of scrap?see his site Hubcap Creatures and his Facebook Page for more.

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Somewhere, someplace, someone is rolling over in their grave having a BMW and VW put together in the same sculpture. Cool idea though.
 
UK-based Doctor Who superfan Emma Young has created a wonderful overhead squirrel feeder in the perfect image of a Cyberman, the persistent silver nemesis of the Doctor (and all of humanity). Emma told the Daily Mail that she made the feeder from an old radio, which became very popular with the furry visitors.

The first squirrel to approach was ?very nervous,? Emma said. ?But the smell of the peanuts quickly overcame any wariness, and he reached up and got stuck in. It was hilarious to watch. Well worth all the time and effort.

 
Which Country Is The Happiest In The World? Hint: It's Not The U.S.

Ever consider packing up and moving to a different country, whether to get away from it all or simply to try something new? If so, you may want to seriously consider Costa Rica as your getaway destination. MoveHub recently used the Happy Planet Index (HPI) to create maps charting the level of contentment in various countries around the world, and according to the data, Costa Rica is officially the happiest country on Earth.

As MoveHub explains, the maps were created using the latest statistics from HPI, a global measure of sustainable well-being that advocates the premise that happiness is not about wealth, but about ?living long lives with a high experience of well-being within the environmental limits of the planet.? As reflected in the maps, the countries are ranked by their overall index scores, which are factored from three main components: life expectancy, experienced well-being, and ecological footprint.

Based on that method, Costa Rica has been named the happiest country with an index score of 64.6, followed by Vietnam (64.0), Colombia (59.8), and Belize (59.3). On the lower end of the spectrum are several African nations, like Botswana (22.6), Chad (24.7), and Central African Republic (25.3), as well as several places in Asia and the Middle East, including Qatar (25.2), Mongolia (26.8), and Kuwait (27.1).

Where does the U.S. fall on the list? Per MoveHub, it ranks as the 105th happiest country in the world, with an index score of 37.3 ? significantly lower than neighboring Canada (43.6) and Mexico (52.9).

An interesting map from MoveHub reveals how happy people are around the world.

http://www.bustle.com/articles/5058...&utm_medium=fijifrost&utm_campaign=CMfacebook
 
Very interesting.. Maybe I should be moving....
 
sneedham said:
Very interesting.. Maybe I should be moving....
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I used to work with someone from Costa Rica and now I work with someone who owns a vacation home there. There must be something to it.
 
http://www.nerdist.com/2015/01/neill-blomkamps-alien-concept-art-has-stolen-our-hearts/

Neill Blomkamp?s ALIEN 5 Concept Art Has Stolen Our Hearts

Did you know that 20th Century Fox was working on a fifth installment of the Alien franchise? Nope, I don?t mean a sequel to Prometheus or another Aliens Vs. Predator, a mean a proper Alien 5, with Sigourney Weaver returning as Ellen Ripley, presumably fighting off xenomorphs again. Well, it seems that neither did they, but as recently as March of last year, director Neill Blomkamp (District 9, Elysium) was working on a new Alien film, possibly to pitch to the studio, as he just posted a ton of concept art for the movie via his Instagram account.

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There are interesting ideas in these images, like Ripley wearing some kind of xenomorph style helmet, the derelict ship from Ridley Scott?s original film being dissected in some kind of hangar bay, and Hicks, Michael Biehn?s character from Aliens, alive and well. Does this mean Blomkamp?s proposed movie was looking to just ignore Alien 3 and Alien: Resurrection? Considering both of those films? reputations with fans, I doubt if many folks would mind if both of those films end up just being nightmares Ripley had while in cryo-sleep.

So what makes anyone think this Alien film will turn out any better than the last two? Well, for a few years Fox had a bad reputation of being a micro-managing studio, one that simply didn?t know how to handle their biggest franchises properly. It was during this era that we got the last two lackluster Alien films, Tim Burton?s lame attempt at a Planet of the Apes reboot, and X-Men: The Last Stand/X-Men:Origins Wolverine.

However, due to regime changes at the studio over the last few years, Fox has made a pretty big turnaround. X-Men: First Class and Rise of the Planet of the Apes were terrific films that gave those two franchise a creative shot in the arm, which resulted in last year?s equally excellent X-Men: Days of Future Past and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. Can Fox do the same creative turnaround with the Alien series? Outside of the X-Men and Apes movies, the Alien films are among Fox? most well known and profitable sci-fi franchises. It?s not an IP they?re going to let lay dormant forever, and there are worse choices to give it a proper revival than Neill Blomkamp.

On his Instagram, Blomkamp said, ?Was working on this. Don?t think I am anymore. Love it though.? This unfortunately suggests he?s moved on from the project. If I were Fox though, I?d reconsider whatever pitch he had right about now. Those concept pics look pretty cool.

http://instagram.com/neillblomkamp/
 
http://laughingsquid.com/artist-rec...e-women-from-the-maternal-side-of-her-family/

Artist Recreates Herself as Seven Different Generations of the Women From the Maternal Side of Her Family

In her photo series ?Seven Generations of American Women,? artist Christine McConnell, known for her creative pastry photo series, has perfectly recreated individual family portraits of seven generations of women going back 200 years on her mother?s side and posed herself next to the original. Christine explained the project as ?Seven generations (following my maternal line) spanning two centuries? Ancestor on left, me on the right.?

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Otto Dieffenbach of Flyguy Promotions has created a miniature remote-controlled flying version of Doctor Who?s Police Box TARDIS with the words ?Bad Wolf? scrawled on the side. Dieffenbach, known for his unique ?identifiable flying objects,? had previously created an amazing flying Christmas tree for the 2014 holiday season.

http://laughingsquid.com/aerial-rob...a-remote-controlled-flying-doctor-who-tardis/

 
http://www.thrillist.com/travel/nat...y-is-best-at-the-best-things-about-eu-nations

What Every Country in the European Union Is Best At

The European Union has 28 member countries, and much like snowflakes, they?re all special in their own way. Every country excels at something -- and to that end, we found one thing every EU nation is the best at... even if it's having the most experience working with robots.
 
3 Fun Facts You May Not Have Known About Alien

 
http://laughingsquid.com/archer-lar...nd-shoots-arrows-fired-at-him-out-of-the-air/

Archer Lars Anderson Fires Three Arrows in 0.6 Seconds and Shoots Arrows Fired at Him Out of the Air

Danish archer Lars Anderson has released a new video in which he performs incredible feats of skill with a bow that include firing three arrows in 0.6 seconds, grabbing arrows fired directly at him and shooting them back, and even shooting other arrows out of the air mid-flight.

Previously we shared some of Anderson?s earlier videos which show him using the unique technique he derived from historical texts and artwork whereby he holds his arrows in his firing hand and fires from the right side of the bow. This allows for amazing speed and diversity in firing positions.

For obvious safety reasons, Anderson urges viewers not to attempt much of what he does in the video, particularly the bit where people are firing arrows at each other.

 
http://www.designboom.com/architecture/mvrdv-hochhaus-vienna-tower-twisted-skyscraper-01-22-2015/

MVRDV chosen to complete twisting hochhaus tower in Vienna

following a three-stage international competition, dutch studio MVRDV has been selected to complete a mixed-use tower for the austrian capital of vienna. the structure, which will climb to a total height of 110 meters, is characterized by its base where the twisted form is a result of the city?s strict planning regulations. in order to ensure that daylight entering neighboring buildings is not blocked by the tower, ten of the lower levels are pivoted around the central core.
 
https://www.nerdist.com/2015/01/did-that-danish-archer-fool-the-whole-internet/

Did That Danish Archer Fool The Whole Internet?

Last week we shared a video of Lars Anderson, a Danish archer who supposedly bulleyes all the Hollywood myths of archery with his incredible skill. Anderson is undoutedly fast, but is he really revolutionizing anything? Is he even a good archer? Maybe not.

Jim MacQuarrie writing at GeekDad offers a detailed analysis of the historical and physical claims of Anderson and the video?s narrator, and finds most of it to be ?nonsense.? Here?s an excerpt:

?Andersen?s quick-shooting technique is obviously effective (if speed is the goal), in that he is able to fire a lot of arrows at a very rapid pace. It?s worth noting that the narrator goes to great pains to explain why shooting at close-up distances is so important and denigrates ?warrior archers only shooting at long distances,? (just one of many totally false claims) in order to paper over the fact that the man obviously can?t hit anything that?s more than about 20 feet away. No doubt there are literally hundreds of failed attempts that were cut out of the carefully-edited video. His gimmick is speed, not accuracy, and it?s obvious to anyone who actually knows anything about archery that his complete lack of any kind of consistent form is going to require camera tricks and a lot of luck, which is exactly what?s on display here. He may in fact be the fastest archer in the world; he just shouldn?t pretend to be accurate.?

MacQuarrie?s findings boil down to a few main points: Almost all of the historical information offered is wrong, Anderson may be fast but he is horrendously sloppy, and the trick shots that Anderson shows off are clearly edited and have been known to the archery community for years. The whole piece is pretty convincing, if a bit vociferous, and is worth a read if you were initially blown away by the video like I was.

Head over to GeekDad to read the rest of the scathing critique.
 
http://www.iflscience.com/environment/rare-rain-bomb-filmed-queensland

"A grazier in Queensland's southern inland has captured on camera the moment a "rain bomb" drops from the sky. Peter Thompson witnessed the weather event at his property just outside of Roma on Sunday afternoon. He said it was like a "water ball falling".

"I was just out on the tractor on a high point watching the rain come and wondering when I saw it," he said. "I just saw this and thought 'gee, that looks different', and grabbed my iPhone and started taking photos of it and watched it hit the ground and rolling out," Mr Thompson said.

"I reckon from when I first started seeing that ball form to when it hit the ground was about two minutes.
"The drop itself was really quite quickly. It looked like the bottom of the cloud falling."

 
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