Tuesday 29 July 2014

Motivational Words #4 positive values Pendant

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A gorgeous design. Click to customize and personalize. Maybe you'd like to see your name or initials on it?


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Motivational Words series Here's a great design using motivational word-art. Designed to boost many personal values, each time you look at these words, you should get some subtle encouragement. Each word is carefully selected for being the sorts of values and characteristics that successful people benefit from.

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image code: mowds4

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Cute ponies for the bedroom and school

Grullo Cartoon Shetland Pony Canvas PrintBlue Roan Cartoon Shetland Pony MacBook Air SleevesBrown Cartoon Shetland Pony Love Hearts Messenger Bags

Cute ponies for the bedroom and school

If you know a boy or girl who loves ponies then here's a collection that should give you some gift ideas.
Any boy or girl will love them - some for bedroom and some for school. Which of these would be best?

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Motivational Words #2 fridge magnet Fridge Magnet

A gorgeous best-selling design. Click to customize or personalize. How would it look with your name or monogram on it - why not have a look-see right now?


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Motivational Words series Give some positivity! Here's a great design using motivational word-art. Each time you look at them, you should get a subtle positive boost!!
more items featuring these motivational words
more items in the Motivational Words series

image code: mowds2

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Puppy Love - Cute MaltiPoo Dog Photo Round Sticker

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How can you resist this cute puppy design? Maybe you'd like to see your name or initials on it? Click to customize and personalize...


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An adorable young puppy dog with big floppy ears and soft fur wants you to show her some love. Cute dog photograph in vivid color showing what may be either a maltese poodle cross, or maybe even something larger like a labradoodle or labrador retriever crossed with a poodle. Use as shown, or upload a photo of your own snuggly fuzzybutt pooch for a treasured dog lover keepsake.

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Aaargh... my eyes, my eyes!

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Aaargh... my eyes, my eyes!
Don't watch this for too long!
 #funandrandom

John Baez originally shared:

The hypersnake versus the moiré eel

This animated gif is cool, but here's something much cooler:

http://wry.me/hacking/moire-eel.html

It starts out intense... and then keeps getting more so. 

You can control the shape of the little rectangles by moving your cursor over the screen.  Try to keep your eye on just one little rectangle!  It moves up and down, not very fast... but sometimes it's impossible to keep your eye on it, because all the rectangles together produce patterns that grab your attention.  These are called moiré patterns. 

I think the 'hypersnake' here is attention-grabbing because your brain has parts that are good at detecting snakes even before you are conscious of it.  Your amygdala is one of these parts:

Information from an external stimulus reaches the amygdala in two different ways: by a short, fast, but imprecise route, directly from the thalamus; and by a long, slow, but precise route, by way of the cortex.

It is the short, more direct route that lets us start preparing for a potential danger before we even know exactly what it is. In some situations, these precious fractions of a second can mean the difference between life and death.

Here is an example. Suppose you are walking through a forest when you suddenly see a long, narrow shape coiled up at your feet. This snake-like shape very quickly, via the short route, sets in motion the physiological reactions of fear that are so useful for mobilizing you to face the danger. But this same visual stimulus, after passing through the thalamus, will also be relayed to your cortex. A few fractions of a second later, the cortex, thanks to its discriminatory faculty, will realize that the shape you thought was a snake was really just a discarded piece of garden hose. Your heart will then stop racing, and you will just have had a moment’s scare.

The 'moiré eel' was made by Darius Bacon.  You can see more of his stuff here: 

http://wry.me/blog/

Puzzle: who made the 'hypersnake' here?  I don't know!  A Google image search shows it on many websites, but I haven't found one that credits the inventor.  Naughty!

For more on moiré patterns try this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moiré_pattern

For more on the amygdala, try this:

http://thebrain.mcgill.ca/flash/i/i_04/i_04_cr/i_04_cr_peu/i_04_cr_peu.html

#illusions  

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Woven Sky: A Bamboo Tunnel Installation Woven Together Like a Basket by Wang Wen-Chih

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Woven Sky: A Bamboo Tunnel Installation Woven Together Like a Basket by Wang Wen Chih bamboo Australia architecture

all images courtesy Cave Urban

Woven Sky: A Bamboo Tunnel Installation Woven Together Like a Basket by Wang Wen Chih bamboo Australia architecture

Woven Sky: A Bamboo Tunnel Installation Woven Together Like a Basket by Wang Wen Chih bamboo Australia architecture

Woven Sky: A Bamboo Tunnel Installation Woven Together Like a Basket by Wang Wen Chih bamboo Australia architecture

Woven Sky: A Bamboo Tunnel Installation Woven Together Like a Basket by Wang Wen Chih bamboo Australia architecture

Woven Sky: A Bamboo Tunnel Installation Woven Together Like a Basket by Wang Wen Chih bamboo Australia architecture

Woven Sky: A Bamboo Tunnel Installation Woven Together Like a Basket by Wang Wen Chih bamboo Australia architecture

Woven Sky: A Bamboo Tunnel Installation Woven Together Like a Basket by Wang Wen Chih bamboo Australia architecture

Using 600 poles of bamboo and 70 radiata pine logs all harvested locally, Taiwanese Artist Wang Wen-Chih created a massive installation that served as the entrance to the Woodford Folk Festival in Australia. Working with the Sydney-based architecture and design collective Cave Urban, a team of 40 workers and volunteers spent 3 weeks building the structure. Each bamboo pole was split into 4-5 pieces and weaved together like a basket. Woven Sky, which rises 15m high and is 100m long, was completed late last year, just in time for the music festival, and served an impressive entrance point into the amphitheater stage.

 
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