Hindu worshippers pray while watching the the solar eclipse at the Sangam, the confluence of the Ganges, Yamuna and the legendary Sarawati rivers.

What a beautiful moment…

 
Photograph: Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP

Source The Guardian

“Dry-eye sufferers and glaucoma patients may soon be able to trade their messy eye drops for a contact lens that delivers medication gradually over time.
Researchers have been working for nearly a decade on drug-dispensing contact lenses that could deliver eye medication more effectively, but they’ve struggled to design a lens that releases a continuous supply of the meds. Now, scientists report that they’ve created a contact lens that can deliver a high concentration of antibiotic at a constant rate for more than 30 days.
The main way our lens differs is that it can provide large amounts of drug released at constant rates for long periods of time, which previous discoveries have not been able to do,” said drug-delivery researcher Daniel Kohane of Harvard Medical School, who co-authored the paper published in the July issue of Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. Past lenses have only been able to release a small amount of drug over a long period of time, or a substantial amount of drug for a day or two, he said.” Read more

Amazing…

Source Wired Science

“Lalla Essaydi is an artist / photographer.  She was born in Marrakech, lived as a young woman in Saudi Arabia. She studied her art in Paris and Boston and lives now in New York.
Lalla Essaydis photographic portraits capture a truly feminine spirituality, solitude and purity. Her subjects are always dressed in ghost like white (White being the colour worn by Moroccan women whilst in mourning.) she photographs these women in relaxed poses reminiscent of a bye gone era, similar to the 18th century orientalist artists who were fascinated with exposing the veiled women of the Harem. Lalla Essaydis work continues to expose the mystery to the western mind that surrounds the rituals of Muslim women in the present day.”

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What a moment…. I loooove her artwork.

Source Artnet

‘Grim’ and ‘disturbing’ are the words used to describe the mixed-media installations created by Harma Heikens, in which the artist burrows into the ragged edges of the human condition. In cartoon-like imagery Harma Heikens shows in her clear-cut scenes models of children whose existence seems to be a continuous tale of desperation and hopelessness. However, captured in colourful and detailed scenes, they are endowed with a tension which, in a subdued manner, provides the vicissitudes of their existence with a dose of purified cynicism. She is based in the Netherlands.

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Have you ever eaten a record breaker? Does size inevitably compromise quality, or does the sheer spectacle make up for any shortcomings? Continue reading

This giant cupcake is baked and iced by award-winning cake decorator Michelle Wibowo to celebrate Covent Garden Real Food Market.

Lots of of pink, lots of sugar and, well, just a tiny bit over-the-top looking too.

Source The guardian

Want a junk food fix, but fear losing your sophisticated edge? Erik Trinidad’s blog Fancy Fastfood has the answer. With the honest tag line, “Yeah, it’s still bad for you – but see how good it can look!”, Trinidad transforms convenience food into gourmet creations.
The photographs on his page shows extreme makeovers of actual fast food items purchased at popular fast food restaurants. No additional ingredients have been added except for an occasional simple garnish.

For example, The McSteak & Potatoes,  made by a McDonald’s Big Mac Extra Value Meal (#1) with a large fries and large Coca-Cola.  Looks tasty, isn’t it?

Check Fancy Fast Food to know how.

We loooooooove the idea!

If you push the bin against the elevator door while going down, their is a risk of getting squeezed…

Absurd   and Swedish

Source Cynical-C blog

Another Polaroid Story from my girl Ouni: Double trouble with Meth and Red.

Damn she’s hot!!

This is the XL story.
Well, what…?! Did you think these pictures fell in my lap or what? Or, even better, that these are PolaDRoids…? Come on, people, you should know me better than thàt.

(Vooruit, Ghent)
It’s been a while. But they are back.
The infamous, the notorious, rap duo; Redman and Method Man are back in the Building. (with an extra pronounciation on the B.) Or, like the duo love to call them selves: The Scotty Pippin & Michael Jordan of Hip Hop. (baby)
We all know the Blackout album. We all watched the How High movie.
For the ones who did not: Please listen, please watch. continue reading!!!!

We looooooooooooove Ouni and her Polaroid Story!

Mix Stix, keepin’ rythym in the kitchen.

Every kitchen has its own rhythm and hum, and now you can play along. Mix Stix are classic indispensable beechwood spoons, morphed into drumsticks. So you can rock out when you’re not stirring, paradiddle on the stockpot, give that mixing bowl a rimshot. Get with the beat! We’ve packed one solid spoon and one unique slotted spoon on a durable chipboard peggable backing card.

Design: Ignacio Pilotto, Jason Amendolara, Fred Studio

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The chandelier/showerhead by Tannan Winter Design.

“This candle chandelier sits over a pedestal tub giving elegance and ambiance to the space; but also is completely functional as a showerhead.
The space where the chandelier/showerhead was going designed in a Victorian style bathroom. The Victorian Style has roots in Greek and Roman architecture. I wanted the chandelier to have those same roots; using the statue of Aphrodite as the base from which the chandelier/showerhead was designed keeps inspiration and feel consistent thought out the space.”

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