Carved Eggshell Art
Christel Assante carves eggshells into extraordinary pieces of art. SculptorRon Cheruka , who goes by the nickname "the egg man," also works in the medium of eggshell, but he is not quite as talented in my opinion, a Salieri to Assante’s Mozart.
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Immigration limbo
“Dear Mr. Prime minister haper, I don�t like to stay in this jail. I�m only nine years old. I want to go to my school in Canada. I�m sleeping beside the wall. Please Mr. Priminister haper give visa for my family. This place is not good for me."
Two Iranian parents and their Canadian-born son Kevin have been detained in a Texas detention centre after trying to escape their torturous and dangerous situation in Iran.
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The ozone layer was just jealous.
There are holes in the earth’s crust! It turns out that the ozone layer was just keeping up with the Jones’s; in the middle of the Atlantic ocean, there is a patch of several thousand square kilometers where the mantle is exposed. ‘The team of scientists from Cardiff University stress there is no need for the public to panic about the giant hole even though they describe it as "a gaping open wound in the Earth’s skin".’
The scientific team departs today to investigate the hole. They will be detailing their progress on a blog. And you can ask them questions about their project, which they may answer online.
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Creepy automated photo retouching software
PortraitProfessional is a software package that claims to automate the process of retouching portraits. In part it does so by perfecting skin tone and texture, much like Kodak’s excellent Digital GEM Airbrush plugin, but it also does something it calls ‘face sculpting,’ presumably reproportioning facial elements into some sort of ideal relationship. The effect in many cases is to give the subject a creepy, bug-eyed look that seems equal parts anime, Whitley Strieber alien, and those funny warped headshots made famous by (and with) Kai’s PowerTools. The reworked photo on the home page isn’t too extreme, but some of the ones in the sample gallery are downright disturbing. (And I can’t imagine how you’d ever explain to a subject why you rebuilt his or her face as if you were a plastic surgeon in some military hospital.)
RobDurdle.com 