Jack's Beans & 5G Communications. Cute, yes?
Thursday, December 29, 2011
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Outdoor escalator opens in Medellin slum in Colombia
December 26 in the Comuna 13 Colombian Medellín put into operation outdoor escalators. This is the first of its kind escalators installed in the slums. They have replaced more than 350 concrete stairs. Officials say that their use will reduce the 35-minute hike down the slope to six minutes. All this for free. 04 more images after the break...
Simple Public Figures by Ali Jabbar
A beautiful art by Ali Jabbar — Simple Public Figures 08 more images after the break...
Animals with Extraordinary Qualities
The strongest animal
The strongest animal in the world is copepods. Being just one millimeter in length of copepods is the strongest and fastest multi-cellular creature. Relative to their size, copepods move with the highest acceleration of the body relative to the length of a second. Scientists are now studying prygatelnye ability of the animal to be used in the technology of robots. Copepod is 10-30 times stronger than any machine or an animal in the world.
They were born with extraordinary qualities, and each of them is exceptional in its own way. Here are the most powerful, poisonous, loud, fast, long and old representatives of the animal world. 14 more after the break...
Top 10 Most Bizarre Collections
There is an unusual collection? Please send us! In the meantime, we'll describe the most unusual collections of other people.
01. Dimitrios Pistolas Afins - the owner of the world's largest collection of movie cameras. He owns 937 vintage models of cameras and projectors. 09 more after the break...
Office of ICQ in Tel Aviv — Israel
Another tour of the office, Last time visit Facebook office. At this time look at the visit of ICQ. This is the main office building by ICQ in Tel Aviv, Israel. It is situated on the streets of Kiryat Atidim and is here for like 10 years. But to say that the communication company owns the whole building - which means to lie. This is a small business center, where the company takes the last fourth floor. Harel Information Technologies. In the same building are the offices of two companies aytishnyh - IBM and Harel Information Technologies. 30 more images after the break...
Book: Fractured Fables from Image Comics
I never wrote about this Fractured Fables (Hardcover),
first because I came to it late, second because I am not at all well-versed in current comic books,* and lastly because I didn't look past the cover when I saw it, which to me, hate me if you want, looked very generic, like cheap fairy tale books at the dollar store. Nothing wrong with that, but not my usual interest or what I assume to be yours.
Then recently I stumbled across some sample pages from the book and I can fully admit I was wrong. I should know well enough by now to not judge a comic book by its cover, but at least I didn't suffer for my prejudgment forever. In other words, there is some great stuff within this innocuous looking cover. In fact, I learned that two of the pieces inside were nominated for Will Eisner Awards: Best Short Story Nominations--"Cinderella," by Nick Spencer and Rodin Esquejo & "Little Red Riding Hood," by Bryan Talbot and Camilla d'Errico.
From the publisher:
Some of the comic book industries best and brightest use their talents to welcome the next generation of comic book readers with the kid-friendly anthology, Fractured Fables! Featuring an introduction by Bill Willingham (FABLES), this all-new, humorous take on our most beloved fairy tales boasts a cover by Madman Atomic Comics creators Mike & Laura Allred and all-new stories by award-winning creators including Jill Thompson, Bryan Talbot, Peter David, Ben Templesmith, Scott Morse, Doug TenNapel, Laini Taylor, Ted McKeever, Terry Moore, Bill Morrison, Larry Marder, Jim Valentino, Phil Hester, and New Yorker artist Shannon Wheeler, among others.
From an article, Comic book review: 'Fractured Fables' by Joseph Szadkowski:
Here are just a few of my favorites:
■ "Little Red Riding Hood" is updated by writer Bryan Talbot and finds the brightly dressed child on a direct path to the Big Bad Wolf's stomach until she displays some surprising skills. Painter Camilla d'Errico brings a bit of an anime influence to the action and makes me exclaim when viewing Red, "My, what gigantic blue eyes you have."
■ Doug TenNapel's "Rumpelstiltskin" turns the classic into a "Ren and Stimpy" episode. He dementedly uses a grotesque art style that chaotically blends with the sophomoric hijinks of a magic little man who can turn hay into gold, a grumpy king and a dumber-than-a-post future queen.
■ The adventure of "The Little Mermaid" turns much more ominous in the hands of comics scribe extraordinaire Peter David as her quest to live happily ever after with a human prince becomes a puzzling problem in podiatry. Artist Ron Ferrara offers ample arch support for the mermaid's issues.
■ Writer Nick Spencer's "Cinderella" satisfies through a fable more about the frustrations of an unhip fairy godmother than the abused princess while artist Rodin Esquejo's beautiful and Disneyesque art style puts the story near the top of my favorites.■ "Rip Van Winkle" meets Len Strazewski's imagination and we enjoy a story about a conceited girl named Pipi Van Wrinkles who gets loaded on cherry cordials and learns her fate as an adult. The slapstick shenanigans throughout come to life thanks to the pop-art and retro-Archie-Comics-like stylings of Paul Fricke.
*Except for my few years of avid Superman collecting and reading in the mid 90s, so I am not completely ignorant of how the industry works. I had a large collection that was stolen when we moved to California although I had quit collecting at that point. But I gave up for good then. It was just too depressing. I was also raised around a brother who was a Marvel fan, so I've spent some time in comic book shops and it is my favorite set on Big Bang Theory.
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