January 2012
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5 things I learned Jan 23, 2012
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1. FOLLOW UP: 75 photos of those creepy underwater statues we covered season 2 (see video below) http://5thin.gs/wFzc7Z
2. Play the rings of a tree as a record http://5thin.gs/AumYds
3. Family tree for Lord of the Rings http://5thin.gs/AbEwKR
4. I just love the whimsy of these photos: The Girl with the Seven Horses http://5thin.gs/xPK3WQ
5. Abandoned...
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5 things I learned January 22, 2012
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1. Loving time-lapse treatment of Yosemite http://5thin.gs/AcIlzh
2. These “Destroyed in Seconds” make me really nervous but i can’t stop watching them http://5thin.gs/yYo6Wd
3. Trailer for a movie called “Space Junk 3D” http://5thin.gs/zx9cLN
4. Shunsuke Nakamura (中村 俊輔) takes a freekick into the window of a moving bus http://5thin.gs/zMkqC7
5. Aerial...
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5 things I learned January 21, 2012
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1. Traffic Cop dance dance dance http://5thin.gs/z0HPga
2. Clever Russian street art http://5thin.gs/yOeUxv
3. Harbin Ice and Snow Festival http://5thin.gs/ytk8Xw
4. The streets are the best street art museum http://5thin.gs/x6KXBL
5. Beautiful world photography http://5thin.gs/x2A1v5
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5 things I learned Jan 20, 2012
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1. Re-imagined hip-hop album covers http://5thin.gs/y8pTTp
2. The choreography of the drummer http://5thin.gs/xXCmtq
3. “The Alphabet of the Plains” or “Alfabeto delle pianure” http://5thin.gs/wfq1bL
4. Improbable scenes http://5thin.gs/xioxbJ
5. Creepy Beavis and Butthead sculptures http://5thin.gs/xExOY3
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5 things I learned Jan 13, 2012
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1. A portrait made entirely of Rubik’s Cubes http://5thin.gs/wjLR9h
2. Star Wars inspired NASA helper robots that have a Google Nexus S phone as its brains http://5thin.gs/xg2JF2
3. Pictory has new issue of its photo journalistic online magazine http://5thin.gs/yVHewq
4. Prisoner graffiti from a Costa Rican island prison colony http://5thin.gs/y2caWH
5. Flying...
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Warmth
By Ryan Scott Nance
Warm. It can be simply the sun
that has warmed your skin. But it
is certainly not something as far
away as that that pulses up
the edge of your neck. On its way
to your brain, your warm blood
enacts your heart’s primal wish:
to wish; to want; to be; to love.
A fully functioning heart lets
its warmth stream through it.
It beats on the inside of your
lower lip which...
5 things I learned Jan 10, 2012
5thingsilearnedtoday:
1. Disney fairytales turned dark http://5thin.gs/w1hUfa
2. Who doesn’t love a good Rube Goldberb Machine http://5thin.gs/wAQIvQ
3. Stop-motion animation starring books http://5thin.gs/w6eHA6
4. Chris Milk’s video for “Two Against One” from Danger Mouse and Daniele Luppi, featuring Jack White and Norah Jones http://5thin.gs/wiwmeu
5. Surreal images from the...
5 things I learned January 8, 2012
5thingsilearnedtoday:
1. Astounding space imagery http://5thin.gs/xiahNb
2. The disposable camera project is so amazing! Yay people! http://5thin.gs/zaatKA
3. The typewriter that makes cocktails http://5thin.gs/Any2BD
4. An Indonesian short http://5thin.gs/wdd78d
5. The smiling beautiful faces of centenarians http://5thin.gs/yPmzl0
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5 things I learned January 7, 2012
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1. A world in a drop of water http://5thin.gs/zkJJaF
2. Wooden automaton http://5thin.gs/xSQ9l1
3. Japanese snow monsters http://5thin.gs/ABtXDn
4. Castellers http://5thin.gs/AntV1y
5. Kinectic sculptures, hot wheels style http://5thin.gs/wDwoEt
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Did Americans in 1776 have British accents?
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Reading David McCullough’s 1776, I found myself wondering: Did Americans in 1776 have British accents? If so, when did American accents diverge from British accents?
The answer surprised me.
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Outside my office window today
5 things I learned Jan 4, 2012
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1. A dreamlike set of photos: a naked Russian scientist taming beluga
whales in the arctic http://5thin.gs/sialGe
2. TV theme song medley http://5thin.gs/yuDMv0
3. Extra-ordinary sand sculptures http://5thin.gs/wsWfRd
4. Digitally made surreal solitude http://5thin.gs/zKQv5M
5. Stunning projections on the Sheikh Zayed Grand...
First Round WINNER: Marc Crowswell
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Victoria Crosby - Best Street Art 6% Marc Croswell - Patient Gardner 91% http://5thin.gs/showdown-Crosby-v-Croswell
December 2011
14 posts
5 things I learned December 31, 2011
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1. The year in photos from The Big Picture: Part 1 http://5thin.gs/rWY391; Part 2 http://5thin.gs/v8cxFh; Part 3 http://5thin.gs/veASkr
2. The top optical illusions of the year http://5thin.gs/w2dS7X
3. Long exposure photos of fireflies http://5thin.gs/s2Majo
4. Heads made of match heads http://5thin.gs/u5i3sv
5. Crochetdermy http://5thin.gs/rR3Cnx
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5 things I learned December 22, 2011
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1. Creative winter photography http://5thin.gs/uxbIlY
2. Los Angeles as a snow globe http://5thin.gs/tSBIRt
3. The year’s best FAILS! http://5thin.gs/rPmhVg
4. Highway interchanges are gorgeous (when seen from above) http://5thin.gs/vflrE2
5. Love battles http://5thin.gs/tebWrF
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5 things I learned December 26, 2011
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1. I love the sky and I love architecture. BOOM! http://5thin.gs/ubE6A1
2. DJ Earwom mixes a whole year together… so much fun http://5thin.gs/uZqSa2
3. An incremental animation project http://5thin.gs/slnKuE
4. 2011 in Television http://5thin.gs/vC6X4i
5. Some of the weirdest ads of 2011 http://5thin.gs/rQ3rI3
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“Choices may be unbelievably hard but they’re never impossible. To say you have...”
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5 things I learned December 9, 2011
5thingsilearnedtoday:
1. Astounding drinking straw sculptures http://5thin.gs/skp1q7
2. Clever short film called “Too Late” http://5thin.gs/tBt37f
3. A mountain bike v. a snowboard http://5thin.gs/trEaj1
4. Rap lyrics FINALLY explained http://5thin.gs/tE2hGl
5. Mexico’s #1 free iPad app is a poem by Octavio Paz… take that Dreamland HD: spooky adventure...
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5 things I learned December 6, 2011
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1. Pink infrared landscapes of Congo http://5thin.gs/sK4G46
2. 3.2 million dots make up this portrait http://5thin.gs/vzR9wV
3. Giant temporary pictures sand, snow, etc http://5thin.gs/sDTFSv
4. Virtually paint your room http://5thin.gs/tUTQpZ
5. Lots of interesting, fun and stunning photo animations http://5thin.gs/tJVPbP
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5 things I learned December 5, 2011
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1. Top 100 photos of 2011 from Reuters http://5thin.gs/vSlWS1
2. Startlingly busy traffic time-lapse of Ho Chi Min City http://5thin.gs/u9NdeY
3. Quad-copter awesomeness http://5thin.gs/uVsRCQ
4. Supercut of 2011 movies http://5thin.gs/rPfTGr
5. Videorative Portrait http://5thin.gs/sgj6GB
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5 things I learned December 4, 2011
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1. Whoa… Star Wars scenes… showdown or competition or something… awesome awesome http://5thin.gs/vGIzBP
2. Luis Buñuel’s recipe for a martini http://5thin.gs/tDbedH
3. A vintage typewriter modded to be a chromatic machine http://5thin.gs/vQVGXJ
4. Floating balls in unison http://5thin.gs/rsyi6m
5. Walmart: information graphic http://5thin.gs/vONWpO
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5 things I learned December 3, 2011
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1. Surfing at night while decked out in glowsticks http://5thin.gs/su6AQk 2. A glass-floored walkway way up in Tianmen (天門) in China http://5thin.gs/sIa8o6 3. Stylish stop-motion animation depicting the history of the Universe http://5thin.gs/spP2o0 4. The 10 most interesting photos in American science history http://5thin.gs/uJjBBz ...
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November 2011
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5 things I learned November 30, 2011
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1. Wildlife photography that makes you wanna pack your bags and get on a plane and get out there yourself http://5thin.gs/s1GAjK
2. Famous writers and their libraries http://5thin.gs/rqNSqI
3. A montage of Christopher Nolan films http://5thin.gs/rS9lE3
4. Awesome animated gifs… some of them are really amazingly mindbending http://5thin.gs/vVOijA
5. Criterion...
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5 things I learned November 26, 2011
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1. A song made entirely out of Mike Tyson quotes http://5thin.gs/uDEdY3
2. 48-hour film about the real drama of the Ikea catalog http://5thin.gs/uYGEpf
3. I hope i am never inured to the beauty of surfing, especially shot this way, in a place as beautiful as Fiji http://5thin.gs/vAbeqq
4. For fans of Italian rap, or of typography, or of the...
5 things I learned November 25, 2011
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1. All of the parts of familiar gadgets http://5thin.gs/u3rml2
2. Mosaic of 365 time-lapse skies http://5thin.gs/rFEZhL
3. Animation on bicycle wheels http://5thin.gs/slpAsd
4. Ten quirky science experiments to win friends and influence people… at parties http://5thin.gs/tefvuy
5. Seen from overhead http://5thin.gs/tcRFgQ
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“Giving thanks for abundance is sweeter than the abundance itself. ~ Rumi”
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5 things I learned today: 5 things I am thankful... →
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1. You. This last year has had a great deal of really interesting people take interest in what we are doing here. Thank you. As always we would love to hear from you: 5thingsilearnedtoday@gmail.com
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