This series capturing porcelain figurines the moment they smash into smithereens is brilliant. They’re from a photographer named Martin Klimas. The fact that they’re kung fu characters going the biff makes them even more compelling.
The camera is apparently triggered by the sound of the collision with the ground.
Via 22 Words
Authenticity is hugely important for a successful career on the seven seas. Get authentic by following the steps on this ‘ere inforgrarrrphic.
From David Soames, Via 22 Words.
I think cider might occasionally be in order though… but I do like the way this beer ad thinks.
Via 22 Words.
Hey look. This is a collection of members of a variety of Christian bands singing a Beatles song in a hotel corridor. I like it.
Via 22 Words.
I enjoy South Park on the occasions I manage to see it (not often). So this artistic rendering of the characters in humanoid form tickled my funny bone.
What do you get if you recut the Sound of Music as a thriller?
If you want more Julie Andrews mashups – check out Scary Mary.
Via 22 Words.
I’ve posted a couple of lyrical flow charts before. There’s a Hey Jude one I’m quite fond of, and 22 words posted one for Total Eclipse of the Heart today. And XKCD put this one together recently…
But these video versions take them to a whole new level.
The Wire is a gritty police drama focused on the city of Baltimore. It doesn’t really depict the police institution in the most flattering light.
David Simon, the director of The Wire responded, and I think we can all say “oh snap”…
Others might reasonably argue, however that it is not sixty hours of The Wire that will require decades for our city to overcome, as the commissioner claims. A more lingering problem might be two decades of bad performance by a police agency more obsessed with statistics than substance, with appeasing political leadership rather than seriously addressing the roots of city violence, with shifting blame rather than taking responsibility.
Coming soon, Obama’s views on how the West Wing makes the presidency glamourous.
Via 22 Words.
I used to ride one of these around Brisbane’s Queen Street Mall (I was a gopher for a law firm). I didn’t have a helment.
Via Bits and Pieces and 22 Words.
This is pretty over the top. And thus. Awesome.
Warning: it includes the comedic severing of a limb.
Via 22 Words.
I have a fascination with how ordinary things are made. I used to wonder how the deodorant companies packed all that smelly stuff into a can. Or in fact how any aerosols worked.
Then Abraham Piper of 22 words posted links to these 22 videos of stuff being made.
Now, though I’d never wondered, I know how globes are made. If you watch this video you will too.
Here’s how roll-on deodorant works.
And some of my other favourites.
And most importantly, how bacon is made.
And a musical interlude.
There goes half an hour of your time.
Jon Acuff at Stuff Christians Like has turned a good idea into a book deal, notoriety, and one of the Christian blogosphere’s most popular blogs.
This week he’s turned his blog into a money raising powerhouse – securing $30,000 in donations for a new Vietnamese orphanage in about 18 hours.
That’s pretty awesome.
Abraham Piper helped out with an interview – and has announced that this week he’ll be focused on raising money for worthy causes – starting with child sponsorship.
I like these ideas. So much that I’m setting up a Tear Really Useful Gift Shop as an experiment. I’d like to buy goats and cows for villages in the hope that they’ll be called Eutychus.
Click here to buy a really useful gift. Prices start at $5 for fish farms. I don’t expect anyone to buy a cow for $300. But it’s an animal, so I included it in the store – along with some vegetarian options.
If you want to donate part of a cow let me know in the comments.
These are not necessarily my favourite blogs by Christians – but they are the ones that are most likely to cover interesting trends in evangelical Christianity (in the Australian sense of the word evangelical – which mostly means reformed)…
A list of nine barely does my subscription list justice, there are heaps of notable omissions both from gospel ministers in Australia to collective blogs like Pyromaniacs or the SolaPanel – and a bunch of quality blogs by bible college students.
It would be remiss of me not to mention Design4Church – a most excellent blog about graphic design for churches at this point…
Any good ones I’m missing?
