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Dec 02, 2010 the melnikov house might make you cry

by Chibi

Finnish documentarian Rax Rinnekangas began his "Five Master Houses of the World" series with Konstantin Melnikov's hive/studio in Moscow. For those who speak neither Finnish nor Spanish and can't fully enjoy this trailer, Lumière has posted Richard Pare's commentary on the Melnikov House as part of a 2009 exhibition of the Lost Vanguard: Soviet Modernist...

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Dec 02, 2010 The End?

by Yoshi

In an effort to push global leaders to save the environment at a UN Climate Change Conference held in Cancun, Mexico, activists linked together on a small island off the coast of Belize City, Belize. Photo by Spectral Q via The Big Picture...

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Dec 02, 2010 How a Personality Test Designed to Pick Astronauts is Taking the Pain Out of Customer Support

by kevin

“Making a call to customer support” is probably second only to “getting a root canal” on most people’s lists of “fun things I’d really rather not do today.” If you’ve seen NBC’s Outsourced, your opinion of call centers has likely plummeted still further. Despite the energy that companies invest in trying to improve call center...

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Dec 01, 2010 Broadway Bombing: BMXing Down Manhattan

by Yoshi

Broadway Bombing 2010 from crihs on Vimeo. A glimpse behind one racer's hanldebars as he races down the length of Manhattan during the Broadway Bombing race that ends at the south tip of the island. Kids, don't try this on your streets! via Crihs...

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Dec 01, 2010 avant-garde underpants wrestling

by Chibi

the emergency exit man and other nico nico douga memes taken to their most unnatural conclusion = wrong, but so catchy....

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Dec 01, 2010 Google Maps: A-Z

by Yoshi

Leave it to a veteran Creative Director to "alphabetize" Earth's face. via Rhett Dashwood...

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Dec 01, 2010 Then & Now: Ghosts of War in Amsterdam

by Yoshi

These remarkable photos by historical consultant, Jo Teeuwisse, serves as a reminder of the political consciousness in Amsterdam during the 1940's as well as the modern lives of present day society. (FULL STORY)...

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Dec 01, 2010 First Man To Walk The World

by kevin

The Journey KARL BUSHBY IS MELAQUE’S MOST CURIOUS FULL-TIME RESIDENT. This small town on Mexico’s Costa Alegre has been the former British paratrooper’s base of operations for three years. Every morning he sits in an indoor-outdoor café two blocks from the ocean and nurses an orange juice, making use of a weak wireless signal from...

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Nov 29, 2010 The Black Friday Numbers. Mobile shopping up threefold in 2010.

by Anne Ishii

Heartening news that we went into brick-and-mortar shops this weekend for our post-Thanksgiving bargains, but the most astounding figure in all the stats rolling in from the cracked out weekend of shopping is this: 310%. In 2010, PayPal's mobile shopping volume was 310% of last year. Three hundred and ten, people. The Numbers....

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Nov 27, 2010 Chunking Express, Frame Shot 0:47:39.00

by YMFY

By: Zack Selley In a film where two similar synchronous stories overlap the distinction between characters often becomes blurred. As is the case between Hong Kong officers 223 (Takeshi Kaneshiro), and 663 (Tony Leung Chiu-Wai) both officers overcoming lost loves through a myriad of unusual actions. The second and most prominent story in the film details...