A Shark Spring at the LA County Museum of Art ~ John Singleton Copley’s Watson and the Shark

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art is getting into the spirit of Discovery Channel’s Shark Week with their advertising for an exhibit called American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915, which runs from February 28 to May 23, 2010. Check out this dramatic scene of a young swimmer being rescued from hungry sharks featured [...]

Conclusive evidence that crop circles are not alien renderings

Either the ocean obsession has spilled over into alien life interacting with earth or crop circles are made by sea-possessed humans.  The latest jellyfish crop “circle” in Britain provides 600 feet of near-conclusive evidence of the latter.  We love our ocean creatures.

The ‘Paradiso’ font by Brian J. Bonislawsky at Astigmatic

 

MyFonts.com, in their most recent email newsletter, has this to say about the font: "On a stroll across his home town, the Vegas-based, self-proclaimed ‘Professor of Fontology’ found a similar source of inspiration in the Paris Resort and Casino. Its logo has a high “ooh-la-la” factor, with a capital P that is decidedly lustful."
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The single palm tree of ‘South Pacific’ at Lincoln Center Theater

There is something completely weird and poetic about the idea that a single palm tree is all that is needed to convey a place in the Lincoln Center Theater production of "South Pacific" as seen in this photo of the palm by Sara Krulwich (New York Times):

The Times writes: "Stagehands load in the lone palm [...]

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