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Ooo! :D - Brandon

oh god!!!!! - Myrna

I know...some of the photos are absolutely stunning!! I can feel more Flickr faves coming on. - Emma

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really very sensual. - Amit Kumar Sinha

Awww ... Thank you Jason, I'm glad you appreciate my choices! :) - Emma

A few cups of coffee a day may be all that is needed to reverse the effects of Alzheimer's disease, new research suggests. Scientists have uncovered powerful evidence that caffeine not only helps to stave off the disease but can treat it. They plan to follow up the initial results from animal experiments with human patient trials. Leading researcher, the US neuroscientist Gary Arendash said: "The new findings provide evidence that caffeine could be a viable 'treatment' for established Alzheimer's disease, and not simply a protective strategy. That's important because caffeine is a safe drug for most people. It easily enters the brain, and it appears to directly affect the disease process." - Emma via Bookmarklet

:D <3 :D - i'll subscribe to any (!) coffee thread *g* - Ronald

These are pictures are of ordinary smoke that have been coloured on the computer. The smoke comes from burning incense sticks and was photographed in a studio using an off camera flash. - Emma

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Donald Oenslager, the great American set designer and a professor at the Yale School of Drama, wrote that “a sketch for a scene is as short-lived as the life of the theater it supports.” Mr. Oenslager, who died in 1975, was being a bit disingenuous, as he was a major collector of such sketches. In 1982 his widow gave some 1,600 drawings, prints and books on set design to the Morgan Library & Museum. About 50 of these drawings, including two by Mr. Oenslager, are on view there in “Creating the Modern Stage: Designs for Theater and Opera.” They present a concise summary of 20th-century stagecraft, one that appeals equally to Museum of Modern Art mavens and seasoned theatergoers. - Emma

Tim Burton's unique style and trademark twisted vision are once again on display as new concept art and character shots were released this week from his upcoming Alice In Wonderland. We look back at how the visionary director stamped his mark on projects as diverse as Batman, the biopic of Z-list filmmaker Ed Wood and stop-motion classic The Nightmare Before Christmas, and gathered some quotes from Burton himself to explain just how he made his biggest successes to date. And Planet of the Apes. - Emma

The legendary and mysterious artist, Banksy, has taken over the Bristol Museum for a stunning summer showing: Banksy vs. Bristol Museum. The exhibit opened on June 13, 2009 and ends on August 31, 2009. For those lucky enough to get there, admission to this unique exhibit is free. Banksy has mixed more than 100 pieces of his own art into the museum’s existing collection. It is the largest showing of Banksy artwork ever and most of the artwork on display has never been shown before in the UK. Because Banksy doesn’t believe in copyright, visitors are welcome to take photos, and that is how we are able to share a glimpse of this exciting, one-of-a-kind event with you. - Emma via Bookmarklet

It's a rainy morning on the outskirts of Paris, the sky as grey as the puddles of mud churned up outside a nondescript warehouse; but, inside, something magical is happening. Walk along several dark and grimy corridors, and suddenly you see a room inside a room – like a Chinese box or a conjuring trick – where light streams out of the windows into the cavernous gloom. Navigate a path through the cameramen and film crew, and you find yourself within the inner sanctum of Coco Chanel. - Emma

Or at least that's what it looks like on the set of Anne Fontaine's film, Coco Avant Chanel, where an eerily accurate version of the designer's famous couture salon has been recreated down to the last detail, with a vase of white peonies on the glass-topped table, and the gleam of crystal chandeliers reflected in the mirrored walls. An etiolated model glides across the room, wearing a... more... - Emma

When it comes to the fashion industry, it seems the strongest trend for spring/summer 09 is to star in your very own film. Fashion fans are clamouring to get their tickets to the new releases that shed light on, expose and ridicule the fashion world. French actress Audrey Tautou stars as Coco Chanel in Coco Avant Chanel, a film depicting the legendary designer’s journey from her poverty-stricken childhood to head of one of the biggest fashion empires in the world. Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky, the second Chanel biopic to be released at the end of this month focuses on the love affair between (you’ve guessed it) composer Stravinsky and Chanel. Both films are sure to provide fashion lovers with a copious amount of black, white, pearls and lashings of red lipstick. - Emma via Bookmarklet

Very classy - Kevin Hatton

These are great. - Gordon Herd

Somehow I knew you would post this particular entry. And you of course chose the best images ;))) This still qualifies as torture. :P - Brandon

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http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Anna Haro

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Anna: lol ... you might have got independence from this country but you don't get rid of this Brit quite so easily... :p Derrick: Hope you had a great 4th of July... :) - Emma

Love this particular song. ;) - Brandon

Creeping closer inch by inch – 900ft above the mighty Colorado River – the two sides of a £160million bridge at the Hoover Dam in America slowly take shape. The bridge will carry a new section of US Route 93 past the bottleneck of the old road which can be seen twisting and winding around and across the dam itself. When complete, it will provide a new link between the states of Nevada and Arizona. In an incredible feat of engineering, the road will be supported on the two massive concrete arches which jut out of the rock face. The arches are made up of 53 individual sections – each 24ft long – which have been cast on-site and are being lifted into place using an improvised high-wire crane strung between temporary steel pylons. - Emma via Bookmarklet

Wow I drove by it few years ago, that is impressive image what a project! - Robert Higgins

Yes, WOW ~ Now that is a bridge! - Dave

<3 - Nia

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Far too cultured for me......lol - Kevin Hatton

That'd be awesome. I hope that we get to go to Europe next spring. - Nation Hahn

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And a coffee with a croissant (or two) :) - M F

oooo ... now that does sound perfect!! :) - Emma

Those photos are the Before images, of course. For After, watch Transformers: ROTF - Aaman Lamba

We know them as trailers, but they don't trail anything; they play before the movie, not after it. The name dates to their earliest incarnation, when they actually did follow the feature. The documentary "Coming Attractions" dates the very first trailer to a 1912 Edison serial entitled "What Happened to Mary?" After each installment, a black card with white text would appear to inform audiences "The next incident in the series of 'What Happened to Mary' will be shown a week from now." Not exactly "In a world..." but it did the trick back in 1912. What happened to Mary wasn't nearly as important as what happened to trailers, which have grown into one of the most popular forms of advertising in the world. Some think they spoil the movies -- Gene Siskel famously hated them so much he wouldn't enter a theater while they were playing -- but for the rest of us, they're a treasured part of the moviegoing ritual, a delicious cinematic appetizer to prepare us for the main course. - Emma via Bookmarklet