Cee Bee

In the far southwest corner of Sweden, in a nature preserve a few kilometers northwest of the town of Arild, on a rocky beach reachable only via boat or a strenuous 30- to 45-minute hike, is the nation of Ladonia. You will know when you are in the nation Ladonia, because it is marked by two monumental creative works: Nimis and Arx. Created by artist Lars Vilks, Nimis (Latin for "too much") is a maze-like wooden artwork made of 70 tons of driftwood and nails and culminating in a teetering, nine-story wooden tower. Arx (Latin for "fortress") is a stone and concrete sculpture resembling a melting sand castle. Nimis, the first of the two sculptures was begun in 1980 and went unnoticed by authorities for 2 years until 1982, when they declared it would have to be destroyed. - Cee Bee

Way to go Cristo. You bought a developing country illegally in Sweden. - Maxamad

kids really need to find something better to do with their time than this - Cee Bee

Jackass Russian Style - VAL D.

It's the third largest mosque in the world, carefully just smaller than Mecca and Medina, and the only one of the three I may visit as a non-Muslim. And a challenge to photograph! I've taken probably thirty pictures of the Grand Mosque from the outside, and never liked a one of them, and I haven't loved any of the official photos either. It tends to look unreal, like an architect's rendering or a scale model, unless it is framed by something else. The photo above was taken from the car through the window with lots of distortion and reflection, the one below from the parking lot, and for now these are the best I can figure to do. - Cee Bee

Wow. - Maxamad

Non-destructive image editing for your mac - Cee Bee

"Indonesia's Papua province is set to pass a bylaw that requires some HIV/AIDS patients to be implanted with microchips in a bid to prevent them infecting others, a lawmaker said on Saturday. Under the bylaw, which has caused uproar among human rights activists, patients who had shown "actively sexual behavior" could be implanted with a microchip to monitor their activity, lawmaker John Manangsang said. "It's a simple technology. A signal from the microchip will track their movements and this will be received by monitoring authorities," Manangsang said. If a patient with HIV/AIDS was found to have infected a healthy person, there would be a penalty, he said without elaborating. The Jakarta Post newspaper on Saturday quoted Constan Karma, the head of Papua's National AIDS Commission, as saying the plan violated human rights. The local parliament was expected to introduce the controversial legislation in Papua, which lies in Indonesia's easternmost fringe, by end of this month, Manangsang said. - Cee Bee from Bookmarklet

I don't understand why they can't put those funds into what's really important: education. PERSPECTIVE, PEOPLE. Ugh. Makes me sick. - Mona Nomura

Interstate 10 curves up and out of New Orleans, looping out of the Big Easy and chasing the Gulf Coast towards points east. About thirty minutes outside the city, just after the I-510 interchange, a set of faded blue structures rises on the southern horizon. These are the derelict roller coasters of Six Flags New Orleans, which closed in advance of Hurricane Katrina and has yet to reopen. The park was not so much shut down as abandoned—sacrificed, almost, to the encroaching storm. Merchandise stayed on shelves, electronics remained in place, and the logs in the flume ride were left stuck halfway up their plastic hills. The sole preparation for Katrina seems to be a message on the park’s signboard, still visible more than three years later: CLOSED FOR STORM. The property opened as Jazzland in 2000. Rides such as the Bayou Blaster and The Big Easy Ferris Wheel were sprinkled through lands with similarly local-sounding names, including ‘Cajun Country’ and the ‘French Quarter.’ After low... more... - Cee Bee

They just announced they are turning it into a Nickelodeon Water Park (first of its kind) - RAPatton

French video game magazine Amusement has a set of very interesting CG images that depict the very beginnings of some of history’s most iconic and important video games. - Cee Bee

Over at Real Evergreen in New York City, you can now buy the 2010 New Years glasses that will undoubtedly be big sellers come the last few weeks in December. 2009 was the last year that typical New Years glasses would be made because any year after 2010 would result in an odd shape for eye glasses. However, it looks like somebody has made the glasses with the “1″ anyway! The green ones on the left are decent and the silver ones on the right are atrocious. - Cee Bee

Geeshhhh...already? - Shevonne

Sgt. Joshua Engbrecht, 28, of Riverside Calif., left, and Pfc. Jack Shortridge, 21, of Long Beach Calif., of the U.S. Army’s 1st Platoon Apache Company, 2nd Battalion 87th Infantry Regiment, part of the 3rd Combat Brigade 10th Mountain Division based out of Ford Drum, N.Y., gave each other haircuts under the stars in Wardak Province in Afghanistan. - Cee Bee

The Impossible Project bought all the machinery and equipment at Polaroid’s Dutch factory where the instant films were made. Urban Outfitters is helping them bring it back for 2010. UO will be releasing a limited edition of 700 hand-numbered deadstock Polaroid camera kits. The kit includes a pack of deadstock film the Polaroid ONENE600 Classic, the last Polaroid camera ever produced. Camera kits and film will be available online: August 28, 2009 at urbanoutfitters.com and urbanoutfitters.co.uk and in 58 select North American locations and four locations in Europe. - Cee Bee

UO will also be selling the film for $24 per pack and camera kits at $180 each. West Coast, 10:00 am Space 15 Twenty, Los Angeles, 1520 N. Cahuenga Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90028 San Francisco, 80 Powell St., San Francisco, CA 94102 Vancouver, 822-830 Granvile St., Vancouver, BCBC V6Z 1K3 Canada East Coast, 1:00pm New York, 628 Broadway, New York, NY 10012 New York, 162 Second Ave., New York, NY 10003 Boston, 11 J.F. Kennedy St., Cambridge, MA 02138 London, 6:00pm London, 200 Oxford Street, London W1D 1NU - Cee Bee

I might have to add that to my birthdaymas wishlist :) - Jennifer Dittrich

In the summer of ‘71, The Rolling Stones, seeking shelter from their UK tax woes, exiled to the South of France. Keith Richards set up house with Anita Pallenberg and their son Marlon in Villa Nellcôte– a 16 room waterfront mansion that once served as Gestapo headquarters for the Nazis during WWII. The infamy continued with it now best remembered among rock fans as the grand flop-house where Exile On Main Street was recorded. French photographer Dominique Tarle chronicled perhaps the most notorious house party ever, and had full access to goings-on over a period of six crazy months. He later recounted to the New York Times– ”They built a studio in the basement of Keith’s house because the band knew it would be easiest for Keith,” says Dominique Tarlé, who had an all-access pass inside the villa for six months. “Engineers and technicians slept over, illegal power lines from the French railway system juiced their instruments, and when the temperature hit 100, they rehearsed with their... more... - Cee Bee

very interesting...thanks for sharing... - Jeffrey Marsh

Stunning. - Katie: Whelmed Overly

Rita Hayworth, ba-zow!! p.s. one more of Rita: http://bit.ly/iZDbD - Zach Landes

They are all so beautiful. But...Raquel Welch will be beautiful until infinity. ;O) - Harold Cabezas

A car graveyard in Kaufdorf, near Bern is home to 500 abandoned and decaying cars mostly from the 1930's to 1960's. It has not been touched for over 30 years and has some rare flora and founa. The opportunity to take stunning photographs is unparalleled, but it is causing environmental issues which results in an auction this September. It was a struggle between history, nature and European law. History and nature lose. - Cee Bee

I love how some cars have managed already to become archaeology. - Kamilah Gill

"Nesting Tables/Step Stools Designer Paul Loebach Material: Wood and MDF with safety hinges Dimensions: 17.25 x 14 x 18 inches This set of three nesting tables/stools each opens at top, with safety hinged lids for inconspicuous storage. Available for pre-order. Approximate ship date: 9/30/2009" - Cee Bee from Bookmarklet

"While we were pretty excited to see Dr Martens make their comeback via Raf Simons, their collaboration with Stussy has definitely stolen our attention. The chunky styling is combined with a desert boot aesthetic and is wrapped in waterproof suede" - Cee Bee from Bookmarklet

"Delivered over a span of 20 months, Felissimo's "500 Pencils" is a made to order collection of colored pencils shipped in 25 color sets every month ($33 a month) for 20 months. Use them for your own creative purposes or subscribe/purchase the acrylic display to create a MOMA-worthy art piece in your home." - Cee Bee from Bookmarklet

O_O O.O PENCIL PR0N - Kamilah Gill

This image of Niagara Falls was discovered twelve years ago in a box at Newcastle University in England. The box, marked “Daguerrotypes,” had been languishing on a shelf in Special Collections since 1926, when it was given to the library by descendants of British industrialist Hugh Lee Pattinson. Then a student of the early form of photography just perfected by Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre, Pattinson was in Canada on a business trip when he stopped at the Falls to practice his technique. It took more than twenty minutes for the scene to afx on the silver-coated copper plate inside his camera (widely believed to be the small figure seen to the lower left); afterward, he would envelop the plate in warm mercury fumes, slowly drawing the image to the surface. It must have been thrilling, but no more so than when, a century and half later, historians learned what had been unearthed at Newcastle: the frst photograph ever taken in Canada. - Cee Bee

We wanted the house to be more than just a facade. More than just a message or a graphic stuck to a building. Our building was not an urban canvas paying tribute to Venturi’s “decorated shed”, instead the external facade could be experienced internally and is also a multi functional device that constantly transforms the built form from solid to void, from private to public, from opaque to translucent. By day the building is heavy and reflective and by night inverting into a soft translucent permeable light box. The operable wall or the absence of the facade enabled us to remove the idea that houses are static. The use of operable walls, doors, curtains and glass walls enables the occupants to change the experience and environment. This architectural manipulation of space blurred the boundaries between inside and outside, the public and private realm. The manipulated spaces overlapped and borrowed the amenity and context of it’s surrounding environment. - Cee Bee

Superficially reminds me of a Tadao Ando (?) house, except of course I could never imagine Ando playing around with graphics like this. It's driving me crazy that I can't find the house I'm thinking of online with vague Googling; I'll have to look it up in my books later tonight. - Andrew C

oh nvmd you've been here. Perty. - sofarsoShawn

whats the 7 train doing in chitown!?!1? ;) - Carlos Ayala

yeah it does look very similar, doesn't it? - Cee Bee

This series, titled “Picnic”, by Masato Seto, shows people in parks, sitting and lying on plastic sheets placed on grass. They look as if they were in their rooms without roofs and walls. Seto creates invisible rooms using a conceptual tool – plastic sheets – within a conceptual space: parks. It makes us unaware of the dislocation from the real world, just as costumes disconnected from reality become symbols. The couples are very close to each other, and behave as if they were alone. They are naturally so while the photographer is shooting, not having been told to pose. Although there are no settings used for these photographs, they look out of place. One seeks documentation when attempting to equate photographs to reality. But documentation is not free from stories. It makes sense to say photography is fiction rather than saying documentation is free from stories. A fiction is naturally detached from reality. If one seeks documentation with photography, it is going to be... more... - Cee Bee

hahahaha - Shevonne

Ok....totally snorted.....and I didn't mean to...Caught me quite by surprise. - Katie: Whelmed Overly

fuck, shit, fuck.... - Cee Bee

Yeah, Carlos DON'T EVER LEAVE AGAIN! - Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕

chicks with feathered hair make me laugh - Lokei Atikus™®