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🎤 PORTELA 2019 l Clipe Oficial dos Carnavarizados – “Na Madureira ModernĂ­ssima…!

Clipe Oficial 2019 dos Carnavarizados com o GrĂŞmio Recreativo Escola de Samba Portela – Direção Geral: Yuri Ornellas e Wirley Contaifer – Assistente de Direção l Logger: Rafael Cardoso – Direção de Fotografia: Pedro Marins – Câmera: Pedro Marins – … Continue reading

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This Man Can Pronounce Every Word in the Dictionary

Great Big Story Published on 21 Aug 2018 Pop quiz. Try pronouncing the following. Ready? Go. Elucubrate. Smaragdine. Scherenschnitte. Head scratchers, huh? Not for Jacques Bailly. As the official pronouncer of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, he can tackle any … Continue reading

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Early American Ginger Beer – 18th Century Cooking

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“Final Offer” DUST Original Sci-Fi Short Film – Exclusive Premiere

“Final Offer” by Mark Slutsky A down-on-his-luck lawyer awakes in a doorless room to find he’s been selected to negotiate on behalf of the human race.

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Dream Worlds Imagined in Contorted Clay Portraits by Johnson Tsang – Colossal

Johnson Tsang (previously) continues to create spectacularly emotive ceramic sculptures of the human face. The Hong Kong-based artist’s latest series, Lucid Dream II, features surreal contortions that squish, wring, melt, and stretch. Titles like “Remembrance,” […] Source: Dream Worlds Imagined in Contorted Clay Portraits by … Continue reading

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Sci-Fi Short Film “Telepathy” presented by DUST

“Telepathy” by Dave Cairns A gift for some is a curse for all In the near future, an unexplained phenomenon has progressively given the majority of the world’s population telepathic abilities. While many herald this as a new age of … Continue reading

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How we can eat our landscapes

What should a community do with its unused land? Plant food, of course. With energy and humor, Pam Warhurst tells at the TEDSalon the story of how she and a growing team of volunteers came together to turn plots of … Continue reading

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Congada Lambari 2017 (vĂ­deo 2)

14 de maio de 2017. Congada, Lambari/MG.

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600 Years of Mexican Architecture Captured in Large-Format Photos

Internationally renowned photographer Candida Höfer brings her signature large-format architectural photography to New York in a new exhibition. With In Mexico, Höfer tells the story of Mexican architecture through her meticulous interior photographs. As she focuses on the grandeur of spaces devoid of … Continue reading

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A Recursive Series of Paintings Inspired by One Woman’s Second-Ever Work of Art

Over the last two weeks, Redditors have been slowly but steadily breaking the internet’s space-time continuum with a series of recursive paintings. The fateful catalyst was posted on Reddit two weeks ago, with a photo of a woman (the Redditor’s … Continue reading

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