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The Holy Donut in Maine Makes Gluten-Free Donuts Worth Driving Across the State For

Documentary Film

The Holy Donut opened in Portland, Maine, with one distinguishing feature: the donuts contain mashed potato, which gives them a density and chew that a standard ring donut can’t match. The gluten-free versions have become the unexpected obsession of people who don’t typically think much about gluten-free anything. They sell out most days before noon.

Since being diagnosed with Celiac disease several years ago, there have been many things I’ve missed while being on a strict gluten-free diet.

But there’s something about the simple beauty and deliciousness of a donut that I miss more than just about anything. Here’s some delicious (and torturous, for me) donut love. Mmm…..

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Animals

Timothy J. Reynolds’ Geometric Low-Poly Animals Are Faceted Art at Its Most Satisfying

Animals

Low-poly art had a moment in the early 2010s before fading into background noise — a victim of overexposure. Timothy J. Reynolds is one of the artists who elevated it beyond a passing style into something with genuine staying power. His faceted animals aren’t geometric exercises; they have personality and warmth that most flat design never quite manages. Years later, these pieces hold up in a way that a lot of era-defining digital art simply doesn’t.

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Loving these geometric, faceted creatures (and scenes) by artist Timothy J. Reynolds. His work is for sale on Society6 as prints, pillows, phone cases and more. Can’t get enough of that Woolly Mammoth!
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Animals

Thomas Barbéy’s Surreal Photo Montages Depict Impossible Landscapes That Don’t Exist

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Before AI-generated imagery made surreal landscapes a daily scroll, Thomas Barbéy was doing it entirely by hand — combining film negatives in the darkroom to create places that feel deeply familiar and completely impossible at the same time. The craft is staggering. Each image is the result of years of accumulated negatives, patience, and a precise visual imagination that no algorithm can replicate. In a world now flooded with algorithmic surrealism, his work is a reminder that the most unsettling dreamscapes come from a human mind with something specific to say.

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Via Whudat:

“In every location Thomas Barbéy has traveled to, he has taken photographs. He uses the pictures to create artistic montages of a imaginary concepts, which are technically made with a combination of negatives, pre-planned double exposures, and/or other methods. His work is heavily inspired by his travels, everyday life, and art by Rene Magritte, M.C. Escher, and Roger Dean.”

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Culture

Happy Ending Crashes

Culture

Plane travel can be routine, or it can be terrifying. For the latter, a bad plane experience can be a crash, which almost always means death.

Check out these pretty amazing stories through images. Via PetaPixel:

“For his project “Happy End,” German photographer Dietmar Eckell has travelled all over the world to find and photograph abandoned airplane wreckages with positive endings.

That last part may seem like a paradox, but all of the 15 wreckages Eckell has shot actually do have happy endings: no one on board died, and they were all rescued from the remote locations where they crash landed.”

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Animals

Close-Up Coral Photography by Felix Sala Reveals an Alien World Beneath the Sea

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Felix Sala photographs coral the way most people photograph landscapes: from inside it, looking out. His close-up work captures a world that most divers swim right past without really seeing. The shapes, textures, and colors here are genuinely alien, and they’re sitting about ten feet underwater at reefs all over the world.

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Vibrant Macro Photographs of Coral by Felix Salazar underwater nature macro coral animals

Vibrant Macro Photographs of Coral by Felix Salazar underwater nature macro coral animals

I’ve always found coral to be spectacularly interesting, from a visual perspective. I was to do some snorkeling on the islands of Hawaii recently, and the diversity of form, color and size is staggering. Felix Salazar has some really nice shots from his own personal aquarium.

Via Colossal:

LA-based photographer and composer Felix Salazar recently captured some wonderful macro photos of several inhabitants in his salt water aquariums. The shocking variety of color makes the coral look like digital renderings, but Salazar assures me each is a unique photo selected from hundreds of attempts to get just the right shot as he experimented with focus and light. You can see many more on his website. (via my modern met)

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Art

Reshaping the World By Hand

Art

Response to Print of Feeding Frenzy, Santa Cruz, 2012.

Manipulating images in the computer is about as commonplace as you can get. Manipulating printed images by hand is cooler. And the results are perhaps stranger. Artist Laura Plageman uses her hands and whole body to warp her medium format images to her liking. Via Wired:
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Response to Print of Kudzu, Texas, 2010.

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Art

You’re in Time for Tea!

Art

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Just about everywhere in the United States, it’s cold out. Time for a cup of tea.

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Advertising

Paula Swisher’s Bill Birds

Advertising

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There’s a wonderful sense of self in Paula Swisher’s illustrations of birds. She’s a fine illustrator, yes, but the canvasses she uses takes her art to a different place. A strange and funny and out-of-context place that make them genuinely unique. And as everyone knows how annoying it is to get bills in the mail, it’s nice to know someone out there is putting them to good use. Take that, Bank of America. Via Colossal:

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Animals

Feedlots Overhead

Animals

Feedlots in Texas. From far above, it’s still abundantly clear what the scene below is like. A pretty shocking sight. Created from a series of satellite images, via Mishka Henner.


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Art

The Surreal American West

Art

Some beautiful and surreal views of the American west, by photographer Reuben Wu. Via Gizmodo:

The Grand Canyon
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The Indiana Dunes.
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Dante’s View, the viewing platform over Death Valley.
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The Nevada desert.
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The legendary Smith Mansion in Wapiti Valley, Wyoming.
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The Badlands.
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The Devil’s Tower in Wyoming’s Black Hills.
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The Grand Prismatic Spring in in Yellowstone National Park
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New Mexico’s Star Axis.
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Architecture

The Strange Underground House of 3970 Spencer Street

Architecture

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This kitsch masterpiece is notable for its location, which is in the Las Vegas area. But more specifically, 26 feet underground.

Built so that a family could survive for up to a year after a nuclear blast, this architectural oddity is like something out of a movie set, and it’s on the market for $1.7 million, which includes the two-bedroom underground house, the one-bedroom underground guest house, a two-bedroom, two-story caretaker’s house above ground, and a four-car garage.

Via LaughingSquid:

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Art

Brendan Monroe’s Swirly World

Art

Colossal has a look at the fantastic whirling color forms of Brendan Monroe.

The work has beautiful hues, great motion, and a warm sense of kinetic energy. Love it.

  

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Whirling Human and Topographic Forms of Color Painted by Brendan Monroe painting

Whirling Human and Topographic Forms of Color Painted by Brendan Monroe painting

Whirling Human and Topographic Forms of Color Painted by Brendan Monroe painting

Whirling Human and Topographic Forms of Color Painted by Brendan Monroe painting

Whirling Human and Topographic Forms of Color Painted by Brendan Monroe painting

Whirling Human and Topographic Forms of Color Painted by Brendan Monroe painting

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Architecture

Pop Chart Lab’s History of the Bicycle

Architecture

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We’re big fans of Pop Chart Lab, and their latest info graphic/poster is all about Bicycles.  From the strangest and earliest Draisienne to the Avatar 2000, this poster is a beauty, and a must-have for any bike enthusiast. $27, from their website.

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Architecture

Syrian Tent City

Architecture

Syrian refugees have formed an enormous tent city called Zaartari, in Jordan, with over 144,000 refugees. And unlike the tent city during Burning Man, this one is three times the size, and full of despair and hopelessness. Despite all, the tent city has services just like a real city would, from electricity and hair salons, to medical facilities and markets. Let’s all hope the Syrian civil war ends soon.  Via Kinja and El Pais:original-1

Click on the images to see the extent of the enormous tent city.

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Devoid of trees and natural shade, the city faces scorching heat and intense winds.

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Refugees are resourceful and resilient, though eager to return to their homes.

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The cost in human suffering is high.

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Documentary Film

16 Spot-on Moments

Documentary Film


16 exciting, hilarious, harrowing moments in life, captured just at the right millisecond. Via StumbleUpon:

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Art

NASA’s Secret Art Program

Art

It’s hard to think of America’s most scientific, technical and precise government organization having an art program that includes post modernism and collage. But it exists, and it’s been around for 50 years. Thank you, NASA. We love you.
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The program is still around today, and has some amazing pieces in its collection. Founder and former NASA Administrator James Webb wrote: “It’s Important events can be interpreted by artists to give a unique insight into significant aspects of our history-making advances into space. An artistic record of this nation’s program of space exploration will have great value for future generations and may make a significant contribution to the history of American art.”

Artist include Norman Rockwell, Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol and Annie Leibovitz.  Via The Scout and NASA’s website. 

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