Julian Beever: The Incredibly Talented Street Artist Of Perspective
Vicktor Shklovsky once wrote that the purpose of art was to make the familiar, unfamiliar. Julian Beever certainly achieves this with his dazzling street art paintings.
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Great White Shark: Adapted Athlete
The Great White Shark may live in more places than just the open seas. They also occupy a special place in public consciousness. Wrongly vilified as a mindless eating machine, they are anything but. Yet despite all that is known about these magnificent creatures the image created by the film Jaws is hard to shake off.
But when we think about these animals we should instead concentrate on their incredible longevity as a species and their amazing adaptations. For if Great Whites are one thing they are the supreme athletes of the oceans.
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Great White Shark: The Reality Of Its Jaws
Great White Sharks are the stuff of nightmares. Tooth upon tooth of razor-sharp rows of teeth, each designed to rip huge chunks of flesh from its prey. One of the most terrifying sights is that of the silhouette of a White Shark’s tail fin piercing the water’s skin as it silently stalks one of us.
Fortunately for us, this terrifying image is mythical, the result of careful Hollywood manipulation. The real Great White poses little or no threat to humans. Attacks are very rare and fatalities even rarer.
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Great White Shark: Supreme Senses
They may pervade both children and adult’s nightmares. We may regard their deathly teeth as being the closest approximation in nature to the grim reaper itself. They may disturb our souls at the deepest, darkest level. And they even may remind us of both our mortality and lack of control. They are, of course, the Great White Sharks.
But yet these representations of the White Shark are no truer than films are real.
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Le Corbusier: The Man Who Tried To Destroy Paris
He was a man at the heart of modernist architecture. He led the charge to build functional, modern buildings. If he had gotten his way he would have gutted the centre of Paris and turned it into an eyesore.
The man who called himself, Le Corbusier, was one of the most influential architects of the 20th century but some would prefer if he never built anything.
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Sex And The City 2 Film Review: Fun and Fluff All The Way
Director: Michael Patrick King.
Cast: Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Cynthia Nixon, Kristin Davis and David Noth.
Okay Sex and the City 2 is not for intellectuals or for those expecting to get some kind of moral message. It is gaudy, gauche and at times ridiculous, but it is fun to watch.
Most of the women who go to the film, (men will hate it), will go for the style, they want to see the shoes, the hair, the dresses and they will certainly not be disappointed.
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Kevin McCloud’s Big Town Plan: Castleford’s Potential Architectural Revolution
Castleford, Yorkshire, is a large English town. Run down and neglected, it was a victim of Margaret Thatcher’s radical 1980s reform when its mining operation was shut down. Now it sits, decaying, dilapidated, an austere eyesore.
Enter Kevin McCloud and Channel 4 with a highly ambitious plan for the town. With £100,000 worth of seed money for reinvigorating the almost-dead urban landscape, this programme has huge aspirational hopes.
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Ultimate Prank Videos: Deliciously Thoughtful Stunts
Pranks and jokes are part and parcel of society. Harmless stunts are the lubricant of great relationships.
Some are cleverly schemed plans that have involved hours of preparations and cunning while others are just white lies.
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Great Wall Builders: The Incas And Machu Picchu
Walls are invaluable things. They hold up roofs. They provide shelter and protection. And like fences, as Robert Frost keenly pointed out, they make good neighbours.
So who built the greatest walls? The Chinese probably spring to mind the fastest with the Great Wall of China. Undoubtedly, the myth that the wall can be viewed from the Moon does help as does their age. However, the truth is that it is the Incas who should be considered as the greatest wall builders.
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Great Architecture: Buildings That Can Make You Instantly Happy
Buildings are iconic symbols of mankind. They provide one of the essential needs for survival, shelter. However, buildings also do much more than that. Upon first sight, they can stir deep emotions within us. We can love them with every fibre of our being or we can despise them with what seems like illogical zeal.
Great architecture can transform our mood. It can elevate us beyond our normal, everyday existence and transport us to a higher emotional reality.
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Extreme Contortion: Continuing An Age-Old Artform
Flexibility. The key word in any contortionist’s vocabulary. The ability to flex one’s body and bend in ways that the average human just cannot is what fascinates people. Putting your body in extreme positions requires hours of dedicated practice and hard work.
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The True Cost Of Pedigree Dog Breeding
Pedigree dogs, contrary to popular belief, are some of the most unhealthy dogs alive. Devastated by selective breeding, in many cases inbreeding, certain breeds of pedigree dogs are now facing genetic diseases and painful existences solely because of certain people’s vanity.
This article highlights the true cost of pedigree dog breeding.
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