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If you have never visited the energy-filled city of Tokyo, be a little inspired by Masaya Sugimura’s time-lapsed video. It is a spectacular landscape that seamlessly blends time-honored tradition with sleek, ultra-fast modernity.
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The Impossible Project has finally merged my obsession of taking iPhone pictures with my other obsession of taking old school Polaroids. And now I am one of their Kickstarter backers.
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Photographer Jon Shireman dips flowers in liquid nitrogen and captures the mosaic-like aftermath. It is fragile beauty in all its fleeting glory.
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It’s President Obama and his anger translator, Luther. ‘Nuff said!
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It may have taken me a while to figure out who One Direction is (are?) and I didn’t realize they were British until the actual day of the Video Music Awards, but at least I know who makes up Black Simon & Garfunkel. So give me some credit there. And to the screaming tweendom who loves them some One Direction: I get it now. I’m just way too old to readily admit it.