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An intimate exploration through the spectrum of nature’s beauty – Paula Codoñer Muñoz’s analogue floral photography sits up there with the oil painting greats.
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AWESOMESAUCE
Awesomesauce first emerged in the naughts as a colloquial expression for something that is amazing or incredible. The word first popped up in the internet cartoon Homestar Runner. In the 2003 episode Strong Bad Email #75, the character Strong Bad says, “Well, aren’t you gonna go get your 409 or Awesome Sauce or whatever you’re gonna clean this up with?” It referred to a made-up cleaning product that supposedly mopped up ketchup spills on computers.
By the time 2010 rolled around, awesomesauce became both a noun and an adjective for anything and everything that was especially great. It made a cameo in the 2001 episode of the show Parks and Recreation when Andy Dwyer (Chris Pratt), says “That’s awesomesauce” when his girlfriend professes her love for him. In 2013, awesomesauce landed in a commercial for Discover credit cards and a mayonnaise spread by “Just foods.” It was also often used in GIFs by comedian Steven Colbert in his comedy sketch The Colbert Report.
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AMAZEBALLS
You either love it or you hate it. Amazeballs officially made its way into the Collins Online Dictionary in 2012, which had tongues wagging. It was defined as “an expression of enthusiastic approval.” The Urban Dictionary pegs it as “basically beyond amazing. Being so awesome that a regular word can’t describe you.”
Sources are divided on where awesomesauce first picked up speed, with PerezHilton.com as one contender and fashion blogger Elizabeth Spiridakis as another. If you’re a foodie, then you’ve perhaps seen every recipe under the sun for amazeballs, from the Willy Wonka renditions to the uber pimped out health versions. It also made its way into the musical comedy-drama television series Glee, with Gwyneth Paltrow referring to one character’s riff on Aretha Franklin’s “Ain’t No Way” as “amazeballs.”
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Elements of nostalgia, relationships, subtlety of fashion and the feeling of remembering things – Kshitij Kankaria’s work merges East and West in the rawest format.
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In the natural world, a wellspring is the head of a large body of water, such as a spring, river or stream. As a metaphor, wellspring adapts a similar connotation, pointing to the origin or source of something that is practically inexhaustible. From an etymological point of view, the root words of well and spring each possess independent significance in forming the compounded wellspring. The origin of the word well dates back to before 900 from the Middle English and Old English wel(l) (adj. and adv.); cognate with Dutch wel, German wohl, Old Norse vel and Gothic waila. Well can be taken to mean an issue of water from the earth, or a pool fed by a spring. To spring is to jump forth with speed or force, or to move as though by elastic force.
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From a topographical point of view, a fountainhead is a fountain or spring from which a stream flows, or the very origin of a stream. Metaphorically speaking, a fountainhead signifies the principal or main source of something. The Russian-American author Ayn Rand’s first literary success, The Fountainhead, was published in 1943. The novel expounded upon her objectivist philosophy, depicting a visionary artist’s struggle against the machine and the inspidly conformist dogma of his peers. Rand’s penned words speak to ambition, power, love and, well, gold. A black-and-white film based on the book was produced by Warner Bros. in 1949 and directed by King Vidor.
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Artist Katie Paterson collaborates with researchers and scientists worldwide, making the place we call home – our own Milky Way galaxy and far-off planetary systems – what would be a phone call away, practically winding the spindly cord of the E.T. handset right around our index fingers.
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SAY GOODBYE
I can’t say I’m sorry one more time, Let me make my break from this state of mind, And say goodbye I’m gone, Though you tried to own me, I guess there’s no harm done, Hope you won’t be lonely, My life tuned to yours; where does that end? I just can’t be such good friends with your friends, So say goodbye, My dear Don’t believe it’s easy.
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“Perfectionist is usually a euphemism for pain in the ass. Stanley Kubrick was the first real perfectionist.”
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The once-crowded museums are sitting empty in the uncertain times of C19 pandemic. Dive into our compilation of resources free for everyone to enjoy. Some of the resources are open content, reusable and remixable under creative commons.
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Efi Sandwich Box
If you are a collector of Germany products this little red sandwich box will be your great find. It is a product by the company Efi which does not exist anymore.
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Qompendium Nasa Ephemera
The Meatball, silkscreen printed white and black on custom-made heavy board. Enjoy the richness of Qompendium Print Publication by experiencing the diverse ephemera produced for the first volume.
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Sigmund
Freud has been dead for nearly 70 years, but Freud’s provocative theories are still a part of psychology, neuroscience, and culture — this despite the fact that many of his ideas were mindboggingly, catastrophically wrong. Indulge into the world of Penisneid and start your own collection.
