If you’re a designer, you know that communicating with clients can often be very frustrating. With that in mind, we bring you one funny cheat sheet, explaining what clients really mean when providing feedback.
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Size matters in Times Square – take a look at world’s most expensive billboard
What is believed to be the biggest and most expensive digital billboard in the world was lit up yesterday in front New York’s Marriot Marquis hotel. The only other billboard able to compete is the world’s tallest billboard at One Times Square, where the ball drops on New Year’s Eve.
Continue reading “Size matters in Times Square – take a look at world’s most expensive billboard”The school teacher’s outfit you can count on for 40 Years :)
There are superstars who wouldn’t wear the same dress twice, but this one teacher from Prestonwood Elementary (PE) in Richardson, USA, had himself photographed with the same outfit for 40 years in a row. PE teacher Dale Irby started his legendary yearbook photograph sequence by mistake, when he realized he was wearing the same polyester shirt and coffee-colored sweater like he did for the photo shoot one year ago, back in 1973.
“I was so embarrassed when I got the school pictures back that second year and realized I had worn the very same thing as the first year,” said Dale. It was his wife, Cathy, who managed to make a joke out of the situation, and dared her husband to wear the same clothes again next year. After this dare Dale wore his shirt and sweater for the next 5 years: “After five pictures,” he said, “it was like: ‘Why stop?’” Even when the clothes wouldn’t fit him anymore, Dale would bring them to school and wear exclusively for the photo shoot. Nice to have something you can count on these days!
via: dallasnews.com
The new John Lewis Christmas TV ad Monty The Penguin could be the best advert in 2014
Christmas TV ad: John Lewis unveils its latest festive advert, featuring a young boy and what appears to be his pet penguin playing together in the lead up to Christmas Day.
Continue reading “The new John Lewis Christmas TV ad Monty The Penguin could be the best advert in 2014”Mob Football, a Forerunner of Modern Football
Mob football was chaotic, violent, local and almost rule-free. Yet this medieval game helped shape the football codes we know today.
READ MOREFunTASTIC ornaments grandmother :)
Grandmother Agnes Kašpárková delicately paints traditional Moravian ornament on an early 18th century bell-tower.
Tallest Residential Building: A stunning view of the New York City for $95 million
The new 432 Park Avenue is the tallest residential building in the Western Hemisphere.
Continue reading “Tallest Residential Building: A stunning view of the New York City for $95 million”Swearing at Work: A Very Unofficial Office Manual
Swearing at work is not always the disaster HR manuals make it sound like. But knowing what you can say, when you can say it, and who you can say it to is a language skill in itself.
Continue reading “Swearing at Work: A Very Unofficial Office Manual”Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody will cure your illness
Forget paracetamol and don’t even think about calling the doctor: listening to Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody, it seems, is the quick route to feeling better when you are unwell.
Continue reading “Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody will cure your illness”Google maps: Explore the breathtaking Liwa Desert from your desk at home, must see!
How cool is this! Google maps is using 360° cameras, strapped on camels’ back, like on Google’s street view cars, to map the desert to give us a view of its surroundings without disturbing or affecting the environment.
Continue reading “Google maps: Explore the breathtaking Liwa Desert from your desk at home, must see!”Multilingual people are better at observing their surroundings
A study from Spain’s University of Pompeu Fabra revealed that multilingual people are better at observing their surroundings. They are more adept at focusing on relevant information and editing out the irrelevant. They’re also better at spotting misleading information. Is it any surprise that Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot are skilled polyglots?
Best advertising, Dreams
Best advertising: For these kids, dreams do come true!
Turkish Airlines is known to the advertising world mostly for its goofy, fun-loving, insanely popular ads with Kobe Bryant and Lionel Messi. But the brand showed its versatility in 2014 with this gorgeous spot from Lowe Istanbul – almost the polar opposite of those celebrity ads.
READ MOREThe craziest selfies
Selfie on the top of the 101-Story Tower
Without any safety gear, the thrill-seekers made it to the top of the 101-story tower.
19 Year old Daredevil Alexander Remnev scaled Dubai’s tallest residential building, and takes epic, stomach-churning selfies. The building name is Dubai’s Princess Tower.
Nonverbal communication – women vs. men
Women have an eight-lane superhighway for processing emotion, while men have a small country road 🙂 … click on image to enlarge it
We found an article that estimates that women talk three times more than men do (click here for more). The article proposes that women speak “up to 20,000 words in a day – 13,000 more than the average man.” The article adds, “Women also speak more quickly, devote more brainpower to chit-chat – and actually get a buzz out of hearing their own voices.” What do you think?
Learn German with music
Learning German? Pick up some new words from this fun dance music video:
Laserkraft 3D – Nein Mann (official video)
The hugest tree in the world – The President (VIDEO)
It is believed that ‘The President’ is the hugest tree in the world when judged on bio-mass. “The President” is located in the Giant Forest of Sequoia National Park in the United States.
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The tree is 75 metres tall. That’s a 20 storey building! It boasts a circumference of 28 metres at the base and at over 3,200 years old pre-dates the Iron Age. It’s so huge, it’s impossible to look at in one go. So no one has ever taken a proper photograph of its entirety until a team of photographers from National Geographic worked with scientists from California’s Sequoia National Park to take 126 separate photos of ‘the President’. The final photograph, which represented a mosaic of 126 images, appeared in the December 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine.
Pee shaming in Czech Republic
Apparently public urination has become so rife in the Czech Republic that this warning sign is used to stop people from relieving themselves out in the open. It’s a long-shot, but it just might work 🙂
A magical diving landscape, Green Lake (Grüner See) in Austria
“Green Lake (Grüner See) is located in Tragöss Austria. In spring snowmelt raises the lake level about 10 meters. This phenomenon, which lasts only a few weeks, covers hiking trails, meadows, and trees. The result is a magical diving landscape.”
The winners of this year’s National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest
Picture: Marc Henauer (third place)
The first ever job interview
It has never been your job skills that get you a job. See how the cavemen did it in this humorous video from BBC One.
How to Park in Palestine
Parking in Jericho, Palestine
