1. I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
2. The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
3. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
4. It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
5. The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.
6. Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
7. What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
8. A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
9. When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
10. There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
11. Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
12. Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
13. True friends stab you in the front.
14. All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.
15. Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
16. There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
17. Genius is born—not paid.
18. Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
19. How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being?
20. A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone’s feelings unintentionally.
21. My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people’s.
22. The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
23. I like men who have a future and women who have a past.
24. There are two ways of disliking poetry; one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope.
25. Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
And one bonus quote about Oscar Wilde! Dorothy Parker said it best in a 1927 issue of Life:
If, with the literate, I am
Impelled to try an epigram,
I never seek to take the credit;
We all assume that Oscar said it.
Whatever you type into the URL bar can be surrounded by www. & .com by pressing control + enter.
When viewing picture based subreddits, add a “p” into the url like so: redditp.com/r/subreddit to get a picture slideshow of the posts on that subreddit. This is particularly useful when you want to browse a picture based subreddit ahemhands-free.
Type -inurl:(htm|html|php) intitle:”index of” +”last modified” +”parent directory” +description +size +(wma|mp3) “weezer” into a google search bar.
And for other searches, replace “weezer” with whatever you’re looking for. It finds music downloads on public ftp and http sites.
Hold S and right click an image to do reverse image search in Chrome.
The Wadsworth constant, which was proposed by /u/wadsworth, states that the first 30% of any YouTube instructional video is skippable. YouTube added it as a feature. Tutorial video? Add ?wadsworth=1 to the end of the URL and skip the awkward introduction by the host about their hobbies, genetic history, what they had for breakfast, and the explanation you could have gathered from the video’s title.
ctrl + shift + T
Opens up the last tab you closed.
Most of the good ones are gone, but, holding control makes your cursor move by full words, instead of by characters.
So CTRL + backspace will delete the entire previous word. CTRL + arrow keys will jump to the start of the previous word.
CTRL + L highlights the url/address bar in Chrome.
If a YouTube video is marked as private I’m pretty sure you can gain access simply by deleting the “watch?” In the URL.
I didn’t include this before because I never personally tried it, but I’ve heard that if you remove the “?” In a New York Times online URL you can avoid having to buy a subscription or whatever they want you to pay for.
Don’t hit control+alt+delete, hit control+shift+escape to go directly to the task manager.
One weird trick is pressing ESC to halt animated GIFs that are distracting. Animators hate me.
So many don’t know about alt-tab, which lets you switch between open applications quickly. It changed my life.
Putting the following into a favorite/shortcut on the toolbar re-enables browser right click. Good for sites that disable it to stop you stealing pictures, or if their own right click context menu is buggy.
javascript:void(document.oncontextmenu=null)
I’m positive everyone knows this, but ctrl + shift + n opens up an incognito mode tab on chrome. You can browse freely being sure that nothing of what you do is saved in browsing or downloads history. No cookies either.
CTRL + SHIFT + R = Clear cache and then refresh page.
If certain subreddits are blocked at your school or work you can type the subreddit name with a + at the end of it.
ex. /r/AskReddit+
Plug-ins make your internet experience 100x better:
- YouTube Center: allows you to customize YouTube to your liking, auto HD, remove annotations, and other annoying things that normal people have to adjust every time they watch a video.
- Imagus: allows you to view images by just hovering over the link. Works great for reddit.
- AdBlock: Everyone should know about this already. Blocks ads. Allows you to whitelist sites that have tasteful, non-intrusive ads (like reddit).
Tired of hitting spacebar to pause a YouTube video and having it scroll down a page instead? Hit “k” instead.
For websites like washingtonpost.com that allow you a certain number of free stories per month before you hit a paywall, just delete the cookies from the site and it will reset your count. Alternatively, you can browse it in incognito mode (yes it’s useful for more than porn).
If you Google a UPS tracking number, it will link you right to the tracking page for your package.
When searching things in Google, you can type a minus sign and then the word you don’t want (-stuff) to remove that word from the search.
Googling “do a barrel roll” results in a barrel roll on Google.
Youtube video or website not available in your country? Try https://hola.org/ lets you proxy from a different country really easily.
A lot of people probably already know this, but…
Go to Google. Type in Atari Breakout. Go to Images.Enjoy.
Try searching “tilt” in the address bar in chrome…
Google engineers must have fun.
Always check retailmenot.com for coupons before buying anything online.
Run into an old, dead link? Copy the url to archive.org… they often have a preserved copy.
Matthew Albanese is artist who fascinated with special effects and magic. Matthew own a stunning artwork collection of photographs that will blow your mind with their realistic presence. On the left side in gallery you can see the final image and on the right you will be able to see how image was created using his special effects. Scroll down and enjoy in today’s gallery with 15 beautiful artworks.
Diorama for Box of Lightning.. Backlit etching in plexiglass painted black.
Diorama made out of walnuts, poured and cast candle wax, wire, glitter, peanut shells, flock, plaster, wire, dyed starfish, compressed moss, jellybeans(anemones), sponges, wax coated seashells, toothpaste,
clay, figs, feathers, Q-tips, nonpareils.
Diorama made using painted parchment paper, thread, hand dyed ostrich feathers, carved chocolate, wire, raffia, masking tape, coffee, synthetic potting moss and cotton.
Diorama made out of tile grout, cotton, phosphorous ink. This model volcano was illuminated from within and underneath by six 60 watt light bulbs.
Making clouds out of drug store cotton balls. Diorama madre from cotton, salt, cooked sugar, tin foil, feathers & canvas.
This model is simply made out of faux fur(fields), cotton (clouds) and sifted tile grout(mountains). The perspective is forced as in all of my images, and the lighting effect was created by simply shifting the white balance.
It took two months to store up enough fireplace ash to create this lunar landscape. The darker rocks are made of mixed tile grout, flag crumpled paper & wire. The Earth is a video still projected onto the wall.
Diorama made out of glass, plexiglass, tile grout, moss, twigs, salt, painted canvas & dry ice. The waterfall was created from a time exposure of falling table salt.
Made out of 20 pounds of sugar, jello and corn syrup. The crystals were grown in my studio over the course of two months.
Diorama made from wood, moss, yellow glitter, clear garbage bags, cooked sugar, scotch-brite pot scrubbers, bottle brushes, clipping from a bush in bloom (white flowers) clear thread, sand, tile grout (coloring), wire, paper and alternating yellow, red and orange party bulbs.
25 pounds of sugar cooked at varying temperatures (hard crack & pulled sugar recipes) It’s basically made out of candy. salt, egg whites, corn syrup, cream of tartar, powdered sugar, blue food coloring, india ink & flour. Three days of cooking, and two weeks of building.
Diorama made of steel wool, cotton, ground parsley and moss
This one is a mixture of many different materials, tile grout, moss, bottle brushes (pine trees) Actual clippings from ground cover and was built on top of standard outdoor patio table (water glass). The sky is canvas painted blue. Coloring was again achieved by shifting white balance.
This one was made by photographing a beam of colored light against a black curtain to achieve the edge effect. The trees were composited from life ( so far the only real life element in any of these images) The stars are simply strobe light through holes in cork board.
Paprika Mars. Made out of 12 pounds paprika, cinnamon, nutmeg, chili powder and charcoal
Matthew Albanese’s fascination with film, special effects and movie magic—and the mechanics behind these illusions—began early. Born in northern New Jersey in 1983, Albanese spent a peripatetic childhood moving between New Jersey and upstate New York. An only child, Albanese enjoyed imaginative, solitary play. He loved miniatures and created scenarios intricately set with household objects and his extensive collection of action figures. After earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Photography at the State University of New York, Purchase, Albanese worked as a fashion photographer, training his lens on bags, designer shoes and accessories—this small-object specialization is known in the retail trade as “table top photography.” Albanese’s creative eye soon turned to tabletop sets of a more wildly eclectic nature. In 2008, a spilled canister of paprika inspired him to create his first mini Mars landscape. More minute dioramas—made of spices, food and found objects—followed. In 2011, Albanese was invited to show at the Museum of Art and Design of New York. His work has also been exhibited at the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Winkleman Gallery, and Muba, Tourcoing France. Matthew is represented at Bonni Benrubi Gallery in New York
Katerina Plotnikova did something extremely amazing! She used no photoshop! All poses and animals are real!
ENJOY!
Mario S. Nevado
Norvz Austria
Rachel Hulin
Gyyp
Miguel P (PSHoudini)
Michelle Karpman
Sarolta Bán
Heru Suryoko
Erik Johansson
Martín De Pasquale
Caras Ionut
Patrick Thorendahl
Jason Lee
Ulric Collette
Sacha Goldberger
Free Imagination
Yago Partal
Daniel Borris
Sergey Larenkov
Jeannette Woitzik
Joel Robison
Kyle Thompson
Aneta Ivanova
“This subtle and refined form of reproduction enabled me to imitate the original technique used during the production of banknotes, intaglio printing,” the artist says on her website. “My goal was to create a complete series with clear design that transcends the tradition of banknote making.”
2) The writer George Orwell poses with the puppy during the Spanish Civil War. Behind him is Ernest Hemingway (1937)
3) Billboards in Times Square (1900)
4) 50s Greasers
5) 1930’s Teen Delinquents
6) 8 year old coal miner – 1900’s
7) Winston Churchill (right) with Canadian Prime Minister Robert Borden in 1912
8) The final four couples on the Chicago dance marathon. (1930)
9) This photo of Beatles dates back to 1957. John Lenon oldest was 16, George Harrison and Paul McCartney had a year less
10) American officer and a French partisan coincide during street fighting in the city with the Nazis (1944)
Since very long time artist have been trying to create incredible thing by the using recycled material. DIY home improvement products that uses these kind of miscellaneous objects too are getting more and more popular with people all over the globe because they yield us a tangible, real way to draw a little deviation in our waste imprint as a species.
There are lots of DIY light fixture projects out there to select from if you’re interested – these are some of our findings. Although not ALL of these ideas are recycling related, but these DIY lamp and chandelier projects will prevent your home beautifully lit and your wallet fat.
