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Stanley Kubrick and me: designing the poster for A Clockwork Orange

Philip Castle's airbrushed art features on album covers for David Bowie and Pulp but his lurid imagery for A Clockwork Orange remains his most infamous work he remembers his friendship with the director

Philip Castle shows me into his front room to see the naked woman on her knees next to the family piano. The plaster sculpture is battered and fragile and turning yellow with time, but I would recognise those nipples anywhere. This is one of the nude statues that serve as furniture and serve up drinks from their breasts in the sinister, darkly funny opening scenes of Stanley Kubrick's 1971 film A Clockwork Orange. “There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie, and Dim, and we sat in the Korova Milkbar trying to make up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening.”

In Kubrick's pessimistic parody of British youth culture, Malcolm McDowell's futuristic ultraviolent mod antihero sets the scene in voiceover as the camera pans back from him and his bowler-hatted, white-codpieced droogs, taking in one obscene statue after another, just like this one I viddied with my own eyes, O my brothers, in Castle's house.

Kubrick sent people to the cinemas where A Clockwork Orange was showing to make sure the screens were clean

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lagrima captures sheikh lotfollah mosque in iran in a kaleidoscopic fashion

the artist blurs and distorts different architectural elements of the mosque using various photographic techniques.

The post lagrima captures sheikh lotfollah mosque in iran in a kaleidoscopic fashion appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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Vanessa Bell to break free from Bloomsbury group in Dulwich show

The sister of Virginia Woolf and lover of Duncan Grant is long overdue recognition as pioneer of modern art, say curators

The first major solo exhibition presenting Vanessa Bell as a pioneering 20th-century artist rather than a player in the tangled affairs of the Bloomsbury group of writers and artists will be shown at the Dulwich picture gallery next year.

She might have been better off, even better known, if she hadn't been part of the group

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George Graham Scientist of the Day

George Graham, an English clock- and instrument-maker, was born July 7, 1673.

Published at the polite request of his lawyers

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Mongolia's "Unbreakable Flower" (17 photos)

Soronzonboldyn Battsetseg, who's name translates to “unbreakable flower” is determined to win gold in Rio. The female wrestler won bronze in London in 2012 and is training twice a day in with both men and women to prepare for next month's Olympics. “From ancient times we have been a wrestling country,” her coach, Sukhbataar, said to Reuters. “Mongolian women are like warriors.”

Mongolia's Oyuntuya OtgoNbat, right, fights with her training partner during a daily training session at the Mongolia Women's National Wrestling Team training center in Bayanzurkh district of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, July 1, 2016. (Jason Lee / Reuters)

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Anti-robot project explores human relationship with technology in AI future
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The wearable machine is the antithesis of the kind of robots that leading scientists have warned against as they worry about an arms race in artificial intelligence. Scientist Stephen Hawking and Tesla founder Elon Musk were among hundreds of ...

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Wallaby wearable tech probes how light pollution affects sleep
The animals inhabit either side of a Western Australian island, half of which has dark nights and the other half light pollution. How does this affect sleep?
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New railway threatens Nairobi's unique urban wildlife park
Kenyan conservationists are battling a plan to route a rail line through Nairobi National Park another case of development whittling away at nature reserves
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Bornean orangutan declared ‘critically endangered' as forests shrink

Mongabay: New IUCN assessment shows hunting and habitat loss are the biggest drivers, with experts warning ‘conservation is failing'

The Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) is now critically endangered according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). This change means that both species of orangutan now face an “extremely high risk of extinction in the wild.”

“This is full acknowledgement of what has been clear for a long time: orangutan conservation is failing,” Andrew Marshall, one of the authors of the assessment, told Mongabay. Regardless of any positive outcomes of past conservation efforts, they have not achieved the only meaningful goal: a stable or increasing population.

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Too cute to lose: Saving the rarest mammal from extinction
How can we ensure that future generations will still hear the haunting dawn song of the gorgeous Hainan gibbon? Sam Turvey has a plan
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The Great Brain Scan Scandal: It isn't just boffins who should be ashamed

It's the luvvies who went mad for fMRI neurobabble

Special Report If the fMRI brain-scanning fad is well and truly over, then many fashionable intellectual ideas look like collateral damage, too.…

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Beetle boffins chop up horny insects to discover secrets of their giant penises

An international team of researchers have discovered how beetles with hyper-long penises make the beast insect with two backs.…

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Empty

Olly Denton posted a photo:

While it is horrible to have to get at 4am for work, the streets are empty and there is a lovely light.

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r0B0t: China: Human memory whizz Wang Yuheng beats Alipay's AI robot in facial recognition contest - International Business Times UK

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China: Human memory whizz Wang Yuheng beats Alipay's AI robot in facial recognition contest
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UK will struggle to meet climate target if fracking goes ahead
Delayed report says fracking will not necessarily bust the UK's carbon budget but the strict conditions it sets out effectively rule out a fracking boom
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Fractals help solve 'wiggly' problems

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The idea of a platform between two whole numbers might seem impossible to imagine. However, for someone working with fractals in math, the challenge is not so different. Fractals are used to measure things between dimensions, as in something that's more than 2-D, but not quite 3-D. A National Science Foundation mathematician created this fractal to better understand how wind would move oceanographic sensors in an eddy. This is just a snapshot in time, but wind would push the sensors back and forth, making it uncertain where they might go. Because of the stochastic nature -- a kind of organized randomness -- this fractal helps visualize the scenario and come up with an optimal control so sensors use as little battery as possible and minimize displacement.

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Scientists isolate, culture elusive Yellowstone microbe

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A microbial partnership thriving in an acidic hot spring in Yellowstone National Park has surrendered some of its lifestyle secrets to researchers. The team isolated the archaeon Nanopusillus acidilobi and cultured these tiny microbes just 100 to 300 billionths of a meter in size and can now study how they interact with their host, another archaeon (Acidilobus). The relationships between these two organisms can serve as a valuable model to study the evolution and mechanisms of more complex systems.

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Juvenile Hawaiian Goose

Mukumbura posted a photo:

A young Hawaiian Goose (Nene) flexing its muscles and showing off its developing feathers at WWT Slimbridge.

The nene is the world's rarest goose. The nature reserve WWT Slimbridge, in England, was instrumental in the successful breeding of Hawaiian geese in captivity. Under the direction of conservationist Peter Scott, it was bred back from the brink of extinction during the 1950s for later re-introduction into the wild in Hawaiʻi. There are still Hawaiian geese at Slimbridge today.

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r0B0t: Meet Your New BFF, Your Journal - Dallasweekly (blog)

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Meet Your New BFF, Your Journal
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If you are a person that has been soooo “busy” that you can't even remember what your dreams used to be, soooo busy that you have become a bill-paying- robot…it's time, my friend. It's time to inspire yourself and also analyze ... A blank page in your ...

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