pokkets

Real Name:Kurt
Location:Sydney, Australia
Joined:2-4-2007
About me
I'm an Australian living in Sydney, in a house with my brother and 7 husky shepherds. He watches TV while I use the computer. My dog Lani hates the computer because she'd rather go walking. I like to try and find out how things work, since discovering what is beneath the cover, can show a new way of looking at something you know, but which can now be understood More clearly.
"I may be guilty of being an idealist, but I have never had the courage to believe in nothing"
Miguel de Cervantes (Don Quixote)
Why I use Clipmarks
Clipmarks helps me learn, because when I clip something, it forces me to read it, so the bits I clip can carry the story, rather than think I know about something by reading the headlines.
Clipmarks shows people agree about far more things than they disagree.
In the big picture, Clipmarks fills a lot of gaps, and the way messages can be seen both by subject, and by popular opinion, provides a link between the two. Every clipper's clip is posted, because the clipper is satisfied that the clip reflects their point of view or shows a topic of interest.. We need the people to save the world, politicians can't understand the situation while they are isolated in a power bubble. Clipmarks is a great way to see if other people are thinking the same thing I am, and learn by the way they think. It keeps my mind active and shows me how much I have to learn.
I like the way the clips are listed as clipped, so any range of things might be there. It's easy to learn something by surprise.
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A Grain of Sand: Nature's Secret Wonder
arifsali
by arifsali  5-14-2008    17
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Multidimensional space through art
pokkets
by pokkets  5-14-2008    1
 Generally for the sake of the illusion of 3 Dimensions and perspective. There are plenty of artists beside Escher that represent multidimensional space, but he does a particularly good job of it. The last stereogram at the bottom is the thinker. I ran out of characters. (you can always go to the site.) Stereograms can be annoying sometimes when you can't see what it is, and everyone else can. It can be like that, then suddenly one day a picture can jump out. It can help if you know what you're looking for. One problem with these may be looking too hard, when the eyes are probably better off relaxing.
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Extreme Photography Equipment
n2sooners
by n2sooners  5-14-2008    5
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Picasso's Guernica in 3D
alanocu
by alanocu  5-14-2008    3
 incredible (thanks, Mr. B)
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The Best of ‘Feel Art Again’
alanocu
by alanocu  5-14-2008    6
 Wonderful works - revisited; the links will take you to a detailed discussion for each piece. I actually learned a lot from this - enjoy. Mental Floss has an ongoing series of 'Feel Art Again' - Tues. & Thurs. - http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs
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Rustic Birdhouses - Bird House Series
jonitas23
by jonitas23  5-12-2008    2
 I love birds! this beautiful birdhouses can attract much bird to my garden.
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The History of the Color Wheel
alanocu
by alanocu  5-11-2008    9
 As the disk spins, the colors blur together so rapidly that the human eye sees white. From there, the organization of color has taken many forms, from tables and charts, to triangles, and wheels the history. A nice explanation for each color organization system at the source: http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2008/05/08/history-of-the-color-wheel/ sweetfood's related clip: Unusual Color Wheels Found in Life and Art - http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/6B376FCB-7F70-4E17-8147-84856276F53C/
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Spectacular Photography
amgumen
by amgumen  5-10-2008    9
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Stanley Kubrick homage
wildcat
by wildcat  5-9-2008    2
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15 Strangely Shaped Trees
stvalentine
by stvalentine  5-8-2008    2
 15 Strangely Shaped Trees
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Dutch tulip farms transformed into a spectacular display of color
alanocu
by alanocu  5-7-2008    13
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Afghan oil paintings worlds oldest
pokkets
by pokkets  4-24-2008    1
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La Linea (Nostalgic cartoon)
Brimstone
by Brimstone  4-24-2008    1
 I love this cartoon
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Best images of April 2008
frozonfreak
by frozonfreak  4-23-2008    1
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10 Really Ugly Cars
BartendingBear
by BartendingBear  4-22-2008    6
 That Fiat really has issues.
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24 hours in pictures - April 21st
righthand
by righthand  4-21-2008    2
 13 Tokyo, Japan: A street performer is surrounded by amateur photographers and spectators while she is interviewed by local TV reporters during a promotion for the 'maid cafe' in which she works for as a waitress 15 Alajuela, Costa Rica: Light technicians at sunset during the second day of Imperial Festival at the La Guacima racetrack 4 Old City, Jerusalem: An Orthodox nun holds a palm frond during the Greek Orthodox Palm Sunday Mass at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher
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Terracotta army has egg on it's face
pokkets
by pokkets  4-21-2008   
 Egg was used as a binder for pigments on the Terracotta army that was buried in a Chinese mausoleum in 210 BC. Considering your average Emperor's idea of the best, the quality of Chinese artistry and the description of the pigments, they would have been something to see when they were freshly painted.
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Color in Nature: Wood
alanocu
by alanocu  4-20-2008    5
 About petrified wood (from the page): "Petrified wood is a type of fossil: it consists of fossil wood where all the organic materials have been replaced with minerals (most often a silicate, such as quartz), while retaining the original structure of the wood. The petrifaction process occurs underground, when wood becomes buried under sediment and is initially preserved due to a lack of oxygen. Mineral-rich water flowing through the sediment deposits minerals in the plant’s cells and as the plant’s lignin and cellulose decay away, a stone mould forms in its place."
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Breathtaking images
Aribeth
by Aribeth  4-20-2008    2
 http://www.foxsaver.com/ A must-have add-on.
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Banned Ad
rituashrafi
by rituashrafi  4-16-2008    1
 indecent? slightly? can't decide...
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Interesting Digital Images
birdie-brain
by birdie-brain  4-11-2008    1
 Just some more eye-candy.
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Comedy Centrals 100 best Comedians
Brimstone
by Brimstone  4-9-2008    6
 44. Joan Rivers 43. Dave Chappelle 42. Flip Wilson 41. Jon Stewart 40. Mort Sahl 39. Billy Crystal 38. Bill Maher 37. Martin Lawrence 36. Jim Carrey 35. Phyllis Diller 34. Buddy Hackett 33. Andy Kaufman 32. Albert Brooks 31. George Burns 30. Garry Shandling 29. Milton Berle 28. Jack Benny 27. Jay Leno 26. Ray Romano 25. Bob Hope 24. Redd Foxx 23. Steven Wright 22. Robert Klein 21. Dennis Miller 20. Sam Kinison 19. Bill Hicks 18. Jonathan Winters 17. Don Rickles 16. Ellen Degeneres 15. David Letterman 14. Bob Newhart 13. Robin Williams 12. Jerry Seinfeld 11. Johnny Carson 10. Eddie Murphy 9. Roseanne Barr 8. Bill Cosby 7. Rodney Dangerfield 6. Steve Martin 5. Chris Rock 4. Woody Allen 3. Lenny Bruce 2. George Carlin 1. Richard Pryor
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The Museum of Scientifically Accurate Fabric Brain Art
Aribeth
by Aribeth  4-2-2008    6
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How to turn your photo into movie-like effect using Photoshop?
customs
by customs  3-31-2008   
 Want to feel like a Hollywood star? Learn how to do it with Photoshop.
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Yesterday's Tomorrow Today
michellezm
by michellezm  3-29-2008    2
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Found ! Oldest recording of human voice
pokkets
by pokkets  3-28-2008    2
 The inventor 'recorded' the song 17 years before Edison, but he was never able to play it back. He wanted to study it. The recording was played by getting high resolution digital scans, and converting them into sound at the Lawrence Berkley, National Lab using equipment used to preserve, and gain access to a wide variety of early recordings.
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Inside the palace of Augustus - pics
righthand
by righthand  3-10-2008    2
 Lived in by Augustus before he became Rome's first emperor in 27BC, the house is situated above the grotto where Romans may have worshipped Romulus, the city's founder, and was also handy for watching horse racing in the Circus Maximus at the foot of the hill. "Augustus wanted to be near the grotto, but could also see the races from up here," said Italy's culture minister, Francesco Rutelli. The restoration, begun after the house was found in the 1970s, has reconstructed shattered frescoes in deep reds, yellows and blues featuring theatrical masks and mythical animals. "The extremely high quality of the frescoes befits the owner, although these were the fashions of the time and don't offer much insight into Augustus's individual taste," said Angelo Bottini, Rome's archaeological chief. Tourists - who will be allowed in five at a time - may be surprised to see how modest the study, bedroom, entrance hall and dining room were. Augustus, Julius Caesar's great nephew, avoided excess
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1,000 (Colorful) Places to See Before You Die
alanocu
by alanocu  3-4-2008    10
 a color-centric version of the book with photos from Flickr
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Sychatron helps artist see the light
pokkets
by pokkets  3-4-2008   
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The Fantastic in Art & Fiction
Aribeth
by Aribeth  3-3-2008    7
 >>Images were selected for their intrinsic relationship to the topic, because they illuminated an important dynamic, or quite simply because they were unusually striking.Though, inevitably, some familiar pieces will be found in these pages, we have attempted to favor rare or unusual works that, to our knowledge, have not been reproduced before. Hence the concomitant emphasis on book illustration, and on a wealth of images that have remained more or less invisible in canonical art histories. Because of its rich and varied modes of representation the Fantastic also lends itself quite easily to interdisciplinary approaches. Psychology and sociology, art and literary history, anthropology and folklore among other disciplines, can provide avenues of investigation useful in the study of such basic critical or analytical concepts for the Fantastic as repression, the uncanny, indeterminacy, or the postmodern.<<
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"Hi, I'm __ and I am a wilfer" -- aimless websurfing and its effect on your life
enbar
by enbar  3-1-2008    12
 "Wilfer" stands for (roughly) "What Was I Looking For" and refers to the habit of getting distracted and lost online when you actually meant to find something specific. I do this constantly.
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New languages evolve in sudden bursts
pokkets
by pokkets  2-1-2008    2
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How to Write Aphorisms
Kore7
by Kore7  1-26-2008    10
  Delacroix, Eugene (France, 1798-1863) To be a poet at twenty is to be twenty; to be a poet at forty is to be a poet. According to James Geary, editor of the compendium Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists , a truely memorable, quotable aphorism satisfies five laws: It must be brief. It must be definitive. It must be personal — that's the difference between an aphorism and a proverb. It must be philosophical — that's the difference between an aphorism and a platitude, which is not philosophical.... And the fifth law is it must have a twist. And that can be either a linguistic twist or a psychological twist or even a twist in logic that somehow flips the reader into a totally unexpected place. Now you know, so get to work! :)
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Art - Kobus Moller (African wildlife)
michellezm
by michellezm  1-23-2008    8
 Unfortunately I couldn't clip the larger versions
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The Mosaics of Kaffe Fassett
JohnWaterman
by JohnWaterman  1-23-2008    3
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Mosaics
JohnWaterman
by JohnWaterman  1-23-2008    2
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Koi fish & dragonflies - watercolours by Sharon Carr
michellezm
by michellezm  1-23-2008    4
 Extra large images on the site.
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Here's a Way to Make Men Wash Their Hands (pics)
swampfoxz
by swampfoxz  1-23-2008    8
 Awesome!!! But I think won't it be a repetitive process? Wash Hands .,...... Wash Hands .,...... Again wash hands
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The World According to Howard Beale
pokkets
by pokkets  1-23-2008   
 I was looking for the "Mad as Hell" scene in Network. I thought it might be on google or youtube. It was all I could remember from the move. When I looked I found I had forgotten a lot, including the last scene.(I won't spoil the surprise if you haven't seen it) The whole video goes for 35 minutes, but it is also broken into four sections. I had also forgotten that Peter Finch is the only person to win an Academy Award for Best Actor posthumously, for his role in Network. Much of what Howard Beale says has more relevance today. He died over Thirty years ago and things have just gotten worse
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film_stills: 8½ (1963) directed by Federico Fellini
yomogi
by yomogi  1-22-2008    1
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