Intermission: A Pool of Pixels

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  Build a Backyard Dumpster Pool

  This article is part of The GOOD (and ReadyMade) Guide to Slowing Down, from GOOD Issue 18. Read more of the guide here. For most of us, a...

  by GOOD, ReadyMade +

• Culture

  

  Idea: Heating a Pool with Cremated Bodies

  A borough council in England is considering an idea some find creepy: Heating a pool with warmth from an adjacent crematorium.

  by Cord Jefferson +

• Culture

  

  Amazing Billion-Pixel Images See Everything

  A team at Columbia University is making cameras that can take billion-pixel photos, and the results look amazing.

  by Cord Jefferson +

• Culture

  

  Skateboarding in the Empty Pools of California's Recession

  The short film "Cannonball" artfully follows a group of skaters in search of newly empty pools behind foreclosed homes in and around the arid...

  by Patrick James 5

• Culture

  

  A GOOD LA Weekend: Goats, Pools, and Ghouls

  From a pool party to a freak fest, there's plenty to do in Los Angeles this Memorial Day Weekend. Why leave town?

  by Alissa Walker +

• Culture

  

  Beyond the Speedo: The Secret Lives of Public Pool Swimmers

  Artist Judith Starkman takes us inside the "secret lives" of the swimming addicts who religiously flock to a pool in Los Angeles.

  by Zak Stone +

• Lifestyle

  

  Splish Splash: The Six Best Public Pools In L.A.

  There's a heat wave predicted for L.A. this weekend, so why not seek out liquid recreation at one of these fine public pools?

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• Technology

  

  Countdown to Robot Takeover: They Can Play Pool Now

  The folks at Willow Garage programmed their PR2 robot to play pool in less than a week. I'm tempted to make a joke (What's next? Beer pong?) but...

  by Andrew Price 1

• Design

  

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  Yoda, above, as a work of origami. Obi-Wan Kenobi, below, was folded from one 16-inch piece of Origamido paper.More amazing origami on the Flickr...

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  An upside-down world. Dumptrumpet via Core77..

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  If one were to visit the Coraline site and enter the code "moustachio," one would enjoy a super-duper stop motion treat courtesy of Bo Henry's...

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• Design

  

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  There's actually a person in the center of that photo above. Desiree Palmen paints clothes to blend into a surrounding scene and then takes...

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  If it feels like the weekend is a long way away, consider the age of the sun. It's really pretty incredibly old. This Sun Clock site was created...

  by Andrew Price +

• Design

  

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  A fun set of portraits of micro-communities. Bikers, kickboxers, Star Wars cosplay enthusiasts, etc.See them larger here, under the "SG IDOLS"...

  by Andrew Price +

• Design

  

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  Check out this great bit of "wall-animated" graffiti from blu..

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  A Flickr user has edited together moments of silence from BBC newscasts into an eerily powerful video called "The Day There Was No News." Watching...

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• Design

  

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  Artists Augor and Revok paint up a Dark Knight poster in Los Angeles. Their additions respect-and, arguably, enhance-the original art of the...

  by Andrew Price +

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  We first encountered the American painter and illustrator Mark Ryden when we picked up the Red Hot Chili Peppers' 1995 album One Hot Minute, which...

  by Andrew Price +

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  Your dose of stop-motion surrealism for the day: Doxology, by Michael Langan. The tango with the Oldsmobile at 3:39 is hilarious. And the end is...

  by Andrew Price +

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   You Fell Asleep Watching a DVD. Brilliant. Thanks, Atley..

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