True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
-Kurt Vonnegut
Month: November 2017
Eat too much for Thanksgiving and just want to lay around this…
Eat too much for Thanksgiving and just want to lay around this weekend? Looks like these cute little foxes feel the same way. Ben Kuropat snapped this pic a few years ago while visiting Cape Cod National Seashore in Massachusetts. Here, visitors can explore 40 miles of pristine sandy beach, wild cranberry bogs and lighthouses – and if you are lucky, you might see some of the wildlife that call this park home. Photo by Ben Kuropat (http://ift.tt/1cqMdZc).
Kurt Vonnegut
“Kilgore Trout once wrote a short story which was a dialogue between two pieces of yeast. They were discussing the possible purposes of life as they ate sugar and suffocated in their own excrement. Because of their limited intelligence, they never came close to guessing that they were making champagne.”
Day and Night Merge in Spectacular Timelapse of New York City
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Ex-rocket scientist turned filmmaker Julian Tryba of Alinia Media is back with a new timelapse that combines math and art with stunning results. His NYC Layer-Lapse is a two-and-a-half-minute audiovisual symphony that shows us the iconic cityscape from a new dimension, as day and night are blended seamlessly together.
Tryba used his background in engineering to write code and create what he calls a layer-lapse. “In the spirit of Einstein’s relativity theory, layer-lapses assign distinct clocks to any number of objects or regions in a scene,” Tryba writes. “Each of these clocks may start at any point in time, and tick at any rate. The result is a visual time dilation effect known as layer-lapse.”
Each scene has 100 to 300 layers, with a unique equation assigned to every building. This equation helps decide at what time of day to show the architecture. Adding to the fun, audio triggers in the song set off changes, making the scene seemingly move to the beat of the soundtrack. Tryba is still perfecting the process and hopes in the future it can be used in physical or virtual art installations.
So just what is the breakdown in order to capture enough footage of New York to pull together the project? Tryba took 22 trips to New York for 352 hours of filming and over 200,000 photographs captured. That added up to almost 10,000 miles driven and $1,430 in parking fees to create the coolest view of New York we’ve seen in awhile.
Julian Tryba took 22 trips to New York and spent 352 hours filming to create his incredible NYC Layer-Lapse.
Alinia Media: Website | Facebook | Instagram | Vimeo
h/t: [Fstoppers]
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As evening falls over Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming, the…
As evening falls over Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming, the sunset sends light streaming over the silhouetted Teton Range. It’s one of the most beautiful sights you’ll ever see. Until sunrise lights up the mountains the next morning. Photo by Robert Warrington (http://ift.tt/18oFfjl).
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6 Side Hustles You Can Start With Very Little Money
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Always dreamt of starting your own company? Want to branch out and earn money for yourself?
What if I told you that you could keep the stability of your full-time job and earn significant cash on the side by offering up your skills in your spare time?
That’s the spirit of a side hustle. You earn good money, but you don’t have to quit your job (yet).
You need motivation, inspiration, and the right mental attitude to make a success of hustling, but luckily there are loads of tools and communities to help you out. Below I’ve listed six of the savviest side hustles that you can start — giving you an additional income with minimal, or no, start-up costs.
1. Social media exec
Knowing the world of social media inside out may seem like an ordinary thing for you, but for some business owners who didn’t grow up in the internet age, it’s a whole new era that they just can’t get their heads around.
92% of marketers say that social media is important for their business, so your ability to operate various social platforms at ease can be a godsend to some companies.
Upskilling yourself to work as a social media executive isn’t that difficult to do — you just need to undertake some training in the strategy side of things, and ensure that you’re confident when it comes to using social media essentials like Canva and Bitly.
Brand yourself as a social media manager and you could charge mega bucks – with the US national average salary for this role being a crisp $51,613.
With handy tools like Hootsuite, TweetDeck and Meet Edgar, you can simply dedicate one day per week to working on branded social channels and the content will look continually fresh and updated. Make sure you keep your clients in the loop, and pencil in some ‘reactive’ time too.
2. Virtual assistant
If you’re a highly organized individual and like to work independently, your skills could lend themselves very nicely to a virtual assistant role.
You’ll be completing basic admin tasks like answering emails, processing orders, taking phone calls — but remotely from the comfort of your own home (or Starbucks as most freelancers do). Basically you’re a PA without the office — and the hours can be very flexible, with some contracts starting at only a few hours a week.
Check out this success story of an office worker turned virtual assistant.
3. Online teacher
The internet is awash with people wanting to learn – especially things like a new language. So how about becoming an online English tutor?
It’s not as daunting as it might sound because for most roles, you won’t even need a formal teaching qualification.
They will require you to demonstrate a high-level understanding of the English language – but that’s usually by having a degree or equivalent qualification. Then you can complete simple online courses yourself to hone those teaching skills before you get going.
If you have impeccable English and fancy yourself as a bit of a mentor, this is the perfect option for you. Here are some great companies that you could work with.
4. Online retailer
Setting up your own shop may sound like a huge task to take on, especially while you’re still in full-time work – but trust us, it can actually be pretty straightforward.
Indeed, with a few clicks and a little bit of time using their technology, you can have create a web based shop that looks as delightful as Factory 43’s:
You don’t even necessarily need to build your own site. You could buy an existing store, using an online store marketplace to buy a website, then make some tweaks to it and tailor it to your own brand.
Forget hiring out a high-street space, ecommerce businesses are where it’s at. The stats speak for themselves and if 80% of Americans shop online at least monthly, then you won’t be short of customers.
By operating your consumer business online, you’ll be cutting out so many overhead costs. Plus, with the added benefit of dropshipping (which is basically when the manufacturer ships straight to the customer) you won’t even have to handle the goods – saving you time, space and money!
5. Blogger or vlogger
It’s not too late to jump on the blogging hype. There are still niches out there that haven’t been tapped into.
Think about your passions and what you like to read online and transform that into your own blog.
If you’d prefer not to go down the writing route, vlogging is also a really cool way to get in on the action.
Once you become an established blogger or vlogger (which can happen relatively quickly in the whirlwind of the internet), you will then be able to charge brands for sponsored posts, book in paid advertising, and team up with other companies to bring in revenue.
6. Copywriter
Good writing skills are not to be underestimated. Every company needs the written word – on their website, leaflets, adverts, press releases and even on social media.
Therefore, at some point or another they are going to need someone with a great copywriting prowess – that’s you!
If a company doesn’t already have someone within the company who can execute this kind of work, they will hire a freelance copywriters to do the job.
You can look to charge a set fee per hour or quote them per piece. Either way, it’s a great way to earn some extra money on an ad hoc basis if writing comes naturally to you.
So, there we have it. It turns out that launching your own start-up side business isn’t that overwhelming after all.
Now that you’re feeling super-inspired, you’ll be ready to go out there and start earning money for yourself. Go smash it!
Victoria Greene is a branding consultant and freelance writer. On her blog, VictoriaEcommerce, she shares tips on ecommerce and online marketing. She is passionate about using her experience to help companies improve their branding strategy.
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Moody Nightscapes Capture City Streets Radiating a Neon Glow Around the World
South-African photographer and visual artist Elsa Bleda captures moody, nighttime scenes that radiate a dream-like fluorescent glow. Bleda’s cinematic images were taken between Istanbul and Johannesburg, but evoke an alternative dystopian reality. In the case of Johannesburg, Bleda explains, “The city reveals itself in a very surreal way with so many Gothic elements that I haven’t come across in another city before.”
Her hauntingly beautiful images depict fog-filled woodlands, desolate city streets, and snow-covered buildings. In each shot, artificial lights dictate the color palette washing the scenes in rich neon hues. Street lamps, corner shops, and mysterious windows emit eerie hazy glows out into the night. In Bleda’s most recent work, signs of life are rare. Human forms are reduced to silhouettes, stark against vivid fluorescence, or picked out by unknown car headlights. In one shot, street pigeons take flight, uplit by a pink neon glare.
In collaboration with Red Bull, Bleda’s upcoming solo exhibition is due to showcase images of Durban, South Africa. As part of the project, Bleda picks a song to accompany each image, which evokes the atmosphere at the time it was taken. “I use music as my guide while I work, in a way I feel like it gives my work a certain direction. So, for me, the songs I post with my photographs act as soundtracks for them, they are inseparable,” she explains. You can preview the exhibition on Red Bull’s website while listening to Bleda’s song choices.
Keep up to date on Bleda’s ongoing work via Instagram.
South-African photographer Elsa Bleda captures moody nightscapes with neon glows.
Street lamps, corner shops, and mysterious windows emit eerie hazy glows out into the night.
Elsa Bleda: Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | Behance
h/t: [Colossal]
All images via Elsa Bleda.
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Hart Crane’s View From the Bridge
Walker Evans’s photographs of Brooklyn Bridge emphasized the lyric intimacy at the core of Hart Crane’s work by inviting the reader to look closely at the bridge from unconventional points of view. In one photograph, taken directly underneath the bridge, Evans’s lens, pointed up, turns the horizontal structure into a thrusting vertical funnel, soaring and expanding out of the frame. In another image, with the camera pointed down this time from a position somewhere midway on the span, the bridge doesn’t appear at all, just the shipping in the river below it, as if we were seeing what only the bridge sees. Evans’s photographs transfigured Brooklyn Bridge into abstract form that almost functions independently of subject matter.
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