Instruments from inside

A musical instrument is a thing of beauty.  The way it is played and the sound it creates can portray almost any emotion you could think of, but often the actual instrument itself is overlooked as just the facilitator.

These series of photos advertising the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra convey a wonderful sense of an almost architectural art space from where the emotion is created.

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If Carling made easter eggs...

With Easter rapidly approaching, there is a whole host of chocolate available in the shops, but I think that these home-made beauties knock socks off everything else!

How fabulous are they!  Chocolate eggs filled with cheesecake and passion fruit sauce to look exactly like real eggs.  I think they look brilliant, and if they taste even half as good as they look, it will be a gastronomic eggstravaganza (see what I did there...)

But the best part about them is that their creator, a sweet-toothed baker from Australia, has put the recipe online for you to recreate at home.  Steph, we bow down to your culinary brilliance.

And not only that, but the recipe itself looks very straight forward so that anyone should be able to have a go. 

[Recipe and more via RaspberriCupcakes.com]



Rubik's lamp

Oh. Em. Gee.

The Rubik's Cube has been a staple item on the shelves of geeks for decades.  Now, the fabulously simple to understand yet horribly difficult to master toy has taken a giant leap forward in the shape of this fabulous lamp.  Available with coloured or textured white sides, this very cool example of geek decor would look great practically anywhere.

There is, however, one flaw in this plan.  It's not actually being made yet.  The designer is still looking for a developer, which is a huge shame, but if it ever makes it in to production I want one!

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What'cha writing...?

It's always useful to have a friend on hand...

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Conveying so much in so little

I stumbled upon the website OneSentence.org by accident, and it appears I'm a little late to the party.  OneSentence.org has been going for over five years, but it contains an intriguing series of true stories (at least they are claimed to be true - this appears to be based on trust) and, as you might guess by the name, each story is told in only one sentence.  Not long, rambling sentences either, but concise and often very emotive sentences.

What intrigues me about it is that we get no detail as to the background situation that leads to these sentences.  For example, one of the first ones I read was this:

My very open-minded mom looked at me as if I had three heads, but my devoutly Muslim best friend didn't bat an eye.

Where are they?  What was said?  What happened next?  We don't know.  The only clues we have to go on are any tags that the story is given (in the case of the above they read "bisexual lgbt coming out family") the rest of the story is up to us to imagine what might have occurred.

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Need a new boardroom table? Make one from Lego

Boardrooms are serious places.  Serious men and women meet to discuss serious matters and make serious business decisions.

But why not retain a little bit of fun at the same time?  All you need is 22,000 pieces of Lego.  Genius.

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