Blow My Mindsday: April 18, 2012
Each Wednesday, I post some of my favorite can’t-miss links, images, and otherwise mindblowing goodies from across the web.
The Collective Snapshot by Pep Ventosa is a series of images that “blend together dozens of snapshots to create an abstraction of the places we’ve been and the things we’ve seen.”
Evocative of the World’s Most Average Faces. See more of The Collective Snapshot at My Modern Met
Canada’s newest coin features a glow-in-the-dark dinosaur. This is actual legal tender. Fantastic.
The Chalktrail attaches to your bike and leaves a path of pastel wherever you ride:
This is a real place:
“Fingal’s Cave is a sea cave on the uninhabited island of Staff, one of the Inner Hebrides islands which skirt the western coast of Scotland. The immense arch-roofed cave creates a melodic, haunting echo of waves within its cathedral-like atmosphere; something so impressiveRomantic Poets John Keats, William Wordsworth, and Alfred, Lord Tennyson all made journeys here; as well as Her Majestic Queen Victoria. The cave’s Gaelic name is Uamh-Binn, meaning ‘cave of melody.’ “
Matt Groening reveals the real location of The Simpsons’ Springfield