Creative Things In The World: July 2013

Magical Light Bulbs By Adrian Limani

Incarnate by Maskull Lasserre

What is lurking behind that row of textbooks on your bookshelf? Did they just move? Why are they clamped together tightly with a vice? Maskull Lasserre creates startling artistic works using unusual media. One of the incredible pieces in his Incarnate series is a series of textbooks pressed tightly together with a long carpenter’s vice. When you spin the piece around you find a human skull glaring back at you. As you look closer you notice that Lassserre carved the skull right out fo the pages of the textbooks. Using power tools and patience Maskull created this death-like skull from the insides of the series of books.

Maskull used a real human skull as the basis for creating his skull book. Be careful what you choose to read tonight. You never know what may be lurking on the other side.

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Multiplying Complementary Pairs..must try very useful

Multiplying Complementary Pairs

Quick! What's 23 x 27?

621

There's a trick to doing this quickly. Can you see a pattern in these multiplications?

42 x 48 = 2016

43 x 47 = 2021

44 x 46 = 2024

54 x 56 = 3024

64 x 66 = 4224

61 x 69 = 4209

111 x 119 = 13209

In each pair above, the numbers being multiplied are complementary: they are the same number except for the rightmost digit, and the rightmost digits add to 10.

The trick to multiplying complementary pairs is to take the rightmost digits and multiply them; the result forms the two rightmost digits of the answer. (So in the last example 1 x 9 = 09.) Then take the first number without its rightmost digit, and multiply it by the next higher whole number; the result forms the initial digits of the answer. (So in the last example: 11 x 12 = 132. Voila! The answer is 13209.)

The Math Behind the Fact :
This trick works because you are multiplying pairs of numbers of the form 10*N+A and 10*(N+1)-A, where N is a whole number and A is a digit between 1 and 9. A little algebra shows their product is :

100*N*(N+1) + A*(10-A)

The first term in the sum is a multiple of 100 and it does not interact with the last two digits of sum, which is never more than two digits long.

Amazing Photographs with Optical Illusions && CAREFUL IT IS HOT!

Careful. It's HOT!!

"Face of Paris" optical illusion

Optical illusion cow

Optical illusion of depressed faces in the rocks.

“Oldboy” optical illusion.

Dog reading a book sitting in a showroom in this illusionary picture.

The birds do look so much like a caterpillar that photographer José Luis Rodríguez named the image Oruga de Plumas, or “caterpillar of feathers.”

Can you spot the camel in the palm trees? Maybe this is photo-shopped?!

Dancing Tree Optical Illusion is a snapshot taken of an actual tree. The roots and branches form the figure of a woman dancer or a ballerina. These little sitings are one of mother natures ways of showing us her unique beauty.

Amazing Plant Sculptures at the Montreal Mosaiculture Exhibition 2013

Even if you’re not into gardening yourself, the plant sculptures in the international Montreal Mosaiculture Exhibition will blow your mind. As defined in the official website of the event, mosaiculture “is a refined horticultural art that involves creating and mounting living artworks made primarily from plants with colourful foliage (generally annuals, and occasionally perennials).” It is also a highly complex form of art, requiring different sets of skills from all the participating artists: not only do they have to plan and build the framework of the sculpture and match the colors, it is also important to understand the maintenance of each plant they use.

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This year over 200 horticultural artists from all around the world present 40 living plant sculptures, created from more than 22 000 different plant species – over 3 million flowers overall! The sculptures will be showcased in 10 exhibition greenhouses and 30 themed gardens at the Montréal Botanical Garden until 29 September. The competition also touches on ecology, challenging artists to work around the “Land of Hope” theme and interpret it in their sculptures from the ecological point of view.

The Mosaïcultures Internationale competition was founded back in 2000 by Lise Cormier after her visit to China: this is where Lisa saw an enchanting 40-feet-high sculpture of 3 doves and was instantly inspired to bring the idea back home. Don’t miss your chance to visit the event!