The Donut Project

One of North America’s five largest film festivals, The Cleveland International Film Festival, begins next Thursday, March 18th at 7:00 pm at Tower City Center.

Founded in 1977, the Cleveland International Film Festival has been presented every spring for over three decades. Ohio’s premier film event features over 240 films originating from close to 60 countries. Visiting filmmakers, panel discussions, and student screenings are all CIFF highlights.

Tickets are on sale now. For more information, including a listing of films that will be playing, visit the CIFF site.

Brazilian artists Anderson Augusto and Leonardo Delafuente started the 6emeia Project with the purpose of changing and transforming daily life. The duo’s objective is to modify the means within which we all live, proposing a new way to view things by reflecting upon themes generated through creative and unusual works. Such modifications are made by painting storm drains, light posts, manhole covers and any other object which makes up the urban scenario. Unfortunately these can only be viewed in and around the São Paulo area, but we here in the US can certainly admire them from afar.

Thanks to Ryan for the tip!

Pete Dungey is a graphic design student at the University of Brighton. As part of an ongoing series of installations, he plants gardens in the potholes of the roads around Britain to highlight their imperfections. According to Dungey:

“If we planted one of those in every hole, it would be like a forest in the road.”

I think the same can be said if they did this on roads around northeast Ohio.

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Anyone who has ever watched an episode of CSI Miami can totally relate to this. I love how Horatio is putting sun glasses on over his sun glasses.

I’m loving this world map from Columbus based These are Things. Hand-silkscreened in four colors this map is 20 x 30 inches and will only set you back $60. Buy it here.

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Jim Denevan creates temporary drawings on sand, earth and ice that are eventually erased by waves and weather. His latest ‘drawing’ in the Nevada desert took four men 15 days to complete. Visible from 40,000 feet in the air and measuring in at just over three miles in diameter it is the largest single artwork in history.  Read more about this colossal work of art or visit Denevan’s site here.

Now you can make your iPhone look like a mini iMac with iClooly.

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I had quite a laugh when I saw this. By lunchbreath.

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After taking a short helicopter ride over such cities as Tokyo, Rome, Dubai and London, Stephen Wiltshire is able to render incredibly detailed and perfectly scaled panoramic drawings of the city. Diagnosed with autism at age 3, Wiltshire has been drawing cityscapes since he was 8 years old. Last month he completed the NYC skyline and finished the last drawing in his series of panoramas. Visit Wiltshire’s site to see more of his incredible work!

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These hand cut maps of Paris and New York by Karen O’Leary are pretty amazing. I can’t imagine keeping sane while working on a project like this.

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