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Artists Walter Martin and Paloma Munoz construct eerie detailed artistic scenes hidden inside of snow globes.

Traditional snow globes house relaxing winter scenes of Evergreen trees, snow-capped houses and horse drawn carriages. However, these snow globes tell a different story.

These two artists have been working together since 1993. They sculpt miniature figures set in snowy outside scenes that depict sometimes horrible situations. Each snow globe tells a story and it’s up to the viewer to fill in the blanks of those stories. Some of these miniature people seem trapped in a fairy-tale like story.

The snow globes are part of their Travelers series. They are a limited edition as only 250 signed snow globes were made. As for the price of one of these, searching around on the Internet shows they are sold for $750.

Wow, I wish I had received one of these snow globes when I was younger. I think if I had gotten one of these, I would have been too afraid to leave my room. I love the detailed and haunting scenes. These snow globes hold cherished memories you aren’t likely to forget any time soon. And with Christmas in July rapidly approaching, these would make a great addition to any party. Provided that you have $750 to spend.

What do you think? Would you buy one of these?

Want to make one yourself ?

Source: martin-munoz.comand inventorspot.com

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Invented in 1975 by Steven J. Sasson. It weighed eight pounds, was the size of a toaster, and produced a 0.01 megapixel image that took 23 seconds to record onto a digital cassette tape.

Personally I remember the first digital camera I ever used, the Apple Quicktake 100, which was back in middle school, circa 1994. (Don’t remind me that it was nearly 15 YEARS ago!)

The Quicktake was an innovation its time, boasting 1mb of flash memory, which could hold eight “high resolution” 640×480 images. It had an optical viewfinder, and an LCD screen which displayed status information only. The cost? Only $750.

Nowadays, I use the Canon 5D for my primary professional camera, which touts a more generous 12-megapixel resolution (and thankfully better storage!)

Of course, nothing on the market right now compares to the Gigapxl company’s 100-pound 4-GIGApixel camera (that’s 4,000 megapixels). Check out the sample pictures!

Update: My buddy Chris has been kind enough to inform me that the Gigapxl camera actually utilizes a substance called “FLIM” to aide in the capture process. This, FLIM apparently has been around for a long time and is a non-digital method of capturing images. Perhaps next time I visit the Smithsonian, I may be able to have a peek at this “FLIM”.

Currently one of the highest-resolution all-digital image capturing device on the market right now would be the PhaseOne P45+, which is a medium-format digital back capable of capturing 39-megapixel images. The cost? Why, only $33,700 for the digital-back ONLY. Sign me up for three, please.

“While both candidates are members of the same U.S. Senate, Sen. Obama is the one who has distinguished himself as the better agent for changing Washington. Remember, on the issues, the differences between the Obama and Clinton platforms are thin or non-existent. He has set himself apart by enunciating a vision of a different America, one that people recognize as resting on the nation’s founding principles. His vision calls upon ”the better angels of our nature” just as Abraham Lincoln did in 1861.”

The Obama I Know: (Chicago Tribune) This is an insightful read. “Not so long ago, the phone rang in my office. It was Barack Obama. For more than a decade, Obama was my colleague at the University of Chicago Law School.”

Barack Obama Tells Crowd that Homophobia is Not Christian (Video) ‘Now I’m a Christian, and I praise Jesus every Sunday,’ he said, to a sudden wave of noisy applause and cheers. ‘I hear people saying things that I don’t think are very Christian with respect to people who are gay and lesbian,’ he said, and the crowd seemed to come along with him this time.”

Washington Post gave Obama’s economic plan an A- and gave Hillary’s a C

“A-minus. I criticized his previous tax plan, but Obama is at the head of the class with an intelligently designed, $120 billion stimulus plan.”

Wall Street Journal preferred Obama’s healthcare plan over Hillary Clinton’s

“Yet if Mrs. Clinton’s plan is better because it has a mandate, how does it work in the real world, where some people still won’t be able to afford insurance, or would decline to acquire it? At a recent debate, the Illinois Senator drove the point home, asking Mrs. Clinton, “You can mandate it but there will still be people who can’t afford it. And if they can’t afford it, what are you going to fine them? Are you going to garnish their wages?” And in an interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos on Sunday, Mrs. Clinton conceded that “we will have an enforcement mechanism” that might include “you know, going after people’s wages.”

Well, well. In other words, HillaryCare II isn’t all about “choice,” but would require financial penalties for people to pay attention, including garnishing wages. To put it more accurately, the individual mandate is really a government mandate that requires brute force plus huge subsidies to get anywhere near its goal of universal coverage.”

Judge him by his laws (Washington Post) Obama’s legislative achievements

People who complain that Barack Obama lacks experience must be unaware of his legislative achievements. One reason these accomplishments are unfamiliar is that the media have not devoted enough attention to Obama’s bills and the effort required to pass them, ignoring impressive, hard evidence of his character and ability.

I found the BEEF - Obama’s Senate Record: Next time someone asks you “where’s the beef” in Senator Obama’s Senate record, please send them this link.

Obama Didn’t Want My Money! The Obama campaign returned a $100.00 donation check to a donor with a letter explaining why. The letter left the individual even more committed to Obama.

Obama Returns $50,000 in Lobbyists’ Money Obama takes a stand and returns the lobbyists’ money. I can only wish the rest of the candidates had the guts to refuse to be influenced by special interest groups and lobbyists’ like Obama appears to be doing.

Obama’s Secret Weapon - The Truth: (The Telegraph) Barack Obama is ready to be America’s first black president because he is prepared to tell uncomfortable truths. According to his half sister the frankness of his words is typical of his honest approach to life, “even when it wasn’t convenient or when it would generate discomfort with family, friends, or co-workers”

McCain: Obama ‘Absolutely’ Qualified to Be President Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee for president, said recently that the leader for the Democratic nomination, Sen. Barack Obama, would be “absolutely” qualified to be president, should the voters elect him.

Richardson Endorses Obama: “Once-In-A-Lifetime Leader” Bill Richardson, the nation’s only Hispanic governor, is endorsing Sen. Barack Obama for president, calling him a “once-in-a- lifetime leader” who can unite the nation and restore America’s international leadership.

Obama is the change that America has tried to hide (The Guardian [UK]) “If Obama were in any sense mediocre, he would be forgotten by now. He is, in fact, a remarkable human being, not perfect but humanly stunning, like King was and like Mandela is. He is the change America has been trying desperately and for centuries to hide, ignore, kill. ”

Obama’s vision is reason to nominate him (PA) The Morning Call recommends that Sen. Barack Obama be nominated.

…In fact, while both candidates are members of the same U.S. Senate, Sen. Obama is the one who has distinguished himself as the better agent for changing Washington. Remember, on the issues, the differences between the Obama and Clinton platforms are thin or non-existent. He has set himself apart by enunciating a vision of a different America, one that people recognize as resting on the nation’s founding principles…

Obama Wins Backing of 9/11 Commission Chairman Lee Hamilton Considered his party’s top foreign policy figure, Hamilton said he was impressed by Obama’s approach to national security and foreign policy. “I read his national security and foreign policy speeches, and he comes across to me as pragmatic, visionary and tough.” He also sided with Obama’s foreign policy stances that have been criticized by rivals.

The Obama Feminists: Why Young Women Are Supporting Obama “The epic struggle between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama reveals strong fault lines between some older and younger women, first underscored by no less than Gloria Steinem who scorned those of us supporting a male over a female.” written by Ariel Garfinkel

Caroline Kennedy’s endorsement of Barack Obama “Over the years, I’ve been deeply moved by the people who’ve told me they wished they could feel inspired and hopeful about America the way people did when my father was president. This sense is even more profound today. That is why I am supporting a presidential candidate in the Democratic primaries, Barack Obama.”

Russ Feingold: “I Voted for Barack Obama” Senator Russ Feingold, a progressive icon who was the only Senator to vote against the Patriot Act in 2001, proposed the first timeline for bringing the troops home from Iraq and sought to censure Bush over warrantless wiretapping, said he voted in Wisconsin primary for Barack Obama.

Susan Eisenhower: Why I’m Backing Obama “It is in this great tradition of crossover voters that I support Barack Obama for president. If the Democratic Party chooses Obama as its candidate, this lifelong Republican will work to get him elected and encourage him to seek strategic solutions to meet America’s greatest challenges. To be successful, our president will need bipartisan help.”

On Gay Marriage

Obama on Arts in Education

Why vote for Obama over Clinton?
In his own words…

On Net Neutrality

The “Bitter” Controversy

When a friend first mentioned this incident to me, he had said that Obama had been caught characterizing Pennsylvania voters as “bitter hicks”. However, he never uttered such a phrase.

Here is the actual statement. Please read on to understand the context which prompted his answer, since Hillary’s camp and much of the mainstream media did not present the entire picture.

“But the truth is, is that, our challenge is to get people persuaded that we can make progress when there’s not evidence of that in their daily lives. You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”

Read the full transcript here.

I Was There: What Obama Really Said About Pennsylvania Clinton, McCain, and media pundits have parsed a blogger’s audio tape of Obama’s remarks and criticized a sentence or two characterizing some parts of Pennsylvania and the attitudes of some Pennsylvanians. In context and in person, Senator Obama’s remarks about Pennsylvania voters left an impression diametrically opposed to that being trumpeted by his competitor’s campaigns.

“Obama Got It Exactly Right” Says, Mike Krauss, native of Levittown, Pennsylvania, former executive director of the Pennsylvania Republican Party, protégé of former Pennsylvania governor Dick Thornburgh. “Many are [bitter], and have been for a long time.”

Fordham Prof: Obama’s Words about “Bitter” Workers are True Fordham Univ. Prof Paul Levinson: “Why should working families having trouble making ends meet take offense at a Presidential candidate recognizing that they may be feeling bitter? That’s a normal human reaction, and ignoring or denying it - as Clinton and McCain are doing - is plain hypocrisy

Hillary Clinton On Southern Working Class Whites In 1995: “Screw ‘Em” After losing congress in the 1994 elections, the then-first lady gave a less than inclusive answer to the question of how to win white southerners back to the Democratic Party. “Screw ‘em,” she told her husband. “You don’t owe them a thing, Bill. They’re doing nothing for you; you don’t have to do anything for them.”

The statement — which author Benjamin Barber witnessed and wrote about in his book, “The Truth of Power: Intellectual Affairs in the Clinton White House” — was prompted by another speaker raising the difficulties of reaching “Reagan Democrats.” It stands in stark contrast to the attitude the New York Democrat has recently taken on the campaign trail, in which she has presented herself as the one candidate who understands the working-class needs.

“I don’t think [Obama] really gets it that people are looking for a president who stands up for you and not looks down on you,” she said this week.

Audience groans as Hillary tries to exploit Obama remark Hillary Clinton spoke to a union in Pennsylvania, and they didn’t seem to be buying her latest assault on Obama. As she went on to say, “Well, you know, I know that many of you, like me, were disappointed by recent remarks that he made,” scattered boos and calls of “No” could clearly be heard from the audience.

Gallup poll: Obama unaffected by the “bitter” controversy Barack Obama, who has come under attack by his presidential rivals for describing small-town voters as “bitter,” seems to be weathering the storm to this point as far as voters are concerned. He maintains a 10 percentage point lead over Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination, 50% to 40%, according to the latest Gallup Poll Daily tracking.

Obama’s ‘bitter’ comments paraphrase … Bill Clinton! Bill Clinton wrote in 2004 almost exactly what Obama said the other day — that if Republicans cut funding to the things the middle class cares about, the middle class would embrace the Republican “strategy of waging campaigns on divisive social and cultural issues like abortion, gay rights, and guns.” Hillary’s attacks on Barack? Hypocrisy.

Scranton Pennsylvania’s Times-Tribune Endorses Barack Obama “All of the myriad issues facing the next president of the United States coalesce into a single question: Who can best lead? For Pennsylvania Democrats, the best answer in the April 22 primary is Barack Obama.”

Two hundred-millionaires attack Obama for being out of touch The irony about all the “outrage” that’s being manufactured over Barack Obama’s small-town Pennsylvania statement is that it’s coming exclusively from out-of-touch rich people like John McCain and Hillary Clinton, who are making the assumption that this is something small-town Pennsylvanians should be offended by.

And a final, albeit amusing moment of candor…

Did you inhale?

I decided to have some fun with footage from three previous takes I shot with Justin for his karaoke video contest entry.

We shot several continuous takes of Justin performing the song live on mic. The vocal track you hear was taken from the last (and best) take, and since Justin’s singing was consistent between takes it allowed me to edit these alternate angles together into this short music video.

I would have done something more elaborate had I known I would be editing it all together like this, but nonetheless I was still pretty happy with how it turned out.

You can also see the original, unedited video from Justin’s contest entry here.
myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.contest&contest=234&entry=267

Don’t forget to vote for him!