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Ice Bucket Challenge
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Ice Bucket Challenge
Johannes Stötter created this hyper realistic body painting of a chameleon on the bodies of two sisters lying one on the other which even manage to give the impression that walking on a branch.
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Meet devout Sikh Avtar Singh Mauni - the proud owner of the world’s largest turban. He wears the traditional Punjabi turban called a ‘pagdi’ in the Indian town of Patiala in Punjab, India. The devout Sikh’s enormous headgear consists of no less than 645 meters of fabric, weighing 100 pounds. It took him a staggering 16 years to assemble, and he needs to spend six hours just to put it on.
Photo credit: Ajay Verma / Barcroft India
Columbia University student Emma Sulkowicz carried her mattress across the stage at her graduation ceremony this morning. Sulkowicz and her friends have been carrying the mattress around for the whole academic year in protest of the way the school handles sexual assault issues. As New York Magazine explains, for her senior thesis in visual art, Mattress Performance (Carry That Weight), Sulkowicz vowed that she would carry her dorm-room mattress whenever she was on campus as long as her alleged rapist remained on campus. “The piece could potentially take a day, or it could go on until I graduate,” she said.
For more on the project, check out our podcast “Feminism on Campus.”
Photo by Columbia Daily Spectator.
Ushiku Daibutsu is a statue located in Ushiku, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. Completed in 1993, it stands a total of 120 metres (390 ft) tall, including the 10 m (33 ft) base and 10m lotus platform.
Article Source : DigitalSynopsis.com
We’ve seen some great public service campaigns recently which made us wonder – why not do a post on the best ones in the last couple of years? We scoured the internet, filtered the not-so-great ones and came up with this list of 60 hard-hitting ads that deal with social, environmental, health and other issues. From ad school assignments to Cannes-winners, these powerful visuals do more than just spread the message. Check them out and share your views after you’re done.
We’ve seen some great public service campaigns recently which made us wonder – why not do a post on the best ones in the last couple of years? We scoured the internet, filtered the not-so-great ones and came up with this list of 60 hard-hitting ads that deal with social, environmental, health and other issues. From ad school assignments to Cannes-winners, these powerful visuals do more than just spread the message. Check them out and share your views after you’re done.
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| Before it’s too late |
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| Don’t talk while he drives |
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| Censorship tells the wrong story |
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| Certain things hang on forever |
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| He has his mother’s eyes |
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| Guess which one |
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| Hunger kills 2.5 million children every year |
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| If dying for your faith makes you a martyr |
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| Liking isn’t helping |
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| It’s not happening here, but it is happening now |
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| Ignore us, ignore human rights |
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| If you don’t pick it up, they will |
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| On the internet, somethings are not what they seem |
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| Save paper. Save the planet |
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| See how easy feeding the hungry can be. |
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| Sexual predators can hide in your child’s smartphone |
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| The earth is heating up |
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| The back seat’s no safer, belt up |
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| Stop the violence, don’t drink and drive |
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| Sleepiness is stronger than you |
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| The tsunami killed 100 times more people than 9 11 |
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| Think of both sides |
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| Victims are people just like you and me |
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| What goes around, comes around |
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| Workers are not tools |
