Clockwise: Daniel Day Lewis, Jeremy Irons, Tilda Swinton (click for larger)

Photographs from Simon Annand’s The Half:

When ‘The Half’ is called over the loudspeaker backstage, it is the start of a 35 minute countdown to facing the audience and there is no escape.

It is rare to see actors at this point in their work.

Over 25 years SIMON ANNAND has been given unprecedented access to photograph this in-between world that the audience never sees.

On exhibit at the Idea Generation Gallery in London starting February 24; corresponding video here (worth a view).

Via szymon:

anatomical cross sections in paper by Lisa Nilsson

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Superimposed images of the same carousel from multiple angles — taken by Pep Ventosa at the Tibidabo amusement park in Barcelona. More here. (via.)

Danger Mouse and Daniele Luppi’s “Two Against One” (featuring Jack White)

Tyree Callahan paints with a typewriter (click to enlarge).

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Groove in a vinyl record magnified 1,000 times, via Reddit.

Naval dispatch seventy years ago this day. More at the Library of Congress.

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Oregon Trail with zombies!

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The Basement Stacks by Wary Meyers, who writes:

“Books breaking through the (faux) wall downstairs, referencing the ‘basement stacks’ every library has. In this case it’s as if those stacks had been sealed up during some remodel, and are anthropomorphically breaking through, referencing the old library, history, roots, poltergeists… Created for the VIA Advertising Agency, which recently renovated and moved their offices into the old Baxter building, which served as Portland’s public library from 1888 until the 1960s.”

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Via nprfreshair:

Monday: Tom Waits. [More from NPR Music]

The Kills, “Pots and Pans”

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Romeo and Juliet poster by Beetroot Design Group: Every “Romeo” and “Juliet” throughout the entire text of the play is connected resulting in a web of 55,440 red lines