Is the dancer spinning clockwise or counterclockwise? An optical illusion.
posted to MetaFilter by painquale at 8:00 PM on October 8, 2007 (133 comments)

The best times to buy anything. The best places to do everything. The best seasons to eat everything. The best months to go anywhere or to go anywhere cheap. The best times of day to do anything. Also, the worst day to dine in New York, click delete without looking, fly, get arrested, and give birth.
posted to MetaFilter by blahblahblah at 11:53 PM on July 29, 2007 (12 comments)

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posted to MetaFilter by 31d1 at 6:04 PM on July 18, 2007 (61 comments)

Running From Camera The rules are simple: I put the self-timer on 2 seconds, push the button and try to get as far from the camera as I can. [via]
posted to MetaFilter by Pater Aletheias at 10:08 PM on January 14, 2007 (62 comments)

I am still alive. Japanese conceptual artist On Kawara sent these telegrams to friends throughout the 70s. He's most famous for his date paintings, in which he paints the day's date on canvas before midnight. His book series I Met is a 12 volume list of the people he met in the '60s and '70s. His ten volume One Million Years (Past and Future) comprises books with every one of 1,000,000 years (998,031 BC-1969 AD (past) and 1980-1,001,980 AD (future) listed. Reading One Million Years is a series of installations of readings from the books. One was placed in Trafalgar Square, and in a further wrinkle in time, this guy caught it with his pinhole camera. Here is a short essay about Kawara's existentialism, and here's a longer essay (Google cache) about Kawara's art's ontology. (PDF)
posted to MetaFilter by OmieWise at 11:55 AM on April 10, 2006 (51 comments)