The Great Prismatic at the Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, USA. Hot springs like these still hold archeobacteria, primitive life forms that are vital ancestors to all yesterday’s and today’s plant species. These bacteria and its ancestors changed the destiny of our planet.

The Tungnaa river, north-east from Landmannalaugar, in Southern Iceland. Shown in the movie to illustrate the importance of water as the ‘veins’ of the Earth.

The Iguazu waterfalls in Misiones Province, Argentina, represent the power of this vital component of life on earth.

Coral reef barriers in Queensland, Australia. Born from the marriage of algae and shells, corals cover less than 1% of the ocean floor. But they provide a habitat for thousands of species of fish, mollusks and algae. They represent the idea that Earth relies on a balance in which every being has a role to play and exists only through the existence of another being.

An image of the Fjordland Park in New Zeland. It took the Earth four billion years to ‘make’ trees, a perfect living sculpture of life and the only natural element in perpetual movement towards the sky.

After 180 thousand years of nomadic living, humans settled down in wet environments abundant with fish. Even today, the majority of humankind lives on the continent’s coastlines, where land, water and life combine. Canoes at the Mopti port in the Niger river, Mali.

A dromedary caravan near Tichit, Mauritania, shows how humans have found some of their lacking physical strengths in animals that have helped them discover new territories.

“We’re like every species, our principal daily concern is to feed ourselves,” says Home when referring to the expansion of agriculture. This activity is still the most widespread occupation in the world. The photo shows women working at wheat fields in the Dades valley, Morocco.

Oil freed humans from their toil on land and gave people incredible comforts. In just 50 years, a human’s lifetime, the Earth has been more radically changed than by all previous generations of humanity. Population has tripled and over three billion people have moved to cities. Shenzen, China, was just a small fishing village 40 years ago.

With oil, machines replaced men in the fields: only three million farmers are left in the USA. The photo shows a wheat harvest in Lamar, Colorado.

Thanks to fertilizers, the enormous varieties of crops gave way to the most productive and easiest to transport: 75% of crops developed by farmers for centuries have disappeared. Fertilizer below, plastic on top, the greenhouses of Almeria, Spain, provide uniformly sized vegetables to different parts of Europe.

Oil extraction near Bakersfield, California, USA, shows how our lives move to the rhythm of machines making us completely dependent on petrol.

The other huge problem of this time: water. India is probably the country that will suffer the most the lack of water in the coming century. About 21 million wells have been dug in the last 50 years. This one is in Khudiala, Rajasthan.

Desert cities with tropical vegetation like Palm Springs are among the top consumers of water. “How long can this mirage continue to prosper?”

Nigeria is the biggest oil exporter in Africa, and yet 70% of its population lives under the poverty line, like people in this shanty town in front of Lagos island. Poverty is the cause of population movements whose scale we can’t realize now.

Not all is bad: these solar homes in Vauban, an eco town in Frisburg, Germany, show that another future is possible.

Didn’t see this movie yet and you’re willing to change you view of life? Watch Home know.

It is built and set in Burj Dubai Lake. It is over 900 feet long and can spray jets up to 500 feet high. The fountains will shoot 22,000 gallons of water in the air at any given moment and feature over 6,600 lights and 50 colour projectors.

The construction of the fountain is designed by WET Design, the same company that designed the only slightly less impressive Fountains of Bellagio in Las Vegas. The fountain can be set to music, including the Swahili song Baba Yetu from the popular video game Civilization IV and top Arab dance song Shik Shak Shok.

This amazing and beautiful fontain cost $217 million to build. Its a lot of money, and is it worth it? See this video and you be a judge…

Victorious

Brand: Microsoft
Company: LHM Media
Credited Individuals
Rob Green / Art Director Rob Green / Copywriter

Scared teddy

Brand: Parcelforce
Company: iris
Credited Individuals
Deon Sensky – Art Director Jez Cripps – Copywriter

Orphan

Brand: Barnardos
Company: The Black Eye Project
Credited Individuals
The Black Eye Project

Free Eye Test

Brand: NHS Newcastle
Company: Saatchi & Saatchi x

Credited Individuals
Rob Griffiths & James Hudson

Bodyshop

Brand: Alan’s Body Shop
Company: IAS b2b Marketing

Credited Individuals
Russell Suthers, Stuart Eade

Granny’s ring

Brand: Cash4Gold
Company: OHWA

Credited Individuals
Justin Bussell and Andy Jones

Glass Box

Brand: Windolene
Company: Profero

Credited Individuals
Matt Roach & Dave Lawrie

Tea For The Young

Brand: Tetley Tea
Company: Spank

Credited Individuals
Danielle Mensah

Leg sticker

Brand: landmines.org
Company: Big Communications

Credited Individuals
Ashika Chauhan Gareth Hopkins

Heart Stopping Moments

Brand: BBC
Company: C21

Credited Individuals
C21

Whitney’s Swansong

Brand: The Beverley Hilton
Company: Award Whores

Credited Individuals
Richard Fitton, Matt Painter, Ruth Suddes, Antony Hooper. CD John Heywood. ECD Vince McSweeney.

The Green Shoots of Recovery

Brand: Regaine – Hair Loss Treatment for Men
Company: woolley pau gyro

Credited Individuals
Regina Stroombergen – Creative Sarah Richards – Creative

Hard Kid

Brand: Volkswagen
Company: Greg and Thomas

Credited Individuals
Greg Ormrod / Thomas Worthington

Student Insurance

Brand: Barclays
Company: Vital

Credited Individuals
Craig Spivey

Shit happens

Brand: Pampers
Company: Little Tadpole

Credited Individuals
Anthony Jones / Creative

Flying Disc

Brand: Danish Frisbee Sports Union
Company: DMJX

Credited Individuals
Rene Schultz Neela Wedage

Slow Food

Brand: Bistro Pierre
Company: Big Communications

Credited Individuals
Josh Pearce Charlotte Robinson

Rtfm. (Read the fucking manual)

Brand: The Economist
Company: rodgerwerkhoven.nl

Credited Individuals
Rodger Werkhoven: concept and execution.

The boot

Brand: Let’s kick racism out of football
Company: IAS b2b Marketing

Credited Individuals
Concept – Chris Graham Artwork – Stuart Eade

Diving to see the Family

Brand: Diving Holidays
Company: Freelance

Credited Individuals
Biggibbo and Chelski

Rhiannon, 14, Darvel, Scotland

Ahkohxet, 8, Amazonia, Brazil

Lamine, 12, Bounkiling village, Senegal

Jasmine, 4, New Jersey, USA

Indira, 7, Kathmandu, Nepal

Kaya, 4, Tokyo, Japan

Delanie, 11, New Jersey, USA

Ryuta 10, Tokyo, Japan

Joey, 11, Kentucky, USA

Tzvika, 9, Beitar Illit, The West Bank

Dong, 9, Yunnan, China

4-year-old Romanian immigrant boy from Rome

Nantio, 15, Lisamis, Northern Kenya

Roasi, 8, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Jaime, 9, New York, USA

Douha, 10, Hebron, The West Bank

Thais, 11, City of God, Brazil

James Mollison was born in Kenya in 1973 and grew up in England. After studying Art and Design at Oxford Brookes University, and later film and photography at Newport School of Art and Design, he moved to Italy to work at Benetton’s creative lab, Fabrica. His work has been widely published throughout the world including by Colors, The New York Times Magazine, the Guardian magazine, The Paris Review, The New Yorker and Le Monde.

When Adele Enersen’s daughter, Mila, was born in the spring of 2010, the infatuated new mom started photographing her baby’s dreams and blogging about them and after only two months, Mila’s Daydreams received over two million visitors, and now, over a year later, Adele’s written and illustrated her first book, When My Baby Dreams.

You may have heard of long songs, but did you here for a song that will be played continuously for 1,000 years?! Longplayer is a track designed to last a thousand years. In particular,it began to play the January 1, 2000 and, if everything goes in smoothly, it will continue without repetition until December 31, 2999, when it is restarted. The song is based on an existing piece of music, particularly in a traditional Tibetan song that is being played with cymbals, which resembles very much a synthesis of bell sounds. This lasts 20 minutes and 20 seconds, time which is processed by computer using a simple algorithm. This has the effect of creating a large number of variants, which, when played in succession, give a total execution time 1000 years old! Check it out…

World’s Fastest Rapper

Rebel XD, the Chicago native most noted for obtaining two Guinness world records for the fastest rap MC. Guinness Records -1993: 673 syllables in 54.9 secs , 1998: 684 syllables in 54.5 secs, 2008: amazing 852 syllables in 42.2 secs!!! You’ll have to hear this to believe…

Lowest Note Ever Sung

Roger Menees has been recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records for singing the lowest note ever recorded. The gospel singer and tour bus driver from southern Illinois reached a croaking f-sharp in Carbondale, Illinois. He always thought his bass voice was lower than all the others, now he has the certificate from Guinness to prove it. Menees was dead on right when he said the note wasn’t going to be very pretty. His goal he explained was to vibrate his vocal cords at the slowest possible speed. By measurement, his vocal cords vibrated at about 3 vibrations per second on this video:

Highest Note Ever Sung

Vocal range is the measure of the breadth of pitches that a human voice can phonate. Adam Lopez Costa is a pop musician, vocal coach, and session vocalist. He is noted for his ability to produce extremely high notes in his whistle register and for his extensive vocal range. He is currently a Guinness World Record holder for singing the highest note by a male – a half step above the C in the 8th octave (C♯8), or a half-step above the highest note on a standard 88-key piano. Don’t believe it? Check out:

World Record For Longest Continuous Vocal Note

The Guinness World Record for longest continuous vocal note (previously 57sec) was shattered on September 8th 2009 by Richard Fink IV (USA) at GFI Studios in Webster NY, with an official time of astonishing 1 minute and 43 seconds following GWR’s strict guidelines. When you hear this you’ll have to agree that this guy is awesome!

The Biggest Crowd In The World

A New Years celebration featuring Rod Stewart with the largest concert crowd ever. The wonderful Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil was overcrowed with singing and celebrating audience. There were unbelievably 3.5 million people at this New Year’s Eve concert!

Best Selling Single of All Time

The version sung by Bing Crosby is the best-selling single of all time, with estimated sales in excess of 50 million copies worldwide. Believe it or not that single is statistically above Elton John with single “Candle in the Wind 1997″/”Something About the Way You Look Tonight” (33 million copies) and his single “Silent Night” (1935) is holding third place with 30 million copies worldwide!

World Record Guitar Speed

Tiago della Vega is a Brazilian guitarist. Born in Caxias do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, he began learning to play the acoustic guitar at the age of five. After a year, he realized that the electric guitar was his greatest passion. He started to study electric guitar, practicing 16 hours a day! We guess that’s why on October 16, 2011 in Cannes Festival Della Vega attempted to beat the 600 bpm record of John Taylor by kicking it up to 750 bpm. Some on Youtube have said that he has submitted it to the Guinness Book of World Records. It has yet to be approved by Guinness…

The Loudest Band Ever

On July 15, 2009, in Ottawa, Canada, the band KISS achieved a SPL of 136 dB measured during their live performance. After noise complaints from neighbors in the area, the band was forced to turn the volume down. It’s interesting that before them, Manowar achieved a SPL of 139 dB during the sound check at the Magic Circle Fest in 2008 but that was not the actual performance so that doesn’t count…

The Weirdest Song?!

This is definitely very subjective question, but if we organize competition for the weirdest song (and video) this would be one of the favorites for the golden medal. Check it out and send us your suggestions (if you have “better” one). Ladies and gentlemen please be prepared for Diamanda Galás song:

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Kim Dotcom

As a teenager, Kim Dotcom earned a reputation in his native Germany for cracking corporate PBX systems in the United States, and tried to parlay it into a career in data security. In 2001, Dotcom purchased $375,000 worth of shares of the nearly bankrupt company LetsBuyIt.com and subsequently announced his intention to invest €50 million in the company.On 21 March 2005, Dotcom founded Megaupload Limited, a Hong Kong-based file hosting and sharing business that eventually became the 13th most popular site on the internet with over 150 employees, US $175 million revenues, 50 million visitors daily, and estimated to be responsible at its peak for 4% of all internet traffic.

Julian Assange

Julian Paul Assange is an Australian publisher, journalist, media and internet entrepreneur, media critic, writer, computer programmer and political/internet activist. He is the editor in chief and founder of WikiLeaks – international online self-described not-for-profit organisation that publishes submissions of private, secret, and classified media from anonymous news sources, news leaks, and whistleblowers.

Shawn Fanning

Shawn Fanning is an American computer programmer, serial entrepreneur, and angel investor. He developed Napster, one of the first popular peer-to-peer (“P2P”) file sharing platforms, in 1998. Soon after, however, Napster was the target of several music industry-backed lawsuits, which ultimately led to the end of the service.

Sean Parker

Sean Parker is an American technology businessman and entrepreneur. He co-founded Napster, Plaxo, Causes, and Airtime. He was Facebook’s founding president. As of the third quarter of 2011, Parker’s net worth was estimated to be $2.1 billion.

Niklas Zennström

Niklas Zennström is an entrepreneur best known for founding several high-profile online ventures with Janus Friis including Skype and Kazaa. More recently he founded the investment group Atomico and has become a significant figurehead for entrepreneurs in the tech sector. Kazaa was commonly used to exchange MP3 music files and other file types, such as videos, applications, and documents over the internet. The Kazaa Media Desktop client could be downloaded free of charge; however, it was bundled with adware and for a period there were “No spyware” warnings found on Kazaa’s website.

Christopher Poole

Christopher Poole is an American internet entrepreneur from New York City, noted for founding the websites 4chan and Canvas. 4chan is an English-language imageboard website. Launched on October 1, 2003, its boards were originally used for the posting of pictures and discussion of manga and anime. Users generally post anonymously and the site has been linked to Internet subcultures and activism, most notably Project Chanology. 4chan users have been responsible for the formation or popularization of Internet memes such as lolcats, Rickrolling, “Chocolate Rain”, Pedobear, and many others.

Jay Freeman “Saurik”

Freeman first released Cydia in February 2008 as an open-source alternative to Installer.app on iPhone OS 1.1, but Cydia quickly became the most popular package manager after iPhone OS 2.0′s release in July 2008. In August 2009, Freeman said “about 4 million, or 10 percent of the 40 million iPhone and iPod Touch owners to date, have installed Cydia. In September 2010, Freeman’s company, SaurikIT, LLC, announced that it had acquired Rock Your Phone, Inc. (makers of Rock.app), which made the Cydia Store the largest third-party app store for jailbroken iOS devices. In December 2010, Freeman announced plans to also release a Cydia Store for Mac OS X as a supplement, not an alternative, to Apple’s Mac App Store. As of April 2011, Cydia had $10 million in annual revenue and 4.5 million weekly users, with $250,000 in profit after taxes annually.

Bram Cohen

Bram Cohen  is an American computer programmer, best known as the author of the peer-to-peer (P2P) BitTorrent protocol, as well as the first file sharing program to use the protocol, also known as BitTorrent. He is also the co-founder of CodeCon, organizer of the San Francisco Bay Area P2P-hackers meeting, and the co-author of Codeville.

Mark Howard Gorton

Mark Howard Gorton is the creator of LimeWire, a peer-to-peer file sharing client for the Java Platform, and chief executive of the Lime Group. Lime Group, based in New York, owns LimeWire as well as Lime Brokerage LLC (a stock brokerage), Tower Research Capital LLC (a hedge fund), and LimeMedical LLC (a medical software company).In November 2010, as a response to the legal challenges regarding LimeWire, an anonymous individual by the handle of Meta Pirate released a modified version of LimeWire Pro, which was entitled LimeWire Pirate Edition. It came without the Ask.com toolbar, advertising, spyware, and backdoors, as well as all dependencies on LimeWire LLC servers.

Peter Sunde

He is best known for being a co-founder and ex-spokesperson of The Pirate Bay, a BitTorrent search engine. On 17 April 2009, Sunde and his co-defendants were found to be guilty of “assisting in making copyright content available” in the Stockholm district court (tingsrätt). Each defendant was sentenced to one year in prison and ordered to pay damages of 30 million SEK (approximately €2,740,900 or US$3,620,000), to be apportioned between the four defendants.[8] After the verdict a press conference was held where Sunde held up a handwritten IOU statement claiming that is all the damages he will pay, adding “Even if I had any money I would rather burn everything I own and not even give them the ashes. They could have the job of picking them up. That’s how much I hate the media industry.”

Hana Beshara

NinjaVideo was a website created in February 2008 containing links to uploaded videos of TV shows, movies, and documentaries. Since June 30, 2010, the site has been unavailable, as a result of a multinational anti-piracy effort led by the US federal government. Originally optimistic that her actions were in a “gray area” of the law, the co-founder and public face of NinjaVideo, Hana Beshara, pled guilty to conspiracy and criminal copyright infringement on September 30, 2011. She was sentenced to 22 months in prison, another two years probation after that, 500 hours of community service and she has to pay back the $209,896.95 that she supposedly made from NinjaVideo to the MPAA.

Intensegrity

A swarm of colorful hair ties twists and dances through a framework of lollipop sticks; the structure is held in a delicate balance by their mutual tug-of-war. The entire structure is quite small—7cm in diameter, or about the size of a tennis ball.

Möbius Clips

Putting yet another twist on binder clips, these 110 colorful clips are linked by the handles to form a Möbius-like strip. Much like a Möbius strip, this strip has a single side and a single edge. But whereas a true Möbius strip has a single half-twist, this figure has five.

Paperclip Snub Dodecahedron

A snub dodecahedron made from 120 paperclips. I designed this in response to George Hart’s paperclip snub dodecahedron challenge, imposing a few additional constraints of my own: the paperclips should support themselves without glue, solder, etc., and the pieces should be recognizable as paperclips, with as little modification as possible. In this design, half of the paperclips have been bent at the middle, and the other half are intact and outline the central triangles.

Impenetraball

The Impenetraball protects its hollow interior with a dense, chainmail-like mesh made from 132 binder clips. The weave pattern complements the dimensions of these binder clips, exploiting the fact that a handle just barely fits around the body of a neighboring clip (both lengthwise and widthwise). This also makes for an assembler’s worst nightmare; a good pair of small needle-nose pliers and a great deal of patience are essential.

Stressful

The handles of six binder clips weave together in a way that holds all clips open. This “explosive” configuration is quite stable despite its high potential energy. I will leave the construction method as an entertaining puzzle. Here’s a hint: you should need to strain your hands no more than when normally opening a binder clip.

Zodiac

Many binder clips are interlocked into an airy ball composed of 20 hexagons and 12 stars. There are 90 clips but only 120 handles: each clip in the middle of a star is missing one handle. If these were put back in, the polyhedral structure would correspond to a “rectified truncated icosahedron,” obtained by replacing each vertex of a “soccer ball” polyhedron with a triangle.

Triskewers

A subset of an infinite, repeating arrangement of interwoven cylinders, made from 144 wooden skewers and held together with glue. The skewers form four identical, intersecting triangular prisms, giving the figure chiral tetrahedral symmetry—or chiral cubic symmetry if the spiked and non-spiked ends are not distinguished. The high density packing and repetitive lattice pattern create mesmerizing networks of passageways through the sculpture.

Black Hole

Thirty lollipop sticks are pulled toward the middle of the Black Hole by rubberbands; the sticks desperately oppose their crushing doom by bracing against each other. From the equilibrium emerges this dodecahedrally-symmetric form. Each stick is supported against the central pull by four other sticks, and in turn it helps brace four more sticks. So in total, each stick touches eight others.

Polypolypolyhedron

The Polypolypolyhedron is an orderly mess of 60 woven plastic rods. The rods come in six groups of 5 and 10 groups of 3, where the rods in each group bend their way through the busy central interchange and have their ends fastened to each other with rubber bands. All of the 5-fold groups are identical, as are all 3-fold groups: the figure has dodecahedral symmetry.

Poker Faces

Thirty standard playing cards are carefully slit and assembled into a configuration of six intersecting pentagonal prisms. Four of the prisms display royal flushes, the luckiest hands in poker. This sculpture is quite lucky geometrically as well: it is only possible because the aspect ratio of standard poker cards, namely 88mm/63mm≈1.397, is sufficiently close to 5−5√2≈1.382. This number is the unique rectangle size that allows the prisms’ edges to meet at 12 five-way junctures.

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Pope kissing Ahmed Mohamed el-Tayeb

Benetton said on Wednesday that it was pulling a photo montage of the pope kissing Egypt’s Sheikh al-Azhar Ahmed al-Tayeb that was part of a new global ad campaign and that had outraged the Vatican. In a separate statement, Benetton says it was never its intention to offend, but rather to use the Pope’s image to spread a message of peace and love, or, as the name of the campaign says, Unhate.