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High Resolution 3D Interactive Image of the Sistine Chapel ~ Expulsion from the Garden of Eden

Cody — Wed, 12 May 2010 17:16:35 +0000

If you’re looking for a high-resolution interactive view of the Sistine Chapel, the Vatican Museum has an excellent online site that will blow you away. You’ll be able to zoom in and see even more detail of the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden, or count the individual pieces in the [...]

Don’t mess with beaches ~ thoughts on an unnatural disaster

Cody — Wed, 05 May 2010 02:11:49 +0000

The gushing Louisiana oil well is about to show that paradise is a more powerful force than political allegiances. The Florida coast and islands are threatened. Obama has spent much of his first year+ rushing to the center, presumably building momentum for reelection in 2012. His approval of expanded offshore drilling mostly just fueled consternation [...]

Dear mainstream media: the earthquake happened in Chile, not Hawaii

Cody — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 02:07:34 +0000

The devastation caused by the 2010 Chilean earthquake, which was 500 times as powerful as the recent Haitian earthquake, merits attention. Unfortunately, the US has been fixated on the tsunami that was headed for Hawaii. The possible destruction of various pieces of low-lying paradise upstaged the real tragedy of an earthquake felt for a thousand [...]

A Shark Spring at the LA County Museum of Art ~ John Singleton Copley’s Watson and the Shark

Cody — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:39:01 +0000

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art is getting into the spirit of Discovery Channel’s Shark Week with their advertising for an exhibit called American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915, which runs from February 28 to May 23, 2010. Check out this dramatic scene of a young swimmer being rescued from hungry sharks featured [...]

Beach Sand and the Bloom Box ~ Here come the conspiracy theorists

Cody — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 03:07:05 +0000

Allow Rapidsea to be the first to predict the ecological uproar over the Bloom Box by Bloom Energy, a power-generating fuel cell stack that was revealed to the television world on 60 Minutes on February 21, 2010. The technological and economic doubters have already had their say, even before the product is fully revealed, but [...]

Shark Law Office ~ Folly Beach, South Carolina

Cody — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:55:50 +0000

The Internet is having fun again (still?) with sharks. The image that is popping up at various blogs and social networking sites is of a shark mounted over the door of a law office. The photo below was taken by William B. Folsom of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which is part of [...]

Accenture Risk Management Diver

Cody — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:25:05 +0000

I was looking through the Accenture brochure on “Finance & Performance: Management Services,” and I couldn’t help but comment on this particular image from their Risk Management Practice: First off, it almost looks like the woman is not underwater at all, as if she were standing next to a reflective tank. The quality, clarity, and [...]

Accenture Dumps Golfing Tiger for Surfing Elephant

Cody — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:38:39 +0000

If you Google “dumps Tiger,” half of the front page listings deal with the Accenture corporation. They officially cut ties with him in December 2009, giving a crisp send off in this press release (emphasis added): Accenture Sponsorship Update NEW YORK; Dec. 13, 2009 – Accenture (NYSE: ACN) today announced that it will not continue [...]

Humans and dolphins are mammals ~ Emerald and Pop Secret are nuts

Cody — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:05:57 +0000

There is so much that can and cannot be said about the Emerald Nuts and Pop Secret popcorn commercial from the February 2010 Super Bowl: Even the manipulation of paradise can be manipulated. I’m guessing that this commercial will end up a success. It’s definitely the most memorable of the paradise commercials from the [...]

Dead flies at the pool and on the beach

Cody — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 23:55:20 +0000

One of the more recent humorous email forwards traveling around contains photos of dead flies with pencil sketches drawn around them to place them in various settings. There are two out of nine (from a greater collection) in the email that I received that are Rapidsea ready. There’s a simple pool scene: And then there’s [...]