Giant Hands Raise Bridge in Vietnam to the Sky

Unveiled to the public in June, a pair of giant hands appear to hold up the Golden Bridge on Ba Na Hills in Da Nang, Vietnam above the clouds.

Situated 1,400m above sea level in the tourist retreat of Thien Thai Garden, the Golden Bridge includes 8 spans with a length of nearly 150m. At this height, the bridge looks like a silk strip hiding in the clouds of Da Nang.

Lobelia Chrysanthemums line the pathway on the bridge, providing a vibrant splash of colour, while the giant hands have been finished with a weathered effect to create an illusion of age and antiquity.

- Twisted Sifter

When a Stranger Decides to Destroy Your Life

Monika Glennon has lived in Huntsville, Alabama, for the last 12 years. Other than a strong Polish accent, she fits a certain stereotype of the All-American life. She’s blonde. Her husband is a veteran Marine. Her two children, a boy and a girl, joined the military as adults. She sells houses—she’s a real estate agent at Re/Max—helping others realize their own American dream.

But in September 2015, she was suddenly plunged into an American nightmare. She got a call at 6 a.m. one morning from a colleague at Re/Max telling her something terrible had been posted about her on the Re/Max Facebook page. Glennon thought at first she meant that a client had left her a bad review, but it turned out to be much worse than that.

- Gizmodo

To Live a Better Life, Think About Death

Why contemplating our mortality can be a powerful catalyst for change.

hat would you do differently if you knew you were going to die tomorrow? When you look back before you say goodbye, what will you regret if you don’t make changes now? Maybe you would muster the courage to quit your job or mend a broken relationship. Perhaps you would travel or finally pursue your dream to be an entrepreneur. Whatever the action, it would likely bring you closer to your authentic self.

- Medium

lurid third interval // tease from Four Chambers on Vimeo.

From a background in analog photography, art school bullshit and digital sex online, Four Chambers is a project, an idea and an ongoing collaboration with the intention to explore the aesthetic and conceptual potential of pornography as a medium for ideas.

Headed by performer, Vex Ashley and self taught in editing and videography with an emphasis on collaborative DIY practices; Four Chambers now exists alongside a new wave of creators making contemporary pornographic work from a new perspective.

Born from a global community of social media, Four Chambers is a part of the growing decentralisation from traditional adult industry practices and studios, raising money to support the project initially by donation and now through ongoing community crowd funding.

The project remains deliberately ambiguous, rejecting labels for both their films and performers, existing in-between genres of both art and pornography and dismissing the need for a definition of either.

Exploring themes of technology, symbolism, mythology and alchemy and their intrinsic intersection with sex, Four Chambers is independent, DIY, conceptual; magical realism porn.

Mad, Urban, Grunge And Sensual NSFW Photography By David Kirscher

Meet David Kirscher, talented urban french photographer based in Paris and Madrid.

“My passion for photography started when I was 15. I bought for Christmas a camera for my girlfriend. It was a digital point&shoot camera with a 32Mo memory card that could take pictures and record videos (back in the early 2000s it was awesome). I was borrowing it all the time, so, when we broke up I decided to buy me one. I first recorded skateboard videos, school pranks, took pictures of my friends and made CDs compilations that I shared with them. Even if by the time it was just an everyday hobby, I actually feel like I never stopped doing it,” he said.

- Design you Trust

While We Sleep, Our Mind Goes on an Amazing Journey

Our floodlit society has made sleep deprivation a lifestyle. But we know more than ever about how we rest—and how it keeps us healthy.

Nearly every night of our lives, we undergo a startling metamorphosis. Our brain profoundly alters its behavior and purpose, dimming our consciousness. For a while, we become almost entirely paralyzed. We can’t even shiver. Our eyes, however, periodically dart about behind closed lids as if seeing, and the tiny muscles in our middle ear, even in silence, move as though hearing. We are sexually stimulated, men and women both, repeatedly. We sometimes believe we can fly. We approach the frontiers of death. We sleep.

- National Geographic

21 Staircases That Are Amazingly Artful and Can Put You in an Aesthetic Coma

Nowadays, the most outstanding artworks are pretty far from the rooms of museums. Street artists stole the art scene — their names are familiar to everyone and their works are sold for millions of dollars. They don’t imprison the art in cold halls of galleries — they transform the urban environment around them, making boring gray walls bright and lively. This article is all about creative people who dared to decorate places that most of us wouldn’t even think of decorating.

We at Bright Side are totally in love with street art. This time, our attention was caught by painted stairs and we have collected 21 of the best works of stair art for you. Scroll down and enjoy!

- Bright Side

The Most Important Skill Nobody Taught You

Before dying at the age of 39, Blaise Pascal made huge contributions to both physics and mathematics, notably in fluids, geometry, and probability.

This work, however, would influence more than just the realm of the natural sciences. Many fields that we now classify under the heading of social science did, in fact, also grow out of the foundation he helped lay.

There is enough thought-provoking material in it to quote, and it attacks human nature from a variety of different angles, but one of its most famous thoughts aptly sums up the core of his argument:

“All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”

According to Pascal, we fear the silence of existence, we dread boredom and instead choose aimless distraction, and we can’t help but run from the problems of our emotions into the false comforts of the mind. The issue at the root, essentially, is that we never learn the art of solitude.

- Medium

7.5 billion and counting: How many humans can the Earth support?

Humans are the most populous large mammal on Earth today, and probably in all of geological history. This World Population Day, humans number in the vicinity of 7.5 to 7.6 billion individuals.

Can the Earth support this many people indefinitely? What will happen if we do nothing to manage future population growth and total resource use? These complex questions are ecological, political, ethical – and urgent. Simple mathematics shows why, shedding light on our species’ ecological footprint.

- The Conversation

VACANCES AU CAP D’AGDE, MA PREMIÈRE FOIS À LA BAIE DES COCHONS

Du tourisme populaire au tourisme libertin. 

A l’origine, le Cap d’Agde fut construit à l’initiative du Général de Gaulle pour répondre à l’essor du tourisme populaire de masse. La première commune touristique de France s’est établie par hasard à côté d’un camping tenu par deux frères naturistes (qui par la suite s’improviseront investisseurs dans l’immobilier). C’est seulement en 1985, qu’un copain coquin des deux frangins décide d’ouvrir le premier club échangiste du camp naturiste – le Cap D’Agde avait la réputation d’être le Ibiza de l’époque. Depuis, le camp et sa plage, dites de “La Baie des Cochons” n’ont cessé de devenir un haut lieu de pèlerinage pour les libertins d’Europe. L’été dernier, j’ai eu l’occasion de découvrir toute la complexité de ce lieu unique, bien moins hétéronormé que l’on pourrait le croire. Entre considérations architecturales, pseudo analyses socio-démographiques et confessions coquines pudiques, je vous propose une plongée dans la station balnéaire la plus chaude d’Europe.

- LE TAG PARFAIT

The Bowling Mechanic Keeping America’s Favorite Pastime Alive

The latest episode of State of Repair shows the hard, dangerous, and sometimes beautiful work of repairing bowling machinery.

Ask Joe Martinez to show you his fingers, and you’ll see how dangerous it is fixing bowling alleys. On his right hand, Martinez’s middle finger is sheared clean off at the outermost joint, the result of an accident while fixing the complex machinery that kicks into gear after each throw of the bowling ball. But that won’t stop him. “My difference that I have with other mechanics is my passion for it,” he said. “I love what I do with these machines.”

- Motherboard

Les insolences d’un Anglais en Amérique

Avec ses perruques, ses postiches et ses prothèses de latex, on pourrait croire que Sacha Baron Cohen éveillerait la méfiance de ses interlocuteurs dans sa nouvelle émission, Who Is America ?, lancée dimanche sur Showtime. Après tout, l’artiste britannique a fait crouler de rire des millions de spectateurs américains avec ses personnages caricaturaux, Borat, candide Kazakh tournant un documentaire sur la culture américaine, et Brüno, fashionista autrichien homosexuel en mal de célébrité. Or, si l’on en croit les réactions des politiciens vus dans le premier épisode, plusieurs mordent à l’appât.

- Le Devoir

RIP Bill Gold: The Extraordinary Movie Poster Master

Bill Gold, at the age of 97, has died. Maybe the greatest movie poster designer of them all. Gold was born in New York City, January 1921 and is best know for hundreds of classic film poster designed. His first posters included Yankee Doodle Dandy in 1941 and Casablanca the following year. He began his professional design career at Warner Brothers and was made head of poster design in 1947.

He once told the New York Times: I know what movie posters should look like, instinctively,” said Mr. Gold, who lives in Old Greenwich, Conn. “I looked at everything that MGM and Paramount and all the companies did, and I never liked anything that I saw. I always found fault with the fact that they showed three heads of the actors, and that’s about all the concept they would use. And when I started to work, I thought: I don’t want to just do a concept with three heads in it. I want a story.

- Flashbak

Your semen
is the fluid of pleasure
upon bloomed petals
already heavy with dew
- Japi Honoo

Elles payent pour du sexe

Elles sont majeures, professionnelles, célibataires  ou pas. Et pour toutes sortes de raisons, elles ont décidé de payer pour des caresses, de la tendresse et du sexe. Bref, pour jouir. Portrait d'un phénomène tabou, méconnu et, surtout, sous-estimé.

- La Presse

We Asked Couples How They Make Threesomes Work

Do couples who threesome together stay together? I decided to find out.

Judging by the spread of new apps designed to hook couples up with an extra pair of hands or feet or whatever it is they so desire, the “third” has been enjoying a bit of a cultural moment. Chances are if you’ve been swiping away on Tinder you’ve already come across a happy couple or two “looking for fun” in their bio.

- Vice

Superb Street Art By Dolk

Dolk‘s career began in 2003 and he has already risen to be considered a part of the international elite within the street art movement. Through the years, he has worked side-by-side with the best of his contemporaries and has painted in most of the large urban environments of Europe, Australia and the USA. 

Dolk begins his process by identifying an idea, a personal insight, or a socio-political commentary and then develops the visual concept to the point that he can create a stencil. He makes numerous sketches, and then deconstructs the image to identify the different layers, of which stencils are then cut out of cardboard. Dolk explores the street environment to identify a façade that suits the image, returning at night to execute the work. The street art works have, by definition, an ephemeral quality. One doesn’t know when they will disappear from their setting, and many images have been painted over or defaced.

- Design you Trust