Simon Kernick: My six best books – Agatha Christie inspired me from an early age

WALKING THE WOODS AND THE WATER by Nick Hunt Brealey, £9.99 A travel book by a guy who walked from Rotterdam to Istanbul, along the route taken in 1933 by the great explorer Patrick Leigh Fermor. He has an easy style of writing and it inspired me to walk more and to visit countries such […]

Nissan's 'Star Wars: The Last Jedi' inspired vehicles

Nissan has six ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ inspired vehicles that it showed off at the 2017 L.A. Auto Show. The vehicles were made in collaboration with Lucasfilm and Industrial Light & Magic. For more coverage of the 2017 LA Auto Show head over to https://www.autoblog.com/la-auto-show/ Let’s block ads! (Why?) Autoblog

11 moments that inspired us to be better in 2017 — and years to come

Pool/ Getty Images People did some remarkable and inspiring things in 2017.  Some donated their time and money, while others spread compassion.  These acts of kindness and inclusivity will make you appreciate 2017, and inspire your goals for next year.  A new year brings a chance to start fresh and make big, bold changes. Although 2017 […]

Amazing Cut-Paper Artworks Inspired by Nature

Pippa Dyrlaga’s incredible cut-paper artworks are created from a single sheet of paper. She creates precise patterns made from hundreds of cuts that form details, like the fur of a cat or the scales of a snake. They are delicate, intricate, and amazing to behold. We first discovered the artist on The Inspiration Grid. Dyrlaga […]

‘Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri’ Director Martin McDonagh on the Story That Inspired His Film [Interview]

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is a film that will stay with audiences. It’s a simple story layered in unexpected complexities brought out by its three leads: Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson and Sam Rockwell. It’s one of the best films of 2017. In the film, McDormand plays Mildred Hayes , a divorced woman searching for justice […]

Project Runway Recap: The Final Cut — Plus, Who Was Inspired by a Dead Cat?

Thursday’s Project Runway, the last episode before next week’s Season 16 finale, presented the remaining designers with one final twist. But first, we need to talk about Kentaro. More specifically, we need to rehash Tim Gunn’s trip to Los Angeles, during which Kentaro revealed the b-a-n-a-n-a-s inspiration behind the song he composed for his runway show […]

Vamp it up! Halloween inspired fashion from River Island, Asos and more

SAT MAG With Halloween just around the corner there is no better time to inject this season’s gothic trend into your wardrobe. A popular Autumn / Winter source of inspiration, this style relies heavily on fabrics such as lace, velvet and leather to really bring the vampish vibe to life. Based in a colour palette […]

The kidnap case that inspired Murder On The Orient Express

When Murder On The Orient Express was published in 1934 its author Agatha Christie was known as the Queen of Crime and copies raced off the shelves.  The book was turned into a film starring Albert Finney as her Belgian detective Hercule Poirot 40 years later and was immediately nominated for six Academy Awards.  Indeed, […]

Inspired by brain’s visual cortex, new AI utterly wrecks CAPTCHA security

Enlarge / A representation of how physically close feature recognition units are built hierarchically to create an object hypothesis. (credit: Vicarious AI) Computer algorithms have gotten much better at recognizing patterns, like specific animals or people’s faces, allowing software to automatically categorize large image collections. But we’ve come to rely on some things that computers […]

Preview the First Complete Mike Kelley Survey of the Artist’s Late-Work Series Inspired by a Comic Book

The first complete survey of the late Mike Kelley’s colorful Kandors project, named after the fictional city featured in the DC Comics Superman series, opened this week at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles. Mike Kelley: Kandors 1999 – 2011, in collaboration with the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts, celebrates one of the final bodies […]