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The world’s most active volcano has erupted in spectacular fashion on Hawaii, but scientists warn it is spewing more lava than ever before.

Kilauea, meaning ‘much spreading’, has been continually erupting since 1983, but more molten rock than usual is flowing from an outbreak that started last November.

Lava has been spewing as high as 150ft in the air at temperatures up to 1,200 °C and a surface flow is snaking east from the crater.

Meanwhile underground ‘tubes’ are expelling lava into the Pacific ocean creating huge clouds of steam and ash.

Scientists at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory have also reported an ‘unusually high amount of sulfur dioxide gas’ emerging from one of the craters.

Kilauea is a low flat shield volcano. It is the youngest on Big Island and sits on the south-eastern side.

The volcano has its own magma-plumbing system, extending to the surface from more than 60 km deep in the earth.

The near constant eruptions have proved an invaluable resource to geologists but the volcano has proved to be a dangerous neighbour.

Kilauea releases a volcanic gas, known as vog, which can irritate respiratory problems. High levels of the noxious fumes have killed several people in the past.

In 1993, a tourist died when the portion of cooled fresh lava on which he was standing, broke away and fell into the ocean.

The lava flow has also destroyed homes and sections of the coastal highway over the last two decades.

Kilauea is the home of Madame Pele, the Hawaiian volcano goddess. Hawaiian chants and oral traditions tell of the many eruptions created by an angry Pele before the first European, the missionary Reverend William Ellis, saw the summit in 1823.

What is it about one of the world’s darkest and most evil professions that makes it seem so sexy and appealing on the big screen?

Whether it be slow motion shoot-outs, kicking kung-fu or just Angelina Jolie strutting around in next to nothing, the silver screen has always been kind to the morally questionable profession of contract killing.

So here it is, a list of the 10 best movie assassins to ever grace our screens…

10 - Michael Sullivan, Road to Perdition

Cold, calculated and - beneath it all - a family man, Tom Hanks makes a surprising turn as Michael Sullivan, a character who is not afraid to get his hands dirty. The final confrontation between Hanks and Paul Newman in the rain-soaked street is an intense and memorable scene and Hanks proves his versatility once again and pulls off the moustache look quite nicely.

9 - El Mariachi, Desperado

This guy is as comfortable behind a gun as he is behind the guitar, and bagging Salma Hayek on the side isn’t bad going either. The character El Mariachi played by Antonio Banderas was also in two other features (although Banderas only played him twice), but Desperado stands as one of the best action films of the 1990s featuring one of the best assassins.

8 - Vincent, Collateral

One of the Cruiser’s best performances and his standout of the last decade, Vincent is an impulsive assassin, going with the flow or whatever. He’ll chuck a fat Angelino out the window without batting an eyelid.

7 - The Jackal, The Day of the Jackal

Neither man nor watermelon stands a chance against this classic cinematic assassin. The role that made Edward Fox a star of the time was played in the remake by Bruce Willis (for some reason with a dodgy bleached haircut). The original remains a cinema classic and handed us one of the coolest cinema villains.

6 - Anton Chigurh - No Country For Old Men

Striking fear into any heart that lays eyes on his haircut. Anton leaves fate to decide whether to kill his victims or not. Deservedly winning an Oscar for the role, Javier Barden creates one of the greatest villains of all time.

5 - The Bride, Kill Bill

She made slicing through 88 trained samurais look like cutting through butter and managed to make someone’s heart explode by finger-tapping their chest. The Bride is fuelled by bloody vengeance, until she gets all weepy eyed at the end, that is. Still she remains Quentin Tarantino’s best creation.

4 - Martin Q. Blank, Grosse Point Blank

The most relatable assassin on the list, he’s depressed, lonely and stressed. Returning home for a reunion sets things back into motion and being hunted down, he brings out all the tricks to stay alive. John Cusack makes the character effortlessly cool and has unofficially followed up the film with this year’s War Inc, which is apparently a bit rubbish.

3 -T-800, Terminator

It’s not your average assassin that starts off walking around butt naked into biker bars but then this is a robot. Arnie’s most famous role had the Austrian hulk  anything that moves and, with a near indestructible body, he is probably the hardest to kill on the list.

2 - Jason Bourne, The Bourne Identity/Supremacy/Ultimatum

We always thought that Matt Damon was like a Streisand, but he’s rocking the shit in this one! Damon came out of nowhere and smashed us around the face with a book, giving us the best assassin/spy of our generation. Silent and deadly, this guy could kill you with a bit of sticky back tape if he needed to.

1 - Leon, Leon

From start to finish Leon approaches everything with thorough thinking and complete dedication. He doesn’t make things up on the fly like Bourne, Vincent and Sullivan and it wasn’t until Natalie came along that he finally gained a weakness. The hardest, coolest, coldest killer around, Leon is cinema’s best assassin by a long shot.

Have you ever been to Sagada in Philippines? The Sagada caves could get you mystifying just like the Pyramids of Egypt. The cliffs of Sagada welcomes you with dozens of coffins hanging in the cliff made of limestones.

The people of Sagada have devised a unique burial ritual involving the placement of dead relatives into caves after carefully preparing a hollowed out log. These coffins are carved by the elderly before they die; if they are too ill or weak their son or other close relative will do it for them. This ritual involves pushing the bodies into the tight spaces of the coffins (into the foetal position), and often bones are cracked and broken as the process is completed.

After the deceased are put inside these coffins they are then brought to caves high in the cliffs where they join the coffins of other ancestors. The Sagada people prefer to be buried in the cliffs than to be buried in the ground and have been doing this for more than 2,000 years and the latest addition is said to be put a decade ago!

In some caves hundreds of coffins are lined up, and unfortunately tourists are unregulated in this area, some have even taken some of the bones as souvenirs. If you do visit these caves, make sure you get a guide as some of the caves are hard to find and the roads can be tricky to navigate.

The renovated BMW Museum in Munich, Germany, offers one of the largest spaces for focused car-design ogling, and is as large (5000 square meters) an expression of the company’s outsized engineering expectations as it is an interesting new space for art. The latter label comes mostly from the mechatronic piece by ART+COM called the Kinetic structure, an awesome installation project made out of moving, sliver spheres.

ART+COM is a media development company that creates high tech installations, and they take an abstract approach with their concept —- depicting the design of a car and its eventual relationship with the elements through real-style ‘animations.’

From the looks of the videos, they’ve succeeded- the illustration of each silver sphere according to a point in space is so precise that if the clip is fast forwarded, it will resemble the real movements of a half-car moving. It also reminds us of the motion capture process of modern movies, but in reverse — the motion before the capture, if you will.

The structure is made from 714 metal balls, and each ball lowers and retracts autonomously from the others.

Check out the videos after the jump:

Watch this amazing display of 714 metal balls on strings. It really gets creative after 1 minute. So please be patient.

source: wired.com

This is the coolest video I have ever seen. I do not own it but it has been posted several places around the internet. I hope you enjoy it.

The driftwood sculptures of Matt Torrens are made using Manzanita driftwood which is native to Northern California. He uses his spare time to gather local driftwood and then used to create eco-friendly, life sized wildlife sculptures that give character and grace to their animal counterparts. He also creates sculptures using other materials such as dinner knives and silver serving trays.

Artist Matt Torrens showing the process in creating one of his Driftwood pieces.

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Here is Patrick Flanigan at his BEST.