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Happy Birthday To:

* 1592 – George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English statesman (d. 1628)
* 1612 – Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn, Dutch scholar (d. 1653)
* 1667 – Louise of Mecklenburg-Güstrow, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1721)
* 1714 – Anthony Ulrich II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1774)
* 1749 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer and scientist (d. 1832)
* 1774 – Elizabeth Ann Seton, American-born Catholic saint (d. 1821)
* 1789 – Stéphanie de Beauharnais, Grand Duchess of Baden (d. 1860)
* 1801 – Antoine Augustin Cournot, French mathematician (d. 1877)
* 1814 – Sheridan le Fanu, Irish writer (d. 1873)
* 1827 – Grand Duchess Catherine Mikhailovna of Russia (d. 1894)
* 1828 – Leo Tolstoy, Russian author (birthdate according to O.S.) (d. 1910)
* 1840 – Alexander Cameron Sim, Scottish merchant (d. 1900)
* 1853 – Vladimir Shukhov, Russian engineer and inventor (d. 1939)
* 1859 – Vittorio Sella, Italian photographer (d. 1943)
* 1867 – Umberto Giordano, Italian composer (d. 1948)
* 1878 – George Whipple, American doctor and Nobel laureate (d. 1976)
* 1884 – Peter Fraser, former Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1950)
* 1885 – Vance Palmer, Australian author (d. 1959)
* 1898 – Charlie Grimm, American baseball player (d. 1983)
* 1899 – Charles Boyer, French actor (d. 1978)
* 1903 – Bruno Bettelheim, American psychologist (d. 1990)
* 1904 – Secondo Campini, Italian jet engine pioneer (d. 1980)
* 1905 – Cyril Walters, England cricketer (d. 1992)
* 1906 – John Betjeman, English poet (d. 1984)
* 1910 – Tjalling Koopmans, Dutch-born economist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1985)
* 1911 – Joseph Luns, Dutch politician (d. 2002)
* 1913 – Robertson Davies, Canadian writer (d. 1995)
* 1913 – Jack Dreyfus, American entrepreneur (d. 2009)
* 1913 – Lindsay Hassett, Australian cricketer (d. 1993)
* 1913 – Boris Pahor, Slovenian writer
* 1913 – Terence Reese, British bridge player (d. 1996)
* 1913 – Richard Tucker, American tenor (d. 1975)
* 1915 – Max Robertson, British sports commentator
* 1915 – Tasha Tudor, American illustrator (d. 2008)
* 1916 – Jack Vance, American author
* 1916 – Hélène Baillargeon, Quebec singer and folklorist (d. 1997)
* 1917 – Jack Kirby, American comic book artist (d. 1994)
* 1919 – Godfrey Hounsfield, English electrical engineer Nobel Laureate (d. 2004)
* 1921 – Fernando Fernán Gómez, Spanish actor, director, academic and playwright (d. 2007)
* 1921 – Nancy Kulp, American actress (d. 1991)
* 1924 – Janet Frame, New Zealand author (d. 2004)
* 1924 – Peggy Ryan, American actress (d. 2004)
* 1924 – Tony MacGibbon, New Zealand cricketer
* 1925 – Donald O’Connor, American singer, dancer, and actor (d. 2003)
* 1925 – Billy Grammer, American country music singer and guitarist
* 1928 – F. William Free, American advertising executive (d. 2003)
* 1929 – Ken Gampu, South African actor (d. 2003)
* 1930 – Windsor Davies, British actor
* 1930 – Ben Gazzara, American actor
* 1931 – John Shirley-Quirk, English bass-baritone
* 1931 – Tito Capobianco, Argentinian stage impresario and director
* 1932 – Andy Bathgate, Canadian ice hockey player
* 1935 – Gilles Rocheleau, French Canadian politician (d. 1998)
* 1936 – Don Denkinger, American baseball umpire
* 1938 – Paul Martin, Canadian politician
* 1938 – Maurizio Costanzo, Italian television journalist
* 1940 – Ken Jenkins, American actor
* 1940 – Roger Pingeon, French cylist
* 1940 – Nik Turner, English musician (Hawkwind)
* 1941 – Sybille de Selys Longchamps, Belgian aristocrat
* 1941 – Paul Plishka, American opera singer
* 1942 – Sterling Morrison, American guitarist (The Velvet Underground) (d. 1995)
* 1943 – David Soul, American actor
* 1943 – Lou Piniella, American baseball manager
* 1943 – Surayud Chulanont, Thai 24th Prime Minister (former)
* 1944 – Marianne Heemskerk, Dutch swimmer
* 1945 – Robert Greenwald, American film director/producer
* 1945 – Bob Segarini, American musician
* 1947 – Liza Wang, Hong Kong actress
* 1947 – Shoto Tanemura, Japanese martial artist
* 1948 – Danny Seraphine, American musician (Chicago)
* 1948 – Murray Parker, New Zealand cricketer
* 1948 – Heather Reisman, Canadian businesswoman
* 1949 – Hugh Cornwell, British musician (The Stranglers)
* 1949 – Svetislav Pešic, Serbian basketball player and coach
* 1951 – Keiichi Suzuki, Japanese composer
* 1951 – Wayne Osmond, American singer (The Osmonds)
* 1952 – Rita Dove, American poet
* 1952 – Wendelin Wiedeking, German businessman
* 1952 – Guy Nadon, Canadian actor
* 1952 – Jacques Chagnon, Canadian politician
* 1954 – George Church, American geneticist
* 1956 – Luis Guzmán, Puerto Rican actor
* 1956 – Mark Lutz, Puerto Rican actor
* 1957 – Ivo Josipovic President of Croatia
* 1957 – Daniel Stern, American actor
* 1957 – Rick Rossovich, Croatian/American actor
* 1958 – Scott Hamilton, American figure skater
* 1960 – Emma Samms, English actress
* 1961 – Kim Appleby, English singer
* 1961 – Cliff Benson, American football player
* 1962 – Paul Allen, English footballer
* 1962 – David Fincher, American music video and film director
* 1963 – Jennifer Coolidge, American actress
* 1963 – Regina Jacobs, American athlete
* 1965 – Satoshi Tajiri, founder of Game Freak
* 1965 – Amanda Tapping, Canadian actress
* 1965 – Shania Twain, Canadian singer
* 1966 – Priya Dutt, Indian social worker and politician
* 1967 – Frederick Kesner, Philippine-born Australian poet
* 1968 – Billy Boyd, Scottish actor
* 1969 – Jason Priestley, Canadian-born actor
* 1969 – Jack Black, American actor
* 1969 – Mary McCartney, English photographer
* 1969 – Pierre Turgeon, French Canadian ice hockey player
* 1970 – Sherrié Austin, Australian actress/singer
* 1970 – Rick Recht, Jewish singer
* 1971 – Todd Eldredge, American figure skater
* 1971 – Janet Evans, American swimmer
* 1971 – Raul Marquez, Mexican-born American boxer
* 1971 – Shane Andrews, American baseball player
* 1972 – Jay Witasick, American baseball player
* 1972 – Ravindu Shah, Kenyan cricketer
* 1973 – Matthew John Armstrong, American actor
* 1973 – DJ Assault, American musician
* 1973 – Kirby Morrow, Canadian voice actor
* 1974 – Johan Andersson, Swedish game programmer
* 1974 – Carsten Jancker, German footballer
* 1974 – Takahito Eguchi, Japanese composer
* 1975 – Jamie Cureton, English footballer
* 1975 – Gareth Farrelly, Irish footballer
* 1975 – Vera Jordanova, Finnish actress and model
* 1976 – Federico Magallanes, Uruguayan footballer
* 1978 – Jess Margera, American drummer (CKY)
* 1979 – Robert Hoyzer, German football referee
* 1979 – Shaila Durcal, Spanish singer
* 1979 – Kristen Hughes, Australian netballer
* 1979 – Markus Pröll, German footballer
* 1979 – Ruth Riley, American basketball player
* 1980 – Carly Pope, Canadian actress
* 1981 – Martin Erat, Czech hockey player
* 1981 – Daniel Gygax, Swiss footballer
* 1981 – Agata Wróbel, Polish weightlifter
* 1981 – Raphael Matos, Brazilian racing driver
* 1982 – Anderson Silva de França, Brazilian footballer
* 1982 – LeAnn Rimes, American singer
* 1982 – Kevin McNaughton, Scottish footballer
* 1982 – Thiago Motta, Brazilian footballer
* 1983 – Lasith Malinga, Sri Lankan cricketer
* 1983 – Alfonso Herrera, Mexican actor and singer (RBD)
* 1984 – Sarah Roemer, American actress and model
* 1986 – Florence Welch, musician (Florence and the Machine)
* 1989 – Cassadee Pope, American Pop Musician (Hey Monday)
* 1990 – Bojan Krkic, Spanish footballer
* 1999 – Prince Nikolai of Denmark, Danish royalty

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_28

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Even Stevens – Band On The Roof

Part 1:

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Part 2:

[pro-player] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXcYY_bw5u8 [/pro-player]

Part 3:

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10 – Coffee:

Sunshine Plata of Manila, Philippines, creates whimsical paintings with a difference: instead of oil or acrylic paint, she uses coffee as her medium. Inspired by an exhibit of 19th-century artworks done in coffee, Plata creates entrancing sepia images of fairies and religious figures from the aromatic beverage. Her paintings proved to be so unique and beautiful, that on her first solo exhibit of caffeine art (entitled ‘L.S.D. (look, smell, discover) Trip by Caffeine’), only seven of the thirty-two works exhibited were left unsold.

9 – Chicken Wire:

Ivan Lovett of Queensland, Australia, creates remarkably lifelike busts of famous icons such as Salvador Dali, Bob Dylan and John Lennon, from ordinary chicken wire. Each one of the highly-detailed pieces takes around three weeks to finish.

8 – Rice Crops:

Every year since 1994, the small village of Inakadate, located in the Minamitsugaru District in Aomori, Japan, creates astonishing images in their rice fields to draw tourism to the place. The pictures are made using two types of rice plants: the purple or yellow-leafed “kodaimai” rice and the green-leafed tsugaru-roman rice. The giant pictures are visible until September, when the crops are harvested.

7 – Typewriters:

Jeremy Mayer sculpts anthropomorphic figures out of vintage typewriter parts. The metal creations were made without the aid of welding or adhesives. Some of his life-sized works contains parts from roughly 40 typewriters and could take a thousand hours to create.

6 – A4 Paper:

Peter Callesen creates incredible cut-out sculptures of skeletons and buildings out of single sheets of A4 paper. Callesen remarked on his unusual medium: “I find the A4 sheet of paper interesting to work with, because it is probably the most common and consumed media and format for carrying information today, and in that sense it is something very loaded. This means that we rarely notice the actual materiality of the A4 paper. By removing all the information and starting from scratch using the blank white 80gsm A4 paper as a base for my creations, I feel that I have found a material which we all are able to relate to, and at the same time is non-loaded and neutral and therefore easier to fill with different meanings. The thin white paper also gives the paper sculptures a fragility which underlines the tragic and romantic theme of the works.”

5 – Balloons:

New York artist Jason Hackenwerth uses thousands of colorful balloons to create amazing installations that resembles alien creatures. As many as 3,000 individual balloons go into each piece, and each piece can take up to 25 hours to finish.

4 – Smoke:

Using a special camera with a fast shutter speed, Graham Jeffrey captures amazingly beautiful pictures of smoke. Using incense sticks as the smoke source, Jeffrey preserves images of the ephemeral subject, adding color and manipulating the smoke to make enchanting shapes and forms.

3 – X-Rays:

Nick Veasey of Kent, England, turns the mundane into the magnificent by X-raying ordinary objects, and turning the photographic results into art. While working as a photographer/designer for a television company, he was tasked to X-ray a truck full of soda cans to find a can containing a prize-winning ring pull. After three days without a winner, he X-rayed his sneaker out of boredom. Fascinated by the result, he was duly inspired, and after three months of exploring and experimenting with the medium, Veasey has perfected his unusual art. Using an abandoned radar station as his studio, Veasey creates ghastly yet stunning X-ray images of various animals, a DJ holding a microphone, a man riding a bike, a tractor, and even a bus loaded with people. But Veasey’s most ambitious X-ray project as of yet is a 20,000 square-feet X-ray of a hangar containing an entire Boeing 777 jet, making it the largest object ever X-rayed.

2 – Electricity:

Australian Peter Terren likes playing with electricity. He does what he calls the ‘Holy Art of Electrickery,’ which is basically creating spectacular art made of pure electricity. Using an electric transformer called a Tesla coil (that he built himself ) that shoots out bolts of electricity (called plasma), Terren photographs these electric discharges, using long exposures to capture impressive images of electric ‘sculptures’ that danced through the air. Terren sometimes even incorporates himself into his photographs, like in his rendition of the famous sculpture ‘The Thinker’. Despite the unreal nature of the images, Terren insists that there is no Photoshopping involved in the production of his pictures, and only slight alterations were made to them post-production.

1 – Food:

Carl Warner gets the top spot on this list for his brilliantly realistic photographs of landscapes, which are created entirely from food. Warner, a London-based photographer, uses various food items like vegetables, fruits and bread, to create amazingly detailed dioramas, and photographs them for posterity. The dioramas, nicknamed ‘foodscapes’ , were made atop an eight feet by four-feet table, with the assistance of model-makers, and the scenes depicted ranged from a broccoli forest to a smoked-salmon sea in sunset. Warner photographs each scene multiple times, then he edits the images on a computer to produce the striking images.

Source: http://listverse.com/2010/08/17/yet-another-10-artistic-uses-of-ordinary-things

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Kevin Jonas’ Mentor – His Dad!

Kevin Jonas strums a little tune on his guitar in this new My Mentor video from Lunchables.

The 22-year-old musician shared about his father, “My first song that I ever wrote was with my dad when I was eight years old. He helped me cultivate and crave that out and then I really started to grow with writing songs all by myself all the time.”

Kevin added, “The artists that my dad introduced me to, whether it was The Beatles or the Bee Gees, you can hear it in my music today. I think that’s really important to see, because hopefully, as a mentor, future generations will be able to take our [Jonas Brothers] music and put it into theirs.”

The My Mentors videos are a series, where we talk to creative people and find out who helped guide their big ideas. Meaghan Martin’s coming soon!

[pro-player] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjSl8AG9ueU [/pro-player]

Lucas and sister Autumn Grabeel throw caution to the wind and leap from a plane 13,000 feet above the ground in this new video from their skydiving experience.

Autumn tweeted about the experience last month, “Going SKYDIVING this morning!!! More than excited! Jumping with my bro. I can’t stop smiling! This is such a thrill!! Just signed the release form. Ready to fly!!!! Skydiving was the coolest experience ever!! Can’t wait to do it again!”

WOULD YOU EVER go skydiving?

[pro-player] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p77Fkcb89eU [/pro-player]

Source:

- http://justjaredjr.buzznet.com/2010/08/27/kevin-jonas-mentor-his-dad

- http://justjaredjr.buzznet.com/2010/08/27/lucas-grabeel-sky-dives

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