You’ve only got 8 days left to get your entries in for the New Year’s Inspirations Challenge.

So get designing! Chop, chop!

Have you ever wished that you could create minimalist art? Do you feel that you always seem to focus too much on adding details when you just know that you should be taking them away?

Grant Snider has the answer for you :)

Yes, you read that correctly, a GIF guide to knitting.

If you want to learn how to knit, and want to look to the internet to teach you, what better way than to do it with that old internet favourite, a series of GIFs.

This is actually kinda cool….

_{Thanks BuzzFeed}

We’re already into the second week of 2013! If you’re still wondering which direction to take your photography this year, you might like to take a look at these seven tips.

Numbers 4 and 7 are looking good to me for now :)

I stumbled on this collection of photographs taken by NASA astronaut Douglas Wheelock and simply had to share.

I’ll never, ever tire of the vision of our Earth from space.

Did you grow a Mo for Movember?

Drop by the Community blog and share your stories!

If you’re anything like me and haven’t yet made it to Paris, this 360 Pano video might interest you.
Especially if you’re not overly excited by joining the crowds to wait in an extremely long line to be able to go to the top of the Eiffel tower.

I’m not sure it’s quite the same as really being there though ;-)

The National Geographic Photo Contest is on for 2012, and there’s only a day left to get your entries in!

Entries can be submitted across 3 categories; people, places, and nature; and the works so far are magnificent. You can see them yourself here.

Just some of my favourites of the entries this year are :

_{Alone byReuben Hernandez}

_{Gypsy and Doves by Victor Santamaria}

_{Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) by Gnoffo Eleonora}

_{A Letters Fan by Zsóka Lőrincz}

_{Qasr Al Sarab Resort by Mohannad khatib}

_{Reflecting on Life by Helen Warnod}

_{Bishop by jacopo annese}

London based photographic artist Alejandro Guijarro is currently working on a creating a body of works about blackboards, and the quantum mechanics that is calculated on them.

He has traveled to the all of the greatest Quantum Mechanics labs of the world – Stanford, Oxford, Cambridge….. you know the types. He then captured the blackboards that he found there just as he found them. Scrubbed clean after years of use, many with calculations in progress. All a visual capture of the minds that inhabit these labs. These physicists who, thanks to their innumerable number of hours spent at these boards can’t help but develop a deep and somehow symbiotic relationship with them.

I have a brother-in-law, his sister, and nephew and neice who are all technically considered “gifted”. In laymans terms, (and thus, my terms) they’re geniuses.

They’re all amazing people who have a wealth of gifts to offer to the world, and whether they choose to embrace their gift is their choice alone.

The capacity of their brains and minds are such that amazing things can, and usually do, come from them.

I’m sitting here tonight watching Robert Downey Jr in his portrayal of Sherlock Holmes, and Holmes is certainly portayed as having a considerably genius mind. This has me contemplating. The question that faces me is did the geniuses of history face considerable social hardship due to the mere fact that they had great minds?

These days, the geniuses among u…