What’s What: Shadow Fun

When shadows share our non-serious sides, the go-go dancing hurdler, and the Dark Knight truly rises.  It's all in our What's What of fun stuff across the web.

Australian hurdler Michelle Jenneke became an overnight sensation - not just because she won heat 2 of the Women's 100 metres hurdles at the 14th IAAF World Junior Championships in Barcelona last weekend, but more for her original way to stretch out those ligaments in prep for leaping at amazing speeds.  While everyone else is in the midst of serious stretching, Michelle began go-go dancing, becoming the sexiest in the latest of internet memes, as well as making winning look fun.

The way that Google's Street View can take you up close and personal on interactive journey's to real life places via the internet and some really cool fisheye photographs is amazing enough.  But when it takes you somewhere you will likely NEVER see in this lifetime, that's when it's apparent just how amazing this feature really is.  This week, Time.com published the panoramic view of historic shelters built in Antarctica that housed its earliest explorers, and that still stand as surprisingly well-preserved monuments to a time long ago.  

Artist Katie Sokoler spent weeks tracing images of people in various stages of whimsy into black paper, pasting them on walls and sidewalks all around Brooklyn.  Then she grabbed her camera and patiently waited for folks passing by to give her the perfect photo op.  This is what she came up with.

I saw this photo circulating the web and it made me giggle out loud.  So then I posted it on my Facebook, and my friends were all "huh?"  Dude, does no one know what opened in theaters this week?  Or have I just revealed exactly how geeky I really am?

Theburninghouse.com asks the question, "If your house was burning, what would you take with you?"  Photographer Foster Huntington invited readers to send photos of the things they would grab first, showcasing the "conflict between what's practical, valuable and sentimental."  For example, one reader chose to bring her laptop, headphones, cellphone, iTouch, Wallet, picture of grandfather, her AA degree, book 'City of Thieves', book 'Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy', a piggy bank she painted as a child, and an old Christmas tree topper that reminded her of simpler times.  The blog posts were then gathered up and are now in a book that released earlier this month called 'The Burning House: What Would You Take?'.