Daniel Mullen Paints Light Like A Boss

Check this out -- Daniel Mullen, acrylic on canvas, title should be "I'M GONNA SMACK YOU WITH AWESOME" Daniel Mullen Amsterdam based abstract architectural painter, Daniel Mullen, was born in Glasgow, Scotland 1985. He graduated in...

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The Daily Lamp – Dror Caspi and HELIA, Ardoma Design

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The Daily Lamp – RLON’s L3 Lamp

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Overunity Systems, Perpetual Motion, Zero Point Energy

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HELIOS is the US Navy’s New Laser Weapon

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Wires Above Cities, Then and Now

Before we had rat nests of death in the air through cities across the world, we had beautiful rat nests of death across the air in our cities. Notice the difference?

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