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Lee Jean Young, Fall 2014.
Awesome packaging by Zing!, a branch of products from Premier Housewares.
Iggy Pop gives a tour of the East Village circa 1993.
Just a handful of the most beautiful libraries from across the globe.
(Thanks Darragh for the inspiration post!)
1. Trinity College Library, Ireland
2. Raza Library, India
3. Handelingenkamer, Netherlands
4. Library of Parliament, Canada
5. Jay Walker’s Private Library, USA
6. The Tianyi Pavilion Library, China
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TAMBOPATA, Peru — After six months of speculation, we finally know what’s building these bizarre silk structures in the Amazon: a spider! But its precise identity is still a mystery that scientists are scrambling to solve as I write this.
Last week we followed these spider-hunting scientists, led by entomologist Phil Torres, deep into the Amazon rainforest as they attempted to find the tiny silk towers and figure out where they came from. It has not been an easy case to crack.
“With a lot of other weird mysteries, once you make an observation of some sort, spend enough time out there, the pieces kind of fit together,” said Torres, a graduate student at Rice University. “I’m surprised by how difficult this one is to solve.”
The bizarre structures first surfaced on the internet late this summer, when graduate student Troy Alexander posted photos to Reddit and Facebook, hoping that somebody could tell him what the structures were. He had discovered them on a small island near the Tambopata Research Center, deep in the Peruvian Amazon.
Made out of silk, the intricate constructions have two parts: a tall, central tower, and a circular fence that’s about 6 millimeters across. Back then, we asked as many entomologists as we could find, but no one had any idea what the structures were, or what made them. Until now.
[MORE: That time we went to the Amazon to find out what makes these weird web-tower things]
Check out these rad skateboards, designed by Chicago based artist Lou Medel. Each board is hand designed using paint and/or burnt wood.
See more of his boards and other works (which are equally as cool) at LouMedel.com
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My favorite scene.
“Soo Sunny Parks installation Unwoven Light animates Rice Gallerys expansive space, transforming it into a shimmering world of light, shadow, and brilliant color. Suspended from the walls and ceiling, thirty-seven individually sculpted units are arranged as a graceful, twisting flow of abstract form.”
-Rice Gallery
Seoul, Korea
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Photographer Jimmy Nelson spent 3 years photographing tribes that have remained untouched by time. In a series titled ‘Before They Pass Away’ exhibits a beautifully captured and eye opening documentary. Makes you wonder what could’ve been had technology not progressed.
I wanted to witness their time-honoured traditions, join in their rituals and discover how the rest of the world is threatening to change their way of life forever. Most importantly, I wanted to create an ambitious aesthetic photographic document that would stand the test of time. A body of work that would be an irreplaceable ethnographic record of a fast disappearing world.
-Jimmy Nelson
See the whole series at Before They Pass Away.
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First Listen: Death Cab For Cutie, 'Transatlanticism (10th Anniversary Edition)' →
A great article covered by NPR. In lieu of the 10th anniversary album release, NPR is streaming Death Cab For Cutie’s ‘Transatlanticism’. For many, this album is the very definition of nostalgia; reminders of first loves and heartbreaks, first kisses and disses. The whole album is beautifully mastered, beautifully written, and beautifully reminiscent of younger days.
A personal favorite on the album is the album song 'Transatlanticism’. Ben Gibbard, King Poet and lexicographer of metaphors, explains the distancing of two people as the separation of two islands. “I need you so much closer” is repetitively sung in a soft and almost infinite request as the song concludes.
Another favorite is the album closer, 'A Lack of Color’. With verses like "If you feel discouraged that there’s a lack of color here, please don’t worry lover, it’s really bursting at the seams, absorbing everything, spectrums A to Z“, the guys at Death Cab for Cutie seem to understand the twists and turns between human and life.
Thank you NPR for a trip down memory lane. Thank you Death Cab for Cutie for this beautiful and life changing album.
Aging Face Transformation by GifCraft
Originally posted as a video, portraits of people from their youth and their old age are transformed into gifs, presenting a shift between the two images with a scrolling yellow bar.
Pasta maker Garofalo’s response to Barilla: “We don’t care with whom you cook pasta, the important thing is that you cook it al dente!”
Great visual design.
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