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Using just wood and paint, Oslo, Norway-based artist Ole Martin Lund Bo created this anamorphic piece of art with a...
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Giant Bird’s Nest
Discovery of Oge-Architects who had the great idea to think this bird’s nest on a human scale. Replacing the... -
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Gross.The Ocean Conservancy, which organizes an annual International Coastal Clean-Up, has published its results in the 2012 Trash Index. You’re not imagining it: as the global population swells, tankers continue to leak oil, and plastic water bottles continue to be our favorite way to drink tap water, the world’s beaches are getting dirtier.
Nearly 600,000 volunteers worked in multiple countries to pick up and record the over nine million pounds of trash listed in this report. Check out their trashy findings, download a helpful pocket guide to recycling and if you’re inclined, donate to help their efforts. And for the love of all things oceanic, if you smoke, find a better place than the ocean or ground to throw your cigarette butts (the number one piece of trash found on beaches)!
Image: Ocean Conservancy
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Listen to the conversations around you — colleagues at the office, customers in the coffeehouse line, those who serve you, those you serve, the people you meet each day. “Give me a tall latte.” “Hand me that hammer.” “Have a good one.”
Notice anything missing? The traditional magic words “please” and “thank you” that many people learn as children appear to be disappearing. -Linton Weeks
I was just talking about this with my coworkers.. when did common manners become so obsolete?
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SOTU: Word cloud created using the transcript of President Obama’s State of the Union address, “An America Built to Last.”
American, Jobs.
Click here to embiggen.
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SOTU: Word cloud created using the transcript of President Obama’s State of the Union address, “An America Built to Last.”
American, Jobs.
Click here to embiggen.
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Chris Jordan, Running the Numbers
“…2.4 million plastic bottles, equal to the estimated number of pounds of plastic pollution that enter the world’s oceans every hour.
All of the plastic used to compose this work was collected from the Pacific Ocean.”
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Eh..
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CAT! CATTTTTT!
Holly Golightly’s “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” House For Sale…
The Manhattan townhouse made famous by the iconic Audrey Hepburn flick Breakfast at Tiffany’s has again come up for sale. Listed for $5.85M, the 15-foot-wide Upper East Side house served as the backdrop for the exterior shots, but, disappointingly, it seems most of the interiors were shot on a sound stage.
Read more here.
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Person Of The Year of the Day: TIME picks “The Protester” as its Person of the Year for 2011.
No one could have known that when a Tunisian fruit vendor set himself on fire in a public square, it would incite protests that would topple dictators and start a global wave of dissent. In 2011, protesters didn’t just voice their complaints; they changed the world.
Runners-Up: Admiral William McRaven; Ai Weiwei; Rep. Paul Ryan; Kate Middleton.
See Also: People Who Mattered; TIME’s Person of the Year 1927-2010; 10 Times TIME’s Person of the Year Wasn’t Really a Person.
(Cover Art: Shepard Fairey.)
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Person Of The Year of the Day: TIME picks “The Protester” as its Person of the Year for 2011.
No one could have known that when a Tunisian fruit vendor set himself on fire in a public square, it would incite protests that would topple dictators and start a global wave of dissent. In 2011, protesters didn’t just voice their complaints; they changed the world.
Runners-Up: Admiral William McRaven; Ai Weiwei; Rep. Paul Ryan; Kate Middleton.
See Also: People Who Mattered; TIME’s Person of the Year 1927-2010; 10 Times TIME’s Person of the Year Wasn’t Really a Person.
(Cover Art: Shepard Fairey.)
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This looks fun; let’s go to Australia! (What happens if you get caught?)
Steal This Banksy of the Day: Art Series Hotel is holding a rather unique competition, starting this Thursday.
For the following 30 days, a signed and authenticated print of Banksy’s “No Ball Games” worth AUS$15,000 will be hiding in different locations throughout the Melbourne-based chain’s hotels.
Find it and steal it without getting caught, and it’s yours to keep no questions asked.
Art Series chose this particular piece to commemorate the infamous 2007 incident, wherein a section of wall with the original stencil was stolen and sold on eBay for 20,000 pounds.
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On This Date In 1980…
“Do you know what you just did?” the doorman asked Chapman dazedly. “I just shot John Lennon,” came the calm reply.
Newsweek December 22, 1980
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What if you could snap a photo by snapping your fingers?
This design concept by Yeon Su Kim would let your fingers act like a remote shutter by Bluetooth connecting to your smartphone.
Air Clicker — Your Fingers as a Remote Shutter
via Petapixel
Future.
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Life-Altering Tea Cup of the Day: Winner of the 2011 Red Dot Design award, Laura Bougdanos and Vesa Jääskö’s Magisso Teacup is tipped to allow tea lovers to pour hot water over a specialized compartment for their favorite loose leaves.
“Once it’s done, simply tip the cup in the other direction, lifting the leaves up out of the water.”
Comes in Pure Black or Snow White. $20 @ UncommonGoods.
Watch it in action below:
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Life-Altering Tea Cup of the Day: Winner of the 2011 Red Dot Design award, Laura Bougdanos and Vesa Jääskö’s Magisso Teacup is tipped to allow tea lovers to pour hot water over a specialized compartment for their favorite loose leaves.
“Once it’s done, simply tip the cup in the other direction, lifting the leaves up out of the water.”
Comes in Pure Black or Snow White. $20 @ UncommonGoods.
Watch it in action below:
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Genius.
Creativity.
The Low Line: A plan for a new park banks on subterranean photosynthesis, a neat project from PopTech staffer Dan Barasch.
From The New York Times:
Ever since it opened in 2009, the High Line has drawn out-of-town visitors who hope to replicate its success. Observers of the elevated park on the West Side of Manhattan have come from nearby municipalities like Jersey City and Philadelphia and places as far away as Hong Kong.
Lately, those observers have been coming from across town, with plans for another attention-grabbing green space on a former transit site. But this one comes with a twist — the proposed park would be underground, in a dank former trolley terminal under Delancey Street that is controlled by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Though its promoters call it the “Delancey Underground,” another nickname has already been coined: the Low Line.
From CNN:
Ramsey and Barasch’s romantic vision includes a polished, undulating ceiling plane from which the “remote skylights” — developed by Ramsay to filter out harmful ultraviolet and infrared light frequencies — will flood the park with sunrays all year-round, night and day.
According to Ramsey, the technology is “like a cross between a telescope and an endoscope” — capturing light from the sun and then transporting it through fiber-optic cables onto a relatively small focal point.
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