"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
"Like I always say, there's no 'I' in "team". There is a 'me', though, if you jumble it up."
We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do.
Wisdom - that part of knowledge that isn't only true, but also happens to be helpful.
Wisdom speaks softly... Thereafter the volume increases proportionate to the level of ignorance
A punctured bicycle
On a hillside desolate
Will nature make a man of me yet?
All designed objects are propaganda for a certain way of life.
Sometimes we need to stop analysing the past, stop planning the future, stop figuring out precisely how we feel, stop deciding exactly what we want, and just see what happens.
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
"Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence." --Napoleon Bonaparte
The best designed clothes: invite being removed but reward being kept on.
It's that you just can't take the effect and make it the cause
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350 from Hans Hansen on Vimeo.
What does the number 350 mean?
350 is the most important number in the world—it’s what scientists say is the safe upper limit for carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
Two years ago, after leading climatologists observed rapid ice melt in the Arctic and other frightening signs of climate change, they issued a series of studies showing that the planet faced both human and natural disaster if atmospheric concentrations of CO2 remained above 350 parts per million.
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Rapid urbanization and widespread habitat destruction stemming from human activities are negatively impacting wildlife populations as never before. City-dwelling birds, which are an integral part of urban ecologies, are no exception. As this thought-provoking ‘mass bird-housing’ installation by eco-artist collective London Fieldworks shows (more photos after the jump), encouraging urban biodiversity — whether in urban planning or green building — is something that deserves more thought.
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Google has reached a pivotal moment in its history. What can it do to expand beyond its incredible core business, which is now reaching a more mature phase? For insight on how it can develop, let’s look to Pixar.
Pixar is as close to a constant learning organization as there is, with a proven ability to reinvent and a genuine cultural humility. Google’s founders could learn from Pixar’s founder and president Ed Catmull’s prolonged [
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It all began with this question:
“If the bicycle is the standard bearer for sustainable transportation, shouldn’t the object itself communicate the same message?”
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Bloq (Paul Johnson) is just one of more than 220 highly talented designer/Makers have been chosen to exhibit at Origin: The London Craft Fair, which will take place September 23-29th during this year’s London Design Festival.
Paul says of his work, “The furniture that I design and make uses clean lines and solid shapes to produce precisely detailed, minimalist and elegant forms that have a host of uses from functional to social.”
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Angela Brady has been elected the next President of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), the UK body for architecture and the architectural profession.
Angela will become President Elect on September 1, 2010 and will take over the two-year elected presidency from Ruth Reed on September 1, 2011.
Angela will be the 74th RIBA President, a position previously held by Sir G. Gilbert Scott and Sir Basil Spence among others; she will be the second woman President. LINK
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fairynormal has added a photo to the pool:
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The cost of building our local leisure centre had ballooned to more than £30 million when it was opened in 2000, eye-wateringly expensive to our London borough, one of the poorest in the UK. Four years later the centre had closed because of serious building defects. A law suit, several years, and another £13 million later, it reopened. It’s big and bright, but has left a nasty taste in the mouth of the locals. There is time to ruminate on this, in our age of austerity, as I wait for the kids to emerge from the Kafkaesque changing [
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Mathematically-inspired bug houses designed to promote urban biodiversity
Winning London’s recent Beyond The Hive competition, the “Insect Hotel” is a five-star refuge for bugs living in urban environments. Architecture firm Arup Associates designed individual compartments in a mathematically-derived pattern known as a Voronoi tessellation to house an array of species spanning spiders, beetles and moths.
Recently featured on Good, the competition was commissioned by real estate company British Land and the City of London with the goal of bringing biodiversity to cities and to celebrate the London Festival of Architecture.
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MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.
BIG BANG BIG BOOM – the new wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.
Photographer Jane Fulton Alt’s latest series is called Crude Awakening. She writes on her web site:
Living on the shores of Lake Michigan, I am acutely aware of the disastrous toll the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has taken on all forms of life, especially as our beaches opened to the 2010 swimming season. This environmental, social and economic catastrophe highlights a much larger problem that has inflicted untold suffering as we exploit the earth’s resources worldwide.
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In the Third Dimension | PDN Photo of the Day.
HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY!
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This is the back room of the bookstore where I work in San Antonio. It has been very hot in San Antonio lately, so I’ve avoided outdoor sketching, but I’ve managed a few decent indoor sketches. This was done over a few different sessions while on my lunch break.
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the ‘absolute towers’ by MAD architects is currently under construction, due to be complete in 2011. also nicknamed Marilyn Monroe by the locals, the project was the firm’s first international winning project back in 2006, giving them worldwide attention.
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That’s me sketch number 12.
In the UK, we’ve got an organization called the BIG ISSUE. They provide work for the homeless by providing them with magazines which they can sell and get 50% of the sale price. Each magazine costs £1.70, so they get 85p for each sale. These guys have different techniques of selling these magazines that focus on current affairs and entertainment in the UK in general. They are a pleasure to meet and I enjoy meeting different Vendors with different ways of selling. Enjoy the pictures of the first 15!
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"I created these all of these from scratch using Photoshop and Lightwave 3D."
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The discarded slips recorded in this book were found in and around three Sheffield jobcentres, between August 2009 and March 2010. Many of the slips were discovered well away from the actual jobcentres, on various streets, down back alleys, in phone boxes and stuffed in salt bins. They have been collected and documented in their original state.
*There are currently more people unemployed in the Uk than at any time since 1994. If you don’t know what these slips are. or you’ve never been in a jobcentre, you’d better start learning. It won’t be long now.
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The Bicycle Portraits project was initiated by Stan Engelbrecht (Cape Town, South Africa) and Nic Grobler (Johannesburg, South Africa) early in 2010. Whenever they can, together or separately, they’re on the lookout for fellow commuters, and people who use bicycles as part of their everyday work, to meet and photograph. They’re finding out who rides bicycles, why they ride bicycles, if and why they love their bicycles, and of course why so few South Africans choose bicycles as a transport option.
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I really liked the shape it created with the papers held out in front of her. Plus she has a lovely noble bearing!
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The brains behind the daringly clever TSA Communicator project, iconoclastic technology artist Evan Roth is now spearheading an equally compelling software project, Graffiti Analysis.
Roth and his co-collaborators have developed an open source application that works with iPhones and others to capture the movements of graffiti artists and digitize the motion-rich styles into programming language that can be stored, swapped and recreated.
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SPAB for bikes would kill off some of the worst ‘fixie’ confections
“It is for all these buildings, therefore, of all times and styles, that we plead, and call upon those who have to deal with them, to put Protection in the place of Restoration, to stave off decay by daily care, to prop a perilous wall or mend a leaky roof by such means as are obviously meant for support or covering, and show no pretence of other art, and otherwise to resist all tampering with either the fabric or ornament of the building as it stands; if [
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The ad agency DDB China came up with this novel campaign for the China Environmental Protection Foundation. They put a canvas on the street in a busy intersection with a picture of a bare tree. Then they put sponges soaked in green paint on the sidewalk on either side of the canvas.
As people stepped in the paint and then crossed the street, the tree grew foliage.
See? Walking does make for a more verdant world.
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Interview With Graffiti Kings Creator & London Graff Artist SER
Graffiti Kings have been around for a while and you may have seen their art without even realising it after a number of advertising and TV appearances.
The London legend and Graffiti Kings founder SER answered a few questions and let us post some photos from the various artists in the group.
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A simple sketch on the train into the city.
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Created by Cologne-based designer David Olschewski.
Acrylic, aluminum and water wings.
53cm W x 55cm L x 48cm H.
Limited edition of 100.
Apply within.
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Shirdi Sai Baba: "Before you speak, ask yourself: Is it kind, is it true, is it necessary, does it improve upon the silence?"
Well known fact that any kiss where one or other party is in control of heavy machinery doesn't count for quality assessment purposes.
There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
The honest heart that's free frae a' intended fraud or guile. However fortune kick the ba', Has ay some cause to smile.
Life consists in replacing one worry with another, and one desire with the next, what the Buddhists call ‘grasping’ or upādāna in Sanskrit
"Every saint has a past. Every sinner has a future."
"Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die."
A wrong decision isn't forever; it can be reversed. The losses from a delayed decision are forever; they can never be retrieved.
heavy words thrown lightly
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools
“The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”
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