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"Like I always say, there's no 'I' in "team". There is a 'me', though, if you jumble it up."

respice prospice

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.
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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

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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

remembering north London

I think this looks like Kelvin Hall though.

Hand carved bicycle saddles

Here’s an interview with leather artisan Kara Ginther, who carves Brook’s leather bike saddles.

‘I’ll never forget how nervous I was to make that first cut into the gorgeous seat. Carving leather leaves little room for error; not only can you ruin the design, but with one slip of the blade you can render an object useless!’

To Be, Inspired: Interview with leather artisan Kara Ginther”

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Kosmograd: Branding the boroughs 2

hexagonal tiles

In Felix Barber and Ralph Hyde’s superb book London as it might have been, we can read of a Victorian plan to change the structure of the London boroughs, part of a plan to prevent overcharging by cab drivers.

via Kosmograd: Branding the boroughs 2.

Greg and Steve go to Edale

Greg and Steve go to Edale!

great stuff

Slinkachu, Whatever Happened To The Man of Tomorrow?, London – unurth – street art.

Because one is the loneliest number That you’ll ever do One is the loneliest number That you’ll ever know

Isaac Cordal, 'Cement Eclipses'

Isaac Cordal, ‘Cement Eclipses’, London – unurth – street art.

Grant Peterson

“Think of bicycles as rideable art that can just about save the world” (Grant Peterson)