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Holy Warbles was the most beloved music blog to be silenced in the wake of the megaupload police action. It was a (democratic, available to all,...
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The Owls of Boredom
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Double G; Green and Gray
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Urban Miniatures by Isaac Cordal
Sculpted from cement, the figurines in Isaac’s series: “Cement Eclipses” navigate the perilous monstrous-sized...
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Where’s Wall-E? by Richard Sargent
Wall-E’s lost in a parade of all-star robots! You better find him quick too because Bender is totally...
by Beatriz S. González Jiménez
(via mycontradiction)
Shantyboat living.
“Liu [Di], represented by Pekin Fine Arts, is known for his work which deals with conflicting relationships between nature and human society, generated by the rate of Chinese urban development.”
From here
The Patient Gardener, a 60-year long project to create a two-story retreat out of Japanese cherry trees. via architizer
Awesome.. Also kinda creepy.
…But then there’s this sad news: Vietnam’s Javan Rhinos Poached Into Oblivion:
“An endangered javan rhinoceros found dead in Vietnam last year was the country’s last, rendering the species all but extinct in mainland Asia, WWF reported on Tuesday.
The javan rhinoceros, critically endangered, is now believed to be confined to one population of less than 50 individuals in a small national park in Indonesia, WWF said.”
:-(
Taronga Zoo welcomes 3 new Sumatran Tiger cubs!
From SMH
Andrew Ranville’s Puumaja project:
Meaning “treehouse” in Finnish, Puumaja is a seven-tree installation that includes a habitable cabin, large multi-purpose deck, retractable stairs, and integrated Ramp sculpture. It is built using sustainable timber and local materials, with techniques to minimize impact to the trees and surrounding environment. Located in a remote forest in the Lakeland area of Finland, this privately commissioned project is ongoing.
It is cruel to taunt us with such fantasies.
San Francisco Parklets Provide New Public Waysides
San Francisco’s new parklets program is adding dozens of street-side public spaces for you to enjoy. This innovative initiative replaces parked cars with seating and landscaping, to the benefit of weary walkers and local businesses. Read more.
Love, love this.
Other tasty pictures inside…
““It’s a beautiful idea,” she said. “It doesn’t matter if it’s a neighbor’s tree or a vacant lot or a foreclosure or whatever. It’s you and that fruit tree right at that precise moment when the fruit is ready and you need to make something happen.”
The point, she and other urban fruit foragers say, is to keep food from going to waste. Ms. Callahan, who works for the Carter Center and lived in Africa for eight years, has seen true hunger and cannot bear to watch food rot.”
Looks like from those West Papuan Korowai? Incredible
(via secondhandcheese)
A boy collecting plastic in a river in Jakarta, Indonesia, 2007.
Ummm. That’s a lot of plastic.
WOW - Korowai people of West Papua building treehouses (by WARIchannel)
“The High Line was originally constructed in the 1930s, to lift dangerous freight trains off Manhattan’s streets. Section 1 of the High Line is open as a public park, owned by the City of New York and operated under the jurisdiction of the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation.
…When all sections are complete, the High Line will be a mile-and-a-half-long elevated park, running through the West Side neighborhoods of the Meatpacking District, West Chelsea and Clinton/Hell’s Kitchen. It features an integrated landscape, designed by landscape architects James Corner Field Operations, with architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro, combining meandering concrete pathways with naturalistic plantings. Fixed and movable seating, lighting, and special features are also included in the park.”
