The Floating Temple: How to Lift a Seven Million Pound, 112-year-old Building
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There are a couple of services that are really important to my life and my business. One of them is Tumblr and the other is Evernote. In promoting Evernote for example I often tell people that if Microsoft buys it I will retire. That is because it has become so important to my work flow and…
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The South Shore commuter rail line runs right down the middle of a street in Michigan City, Indiana.
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Gabriel Berlusconi is an Argentinian painter.
“Yo tenía unos abuelos, que vivían en La Plata, en el barrio El Mondongo, en una casa de las típicas casas platenses, una casa chorizo, una de esas casas con fondo, gallinero, patios, parra, mate y biscochito. O picada y vermouth los sábados y domingos a la mañana debajo de la parra. La casa de mis abuelos era también para mí, un lugar de mucha libertad, aunque en un espacio más acotado. Pero como era una casa muy grande, con un fondo muy largo y un terreno adosado, había 10 millones de recovecos y lugarcitos que también te daban libertad. Todo eso sí creo que esta presente en mis cuadros”.
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high tide and low tide in great britain. photographs by michael marten
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Elisabeth Lecourt recycles old maps and turns them into beautiful dresses and shirts. I don’t imagine they’re wearable, but they’d look lovely on the wall nevertheless.
I’m starting to feel bad for maps. But at least there are plenty of efforts to reuse them creatively: here are a bunch we’ve highlighted in the past.
Elisabeth Lecourt | Les robes géographiques: (via Dresses made from old maps - Boing Boing)
Public transformers
Created from an A-level project to find ways of promoting public transport in London.This is brilliant. Would it work? Who cares. It’s a London bus as a Transformer!
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Quora: Why are San Franciscans so against freeway construction?
Love this. Quora user tells it like it is.
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