I agree with my studiomate Raul, these portraits of champion pigeons on the National Pigeon Association site are compellingly beautiful! It reminds me of one of my favorite books: The Fairest Fowl: Portraits of Championship Chickens.
Winy Maas on the Balancing Barn
In this short film made by Dezeen and Oliver Manzi of WopFilms, architect Winy Maas of Rotterdam firm MVRDV talks about Balancing Barn, a house in Sussex Suffolk, England, completed late last year.
At some point in my life, I want to live in a house like the Balancing Barn and own a real Calder Mobile.
Modern Simplex Wall Clock
Oh, Etsy! (Again!) I can’t buy everything so I just post it here, that way I feel like I own it a little bit. This Modern Simplex Wall Clock is making me swoon.
Skillshare
Skillshare just launched and I am excited for them. Skillshare’s mission is to flip the notion of traditional education on its head and democratize learning. They believe that anyone can be a teacher, and everyone has valuable knowledge and skills to share. I couldn’t agree more!
I think I might take this class on How To Make Chinese Dumplings or should I take Game Mechanics for Social Apps?
Suspended Staircase
photo credit: Rainer Detzlaff
How stunning looking is this suspended staircase? It is part of a home designed by SoHo Architektur.
(via trendir)
WhatFont Bookmarklet
Do you ever visit a website and wonder what font they’re using? Yes? You’ll love this: WhatFont launched a bookmarklet that tells you what font is being used on text you hover over. This is crazy amazing! (Yup, I am *that* excited) Thank you WhatFont!
(via JasonSantaMaria)
Eulogy of stuff
When an item is in dispute (meaning I want to sell, toss, or recycle it and the kids need to keep it), we take a photo and stick the photo in a book, where they get to write a small eulogy about it. Then it goes out. You’d be amazed how this small project has taught them to view what is special and what is not.
From a comment on an Apartment Therapy post, by slocumnavigator
(Thank you Monica)
MStars
If you’ve traveled to Switzerland, you most likely know what the ubiquitous uppercase orange M stands for you see everywhere. It’s Migros, one of the biggest supermarket chains in Switzerland. (Well, at this point, it’s way more than a supermarket, they own banks, schools, amusement parks and so on.) Living abroad has amplified my fascination with products that remind me of my childhood. Whenever I go back, one of my first stops is indeed a trip to Migros. Knowing that, it’s clear that I get quite a kick out of Migros’ m-stars.ch site on which they sell all kinds of apparel and accessories with their store branding or products. Pictured above are the classic Milk packaging water bottle, the classic Midor strawberry ice cream packaging translated into a shopping bag, the M logo big and bold on a t-shirt and an M jumper.
I guess you have to be a Migros-Nostalgic like me to really appreciate this: m-stars.ch
Ownership as Burden…
The graphic above and the quote below totally hit home for me. “Ownership as a Burden” is a term that I have been thinking about a lot recently. Especially now, with a pending move ahead of us, I go through my stuff and ask myself ‘what’s really active’?
“As quickly as a new laptop becomes yesterday’s technology in a brittle plastic shell, or a power tool idly collects dust in the garage, it seems that material possessions are changing from treasure into junk, from security into liability, from freedom into burden, and from personal to communal.”
From an article by Rich Radka for Sharable. Found over on Uncomsumption.
Duo Felted Wrist Pod
I admit it, I have a thing for felt. So it comes to no surprise that these Felted Wrist Pods made me look.
Double Side Chair
This Chair/Table is by French designer Matali Crasset and is called Double Side Chair. The piece holds a double function, with one easy movement it can be transformed into a small desk, that can hold your laptop, writing paraphernalia, lunch, etc. Lovely.
Bakelite Kodak Brownie Hawkeye
Oh, Etsy! You keep making me stumble upon all these magnificient looking vintage photo cameras. Check out this Kodak beauty! Someboy please buy it or I will.
On Clutter
When your environment is cluttered, the chaos restricts your ability to focus. The clutter also limits your brain’s ability to process information. Clutter makes you distracted and unable to process information as well as you do in an uncluttered, organized, and serene environment.
Scientists find physical clutter negatively affects your ability to focus, process information | Unclutterer
(via unconsumption / PSFK)
Sapling Press
Lisa of Sapling Press is high up on my list of people I’d like to have coffee with sometime.
(thank you jennifer)
Timbuktu iPad Magazine for Kids
Timbuktu is the first iPad Magazine for Kids. It was art directed by the wonderful Olimpia Zagnoli. Download it from the App Store.
Travel Boster Seat
With summer traveling season upon us, I am excited I discovered this Travel Boster Seat. It’s both an EEC approved car booster seat and a practical backpack in one cunning design, so there’s no need to stress about booster seats when traveling; use as a normal backpack or as hand luggage on the plane, and convert into a booster seat as necessary.
Ruler Height Chart
Love the simplicity of this Ruler Height Chart. Yes to minimal, not heavily decorated kids stuff.
Upcycled Leather Tote
This fantastic two-toned patent leather tote in blue and cream is 100% made from vintage leather sofa (!) and lined with a light blue vintage button-down shirt. Available over at Poketo.
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Bill Cunningham’s New York
The “Bill” in question is 80+ New York Times photographer Bill Cunningham. For decades, this Schwinn-riding cultural anthropologist has been obsessively and inventively chronicling fashion trends and high society charity soirées for the Times Style section in his columns “On the Street” and “Evening Hours.” Documenting uptown fixtures (Wintour, Tom Wolfe, Brooke Astor, David Rockefeller—who all appear in the film out of their love for Bill), downtown eccentrics and everyone in between, Cunningham’s enormous body of work is more reliable than any catwalk as an expression of time, place and individual flair. In turn, Bill Cunningham New York is a delicate, funny and often poignant portrait of a dedicated artist whose only wealth is his own humanity and unassuming grace.
Bill Cunningham New York is now airing in theatres. I am quite excited to see this. Go (here) to see where it’s playing.
(via A Photo Editor)
Work/Life 2
I just got my copy of Uppercase’s Work/Life 2 today and couldn’t put it down for what seemed an eternity. The Uppercase Directory of Illustration features 100 illustrators from around the world, compiled in a beautiful design.
Here’s a flip through the entire book: