Source: 24flinching.com Tags:
A digital love note to the people who make the world
beautiful with things that hard drives can't hold.
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"Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack."
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Virginia Woolf - Excerpt from Street Haunting, A London Adventure, 1927
So true, Ms. Woolf… there really is something special about secondhand books.
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Source: egoetschius Tags:
Hacking Billboards Into Playgrounds (Pic)
Shown at the Shenzen and Hong-Kong bi-city biennal of Urbanism/Architecture earlier this year, Mesarchitecture’s Double Happiness transforms the structure of a billboard into a playground in the sky.
The creators explain:
Double Happiness responds to the society of materialism where individual desires seems to be prevailing over all.
This piece of urban furniture, by being nomad, allows the reactivation of different public spaces. It enables inhabitants to re-appropriate fragments of their city. They will both escape and dominate public space through a game of equilibrium and disequilibrium.
By playing this “risky” game, and testing their own limits, two people can experience together a new perception of space, void, lightness and recover an awareness of the physical world.
This hybrid object, meaningful only through the body, being all at once physical and social may be a tool for a collective experience of fragility.
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"I’ve always loved books, all my life. When I was a clerk at Scribner’s bookstore I dreamed of having a book of my own, of writing one that I could put on the shelf. When I would have to unpack and put up the National Book Award winners I used to wonder what it would feel like to be a National Book Award winner, so thank you for letting me find out. And please, publishers: there is nothing more beautiful than the book. The paper, the font, the cloth. Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please never abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book."
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Sailing the Chocolate Boat
Source: stewpig.com Tags:
“George Larnicol, a 55-year-old French chocolatier, managed to create and sail a 3.5-meter-long boat made of chocolate.
On Saturday, September 25, the walled city of Concarneau, in north-western France, hosted an event unique in the world – the launch of a full size chocolate boat. George Larnicol, the mastermind behind this crazy creation, first attempted to sail a chocolate boat on August 15, but the boat crumbled to pieces when turned over from where it was mounted. But one small failure wasn’t enough to make Larnicol quit, and on Saturday, he returned to Concarneau port, with a new chocolate boat named “Bateau Chocolat II” (French for Chocolate Boat II)”
