architectureblog: lickystickypickyme: The Leaf House, a tropical beach house was designed by Mareines + Patalano Arquitetura is located in Angra dos Reis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The Leaf House was inspired by Brazil’s Indian architecture.The roof acts as a big leaf that protects from the hot sun all the enclosed spaces of the house, such as the verandas and the in-between open spaces.Rain water is harvested from the roof for re-use. With its natural finishes, organic aesthetics and richness of details, the house is in harmony with the exuberant Brazilian nature. source

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The Leaf House, a tropical beach house was designed by Mareines + Patalano Arquitetura is located in Angra dos Reis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The Leaf House was inspired by Brazil’s Indian architecture.

The roof acts as a big leaf that protects from the hot sun all the enclosed spaces of the house, such as the verandas and the in-between open spaces.

Rain water is harvested from the roof for re-use. With its natural finishes, organic aesthetics and richness of details, the house is in harmony with the exuberant Brazilian nature.

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szymon: Vegetarian Anatomy? :)

szymon:

Vegetarian Anatomy? :)

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Pure Gold

“Jesus is my friend.  I have a friend in Jesus by SonSeed” (all of this is real)

Kudos to the reggae religious music mix, and to the guitar player is clearly a hippie.  I mean, no shoes and those dance moves? Come on!

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This picture is of the Sheet Stealer, a product designed by Noam Toran, which over the course of the night slowly steals the sheets until the now awake individual rolls over and takes it back. He designed this piece to recreate both bad and good aspects of being in a relationship. Here is an interview with Noam Toran, that gives some more information about him and his projects. Hat tip from a fellow sheet stealer.

This picture is of the Sheet Stealer, a product designed by Noam Toran, which over the course of the night slowly steals the sheets until the now awake individual rolls over and takes it back. He designed this piece to recreate both bad and good aspects of being in a relationship.

Here is an interview with Noam Toran, that gives some more information about him and his projects.

Hat tip from a fellow sheet stealer.

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szymon: Bread Shoes by R&E Praspaliauskas

szymon:

Bread Shoes by R&E Praspaliauskas

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Hat tip to Alex.  Hilarious

The Onion -  Finding Masculine Halloween Costumes for your Effeminate Son

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syska:

Herbie Hancock - Wiggle-Waggle

This isn’t the first Herbie track I’ve posted, and probably won’t be the last.

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BlakRoc -“Ain’t Nothing Like You (Hoochie Coo)”

This is a collaboration project with the Black Keys, Mos Def, Q-Tip, RZA, Jim Jones, Raekwon, Ludacris, ODB(?!), and more.


They have webisodes on youtube documenting the process until the album comes out the Friday after Thanksgiving.  I am not a massive rap fan, in fact I kind of disdain most of it, but man the Black Keys lay down some dirty beats…

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Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks - JT Helms Fan edit

The only reason I am posting this is to hopefully make Jon Gilbert stop telling me to listen to Grizzly Bear

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Jamie Thomas part- Toy Machine ‘Welcome to Hell’

This part especially brings back fond memories of eating and breathing skateboarding.  Thanks to Kyle for reminding of that.

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Digital Artist Jer Thorp has produced a series of appealing visualizations depicting popular words, top organizations and personalities mentioned by The New York Times in different years between 1981 and 2001. Data was taken from the NYTimes Article Search API: developer.nytimes.com. The first image is a visualization of the frequency of the words ‘regulation’ and ‘innovation’ in New Yort Times articles since 1981, while the second highlights the main personalities and organizations, with corresponding ties, on the year 1984. You can also see all of Jer’s executions in his flickr set. This is just one of many amazing visualizations from the website; VISUALCOMPLEXITY.com.

Digital Artist Jer Thorp has produced a series of appealing visualizations depicting popular words, top organizations and personalities mentioned by The New York Times in different years between 1981 and 2001. Data was taken from the NYTimes Article Search API: developer.nytimes.com.

The first image is a visualization of the frequency of the words ‘regulation’ and ‘innovation’ in New Yort Times articles since 1981, while the second highlights the main personalities and organizations, with corresponding ties, on the year 1984.

You can also see all of Jer’s executions in his flickr set.

This is just one of many amazing visualizations from the website; VISUALCOMPLEXITY.com.

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Philip

Testimony given for and against Maine’s marriage equality bill on April 22, 2009. Nearly 4,000 people attended the hearing, with marriage equality supporters out-numbering the opposition 4 to 1.

Try and not be moved

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The Great Circle The many of the Ancient wonders of the world are located on the same latitude EVERYONE should go to informationisbeautiful.net, a website that visualizes information,conflicts, ideas and concepts.

The Great Circle

The many of the Ancient wonders of the world are located on the same latitude

EVERYONE should go to informationisbeautiful.net, a website that visualizes information,conflicts, ideas and concepts.

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Delta Spirit - In session - Manchester News

23 minute concert.  Grab a beer, put up your feet, put this on and close your eyes.

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A friend Greg, passed along the website of the Pieter Hugo.  This photograph is one of his more popular but all of his collections are really quite stunning.  Have a look.

A friend Greg, passed along the website of the Pieter Hugo.  This photograph is one of his more popular but all of his collections are really quite stunning.  Have a look.

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