VIDEO"Water from Air" Working with water mists are a source of water harvested from the 60's in Chile. This project seeks to open up an area for reflection about the presence of fog unconventional territories.
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Japanese artist Takeshi Kawano created three sculptures that represent the impact of global warming on animals, and how they are practically disappearing right before our eyes.
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Beautiful photos of chicken embryos by Michelle Leung.
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FEATUREDDogpatch, San Francisco. Love the Triple Aught Gear morale patches they made with the pirate dog! Available in velcro patch and glow in the dark ranger eyes.
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FEATUREDKDU for K2 Snowboards' 25 Year Anniversary collection ~ Don't Mess With The North West ~ love the graphics with beavers, owls, bears, deer, and bigfoot!
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FEATUREDSea Lions ~ they are living the life underneath the Santa Cruz wharf! You can wander right up to them and they even balance on the pylons under the wharf!
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Journey into the backwoods of Oregon with the Shwood crew to construct a community hideaway in the trees. The over sized nest is intended to inspire others to make the trek into the woods surrounding Mt. Hood.
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Artist Kris Verdonck transforms the first floor of a contemporary art gallery into a garden housing some of Belgium’s most invasive species.
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Sick of your cubicle? Check out this amazing crop of living green offices that sprung up in the streets of Denver!
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Blockhaus DY62, an amazing floating belvedere on an old blockhaus! Designed by Nicolas Barreau.
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Great photos of Linton Zoo's 2 month old mongoose lemur baby, Tia.
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VIDEOThe beautiful forest. Beautiful short film from the WWF.
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VIDEOStunning video of an eagleowl in flight at 1000 frames per second.
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Amazing new billboard from artist & designer Chris Woebken that takes bat clicks and turns them into messages we can read.
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Created by young designer Quentin de Coster, 'Spot' is a modern twist on the traditional wooden nest box. Birds can land on the disc or take shelter inside!
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The Cincinnati based E13 Workshop explores materiality through hand crafted furniture and bags. These stunning of photographs of the newly released walnut tea table depict the piece in the very forest where the wood was reclaimed.
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Lichen Islands is a photography series by Canadian artist Aleksandra Rdest. They show naturally occurring tiny environments that reflect the scale of much larger islands. Prints available, check it out!
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Jay Ryan's new herd paintings showing tonight at Gallery 1988 Melrose ~ rhinos, brontos, bison, mammoths, and more!
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Rainbow Ants: The ants whose multi-colored abdomens show exactly what they've been eating. Photos set up by Mohamed Babu.
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Ceramic, hand made sculpture in the woods of Zachełmie, Poland with Mr. Woods - the
forest creature. By Diploo.
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Sea Shepherd flagship, Steve Irwin, as it sports a new WWI era dazzle camouflage paint job. Also, it's currently in jeopardy as it's being detained at a Scottish port.
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New Scientist's roundup of regenerating animals.
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Views of Earth from outer space by Guy Laliberté in his new book 'Gaia'.
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Maceta Cerámica, a ceramic planter for interiors. It has a plate that isolates the water accumulated in the inside of the planter so that the plant won't drown.
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Historic kilns from the 1870s in Nevada underneath the Milky Way.
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The photograph was taken by Mauricio Handler during a feeding frenzy where more than 600 whale sharks gathered to feed on tuna spawn (eggs).
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VIDEOUrban Beekeeping: NYC is short documentary by Adrian Bautista, Martha Glenn, and Brooke Tascona. It focuses on the stories of Tim O'Neal, creator of Borough Bees, and Kazumi Terada, a novice beekeeper.
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70 of these lights will be scattered around the lane-ways of Melbourne’s inner city on the nights of Friday 22nd July and Saturday 23rd. Designed to be taken by those that find them by Kristian Aus.
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X-rays of sloths show clues to their behavior in their extraordinary anatomy.
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Alex Andon's make your own jellyfish habitat featured in MAKE volume 27.
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VIDEOHere "Unbeleafable: A Girl Skateboards 3D Film", a recent production of Ty Evans in collaboration with The Levi's Film Workshop. 3D glasses needed.
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The American Museum of Natural History is putting on an exhibit of large-format images called 'Picturing Science'. Beautiful slideshow from the NYtimes.
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Urban bee keepers check on rooftop bees making honey for restaurants in Melbourne.
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FEATUREDLeontine May's 'Animal Mineral Vegetable' show opening at Gallery 1988 tonight ~ gorgeous show, the details are stunning!
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'Le Nuage' (the cloud) is a playful and poetic micro-architecture shelter made of wood and Plexiglas that sleeps 7 people. By Zébra3 / Buy-Sellf, an artists' collective based in Bordeaux, France.
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FEATUREDFortress of the Bear - Sitka, Alaska - my dad sent some pics of the adorable Sitka browns (who were once polar bears? who were once browns?) from this awesome non profit.
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VIDEOWatch the sun rise on downtown Chicago the entire month of June in this lovely time-lapse video by Craig Shimala.
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Located just an hour north of NYC, the 500-acre Storm King Art Center is home to more than 100 pieces of sculpture and land art from the most renowned post-war artists, like Mark di Suervo.
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Awesome or creepy? Custom pet nose necklaces...
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Sea No Evil Jeff Soto signed and numbered edition of a 100, FSC Certified Wood Prints
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Nature meets Op Art - a collaborative assemblage by nocturnal leaf-eating beetles and Kangaroo Island artist Janine Mackintosh.
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Have you ever seen an MRI of a spider? Take a look inside a tarantula to see its beating heart!
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Terrappétit-Bite sized mixed media landscapes in spoons by Daniel Phillips.
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"Avian Architecture: How Birds Design, Engineer, and Build", a beautiful new book by Peter Goodfellow published by Princeton University Press.
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FEATUREDChickens! At Dwell on Design ~ a peek at two mod prefab woody chicken coops from 100xBTR and Chicken Co-op
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Let's Celebrate and weave [bio]diversity.
With Sandra Dufour (artist), Simon Visconti (architect) and Manon Bordet (landscape designer).
This garden takes place to the international garden Festival at Chaumont-sur-Loire (France
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Rabbit Island: A sustainable artist residency on a remote, forested island in the largest freshwater lake in the world. The project is fundraising on Kickstarter. Help make it happen!
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'Expo of experiences' is an installation by GOAGROUP for Festival des Architectures Vives in Montpellier.
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VIDEOAn ant farm with live ants to raise awareness for Orkin, a pest extermination company. Intricate tunnels spell 'Keep pests in their home' by Rethink.
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VIDEORunning on empty. A new video for the song Life is Life by Noah and the Whale. Directed by rock and roll photographer Autumn de Wilde.
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Repurposed bottle terrariums by Jose Agatep. Glass containers of various shapes transformed into incredible terrariums filled with locally grown plants, wild mosses, stones, soil, and wood chips collected from nearby forests and train tracks.
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Robert Holden, a Parisian photographer tries to answer a simple question : what would our lives look like without possessing anything in The Treehouse, an urban intervention at DUMBO, New York.
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Fun peek at Modish's weekend backyard visitors - raccoons in the trees!
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'Tonight's Lesson' the latest hand screen printed poster by Mike Klay is available on wood or paper. Four colors with glow in the dark ink.
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The Chase created this beautiful Almost Extinct Calendar for the BBC Wildlife Fund.
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360° Fly-in by NOS design is a bird feeder that wraps around different tree diameters without damaging them. Made from recyclable organic materials, it can be removed easily and installed on another tree.
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FEATUREDHelmut Lang's Resort 2012 collection features some beautiful prints with x-ray like images of birds in flight ~ as well as some subtle feathery adornments.
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VIDEONIGHTSURF is a gorgeous and inspiring short film directed by Iker Elorrieta. Beautiful for surfers and non surfers alike.
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This infographic visualizes the embarrassing lack of clean water access in the world. Especially when unsanitary water kills more people worldwide than war.
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Eagle Creek, a runoff of the Columbia River Gorge, as photographed by Megan Kathleen McIsaac with her Mamiya C330.
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J Henry Fair captures the beauty in the destruction of the earth with 'Day After Tomorrow: Images of Our Earth in Crisis' published by powerHouse Books.
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Steve Jobs announces the plans for Apple's new 'Spaceship' headquarters in Cupertino, due to be completed in 2015.
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'Sinus' by Roman Vrtiska is a circular bench that fits around the trees.
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Section 2 of New York City's High Line, designed by James Corner Field Operations and Diller Scofidio + Renfro, opened today! The new section of the elevated park includes a thicket, wildflower field, lawn, and more.
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Banca familiar (Family bench) is the latest product by Valentin Garal, an object conceived for the 'non places' often forgotten. Bench and cage well-crafted from solid willow wood.
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NYtimes slideshow capturing the beauty and complexity of jellyfish.
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FEATUREDLA looks like circuit board city flying in from Pittsburgh tonight at sunset... Operation Window Seat: PIT-LAX
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Illustrator and designer Jip Piet Hilhorst makes tables from soil.
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Impressive National Geographic article and slideshow of cuttlefish mimicking a variety of backgrounds.
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Meet the spoon-billed sandpiper, a shorebird at risk of extinction and with an incredible beak!
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VIDEOLoom, an absolutely beautiful, dark and almost tactile visual story of struggle; A moth being caught in a spiders web. Struggling for an escape, the moth's panicked movements only lessen its chance of survival.
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VIDEOOutaouais Tourism - See it for yourself - How do you shine the spotlight on a region that really deserves to be discovered? All it takes is a little mischievous humour.
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Evergreen wood prints. Hand stained, hand pulled, only 5 made.
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VIDEOSteve Haddock at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute explains why “There’s no such thing as a jellyfish" in this video.
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Interesting gastro concept by Pos1t1on and Nostro Production.
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Enjoy the best of British spring wildlife wherever you are with BBC springwatch webcams, available internationally for the first time!
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FEATUREDDelirious impressionist imagery stuck in my head ~ from 48 hours out to sea spent nearly horizontal... a first look from Mercedes-Benz/Mike Horn PANGAEA Sailing Adventures LA-SF.
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A new design of Adirondack. Hand made, folding, light weight, stackable, and beautiful by Cedar Crossing.
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'Eppur Si Muove' vases from 4P1B design studio are based on the theme of the Nature's balance. Our relationship with the environment is often forced and violent, but in this case the user has to try to preserve the delicate balance with it.
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Amazing images from the various installations, sculptures and landscapes to be found at this year's Chelsea Flower Show, including a Thai temple and elephant created using 100,000 flowers.
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'Canopée' by french designer Frédéric Ruyant is a wooden observatory to enjoy nature from above.
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Meet the Pancake Batfish, one of ten new species featured in this BBC slideshow.
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Art In The Age Of ~ is having a Terrarium Making Workshop to recycle Root + Snap liquor bottles! (Sadly, event is only in Philly!)
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Tablet Games for Cats by Friskies ~ works on ipad and android. See the video?
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FEATUREDMushroom Timelapse Video Roundup! Wow... it's so mesmerizing watching how they grow!
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FEATUREDBTTR Venture Mushroom Update DAY 2 ~ my how they've grown in a few hours!!!
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FEATUREDThe Back To The Roots Mushroom Kit has started! Here's a close up look at the first sign of mushrooms popping out of the recycled coffee grounds!
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A ruined paper factory in Taipei City transforms into a green paradise thanks to Interbreeding Field.
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The moon was mainly responsible for the colors, lighting the front of the wind mills. First windmill wasn't always rotating, and when it did, it was very slow, reason it looks so funky. 118 Photos were taken for this.
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Kumagai House – somewhere in between architecture and landscape. In a Japanese residential district, Kumagai House, advances a new form of housing.
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VIDEOA beautiful and moving stop motion film on nature for Traffic, the wildlife trade monitoring network, a WWF joint program. By Chen+Wong.
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Working Proof's Animal Medley, by bee things screenprint with 15% going towards the Jane Goodall Institute. Adorable!
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Ispired of 1965 VW Camper Van, this is one of the coolest tent I ever see.
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Chickens on the roof, fish in an aquaponic farm, fruit in the polytunnel, mushrooms in the basement... FARM:shop in Hackney, London is an emerging urban space not to be missed.
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French artist, Alex Boil created these supernatural images with light installations. The series is called UFO and was created with Mathilde Oriol.
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FEATUREDKitchen top Oyster Mushroom Garden! This kit from Back To The Roots grows them out of pure recycled COFFEE GROUNDS! Check out the unbox and the start of my mushrooms!
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FEATUREDBaby sea turtles and a herd of elephants ~ awesome pictures we just got from Sri Lanka
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Awesome Nobrow packing tape design by illustrator Ben Newman!
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"Emerald Leaves" is a new large-format print from The Best Part. Hundreds of images of leaves are assembled to form the shape of an emerald.
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FEATUREDElsa Peretti Bottle Pendants for Tiffany & Co ~ perfect little necklaces you can place a flower cutting in, or grow a seedling?
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New collection of artwork from Woop Studios detailing British birds and their collective names. This one shows 'A Charm of Finches', with others including 'A Concentration of Kingfishers' and 'An Exaltation of Larks'.
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Baby Gundi (a small North African rodent) at the Artis Zoo in Amsterdam. Such a cute, but bizarre looking animal!
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The Guardian offers a look inside Albertus Seba's 18th century Cabinet of Natural Curiosities, now available from Taschen.
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VIDEOAmazing video-art work by Shinichi Maruyama. Pure water. Composited by Tetsushi Wakasugi.
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Tobias Friedrich won the overall category of this year's University of Miami's Underwater Photography Contest. Check out the other winners or enter your own images for next year's contest.
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Madareteto bird feeder from Hungary for either seed or water. By Nora Nagy Anna, Aniko Juhasz and Eszter Stibranyi.
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uBeauty Pots and Plants recycled tire pots!
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Gorgeous illustration of the Wine-Throated Hummingbird by Paperfashion.
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FEATUREDWish i was here ~ a peek into Giraffe Manor in Nairobi!
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Amazing photos of wolf eels hatching at the Birch Aquarium!
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Ridiculously tiny baby pudu born at Belfast Zoo.
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Incredible astronomical photography from Alan Friedman.
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FEATUREDIt's amazing what you find when looking even closer... exploring this flower with a usb microscope found life hidden within...
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Let’s jump back into the time capsule with these beautiful vintage Photochrom travel views of Norway, circa 1890-1900, a collection that’s part of the Library of Congress photography archive.
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FEATUREDVegetable Gardens! Everyone's doing it ~ here's a peek at how to start, and some of the fun options. Also a look at a documentary on groups working to raise awareness about urban vegetable garden benefits.
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About Sliced Pixel: “With this technique I used the most basic elements in today's graphic design; pixels. They were sliced in half, and with the sliced pixels I created numerous animal heads.” Victor van Gaasbeek.
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FEATUREDA close up look at Le Pégase d’Hermès Silk Twill Scarf designed by Christian Renonciat! It's a blueprint for building a pegasus and wearable wings... with da vinci inspirations...
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Computational micro panoramas. A collection of realistic but traditionally impossible images by Treasure Tolliver.
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One of the most bizarre looking baby mammals, this little aardvark was recently born at Busch gardens.
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SOILED UN/EARTHED is an semiannual event that transforms the architecture zine SOILED into a participatory live experience. Visitors were invited to excavate local honey!
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FEATUREDZSO (Sara Blake)'s Octopus print is AMAZING ~ you have to see it in all its glory as well as on a skate deck! Wow.
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TEDxCMU just posted this new talk from Mickey McManus regarding what nature can teach us about computing systems. He also premieres a new quantum-dot-matrix thin film computing prototype!
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FEATUREDPreview of Jacub Gagnon's latest paintings ~ Petite Lap Giraffes and Tea, anyone? Amazing animals meet object paintings that will mesmerize! (Also see the making of!)
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FEATUREDVanessa Harden's Subversive Gardener and Horticulturalists designs that launch/contain gel capsule pills filled with seeds! From cameras, to walking sticks, to guns and bags... things aren't what they seem.
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FEATUREDA look at the creatures of Christmas Island ~ from octopi and sharks to mantas and puffers... and more!
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FEATUREDKabloom SeedBoms! Happy Earth Day! Here's a fun way to spread some green around ~ adorable packaging as well!
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Airplant Gallery of images over at Garden Design
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Outdoor hanging light 'Pistillo' by Martinelli Luce.
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VIDEOEchoing the appeal of sports in slow-motion, here's an amazing video capturing the surreal beauty of sky-diving, produced for the Melbourne Skydive Centre.
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Fifty Nests and the Birds that Built Them: Photographer Sharon Beals presents visual proof of the astounding self-sustainability of the avian race.
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FEATUREDOperation window seat! Looking down on the snowiness somewhere over central CA from LHR-LAX
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VIDEOBeautiful video of jellyfish at the Shedd Aquarium by Atort Photography (Anthony Tortoriello).
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