Modern and Creative Bookshelf Designs. Modern bookshelves and creative shelf designs from all over the world. Rolling Shelf A wall mounted shelving unit in which the shelves roll back to accommodate tall objects and remain in position until you move them back to their original position. [link] Magnetic Shelves Each shelf contains between one and three neodymium magnets, which are very powerful and allow for a strong connection to your fridge. Graffititek Bookshelf Based on Parisian Graffiti art, the design aims to offer new perspective on the craft by reinterpreting it in a three-dimesional way. Triangle Shelf T.shelf is a unique shelving system that can be setup around your existing furniture, or can be just hanged by itself as a sculptural object. Polar Bear Shelf The Polar Bear Shelf is a bookshelf that is shaped like a polar bear. Movement Bookcase The Movement Bookcase includes a arrangement of bent nails which can be shaped in the form of legs and arms, acting as book holders.
Christmas Tree Bookshelf Skateboard Shelf. Tyler Durden's 8 Rules of Innovation. We all want to do remarkable things, and lead remarkable lives. No one wants to spend the day engaged in mundane productivity in pursuit of a meaningless consumer existence. Certainly not you, right? So why do we find it so hard to break out of our rut and do truly innovative things? Because it’s hard. Because it often requires us to significantly alter our perspectives and step outside our comfort zones. It’s almost like becoming another person. I Know This Because Tyler Knows This… If you haven’t seen the movie Fight Club (or read Chuck Palahniuk’s excellent novel), I won’t spoil the fantastic plot twist where we come to understand who Tyler Durden really is. At its core, Fight Club is about living the life you truly want to live, and the hard path to getting there. Luckily, Tyler says a lot of things that apply directly to innovative action.
Tyler’s First Rule of Innovation: “No fear. This is the most important lesson, and it’s the one people struggle with and resist. “No fear! Seriously. VNOG Blog. 7 Incredible Natural Phenomena you've never seen. Venezuela's Everlasting Storm The mysterious "Relámpago del Catatumbo" (Catatumbo lightning) is a unique natural phenomenon in the world.
Located on the mouth of the Catatumbo river at Lake Maracaibo (Venezuela), the phenomenon is a cloud-to-cloud lightning that forms a voltage arc more than five kilometre high during 140 to 160 nights a year, 10 hours a night, and as many as 280 times an hour. This almost permanent storm occurs over the marshlands where the Catatumbo River feeds into Lake Maracaibo and it is considered the greatest single generator of ozone in the planet, judging from the intensity of the cloud-to-cloud discharge and great frequency. The area sees an estimated 1,176,000 electrical discharges per year, with an intensity of up to 400,000 amperes, and visible up to 400 km away. Honduras' Rain of Fishes The Rain of Fish is common in Honduran Folklore. Morocco's Climbing Goats Goats on trees are found mostly only in Morocco. Kerala's (extraterrestrial?) Denmark's Black Sun. The Under-Appreciated Heroes of 2010 | CommonDreams.org.
Who did we under-appreciate in 2010? In the endless whirr of 24/7 corporate news, the people who actually make a difference are often trampled in the stampede to the next forgettable news-nugget like Lady Gaga's meat-dress. So in the final moments of this year, let's look at a few people who deserved more of our attention. Under-Appreciated Person One: Bradley Manning. While we were all fixated on Julian Assange, the story of the young American soldier who actually leaked the classified documents passed almost unnoticed. If Manning was mentioned at all, it was to be described as an impetuous, angry kid who downloaded the documents on to a CD and leaked them as a result of a "grudge" or "tantrum".
Here's what really happened. The only "crime" committed by many of these people was to write "scholarly critiques" of the occupation or the new people in charge. Manning had to choose between being complicit in these atrocities, or not. Under-Appreciated Person Two: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. Constructal Theory Web Portal - Golden Ratio.