Image of the Day: Aquarium Phonebooth - Lifestyle Lighting designer Benoit Deseille and artist Benedetto Bufalino transformed this phone booth in Lyon, France, into an aquarium, as part of the city's annual Festival of Light. In an accompanying statement, the artists explain the inspiration behind the piece: With the advent of the mobile telephone, telephone booths lie unused. It's a creative way to transform disused infrastructure into an everyday source of wonder and beauty—or, if you're of a more pessimistic frame of mind, a vision of our climate-changed future. On top of that, there's something whimsically compelling about seeing tropical fish interacting with a phone: cross-species communication, anyone? Story and images via PopTech, via the Institute for Augmented Ecology.
Néo: LE CAPITALI DEI GIOVANI néo: LE CAPITALI DEI GIOVANI Quali saranno le tendenze dell’estate 2011? Cerchiamo di indovinarle in questo articolo, sapendo di avere almeno una certezza su un punto di ritrovo: la Milano Summer School, con i corsi per italiani e stranieri offerti da tutte le principali università e scuole della città, insieme ad iniziative per vivere al massimo la città. Niente viaggi organizzati, location da vip o guide pronte a scandire i ritmi delle giornate. I giovani guardano al portafoglio e decidono di scoprire il proprio spirito avventuriero. Video. Un ritratto very cool dell’Europa vista on the road (durata 4 minuti) Si tratta di un neologismo coniato per definire il mix tra viaggio low cost e attività extra di alto livello. Video. I nuovi backpakers scelgono ostelli per risparmiare, ma alla camerata preferiscono la stanza singola (durata 1 minuto) E’ la tendenza del viaggio gratis, conoscendo altri ragazzi in rete. Video. RoadSharing su TG2 Rai Costume e Società (durata 2 minuti) Video. Video.
True Facts #1 - StumbleUpon Facts - interesting, provocative, well-seasoned One out of ten children in Europe are conceived on an IKEA bed. Antarctica is the only continent without reptiles or snakes. An eagle can kill a young deer and fly away with it. In the Caribbean there are oysters that can climb trees. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair. The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910. When George Lucas was mixing the American Graffiti soundtrack, he numbered the reels of film starting with an R and numbered the dialog starting with a D. The youngest pope was 11 years old. Mark Twain didn't graduate from elementary school. Proportional to their weight, men are stronger than horses. Pilgrims ate popcorn at the first Thanksgiving dinner. They have square watermelons in Japan - they stack better. Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation. Heinz Catsup leaving the bottle travels at 25 miles per year. It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.
Won Park – The Master of Origami Paper Folding Origami is the traditional Japanese art of paper folding. The goal of this art is to create a representation of an object using geometric folds and crease patterns preferably without the use of gluing or cutting the paper, and using only one piece of paper. Won Park is the master of Origami. One Dollar Koi One Dollar Butterfly One Dollar Camera Two Dollar Battle Tank Two Dollar Chinese Dragon One Dollar Construction Machine One Dollar Crab One Dollar Dolphin Two Dollar Jacket Two Dollar Spider One Dollar Turkey One Dollar Scorpion One Dollar Praying Mantis One Dollar Bat One Dollar Toilet Bowl One Dollar Penguin(Left),Two Dollar Angry Bear(Right) Euro Cockerel Rooster (Left), Euro Eiffel Tower (Right) Enterprise Bottom View Three Dollar Millenium Falcon Two Dollar Bird of Prey Dollar Tie Interceptor Vader’s Tie and Escorts Two Dollar X Wing One Dollar Shark One Dollar Jet One Dollar Hammer Head Shark One Dollar Stag Beetle One Dollar Stegasaurus