The Ateneo Grand Splendid Bookstore | For 91 Days in Buenos Aires Link: We just published our first Travel Book Argentinians are a famously literary people. In coffee shops, parks, on the bus and even while walking down city streets, their heads are often buried in a book. Soon after we arrived, Jürgen asked what I wanted to do first in Buenos Aires. First, let’s admire that name. The conversion from theater to bookshop has proved nothing short of magnificent. The Ateneo Grand Splendid is a bookstore in which to spend a leisurely couple hours. Location of the Ateneo on our BA Map - Short Term Rental in Buenos Aires
page corner bookmarks | I Could Make That This project comes to you at the request of Twitterer @GCcapitalM. I used to believe that a person could never have too many books, or too many bookmarks. Then I moved into an apartment slightly larger than some people’s closets (and much smaller than many people’s garages) and all these beliefs got turned on their naïeve little heads. But what a person can always look for more of is really cool unique bookmarks. Page corner bookmarks are cute, practical and deeply under-represented in the world.* They’re easy to make, easy to customize, and will set you apart from all those same-same flat rectangular bookmarks. If you like this tutorial, here are a couple others that might be up your alley. If you’re loving the toothy monster vibe, check out these simple monster heating bags, filled with rice or wheat and entirely microwavable, to keep toes or fingers or tummies warm during the chilly winter months. What you’ll need: Putting it all together: 1) Follow steps 2 and 3 from above.
Manga farming 12 Apr 2010 Tokyo-based artist Koshi Kawachi recently demonstrated his "Manga Farming" technique -- which uses old manga as a growing medium for vegetables -- by cultivating a crop of radish sprouts in an installation at the Matsuzakaya department store in Nagoya. [Link: Koshi Kawachi] &Dancing Trees& Fine Art Print by Igor Zenin Tags nymphs, dancing, eburonian, wiccan, silhouette, witchcraft, pagan, goddess, druids, hamadryads, fairies, witch, wicca, trees, sunrise, mist desktop tablet-landscape content-width tablet-portrait workstream-4-across phone-landscape phone-portrait
50 Most Influential Books of the Last 50 (or so) Years In compiling the books on this list, the editors at SuperScholar have tried to provide a window into the culture of the last 50 years. Ideally, if you read every book on this list, you will know how we got to where we are today. Not all the books on this list are “great.” The criterion for inclusion was not greatness but INFLUENCE. All the books on this list have been enormously influential. The books we chose required some hard choices. We also tried to keep a balance between books that everyone buys and hardly anyone reads versus books that, though not widely bought and read, are deeply transformative. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 45.
class-of-2011-if-social-media-were-a-high-school?display=wide from flowtown.com This post was written by Jenny Urbano, our Social Media Manager. Here at Demandforce, we love seeing and celebrating your ideas! And more than that, we love to hear from YOU. We want to bridge the gap between us and you, so that’s why we’re offering a once in a lifetime opportunity to win a trip to San Francisco, sightsee in this amazing city, visit Demandforce headquarters and share your ideas with us! 6 winners, and a guest of their choice will be flown out to San Francisco, California on March 12-14th, 2014, where they will stay in Union Square, spend a day at Demandforce, have dinner with the team, and explore the lovely City by the Bay! For contest rules, and how to enter, please visit our post in the Generation Demandforce Community here. Good luck!
Archive Library Lets You Roll Your Books Home Bookworms know that it isn’t easy to live a mobile life with a massive book collection. If you’re not quite ready to donate excess texts or replace them with electronic versions, David Garcia Studio offers an innovative solution: Archive II, a circular bookshelf propelled by walking that is currently on exhibition at Denmark’s University of Roskilde Main Library. The bookshelf isn’t ideal for long trips, but we can’t think of a better solution if you need to, say, move down the street. According to Garcia, “The average reader can read about 240 words per minute. A 300 page book normally takes 9 hours to read, non stop. In the above photo you can also see Garcia’s Archive I, a see saw-like “weight balance library” featuring a chair that elevates in response to the weight of books on the shelves. + David Garcia Studio Via Treehugger
Smashing Picture I am an illustrator, graphic artist and animation specialist from Munich/Germany. Most recently I was a Set and Texture Designer for the Tim Burton movie “9″. Prior to this I was working as a Layout Artist for Walt Disney Feature Animation for movies like “Mulan” and “Lilo & Stitch”. Skills: Illustration – Animation Layout – Graphic Design – Set Design – Texture Design – Web Design – Digital Imaging – Photography Visit website ↑ Back to top BibliOdyssey Spring! It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want - oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!~Mark Twain Science has never drummed up quite as effective a tranquilizing agent as a sunny spring day. April is a promise that May is bound to keep. Is it so small a thing To have enjoy'd the sun, To have lived light in the spring, To have loved, to have thought, to have done... An optimist is the human personification of spring. Sweet springtime is my time is your time is our time for springtime is love time and viva sweet love. A little Madness in the spring Is wholesome even for the King. Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers today; And give us not to think so far away As the uncertain harvest; keep us here All simply in the springing of the year." All through the long winter, I dream of my garden. No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
Booklover Recently (as in the past year and a half) I have been in a reading slump. I read here and there but haven’t been striving to read as much. This is kinda silly as I am studying Creative Writing and should be reading every day, thriving on literature. Mia Nolting Makes Lists Book of Lists, ongoing project Wikibooks