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Monthly Archives: July 2018
How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality and the Fight for the Neighborhood
Originally posted on ThriftingUp:
Simultaneously history and current events, Peter Moskowitz’s How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality and the Fight for the Neighborhood exposed the underlying forces behind the recent trends of gentrification in four major cities: Detroit, New…
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A Brief History of Carnival in The Caribbean
Originally posted on Worldly Words: The Art of Living on My Terms:
The History Of Carnival In The Caribbean Caribbean carnivals are a series of activities that happen before the beginning of lent which is towards the time the Christians…
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Carbon Copy: A Glitched Vintage Plymouth Stands on End in a Canadian Parking Lot – Colossal
Calgary-based artists Caitlind r.c. Brown and Wayne Garrett (previously) create large, public installations that invite people to engage in a shared experience. Their latest work cruised into Edmonton’s Brewery District late last month—a blue 1988 Plymouth Caravelle balanced perfectly on its … Continue reading
Climate change/global warming course correction: It’s incumbent on us to get this right
Getting right to the point, if you are of the position – as many people are – that climate change (CC) and/or global warming (GW) are real and humans are to blame, do you agree that is it incumbent on us … Continue reading
Creative Lego Constructions Bring Fantastical Moments to Life
Creative constructions of Lego bricks spring to life in these advertising campaigns developed by Asawin Tejasakulsin, a senior art director at Ogilvy & Mather in Bangkok, Thailand. The two series, Imagine and Build the Future, amplify the childhood wonder central to … Continue reading
Funny Video: Kid picks a Fight, Doesn’t Reckon with the Other Guy’s Wife
Originally posted on Best of Brazil Blog:
Word to the wise…if you mess with this guy, you’ll have to deal with his wife. https://youtu.be/B4TjgWIlHdo
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Rising Petals
Originally posted on A Life Savored:
Lovely flower sculpture in #Pudong #Airport in #Shanghai.
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Buildings and Stars Cut into Blackout Curtains Turn Your Windows Into Nighttime Cityscapes – Colossal
A Ukrainian blind company called HoleRoll shared this fun set of concept blinds that feature iconic cityscapes cut into blackout curtains. The silhouettes of famous skyscrapers become apparent as light streams in through the window.[…] Source: Buildings and Stars Cut … Continue reading
An Inflated Steel Archway Provides a New Cultural Nexus on a Polish Island
Last year Polish designer Oskar Zieta unveiled the NAWA pavilion, an inflated steel passageway intended to bring cultural activity back to Wrocław’s island of Daliowa. This structure’s reflective, bloated surface makes it look like a weightless mylar balloon despite the fact that is … Continue reading
Gravity of language on thoughts | Panos Athanasopoulos | TEDxUniversityofMacedonia
Panos Athanasopoulos’ research programmes seek to understand how people from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds communicate and perceive the world around them, focusing on how we see colours and objects, and how we experience motion and time. It is often … Continue reading
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