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I Made A (foodsafe) Hack On Kintsugi…
Alex Traditional #Kintsugi Technique takes months, but this version only needs a day… update : My cookbook is #1 on Amazon : http://smarturl.it/FrenchGuyCooking Food Safe Epoxy Glue : https://amzn.to/2wWR84W Gold Food Coloring : https://amzn.to/2Cy0SbB Sugru : https://amzn.to/2MYbRQz After 3 different … Continue reading
Journalist Rachel Lopez Documents the Delightfully Diverse Patterns on the Ceilings of Mumbai Taxis
Rachel Lopez has a thing with… taxi ceilings. Instead of joining the 200,000+ Instagram posts hashtagged #ihavethisthingwithfloors, the lifelong Mumbai resident flips her phone’s camera into selfie mode. Lopez documents the vast array of eccentric plastic patterns covering the ceilings … Continue reading
Kintsugi: The Art of Broken Pieces
Kintsugi (or kintsukuroi) is a Japanese method for repairing broken ceramics with a special lacquer mixed with gold, silver, or platinum. . The philosophy behind the technique is to recognize the history of the object and to visibly incorporate the repair … Continue reading
The real reason manufacturing jobs are disappearing
We’ve heard a lot of rhetoric lately suggesting that countries like the US are losing valuable manufacturing jobs to lower-cost markets like China, Mexico and Vietnam — and that protectionism is the best way forward. But those jobs haven’t disappeared … Continue reading
11838. San Francisco Chinatown : Fortune Cookie Factory — One Million Photographs
via 11838. San Francisco Chinatown : Fortune Cookie Factory — One Million Photographs
Mind-blowing stage sculptures that fuse music and technology
It starts with a sketch. Then it evolves into a larger-than-life visual masterpiece, a celebration of human connection. Follow along as legendary artist and designer Es Devlin takes us on a visual tour of her work — including iconic stage … Continue reading
Seu Jorge – Quintal Do Céu
Music video by Seu Jorge performing Quintal Do Céu. (C) 2012 Universal Music Ltda
Xande De Pilares – Brincadeira Tem Hora
Music video by Xande De Pilares performing Brincadeira Tem Hora. (C) 2012 Universal Music Ltda
Woman Saves A Scorched And Screaming Koala With The Shirt Off Her Own Back
The Red List of Threatened Species had already classified the koala as vulnerable, but the species is being threatened even more by devastating bushfires that have already burned more than 2.5 million acres of Australia’s east coast. But one recent act … Continue reading
An Obscure Afro-Brazilian “Colony” in Ghana: Accra’s Tabon Community — The Metropole
By Hermann W. von Hesse In the summer of 2017, I returned from Madison, Wisconsin to Accra – my hometown and Ghana’s capital since 1877 – to do my pre-dissertation research. Besides my main dissertation interests, I had since childhood … Continue reading
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