big rabbit big love

PLASTIC BASKETS

i have never seen anyone make plastic bags look this sexy , his website is amazing !!
JOSH BLACKWELL

Pencil sculptures

if you're ever bored, try do this.. pretty impressive

http://www.buzzfeed.com/cybergata/pencil-tip-sculptures-by-dalton-ghetti-1h9y

LONDON LONDON

his website has loads of really fun info about london next time you are up we should do some of these things
LONDON FUN

Bizarre love

oh my found the funniest valentine cards i'm spreading the love here, there are more here

pretty

Longest marriage ends

this is really sweet and kinda sad and a little bit fasinating when you consider how long they were together
CLICK

SARAH ILLENBERGER she is the most fantastic set designer

its the bath rooms that amaze me

best of the worst

put some meaning into ur life

and whilst i am already on the miranda rage this is great
HALLWAY LOVE

Joanie 4 Jackie

this is just quite interesting makes mewant to video ahh
Joanie 4 Jackie

What a shame its one of those events in your life which,the ones where you can say 'i still remember exactly what i was doing the moment i found out.......i was sleeping in bed what a waste. but hey in Jackson's words lets just Heal the world ad make it a better place.

FFFound something fantastic

This website is amazing FFFound
its just the most random collection of images and hours of fun

Young Obama

link to some cool pictures

Here's a link to some pictures of obama when he was young, and when he was modelling for a friend who i guess studied art or photography or something.. pretty fun to see.

For all you kids that like to write short stories
PEN PUSHER MAGAZINE

YUMMY ART

this is great food art by Hvass&Hannibal

' When I was an adolescent, my father scolded me for wanting to drive to Florida with a friend. It was too far from home, he said and I would be corrupted by the distance. I was sixteen. I'd been brought up in a small farm community and had barely been more than a hundred miles from home. neither had he. At least not more than once or twice. he hated travel and was rooted in the ground he stood on. the world for him was his front porch and it made him who he was.

-opening paragraph to 'the world from my porch' Larry Towell

This slightly reminds me of the Herni Rousseau, don't you just love the idea that people can believe that you can be corrupted by distance.

'His best known paintings depict jungle scenes, even though he never left France or saw a jungle. Stories spread by admirers that his army service included the French expeditionary force to Mexico are unfounded. His inspiration came from illustrated books and the botanical gardens in Paris, as well as tableaux of taxidermied wild animals. He had also met soldiers, during his term of service, who had survived the French expedition to Mexico and listened to their stories of the subtropical country they had encountered. To the critic Arsène Alexandre, he described his frequent visits to the Jardin des Plantes: "When I go into the glass houses and I see the strange plants of exotic lands, it seems to me that I enter into a dream."

HELP

how do u add a link toanother site? anyone

lets write a letter to the whole world

think you guys will like that its from

Michael and Lenka speak about their personal work and then move onto their brilliant ‘Mysterious letters’ project in which they sent a handwritten letter to everyone in a small village. Brilliant concept beautifully delivered, I cannot recommend highly enough freeing up half an hour today or over the weekend to enjoy this.

http://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/482-talk-3-michael-crowe-lenka-clayton

Practical

http://www.lenkaclayton.co.uk/gallery.php?gallery=businessadjust

this is super useful for the undeceive :)

uhm. it's carlton. from the fresh prince. young. teaching you how to dance. and rap.

http://wimp.com/coolkid/
"Alfonso's Breaking and Poppin"

funny

while sitting at your desk, lift your right foot off the floor and make clockwise circles. Now, while doing this draw the number "6" in the air with your right hand. Your foot will change direction and there's nothing you can do about it. http://conflusions.wordpress.com/

squirrel feet earrings

Rediscovering Richard Brautigan

I was just rediscovering Richard Brautigan's poems which I think are just marvelous, so here's a couple to share:

"Finding Is Losing Something Else"

Finding is losing something else.
I think about, perhaps even mourn,
what I lost to find this.


"Impasse"

I talked a good hello
but she talked an even
better good-bye


"The Amelia Earhart Pancake"

I have been unable to find a poem
for this title. I've spent years
looking for one and now I'm giving
up.

an alternative friendship

The imaginary friends
I always wanted one and i think for a period of time i pretended i did but after reading these my jealousy grows even more....is it really to late to have an imaginary friend come round and visit , just think of the possibilities you'd never be alone. anyhoo this is really sweet , funny and sometimes a bit creepy but made me laugh

http://www.vam.ac.uk/moc/kids/tell_us/index.html

invisible friends

Bits and Bobs that we forgot we loved

this is a sweet website think you guys will enjoy considering we'r all hoarders

http://www.lookwhatyouvegot.com/

its us!

third culture kids link

what would you do?

Cookie monster loveeeee.........

san T a

ahhh virtual drums!

click to play yourself some drums.. you can also use the numbers to make sounds ahh its fun

Angela Lansbury like you ain't ever seen angela lansbury before.

imagine the dreams you would have...

change!

i am happier than i thought i'd be because obama won, boy that acceptance speech was pretty darn goosepimply

ahehehe check this out

CELEBRITY TOE READING
everything you've always wanted to know about celebrities, as told by their toes.

The story of a litlle boy called Zenobia

my brother was nearly called after this lovely lady, the first emancipated woman of ancient times, my name comes from hers freaky

link

"We hope this idea catches on and, in the future, square CD packaging will be abandoned forever and only interesting art objects will fill record stores. We envision a time when you’ll be walking around your local record shop and be like, “What’s the new Radiohead album again? Oh yeah, a bonsai tree in the shape of a deformed goat, I see it over there.”"
of montreal on cds, clutter, babies, identity...good to read!
CLICK FOR MORE AND ALSO SOME PURTY PICS

website

hello folks
i thought i would share this little site with you
http://www.geocities.com/nisha.alberti/index.html
i have put some stuff on there and it's pretty functional though not entirely finished and all....

oooooooooooooooooh

http://www.instructables.com/id/Lightbulb-greenhouse/

American Surfaces

If you guys get a chance you should check out
Stephen Shore's "American Surfaces"
It is a book showcasing a collection of photographs Shore took in the Seventies.
The pictures are really great and wonderfully disarming so really really go and have a look. (I can't be bothered to scan and show some samples so just get yourself to your local library!)
Also the pictures really remind me of some of your photos Sina :)
and Nadine,
the library code is Third Floor, 761.2 SHOR although I might have it for a while :P
and also you should check out
Third Floor, 761.3 EWIN, a book called "The Body", it has tons of really cool photographs of all kinds of different bodies/people, including some Siamese twins

And hoka is currently living in tomorrow, although I guess I'll be joining Sina in yesterday soon, so Nadine you'll be the only one living in the present :P
Ah, time differences.
ciao.

Arms Akimbo

To stand with your hands on your hips and your elbows pointing outwards is to stand with your arms akimbo.

i thought that was kinda cool.

so stand with your arms akimbo today!

S

Okay.
since I have learned to write, I have always written
S
by starting at the top, moving back, circling down and forward and then circling round and back again.
never in this entire time has it occurred to me that you can write
S
by starting at the BOTTOM!?,
sliding forward, curving up and back and curving upwards and forwards again.
it's totally weird.

ok, maybe i'm totally weird, but no, I think this S writing thing is cuhrayzee. that's crazy. blew my mind.
try it, you will feel topsy turvy.

teddy bear

"Is Google Making Us Stoopid?"

'Sometime in 1882, Friedrich Nietzsche bought a typewriter [...] His vision was failing [and] once he had mastered touch-typing he was able to write with his eyes closed. [...]
But the machine had a subtler effect on his work. One of Nietzsche's friends, a composer, noticed a change in the style of his writing. His already terse prose had become even tighter, more telegraphic. "Perhaps you will through this instrument even take to a new idiom (style)," the friend wrote in a letter, noting that, in his own work, his "'thoughts' in music and language often depend on the quality of pen and paper."
"You are right," Nietzsche replied, "our writing equipment takes part in the forming of our thoughts." Under the sway of the machine, writes the German media scholar Friedrich A. Kittler, Nietzsche's prose "changed from arguments to aphorisms (short phrase containing wise idea), from thoughts to puns, from rhetoric to telegram style."'

It's pretty interesting how the medium you use has an influence on the style and expression of your ideas, and if you write something by pen, the resulting idea may be very different from if you type it. This is from the article, "Is Google Making Us Stupid" : http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200807/google

It's a really interesting article about internet as the new medium of information intake, how it differs from inherited cultural norms (books, articles etc.) and how the medium in which information is presented not only affects how our brains process this information but also changes the ways the brain functions:
'The media or other technologies we use in learning the craft of reading play an important part in shaping the neural circuits inside our brains.'

It might seem a little long but it is quite fascinating and well written so worth the read!

nightly wanderings

"The two nostrils are associated with two very different energies. When we breathe through the right nostril, we are energized and stimulated. When we breathe through the left nostril, we relax and calm down. Our breath naturally changes dominant nostrils approximately every 2-1/2 hours. After eating our nostrils will change to the left to accommodate the energy needed to digest our food. That is one reason why we feel like sleeping after eating.

You can tell which nostril is your dominate one at any time simply by blocking off one, then the other. The dominant one is easy to breathe through and the less dominate one feels like it is blocked."

-- I, for one, found this fascinating :)

I LOVE YOU GUYS

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world not possibly born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born." Anais Nin

lady

i want to eat his mind

Sweetcorn
As a child I wanted to be a car stereo.
My parents encouraged me.
They let me sit in the car at night.
Hours, shivering, smiling.
I would ease my fingers inside the cassette deck and just sit there.
I was willing myself on but nothing happened.
To me, anything was possible, it was simply a question of desire.
I thought that perhaps I wasn’t sufficiently motivated.
At twelve, I wedged myself into the idea that I would become a staple gun.
My two front teeth hung bunny low.
My mother told me that the world already had staple guns.
She said many staple guns were unsold and unloved.
The same thing applied to car stereos, but that never seemed to bother her.
I bit into two sheets of paper at every opportunity.
To my surprise, staples would occasionally fire out.
They never quite held anything together though.
The staples remained half open.
I blamed my bottom set of teeth.
They told me that they worked fine.
They added that it was the top set that was slightly off centre.
A scuffle broke out.
I lost some teeth.
I found some teeth.
They didn‘t fit in my mouth.
I threw them away.
Years later I thought I’d found them.
I hadn’t.


http://figcrumbs.blogspot.com/