ORIGINAL MATERIAL

If you have food in the fridge, clothes on your back, a roof over your head and a place to sleep, you are richer than 75% of the world. If you have any money in the bank, your wallet and some spare change in a dish someplace, you are among the top 8% of the world’s wealthy. If you woke up this morning with more health than illness, you are more blessed than the million people who will not survive this week. If you have never experienced the danger of battle, the agony of imprisonment or torture, or the horrible pangs of starvation, you are luckier than 500 million people alive going through this suffering. If you can read this message you are more fortunate than the 3 billion people in the world who cannot read at all.

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:29:28 +0100

krispayne:

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A good thing to be reminded of.

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Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:39:29 +0100

rhea137: mimikasu: rrrick: frenchtwist: via...

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:28:33 +0100

rhea137:

mimikasu:

rrrick:

frenchtwist:

via hushaby:

vintagephoto: Vietnam

Nikola Tamindzic: Consider the Germans

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:11:38 +0100

Nikola Tamindzic: Consider the Germans:

Come on: Is the West really in such decline? Yes, we can sit here on our island continent and gloom about the rise of China, as our elite now like to do. Or we can go out into the world and start competing like the Europeans. For here’s a strange fact; since 2003 it’s not China, but Germany, that…

Love the chairs. Café Foam Lean Chair

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:15:12 +0100

Love the chairs.

Café Foam

Lean Chair

Josephine Forster Köning in Thule If anything, you should...

Sat, 20 Feb 2010 20:10:00 +0100

Josephine Forster Köning in Thule

If anything, you should listen to this for the medieval electric guitar solo happening around the 4:30 mark.

Folding over.

Sat, 20 Feb 2010 13:28:27 +0100

weeklyshot:

I am thinking of folding over this project, is anybody adverse to the idea?

My little side project needs your opinion, head there to see it.

Thanks!

ultraviolett: (via angbang)

Sat, 20 Feb 2010 13:03:30 +0100

ultraviolett:

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rhea137: conscientious: This is the last page of the 1934 book...

Sat, 20 Feb 2010 01:24:59 +0100

rhea137:

conscientious:

This is the last page of the 1934 book “Bookbinding Made Easy” by Lee M. Klinefelter, borrowed from the local library. The first person to take this out had to return it on Feb 13, 1935. This is the kind of cultural stuff that will disappear once we have “elibraries,” where there will be no more tangible connections with people who wanted to learn about bookbinding - there will be no more books to be taken out of libraries, and there will be no more people wanting to learn about how to produce books (in fact, there might also not be many people left who actually read books - people never talk about this much, do they?)

Of course, now I’m just waiting for some artist to scan the last pages of books to produce a series (like the backs of paintings). Hey, you saw it here first. And if you didn’t - email me, and I’ll share the name of that artist.

Needless to say, this scan is not motivated by a desire to create art, it’s motivated by seeing the history of this particular book. There’s a beauty to it that Kindle fans might never be able to grasp.

Potatoe nose Pizza

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 19:57:37 +0100

5 dl flour
60 g butter
2 tsp Baking Power
1 tsp salt
2 dl milk

incandescentlywitty: selectic: (via fauxchenaux)

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:14:18 +0100

incandescentlywitty:

selectic:

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Joi Lansing “Web of Love” Scopitone (via...

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:00:39 +0100

Joi Lansing “Web of Love” Scopitone (via brutallodotcom)

So glad this is on youtube.

The crystal came and took away all the old folks (via...

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 11:04:24 +0100

The crystal came and took away all the old folks (via bryanboyer)

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Fri, 19 Feb 2010 10:50:12 +0100

Now I know that the printed medium is not as up to date as the...

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:28:43 +0100

Now I know that the printed medium is not as up to date as the internet, but now that’s pushing it.

smartmouthkillerhand: (via alexachungblog) O….M….G

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:43:33 +0100

smartmouthkillerhand:

(via alexachungblog)

O….M….G

dubliner: The Hallway2004 from “Hope” By Erwin Olaf Worth...

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:59:18 +0100

dubliner:

The Hallway
2004
from “Hope”

By Erwin Olaf

Worth seeing the original.

LOLA (via C A M O G R A P H Y)

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:16:11 +0100

LOLA (via C A M O G R A P H Y)

mdtepsic: I asked people to give me a subject to shoot, and...

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 23:58:01 +0100

mdtepsic:

I asked people to give me a subject to shoot, and I’ll try my best to capture it within the week.

Originalmaterial said: Americana

A Japanese woman took this picture of me at an old ice-skating rink turned “art gallery” / antique shop

Thanks man!

A design and usability blog: Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals)

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:41:14 +0100

A design and usability blog: Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals)