Running traces. Jenny Xie grabbed the information from the app RunKeeper and made these beautiful maps of 22 major cities in the U.S. Here's ;R code snippet in case you want to map your own routes.

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Running traces. Jenny Xie grabbed the information from the app RunKeeper and made these beautiful maps of 22 major cities in the U.S. Here's ;R code snippet in case you want to map your own routes.
Just Beautiful "The Forty Part Motet (2001), a sound installation by Janet Cardiff (Canadian, born 1957), will be the first presentation of contemporary art at The Cloisters. Regarded as the artist's masterwork, and consisting of forty high-fidelity speakers positioned on stands in a large oval configuration throughout the Fuentidueña Chapel, the fourteen-minute work, with a three-minute spoken interlude, will continuously play an eleven-minute reworking of the forty-part motet Spem in alium numquam habui (1556?/1573?) by Tudor composer Thomas Tallis (ca. 1505–1585)."
"Taking Measures" in person at the Gardner Museum opening June 27th.
Composite Landscapes: Photomontage and Landscape Architecture
This is a very needed item in my house on the bedside table. Of course, I would prefer a white book. I Love this.
In this day and age of never ending cords for our multiple gadgets and their myriad functions, it’s nice to see a charger camouflaged in an old book. Yes, for true (sentimental) bibliophiles, it hurts a tiny bit to know that a book has been put out to pasture, but it’s certainly a relief to know it’s not been chucked into some landfill, and it’s doing a different job altogether. The book acts as housing for a charger (it’s a solid unit), and means there’s no losing the cord behind your nightstand or desk.
Designed to be compatible with iPods and iPhones (iPod/nano/touch, iPhone 3G, 3GS & iPhone 4G), accommodates sync and charge functions via a USB cable, wall connector is not included.
inbook Charging Stations — ACCESSORIES -- Better Living Through Design.
The dreaminess of Tomás Saraceno's installations shatter traditional concepts relating to place, time, gravity and traditional ideas as to what constitutes architecture. His works are utopian and invite the viewer to play a part in their impact on a particular space, as they reach up to the sky and down to the ground. The artist creates gardens that hang in the air and allow visitors to float in space, fulfilling a dream shared by all humankind. Saraceno draws inspiration from soap bubbles and the incredible strength and flexibility of spider webs. Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart - Berlin
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I happened upon this bird nest yesterday and thought it wouldbe nice to share.
I'm quite fussy about jewelry, but I find most Amy's work quite astonishing. I wish my ears were not spent so I could wear some of her amazing earrings.
via Freaker USA—Making You & Your Beverage Cooler! by Zach Crain — Kickstarter. via swiss miss
It got me to pledge. Plus I want one for hot yoga.
Taking flooding into their own hands. I find these images fascinating.
As the Army Fights the Mississippi River, Who Is Winning? | Popular Science
Star Wars time relief = very cool
Star Wars Relief - Timelapse photograph of Star Wars IV transformed into a surface relief, 2011 Jesmonite - 140x36x8cm