This is my tumblelog.
TEDxDesMoines - Angela Maiers: You Matter (19:48)
This is inspiring. We need more people like this in the world. Angela Maiers is an education and technology consultant from Des Moines, Iowa who shares with us how two words can change a life. (via)
Awesome 1950s-era social networking advertisements. I am quite fond of this æsthetic.
Time machines can’t come soon enough.
The Joy of Books.
Love this. Filmed at Type bookstore in Toronto.
Fun fact: The creator of this video is also the designer responsible for the artwork for the Toronto Vegetarian Food Festival!
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The secret histories of secondhand books
“CDs, DVDS, and e-reads are all well and good when it comes to gift-giving at Christmas, but as far as I’m concerned, for sheer emotional wallop, the old-fashioned physical book is hard to beat. After all, it’s the ideal opportunity to foist a well-loved novel onto someone who is now morally obliged to read the thing (and, indeed, profess to like it). Furthermore, there is generous scope / enough rope to let a carefully-chosen book speak volumes about how you feel about the receiver. For this reason, no book-as-gift is complete without a handwritten dedication on its inside cover to further make it clear, just in case there was any doubt, that the recipient absolutely MUST READ THIS BOOK AT THE EXPENSE OF ALL OTHERS!!!”
(Photo credit: Secondhand bookshop on Charing Cross Road, London, in 1951. Photograph: John Chillingworth/Hulton-Deutsch Collection.)
I love getting new books, especially as gifts from others.
“Well, I first acquired this piece a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away…”
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Client: Can you just get rid of this here?
Me: The Lorum Ipsum?
Client: Yeah, just fill it with dummy text that doesn’t mean anything.
Cirque de Demain – Festival Montréal.
This is just beautiful with crazy wonderful lifts. Now this is a circus I’d want to run away to and join.
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I think you’re my type.
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