Beautiful work by Sunday Paper.
The Most Livable Cities in the US and World
Top 10 lists are always debatable but this one seems pretty odd — I wish there were a little more transparency into the methodology.
I wonder if year-round weather is part of the equation… Toronto winters are pretty harsh to where most of the things that make it great are not fully accessible for 4-5 months of the year.
Or how does it calculate the opportunities for, and value generated by, a city’s creative class? Is there a vibrant and sustainable creative culture that elevates a place’s desirability?
Life in Austin, TX is generally solid year-round (yes, even the hot summers) and meets a lot of the criteria though every time I leave I find a sense of grandeur that I don’t often feel living in Austin… although we are a big family and it’s a lot easier to be fundamentally involved with life here… in a way that’s difficult in other creative and forward-thinking cities…
Maybe another factor to consider is wether a place allows for an individual to truyly make an impact in their surroundings… how much say do you really have in your city?
1% + 99% = us, more or less
@WeAreThe99Prcnt #Occupy @MktplaceRadio @resourcegen
Resource Generation’s Elspeth Gilmore with a striking and common-sense position on how the 1%, including herself, would be better off if they had the interests of the 99% as the focus.
BLEACH ONLINE MUSIC PAGE UPGRADE
New music page design live on Bleach with a special new mix by Manolo Black
Check out the mix and come out Saturday Nov. 19 for our Fun Fun issue refill party and Through The Looking Glass store launch hosted by Thick A$ Thieves and High Wasted at The Eastern.
(Source: bleachonline)
A GOLD RECORD FOR EXTRATERRESTRIALS
For as long as we’ve stared into the rich indigo of the skies we’ve been wondering if there are others like us, or completely unlike us, out there. In our attempts to seek out other intelligent life, Dr.Carl Sagan lead a NASA committe to dispatch our own timecapsule of our civilization and planet, the Voyager Golden Records, for the others to discover.
With an expected lifespan of 4.5 billion years, this gold record contains audio and images of what life on our planet looks and sounds like as well as an overview of our technological, artistic, and scientific achievements. It’s a curated baby version of our most fundamental understanding of ourselves and the tiny but significant dust particle we live on and it took off in 1977 on the Voyager mission.
The plaque on the outside of the record uses a symbology to instruct the recipient in how to use the artifact and access the information on it as well as illustrations of the hydrogen atoms from which everything we know is constructed and the pulsars that identify our location.
“The spacecraft will be encountered and the record played only if there are advanced space-faring civilizations in interstellar space. But the launching of this ‘bottle’ into the cosmic ‘ocean’ says something very hopeful about life on this planet.”
It’s a fascinating project to create a truly universal communication system and information archive and it shows our inspiration to grow beyond ourselves.
pretty ideal work environment!
(Source: freakinaye, via tiportiff)
well-crafted design with ample storage… reminds me of what a friend had created in a loft space in Brooklyn to help divide the open space and create places to hide things.
(via tiportiff)
