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Now isn’t this nature
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You can currently bid on Aaron Rodgers worn draft day suit jacket from the 2005 NFL Draft. The current bid is $3,250.
Oh wow
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Glass Beach, Northern California
From 1950 to 1967, residents of Fort Bragg, California chose to dispose of their waste by hurling it off the cliffs above a beach. No object was too toxic or too large such as household appliances, automobiles, and all matter of trash were tossed into the crashing waves below, eventually earning it the name The Dumps. Then in 1967, city leaders closed and reclaimed the beach. Various cleanup programs were undertaken.
Over the next several decades, the pounding waves cleaned the beach by breaking down everything but glass turning the sand into a sparkling, multicolored bed of smooth glass stones. The California Department of Parks and Recreation purchased the land and incorporated it into MacKerricher State Park in 2002.
Glass beach is so cool
(via discoverynews)
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Introducing Summer Art Fridays
For our first weekly highlight from our Summer Fridays collaboration with ARTINFO, we chose the work of Pat Falco, an illustrator whose art combines a dry sense of humor with quirky, empathy-inspiring sketches. Falco submitted the sketch above, and we asked him to answer a few questions about the piece and his work as a whole.
Describe the piece you submitted to Summer Fridays.
“Note to Self” is part of series of notes I did, mostly poking fun at myself (and anyone that relates to me). It was a pretty simple idea just based around over-thinking the most instinctive motions because there are intimidating people around — in this case, pretty girls.
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It’s wine o’clock (somewhere) — which means it’s time to share a wine-related repurposing find.
Today, it’s a DIY project: Turn wine crates into a coffee table.
For the how-to / tutorial, see this DIY Vintage Chic blog post. (Spotted on Pinterest here.)
Note: The tutorial mentions the idea of buying new crates at a craft store/retailer, but why not make a table from used crates from, say, a local wine shop, liquor store, or grocery store?!
For earlier posts in Unconsumption’s wine o’clock series, go here.
Cheers!
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Give your kid’s castoff a new life in the garden. Choose toys that’ll weather well and ones with dirt-friendly containers, like this Tonka metal dump truck.
(via Toy Planter | Turn Salvaged Junk Into Garden Ornaments | This Old House)
This reuse (on wheels!) might be better than the toolbox-turned-planter idea. Anyhow, it’s a fine addition to our container gardening ideas file.
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Welcome to Tumblr Tuesday, where we share some of our favorite random Tumblr blogs of the moment.
Marlo Meekins
This extreme caricaturist makes classy art. Art that provides a stunningly honest portrait of what it means to be human. And farts. (See above.)Mozilla Webmaker
Mozilla Webmaker wants to help people everywhere make, learn, and play using the open building blocks of the web. Their Tumblr blog showcases the awesome stuff people are making.Blank on Blank
Blank on Blank brings journalists’ lost interviews back to life via podcast, radio and YouTube. Check out Bill Draper on His $20 Bet with Fidel Castro; Caroll Spinney on Creating Big Bird & Oscar the Grouch; and Jonathan Alter’s interview with President Obama. Also — attention journalists — submit your lost tapes!The Moth
The Moth is a not-for-profit organization dedication to the art and craft of storytelling. Everybody has a story.This Belongs in a Museum
Written by a frustrated museologist (that’s a thing), this blog is dedicated to funny, ridiculous and mundane collections found in museums around the world.For regular updates on what’s fresh, check out the official New & Notable Tumblrs blog!
This is a really interesting price of art but I think it is really cool
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Welcome to Tumblr Tuesday, where we share some of our favorite random Tumblr blogs of the moment.
Marlo Meekins
This extreme caricaturist makes classy art. Art that provides a stunningly honest portrait of what it means to be human. And farts. (See above.)Mozilla Webmaker
Mozilla Webmaker wants to help people everywhere make, learn, and play using the open building blocks of the web. Their Tumblr blog showcases the awesome stuff people are making.Blank on Blank
Blank on Blank brings journalists’ lost interviews back to life via podcast, radio and YouTube. Check out Bill Draper on His $20 Bet with Fidel Castro; Caroll Spinney on Creating Big Bird & Oscar the Grouch; and Jonathan Alter’s interview with President Obama. Also — attention journalists — submit your lost tapes!The Moth
The Moth is a not-for-profit organization dedication to the art and craft of storytelling. Everybody has a story.This Belongs in a Museum
Written by a frustrated museologist (that’s a thing), this blog is dedicated to funny, ridiculous and mundane collections found in museums around the world.For regular updates on what’s fresh, check out the official New & Notable Tumblrs blog!
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Tumblr Tuesday: Netherlands Edition!
Name Gaby Zwaan
Location BussumArtist Gaby Zwaan makes art with paint, Photoshop, glue, stitches, cola, and whatever else he can get his hands on. After being diagnosed with dyslexia at an early age, he searched for ways in which his perspective could flourish. What started as ways to compensate for this diagnosis eventually transformed into an inexhaustible source of ideas and inspiration. As a child of the 80s, Gaby’s art emphasizes his obsession with trends, fashion, and pop culture.
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Alexander Klöpping
Entrepreneur, student, and gadget/media nerd.Its Me Louis
Enchanting photography by Louis van Baar.Over Muziek
Dutch indie music blog for easily bored music lovers.For regular updates on what’s fresh, check out the official New & Notable Tumblrs blog.
This a really cool picture very arty
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