food on the fire-escape

bluishorange: THIS CAT IS ASKING TO BE PETTED IT IS ACTUALLY...

Thu, 23 May 2013 16:45:38 -0400

THIS CAT IS ASKING TO BE PETTED IT IS ACTUALLY ASKING THIS IS THE MOST POLITE CAT IN THE WORLD AND IT’S GOING TO KILL ME

Moki asks to be petted by ramming her forehead into my hand over and over again. It gets the point across, but she could take a lesson from this cat.

Eep!

Photo

Fri, 17 May 2013 20:07:42 -0400

yellowonesdontstop: Please read and then consider sharing this...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 16:13:40 -0400

yellowonesdontstop:

Please read and then consider sharing this information so we can get word out about this awesome program, which I found out about this morning via Momentum Mag.

Cyclists nationwide can buy a sticker, put it on their helmet and get discounts at participating retailers. There are more than 1,300 participating businesses nationwide, which is a lot, but there are still states that have zero businesses that participate. That’s why it’d be great if we could get the word out! I’m going to ask my dad, who owns a small business, if he can participate as well.

This program benefits everyone: local businesses, consumers and the environment. One food market reportedly gave out over $20K in discounts in one year, and consequently earned many new customers. It’s really a win-win situation all-around, especially in this economic climate and with more and more Republicans realizing that global warming is not a myth.

For all the information, check out BicylcleBenefits.org.

Word.

thenelsontwins: mannytoodope: I want to do this a party just...

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 09:22:34 -0400

thenelsontwins:

mannytoodope:

I want to do this a party just once.

Manny, I’m in if you need a partner.

Once upon a time by which I mean a month or two ago this totally happened at this place I work. I am sorry I missed getting video of it but I assure you age has not cramped their style.

"Rep. Bill Foster’s office is bright blue, almost electric, almost blinding. “When you visit an..."

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:57:34 -0400

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Rep. Bill Foster’s office is bright blue, almost electric, almost blinding. “When you visit an office like this, you feel like you’ve been somewhere,” Foster says, and he’s right.

Foster is the congressman representing Illinois’s 11th District, a narrow band covering a northern part of the state, where Chicago suburbs start to bleed into flat prairieland. He is a PhD physicist who worked on particle accelerators at Fermilab, and his first congressional campaign was endorsed by 31 Nobel Prize winners. “Then it went to 32 after Barack Obama won his prize,” he says. “But that’s a peace prize, so it’s not the same.”

He is also the congressman who, in March, introduced H.R. 1289 — the National Fab Lab Network Act.

“Something that’s missing with kids these days — and now I sound old,” he laughs. “But when I was a kid, you’d take apart lawn mowers, or rebuild hot rods, or take apart old radio and television sets and reconfigure the circuits to build wonderful, dangerous things.” That’s what he and his brother did, starting a theater lighting company in their parents’ basement when they were 19 and 17, respectively. Electronic Theatre Controls now makes more than half of the theater lights in the country.

“But that’s not available to kids today,” he says. “You can’t really take apart an iPhone and reconfigure the parts to do something wonderful. The most you can do is reprogram it with new apps. But it’s not the same as holding something you’ve designed.”

If passed, the National Fab Lab Network Act would treat fab labs like Little League or the Veterans of Foreign Wars — facilitating their creation, vetting prospective founders, matching donors with projects.

”

- - Monica Hesse for the Washington Post (via carbonfilament)

ETC is cool? I had no idea.

darklamb: Finding some good shit pinned to my silk sales rep’s...

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 11:21:50 -0400

darklamb:

Finding some good shit pinned to my silk sales rep’s wall.

Mmmmmmm

Been a lack of bamboo around here.

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 12:02:42 -0400

Been a lack of bamboo around here.

For your everyday potion mixing.

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 05:53:00 -0400

For your everyday potion mixing.

"A fashion show typically lasts about 10 minutes, and that’s just enough time to either be suicidal..."

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 09:31:43 -0400

“A fashion show typically lasts about 10 minutes, and that’s just enough time to either be suicidal from boredom or convinced you haven’t even begun to live.”

- Cathy Horyn (via unculturedmag)

flora-file: Meet my wood chipper. He works for dog food and...

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 09:19:27 -0400

flora-file:

Meet my wood chipper. He works for dog food and belly rubs.

Wood Chipper (by flora-file)

Aaaaaaaaaaadorable.

Diamonds are bullshit

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 12:38:40 -0400

Diamonds are bullshit :

I gave up my rant about diamonds years ago because all it did was alienate people I love, but this is really great.

Antonio Marras, Le Orfanelle, 2004

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 12:02:54 -0400

Antonio Marras, Le Orfanelle, 2004

These are some of my favorite things.

Sun, 10 Mar 2013 19:06:39 -0400

These are some of my favorite things.

flora-file: into the forest (by hellothomas) Oh! Bamboo!

Sun, 10 Mar 2013 17:34:56 -0400

flora-file:

into the forest (by hellothomas)

Oh! Bamboo!

fuckfridayfucksaturdayfucksunday: for every minute you are...

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 20:39:41 -0500

fuckfridayfucksaturdayfucksunday:

for every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

thenelsontwins: workspaces: building the Golden Gate...

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 01:03:28 -0500

thenelsontwins:

workspaces:

building the Golden Gate bridge » 1933-1937 » via rainyowl

Wow.

Yes.

"Nothing ever goes away until it teaches us what we need to know."

Sat, 23 Feb 2013 18:28:02 -0500

“Nothing ever goes away until it teaches us what we need to know.”

- Pema Chodron (via psychotherapy)

flora-file: after the rain has gone (Sanzenin temple, Kyoto)...

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 12:30:49 -0500

flora-file:

after the rain has gone (Sanzenin temple, Kyoto) (by Marser)

flora-file: Bamboo Road (by mleja)

Sun, 10 Feb 2013 16:35:53 -0500

flora-file:

Bamboo Road (by mleja)

I wish I could get this brain space back and give it to something more helpful.

Sat, 09 Feb 2013 22:47:55 -0500

Today I recognized that the paparazzi on the runway were taking pictures of two fashion photographers (and I can tell you their names if you’d really like to know) (one of them immediately inspires the desire to take a shower to get off the possible slime. The other seems quite sweet.) and then I recognized the president of IMG walk past. The dude who is managing the entire shindig had no idea who any of these people were “I struggle to care” he said. ”Yeah well I assure you I do not and yet…”

The radio (I was spying by request on the PR channel (this will actually rot your brain if you do it for too long), cuz were we starting soon?) called that Bill Cunningham was in the house and needed a seat. I couldn’t spot him though. I don’t think I ever have. He also seems sweet.