Flat when not in use, this ‘piano hanger’ features wooden ‘keys’ that can be pulled out at different heights to hang as much or as little as you may need.
— Grains of sand
Grains of sand magnified 250 times.
via annieatkins
— Magazine house
A very neat idea for a magazine rack – store your mags inside the ‘house’ and rest the one you’re currently reading on top.
via swissmiss
— 70 lightning strikes
A very, very long exposure photograph of a thunderstorm by Chris Kotsiopoulos.
via @brainpicker
— A bridge is born
Great photographs at nytimes.com by Jamey Stillings of the construction of the Hoover Dam Bypass bridge, Colorado.
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— Embroidered portraits
Lovely embroidered portraits by Daniel Kornstrumpf.
See more at dangerousminds.net
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— Playing Cards
An interesting little collection of playing card designs at www.brainpickings.org. Most intriguing is the Mayan-inspired deck from Soviet Russia.
— Senna
A brilliantly edited, sobering and quite moving documentary from Asif Kapadia on Ayrton Senna’s Formula 1 career, also the last decade of his life.
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— Dear Photograph
Take a picture of a picture from the past in the present. That’s the idea behind this tumblr, which invites people to submit photos from their past, re-photographed in the same place. Some are mawkish, some are really quite sweet.
via Quipsologies
— House made of bookcases
Kazuya Morita Architecture Studio designed this bookshelf-lined house in Osaka for a collector of books on Islamic history, designing a structure where books could line every surface.
via boingboing
— Dear Marty
A letter to Martin Scorsese from his idol Michael Powell, describing his feelings towards the Goodfellas script.
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— The High Line
New York City’s High Line added a second section recently, which now makes the park – created from a neglected 1.45 mile-long elevated railway on the west side of Manhattan – span three neighbourhoods, becoming the most visited tourist destination in NYC.
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