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IT’S REAL!

Thursday, November 10, 2011

What would life be without music and dogs… The new Real Estate album is really good. It’s called Days. They’ll be touring in Europe in December but the only date in Germany is in Hamburg…

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Redefine Slime

Thursday, October 6, 2011

We all knew that slime was special watching Ghostbusters. Now, scientist dig deeper to understand such ancient, alien slime civilizations.
“If some countries started to build highways from scratch, I would recommend to them to follow the slime mold routes”
says Andrew Adamatzky, a researcher at the University of West England who also engaged slime mold [...]

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bestiary

Monday, August 29, 2011

What do you do when summer is letting you down? Going on a hunt for the perfect bedside book seems rather appropriate in such circumstances and ‘The bedside book of Beasts’ is almost too perfect of a trophy. Graeme Gibson’s collection of poems, images, stories and facts is helping to forget the autumnal reality outside [...]

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THE SECRET LIFE OF MAMMALS

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Don’t we all wonder what others are doing when no one is looking? So did the The Tropical Ecology Assessment and Monitoring Network, hence more to their point: what are animals doing when we’re not looking? To find out, they installed an impressive network of trap cameras that gathered more than 52,000 images of mammals [...]

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WAYS TO AVOID BOREDOM

Thursday, August 18, 2011

There are probably worse things you could do in your spare time than scan a cat…

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LESSONS IN DESIGN: FRAUKE STEGMANN / TREADER

Friday, July 22, 2011

Some of us like animals, and so does designer and illustrator Frauke Stegmann – born in Germany, raised in Namibia, based in South Africa. I used to study with Frauke, and she’s a peculiar character with her very own view of the world – which also translates into her design work, to an extent that [...]

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HUMANS ARE STRANGE

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

http://awkwardfamilypetphotos.com

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PET PEOPLE

Thursday, June 23, 2011

Miranda July and Mike Mills are two great people and both very talented artists who love animals. There’s a dog in Beginners and a cat in The Future. Here’s an animal related list of links from Mike Mills’ website:
sandiegozoo.org/zoo/ex_panda_station.html
ponttokamera.net/index_e.htm
oregonhumane.org/petcam.asp
farmsanctuary.org
dogsforthedeaf.org
worldwildlife.org
aspca.org
petfinder.org
Portrait: Alexi Wasser

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CHLOË’S PARADISE

Saturday, April 2, 2011

Feinspitz is a real paradise for dogs –
or, as we like to call them in Berlin, “Köter”.
Feinspitz – Der Hundeladen
Sophienstrasse 34
10178 Berlin

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