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Category Archives: nature

PLANT TALKERS

Sunday, February 22, 2015

Plant talkers for your plants and for all your friends with indoor plants from our friends at Third Drawer Down.

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THE MATING DANCE

Wednesday, November 19, 2014

You won’t believe what birds are able to do unless you have watched this:
A Cornell Lab scientist and National Geographic photographer worked together on an 8 years project to capture the entire spectrum of the so-called Birds of Paradise, which are domiciled in New Guinea, Australia, and nearby islands.
39 species of such are mind-blowing to [...]

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THE FLOWER EXCHANGE

Thursday, October 30, 2014

“What is the real value of flowers? It seems impossible to equate the amount of time and effort, art and love involved in growing them. And why should we? Flowers are about beauty and joy and colour and emotion. Money can’t buy that. We want to create community, share abundance and make conversation instead. So from now on [...]

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STRANGE PLANTS

Monday, October 6, 2014

Strange Plants, was first published earlier this year. The book features the work of 25 artists—from oozing paintings of rotting cacti to eerie, mesmeric photos of the leafy kudzu vine—and discusses the role plants play in the artists’ personal lives. Strange Plants was featured on The New York Times T Magazine, It’s Nice That, Nowness, Another Mag and Sight Unseen, among others, [...]

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THE GARDEN EDIT

Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Founded by English gardener John Tebbs, The Garden Edit redraws the traditional boundaries associated with shopping and the garden by bringing together a modern collection of products that embody functionality, timelessness and beauty. The collection reflects John’s personal aesthetic – minimal, well-designed products from craftspeople, artists, publishing houses and family run businesses. It is really very beautiful!

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YARN HARVEST

Monday, June 16, 2014

All your favorite garden finds, knitted by japanese artist Itoamika Jung Jung.

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DAWN IN LUXOR

Friday, May 16, 2014

Fashion films are rarely worth their time, except when you have capable hands such as Kahlil Joseph and open minds such as Carol Lim and Humberto Leon revamping the much-hyped Kenzo behind them. The outcome is a dense and atmospheric film that has as little to do with fashion as it does with overfishing [...]

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ANT HEATER

Wednesday, May 14, 2014

It’s getting quite hot, and mugginess slow cooks the brain. Times like these call for pop-silly-coolness (aka pop-si-cles) to afford our neurons some soothing entertainment. So: if you think you’re hot, check out these fire ants.
With a disclaimer for creature un-friendly behavior and oblivious kitsch.  An Only in America production.

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FLIPPING OUT

Thursday, May 1, 2014

As with many, I sometimes find The Art to be indistinguishable from fashion, design, or decorative art, which is completely fine. However, the trend towards their sugary, whimsical ilk sometimes gives me one too many (hot)flashbacks of semi-reluctant jaunts around Anthropologie and its twee brethren.
When I first saw a feature praising Juan Fontanive, I spotted [...]

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IS THERE ANY CREATION BEFORE IMITATION?

Saturday, April 12, 2014

Indeed, we can never beat nature. But we can try to learn from its elaborate ways of designing & engineering and digitally translate it to our genious invention the 3-D printer to let him create what we wouldn´t be able to.
Just to come close to nature. So does Israelian architect and designer beauty Neri Oxman [...]

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