pretty pollution

these photos of the ocean's plastic are stunning. by mandy barker.

"The intention of my work is to visually attract the viewer to the image and for them to question what it represents."

Brock Davis

I saw an interesting article on fastco, about the challenger disaster recreated from cauliflower. it's the creation of minneapolis's brock davis, who always seems to be up to something wildly imaginative. lots of other food art on his flickr stream, but my fav is the snoutlet. hands down.

time-lapse photo

"The image shows the passing of one year starting from January on the left and ending with December on the right, and comprises 3888 photographs captured during the days that were then combined using a special script that uses one vertical segment from each image." By Erik Solheim.

a walk

inspiration under my feet.

painting with makeup

by richard gary and marc dennis. brilliant. someone finally shot makeup without a pristine white or black background. the paintings are beautiful too.

3 cool posters

hip hip hip hourra by supermarket sarah

galaxy wallpaper on amazon

lettuce turnip the beet quaillane press

all via svpply

to rent from the library:

all via svpply.

national parks: america's best idea

if you haven't seen ken burn's national parks series, you should really do something about it. i'm not kidding you, episode 5 made me cry it was so good. episode 1 made me plan a road trip down the west coast on hwy 101. who knows what the rest will bring, i might even give camping another shot (i really love NOT camping). so much history of america that i didn't know about and the people who worked so hard to make it possible for us all to enjoy.

"you can learn from the teachings within this quietness. some people teach by talking... but i think it is important that you are taught by silence." -Chiura Obata

"these are the places where americans encounter who they are, and are home." -Carl Pope

here's looking at hue

organizing by color gets me every time. fun site via swiss miss.

cool hunter's picks

i revisited a Cool Hunter article i stowed away a while ago. look at these lovely destinations! they make my heart thump.

JR

we watched a TED Talk this morning at work. Inspiring to say the least. French street artist, JR, makes a wish to use art to turn the world inside out. I love the simplicity: paper, glue, b&w photos of people being themselves. It pairs really nicely with the extravagant and detailed application to landscapes all over the world. The trains are my favorite, the movement makes it more human.

red pop

more motivation to upgrade to the iphone4. great kickstarter project. clean design.

Red Pop from Beep Industries on Vimeo.

lan su chinese garden

we went to lan su last weekend on the most beautiful, sunny spring day. and as J said, "it was fucking magic." a seriously amazing place so well designed that it hurt my head to think about the planning that went into it. we stopped at the tea house on our way out and celebrated easter a day early with our marble tea egg and view overlooking the gardens. i kinda want to live there. and on top of that, our friend mette designed the lovely identity, bonus!