This is my attempt to be self-indulgent while reflective. Perhaps this tells you a little about me, or alot about me or really nothing at all. Just connect and lets chat. But overall if this is interesting- great!
urbanarboriculture:
Artist Peter Cook, grew this living garden chair using tree shaping methods, primarily training a living tree through constricting the direction of branch growth. The chair took about eight years to grow.
thats wild
The Re write of the giving tree, where the tree stays alive
Floating Ripple Vases (by oodesign)
Fill your favorite container with water and float the vase. According to the movement of the air, the plants change their position within the container.
Love it!
(via handa)
zuky:
The new kid in school needs a new name! Or does she?
Being the new kid in school is hard enough, but what about when nobody can pronounce your name? Having just moved from Korea, Unhei is anxious that American kids will like her. So instead of introducing herself on the first day of school, she tells the class that she will choose a name by the following week. Her new classmates are fascinated by this no-name girl and decide to help out by filling a glass jar with names for her to pick from. But while Unhei practices being a Suzy, Laura, or Amanda, one of her classmates comes to her neighborhood and discovers her real name and its special meaning. On the day of her name choosing, the name jar has mysteriously disappeared. Encouraged by her new friends, Unhei chooses her own Korean name and helps everyone pronounce it —Yoon-Hey.A lot of my PoC immigrant friends would have needed this book when they were young. You can purchase the book here.
- Yazmine
Looks very cute and positive. Most of my own childhood memories concerning my name at school have to do with fighting those who mocked it and having it mispronounced by teachers.
(via fabianromero)
Space is Luxury
Italian architect Renato Arrigo has created ‘Space is Luxury’, a small house of 25 square meters for 4 people in the city center of Taormina. A bed disappears in the ceiling ready to give the space necessary for daylight activities.
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(via handa)
The mature retina contains five classes of neurons: photoreceptors (purple), horizontal cells (yellow), bipolar neurons (green), amacrine cells (pink and blue), and ganglion cells (pink and blue). In this cross section of an adult mouse retina, only a subset of bipolar cells, “the ON bipolar cells” are visible by their expression of GFP (green). The pink and blue speckled striations at the bottom of the image mark the fiber layer, which contains the ganglion cell axons that will form the optic nerve.
By Rachel Wong, University of Washington
Retina
(via freshphotons)
