Erna L. Adelson

I come up with big ideas derived from keeping close tabs on consumer behavior, emerging technology, and trends in communication and culture. My goal is to continue to impact people by shaping the stories, experiences, interactions and the things that make up their daily lives. These are the things that inspire me.

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Food Artist Creates Edible Worlds Out of Everyday Ingredients

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Exploring, Not Explaining, The Mind Of Robin Williams

Robin Williams is the subject of a new HBO documentary called Come Inside My Mind. Using clips and interviews, it documents his unusual process and his complicated life.

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Awareness in Every Move with Calligrapher David Grimes

To see more from David’s calligraphy, follow @masgrimes on Instagram.

Calligrapher David Grimes (@masgrimes) turned his passion for design and typography into a career, but his love for gymnastics and parkour found its way into his writing: “I like to think that landing a jump is the same as landing a nib on paper — softly, gracefully and never stumbling over yourself when you take your next step,” says David, who lives in Portland, Oregon. David specializes in Engrosser’s Script, penning anything from a certificate of appreciation for a retiring boss to a short poem for a loved one. “I try to create work that I feel emphasizes the power of the content without distracting from it, to honor the thoughts of the thought-thinker,” he says. David creates a controlled environment to get into his creative flow. “Calligraphy is a really meditative thing. I get a lot out of my work purely from the experience of creating it,” he says, then adds: “Some days I have to push back from the pens and go outside to climb on stuff.”

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Coudelaria Vila Viçosa ~ Lusitano Stud (x)

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Ruup Students of Estonian Academy of Arts 

“Gigantic wooden megaphones” for the forest inhabit a clearing in Estonia's Pähni Nature Centre. They are part of an acoustic installation meant to amplify the sounds of the landscape, serve as outdoor classrooms or just provide shelter to a weary hiker.

Images Tõnu Tunnel

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The America evoked by the Budweiser can is an America that I recognize—one that exists only in advertisements. You find it in commercials for pickup trucks and lawnmowers, jeans and mass-produced beer.

Vinson Cunningham, “Budweiser and the Selling of America” (via newyorker)

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USA. New Jersey. 1983. Downtown Manhattan with World Trade Center towers, seen from ‘lover’s lane’ in New Jersey. By Thomas Hoepker.

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Introducing Improvements to Instagram Direct

We launched Instagram Direct in 2013 as a way to share moments with one person or a smaller group. Now more than 85 million people use Direct every month to send inside jokes, family videos, photos from road trips and other moments meant only for a handful of people. Today we’re announcing improvements to Instagram Direct including threaded messages and sending content from your feed as a Direct message.

Threaded messages make it easier to go back and forth with the people you talk to the most. Instead of creating a new conversation every time you send a photo or video, your threads are based on the people in them — and your moments flow along naturally. We’ve also added the ability to name your groups, a quick camera feature to respond with a selfie on the fly, and larger-than-life emoji for when there are just no words.

Today’s updates also bring a brand new way to start conversations around what you see on Instagram. When you find something inspiring or funny, your first instinct is often to share it with friends who you know will appreciate it. Today, people do this by @-mentioning friends in comments, so much so that nearly 40% of comments include an @-mention. This update has made it easier to share content that you love.

Now, you’ll find an arrow next to the like and comment icons under every post. Tap it to send that post to a friend or group as a message using Instagram Direct. It will appear as part of your conversation, and you can tap the photo or video to see and like the original post. You can also send hashtag pages and location pages by tapping the arrow icon in the top right-hand corner.

Privacy works the same way as it always has on Instagram. Photos and videos sent using Direct are only visible to people who could already see them. If the owner of a photo or video has their account set to private, only people who follow their account will be able to see it if it’s sent as a message in Direct. And, as always, you own your photos and videos — today’s updates do not change that.

With these changes to Direct, it’s easier to connect around the things you love. We hope it helps bring the community closer together than ever.

To learn more about today’s updates to Instagram Direct, check out the Instagram Help Center.

Instagram for iOS version 7.5 is available today in Apple’s App Store, and Instagram for Android version 7.5 is available today on Google Play.

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A Woman Is Posting Feminist Messages Written On Period Pads All Over Her City

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Advice to Writers by Billy Collins

Even if it keeps you up all night, wash down the walls and scrub the floor of your study before composing a syllable. Clean the place as if the Pope were on his way. Spotlessness is the niece of inspiration. The more you clean, the more brilliant your writing will be, so do not hesitate to take to the open fields to scour the undersides of rocks or swab in the dark forest upper branches, nests full of eggs. When you find your way back home and stow the sponges and brushes under the sink, you will behold in the light of dawn the immaculate altar of your desk, a clean surface in the middle of a clean world. From a small vase, sparkling blue, lift a yellow pencil, the sharpest of the bouquet, and cover pages with tiny sentences like long rows of devoted ants that followed you in from the woods.

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Casa 20x20 Felipe Assadi Arquitectos

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Juvet Landscape Hotel (aka Ex-Machina Nathan’s House) Jensen & Skodvin Architects

One of two locations that stand in for Ex-Machina Nathan’s House, the Juvet Landscape Hotel is a meeting between raw Norwegian nature, cultural history and modern architecture. The first landscape hotel in Europe is situated in the farmyard of Burtigarden farm at Alstad in Valldal, on a steep, natural levee in between  birch, osp, pine and age-old boulders.

In this little village in rural Norway, modern architecture encounters the natural and cultural landscape – and shows that the modern and innovative can go hand in hand with local building traditions and good, old-fashioned handicrafts.

Images and text via Juvet Landscape Hotel’s website

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Casa Calera del Rey Gualano + Gualano Arquitectos

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shamekh شامخ 

Art, architecture and fashion collide in the best possible way in the the work by  shamekh شامخ, an architect and fashion illustrator that has found an ingenious way to combine both of his passions.

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Envisioning Habitat Cheryl Medow In my ongoing series Envisioning Habitat, I look beyond the everyday world and create a new reality shaped from the exquisite and sublime beauty of nature. 

When working in the field to photograph birds and landscapes and then later in my studio to select and combine the related imagery to include in my final images, I take creative liberties by commingling the birds, their scale and their fantasy environments. I image the essence of paradise and weave a visual narrative echoing the Hudson River Valley artists who blended multiple scenes from field notes and memory to create their idealized, romantic and emotional paintings. 

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Is Reading the New Therapy?

“In a secular age, I suspect that reading fiction is one of the few remaining paths to transcendence, that elusive state in which the distance between the self and the universe shrinks.”

Ceridwen Dovey writes on the many forms of bibliotherapy.

Illustration by Sarah Mazzetti

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Stories represent life. And life is messy. We relate with people who are imperfect because they’re just like us. It’s our imperfections that make us human.

Unlike Marketing Messages, Stories Are Messy 

A great piece on storytelling that happens to be very appropriate for Memorial Day. 

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