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Ráfagas de pensamiento. Para recoger y anotar todas aquellas ideas que explotan en la cabeza y se van tan rápido como vienen.

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ZOKU micro loft hotel room / nest, opening soon in Amsterdam, designed by concrete.

Via showbox dwelling.

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WINTER by TV ON THE RADIO

Oh, it's the winter of the wanted

Yeah, it's the hardest part of nature

Lord, have mercy on this creature

Give me some heat, I know you've got it

And who knows what the summer's gonna bring us?

Comes on slow, gotta keep the fire in us

So completely in the dark now

I hope that night will last forever

Yeah, you know I like it better

When we're a little bit frightened

And who knows what the night is gonna show us?

And we'll go where nobody's gonna know us

I was blinded by sympathy

For a minute, I was strung out

Got my eyes wide open now

I can see the storm ahead of me

I say "go" cause I know it's gonna clean us

No control, let the physical redeem us

This is my confession, yeah

Think I'll learn my lesson, yeah

This is my confession, yeah

Can you hear me calling out

Like a siren to a sailor?

Only trip that last forever

Let the ocean take us over now

Gotta know that there's a chemistry between us

Gonna show that I want you and I need it

Let the lightning strike me down now

As long as we're together

Can't think of nothing better

Than a union in the afterglow

Let it go, all the thinking and the reason

Here we go to the lovin' and the pleasin'

Lay me down, if you know

Let's go out, I'm ready for

Gently now, we can go on

Gonna keep you for the winter

Gonna keep you for the winter

Gonna keep you for the winter

Gonna keep you for the

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Limited edition poster for The Decemberists‘ Spring Tour 2015, by Ken Taylor.

5 color metallic gold and silver screen print. And gorgeous.

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Edges of Sanity by Daniel Crockett

1.

It’s been said

On far shores, weary mariners hear voices

Songs so beautiful they cast a spell

There is no choice but to hear.

They claim these whispers hold a message

Each ear hears different music

But the same call hunts the senses:

Without risk, there is no beauty

Without chance, no adventure

Through suffering, wealth without limit

So we scheme and plan

And tell nobody of our dreams

Shuffle cards, chance vague variables

And tread endless road miles until

Close against cold ground we toss and turn

And summon black water

2.

For I am of the waiting deep

The great denier, the poised fist

Stalker of pitch oceans

Whose fingers twist about your throat…

I swallowed the sad pilgrims

Who fell to flat reef, their vessels sunk

Into water bitter as winter night

Beyond the edges of sanity

I am the waiting teeth of the rocks below

The grinning maw in the clouds

Bearer of the hourglass - killer of the short dim day

Who beckons you to dare

3.

The north song does not stop

Power in that promise

Goes beyond common meanings

You have walked in footsteps new

What was before will never be again

But memories of lined faces

And in the glowing after

Breaking bread the sweetest knot

All weight shed - light extraordinary

Until my whisper comes again…

And the future begs your listening

The future begs your listening

Edges of Sanity, by Daniel Crockett

Hear it narrated by Charles Dance (Tywin Lannister in GoT) in this powerful video by Finisterre

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Stranded between rivers, longing for the sea.

COMING UP FOR AIR, a film directed by Mickey Smith for Finisterre, produced by The Astray Collective and narrated by Matt Smith.

“Just like winter ice, we all change with a little heat. It keeps us getting up each morning, keeps us awake at night, keeps us stealing precious scraps of time out on nature’s highways, hunting that clear, cold weight. 

And just as shadows hide in winters skyline, at some point we lost the innocent feeling of looking and understood what we wanted.

Heavy eyes and ice on the floor. Grinning, nervous faces at the end of the land and the start of everything else. 

Dice tumbled for passionate hopes that couldn’t hide in the eyes of boys, men, maids — all of us lost, found, and changed, trusting our hearts at sea, searching for one thing: the simple satisfaction of our own mortality. 

Waves that are ageless, that go down slow and are as strong as the roots of ruined roses.

And those ambassadors of landless latitudes, that roam as they desire, without god or country. There, journeys end as ours begin.

 Heads roaring with belief, ideals become clear, but all remain ultimately ignorant of the sea. She’s always hunting, ready to humble the martyr, the sinner and saint in us all. 

I once heard if a man feels at home outside of where he was born it is a place he is meant to be. Cold and coming up for air. I blinked, knew it true, and shivered with joy.”

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Architecture Animée, playful architecture gifs by Axel de Stampa.

They all capture the essence of the building in a very accurate way.

Via 1 week 1 project and Gizmodo

Credits:

Mirador Building by MVRDV and Blanca Lleó / Photo by Luis García / Gif by Axel de Stampa.

VitraHaus by Herzog & de Meuron/ Photo by Iwan Baan / Gif by Axel de Stampa.

New Museum by Sanaa / Photo by James Ewing / Gif by Axel de Stampa.

Zollverein School by Sanaa/ Photo by unknown/ Gif by Axel de Stampa.

Theatre Agora by UNStudio / Photo by Christian Richters / Gif by Axel de Stampa.

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Brilliant opening titles by Device for the documentary Europe in 8 Bits.

Via Gizmodo

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Protected Intersections For Bicyclists by Nick Falbo.

A great animation for a great concept design.

Learn more at Protected Intersection

Via FastCo Design

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systems is an exhibition of commissioned poster designs and ‘60s Braun products, that took place from Nov. 25 – Dec. 31 at the Wal­ter Knoll show­room in Lon­don.

Recent years have seen a revival of interest in modernist graphic design, but little agreement about what, in practical terms, this might mean or what is ultimately at stake in it. Thirty-four leading graphic designers and studios were invited to produce a poster design on the theme of Braun systems design. From repetition and development to nostalgia and critique, the diversity of response to the systems brief offers a snapshot of the international graphic design scene in this moment of uncertain possibility. At the same time, systems samples some of the best and most challenging work currently being produced.

Check out all the poster designs here, get an A1 print over at das programm store and enjoy the video for The Making of “A Modern Still Life” by Neubau.

Via Ryan Panos and Aisle.One

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Minka, a short film by Birdling Films.

Moving story, great cinematography, astonishing old photographs and a 273-year-old farmhouse.

You can also check out the book by J. Roderick himself.

Via berlinfarmlab:

A film about place and memory, a farmhouse in Japan, and the lives of the people who called it home.

Check out the book as well

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Toward Resilient Architectures

An outstanding, thought-provoking series of articles by Michael Mehaffy and Nikos A. Salingaros published at Point of View, Metropolis Magazine's blog.

Toward Resilient Architectures 1: Biology Lessons

Toward Resilient Architectures 2: Why Green Often Isn't

Toward Resilient Architectures 3: How Modernism Got Square

Toward Resilient Architectures 4: The Geometry of Resilience

Toward Resilient Architectures 5: Agile Design

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DIN Desk by Gompf and Kehrer.

DIN takes the form of shelving and a table. Separately, the shelving is reduced to a grid structure, and the table is an incomplete, narrow surface with only two legs. Fitted together, the two elements mutually stabilize and the furniture becomes complete. DIN stands freely in space, accessible from all sides, it can combine or divide spaces.

Via Tréndir

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OVERVIEW by Planetary Collective.

The Overview Effect, first described by author Frank White in 1987, is an experience that transforms astronauts’ perspective of the planet and mankind’s place upon it. Common features of the experience are a feeling of awe for the planet, a profound understanding of the interconnection of all life, and a renewed sense of responsibility for taking care of the environment.

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While I was on the space station, I used Twitter to ask hundreds of thousands of people what they would like me to take a picture of. Resoundingly, the answer was “home.” Everyone, from all around the world, wanted to see their hometowns. I found that thought-provoking. After millennia of wandering and settling, we are still most curious about how we fit in and how our community looks in the context of the rest of the world. A curiosity of self-­awareness, now answerable by technology. This is where the answers to our problems will start. ­People across the planet need to see and internalize an accurate global vision of place and individual account­ability—to recognize the problems that face us all and the technologies that exist to combat them. Our young ­people need to be able to look up, to look beyond the horizons of their forebears, and see the wisdom and opportunity that comes from a more universal sense of responsibility. The International Space Station is a phenomenal laboratory, an unparalleled test bed for new invention and discovery. Yet I often thought, while silently gazing out the window at Earth, that the actual legacy of humanity’s attempts to step into space will be a better understanding of our current planet and how to take care of it. It is not a perfect world, but it is ours. Sometimes you have to leave home to truly see it.

Chris Hadfield, quoted from his article We Should Treat Earth as Kindly as We Treat Spacecraft.

Make sure to take a look at his new book: An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth. Via Wired

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Light painting with pixelstick by Bitbanger Labs.

SERIOUSLY. COOL.

Contribute to the Pixelstick's KickStarter campaign and get one for yourself!

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Mozilla Factory's Open Source Furnitures by Nosigner.

I find the trihedral joint particularly interesting.

The designs are Open Source, you can download them and play with them here.

Via ecosistema urbano

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My dear architects. This is why Starbucks designed round tables in their stores. They were strategically created “in an effort to protect self-esteem for those coffee drinkers flying solo”. They were not round because the architect felt it looked better that way, they were not round because they were cheaper, they were round because as the article concludes “there are no empty seats at a round table”. The round tables at Starbucks were the result of asking the question how do we want people to feel before considering what do we want them to do. Form follows feeling.

Christine Outram, quoted from her thought-provoking article What Starbucks Gets that Architects Don't