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Best video ever: “Amelie Jr.” and her fantastic storytelling

I think that this clip speaks for itself. This little girl, Capucine, is being nicknamed Amelie Jr.. Her video made my day. Doesn’t she make French sound so lovely?

Once upon a time… from Capucha on Vimeo. There are more great videos of her here!(via)


Designer Femke de Vries replaces plastic with leather in the iconic ‘plastic bag’

While reading the blog NextNature, I was miffed to see that designer Femke de Vries made a design statement by creating a bag made of leather that appears to be the typical plastic bag.  A quote from the statement on the site reads: “The most anonymous, brand less, recognizable ‘throw away’ bags made in leather [...]


Quotations are electric

I must learn to love the fool in me - the one who feels too much, talks to much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries. It alone protects me against that utterly self-controlled masterful tyrant whom [...]


Review: Tree Style Tab Firefox Extension

I have a history of being a major tab abuser in Firefox.  I am always working on several personal, professional and academic projects and often my research for all three overlap and intersect while I explore online, piling up in my tabs toolbar.  My friend Katie recently emailed to let me know about the Tree [...]


Maleonn, photographer from Shanghai

Absolutely in love with the photographs of Maleonn, especially his Postman series.


News and other delicious bits

Congratulations to Obama!  Like many here in Canada, I was rooting for him.  I had seen him speak about subjects like religion and net neutrality, amazed as his drive to keep up with new information and continue to be perceptive and thoughtful.  Imagine, a president who is thoughtful! However, I do have mixed feelings over [...]


Introductory paragraph, Muriel Spark’s “A Far Cry from Kensington”

“So great was the noise during the day that I used to lie awake at night listening to the silence.  Eventually I fell asleep contented, filled with soundlessness, but while I was awake I enjoyed the experience of darkness, though, memory, sweet anticipations.  I heard the silence.  It was in those days of the early [...]


Jon Huck, Breakfast series

Portraits of people by Jon Huck featuring their chosen breakfasts (I highly recommend checking out the entire series).  The other project on his site, Couples looks great too.  I am so curious about how this shoot was done.  Did he ask them to pick a breakfast in advance?  Did they choose the framing?  Or did [...]


Meta-YouTube

Great post over at i heart photograph about art by Constant Dullaart and others using Youtube videos to talk about Youtube itself.  Especially interesting is the idea that as Youtube continues to change its design for users, these artworks will be representing aspects of the technology that are obsolete - drawing attention to the design [...]


things that make me go mmm: vegan food porn finds

Maybe a new series?  So fun to look at vegan food porn on Flickr - makes me miss my camera but always inspirational for recipe experiments.
Vegan ravioli from thevegucator:

Vanilla bean with peach mousse cupcakes from theurbanhousewife.com:

Pasta puttanesca from veganjay92:

And.. bonus: a super cute tattoo portrait from one of my favourite flickr contacts:


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