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Artist Transforms Stuffy Old Lace Into Fantastic Street Art (Photos)
Photos: NeSpoon (via Behance) If you associate hoodie-concealed men sporting spray cans with street art, think again. Think crocheted bicycles , yarn bombing and random acts of planting . To be sure,...
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Are UK Conservatives Lurching to the Lunatic Fringe Too?
Image credit: World Economic Forum , used under Creative Commons license. The UK Chancellor’s vow that Britain would not take a leadership position on CO2 cuts was disappointing , but given his...
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Why Localization is the New Economic Development
From the rise of Plenitude Economics to the tantalizing signs of peak car ownership , there’s plenty of writing on the wall for business-as-usual-economics. But sharing that with others isn’t always...
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How to Grow King Stropharia Mushrooms pt. II: Checking for Mycelium
Image credit: Mushroom Mountain With the Fall coming on strong, mushrooms are starting to poke their heads out of the leaf litter once more—the most visible reminder of nature’s greatest recyclers....
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Killer Whale Swims Up to Boat, Imitates Motor’s Sound
Images via YouTube Video It’s technically not a good thing to anthropomorphize animals, but it’s really hard not to when you see this killer whale doing its darndest to sound like a boat’s motor. An...
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Artist Crochet-Bombs NYC’s Astor Place Cube Sculpture (Video)
Photo: via Animal New York In big, gritty cities, ‘bombing’ things with soft yarns is all the rage. From crocheted bikes to knitted plant pockets , “yarn bombing” is a way for citydwellers and...
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UCLA’s Young Library Undergoes Landmark LEED Gold Renovation
Read the rest of UCLA’s Young Library Undergoes Landmark LEED Gold Renovation Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: “sustainable architecture” , charles e. young research library , eco...
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Knitta Please’s Magda Sayeg Is Covering the World in Yarn!
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Olek yarn bombs a Swedish and Finnish house with hot pink crochet
An explosion of pink has erupted on top of two homes in Europe—one in Avesta, Sweden and the other in Kerava, Finland. Crochet queen Olek unleashed her yarn bombing skills on the two homes as part of...
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Artist covers two houses in bright pink crochet as a symbol of hope for refugees
https://vimeo.com/180960347 Olek traveled to Avesta, Sweden to install art at a museum, and during conversations with Ukrainian and Syrian refugees who helped with her art, she decided to ” blow up my...
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