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Hey! Hope you're having a good week. Here are some lovely and/or meaningful things for you:
- The image above is from a blog called Borzoi Daily, which delivers on its promise.
- "Something I like to do when I travel is make appointments to see random stuff at special collections of local libraries. It's like the opposite of enjoying a city's night life!" Darius Kazemi on how to be a library archive tourist.
- For What It's Worth: Dillon Marsh uses photography and computer-generated images to juxtapose photos of mines with representations of what was extracted from them: a tiny bouquet of diamonds in a giant quarry filled with water, a smooth sphere of gold at the edge of a desert, a boulder of platinum in the South African wilderness.
- The ingenious way some Chinese-born people in New York are collectively organizing deliveries of familiar comfort food via WeChat.
- Turkey has a whistling language (!) that helps people communicate across long distances over mountain ranges (its continuation is now threatened by cell phone technology). Make sure to watch the videos.
- National Park is a typeface designed “to mimic the National Park Service signs that are carved using a router bit."
- Patron Saint of Twitter Nicole Cliffe is doing a match-making thing; check it out if you're single, or share with single friends! Both the women featured so far are stone-cold catches.
- Marriages of works of literature with their ideal illustrators: Tove Jansson illustrates The Hobbit and Salvador Dali illustrates Alice in Wonderland.
- Two beautiful photo series that remind me of each other: A day at the beach and same hill, different day.
- (I know dead people, and you are not dead.)
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Bye (thanks Katie),
Laura
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