1. Truth Windows
A traditional feature of strawbale houses is the truth window – a small section of a wall that is left unplastered on the interior, and a frame is used to show the walls are actually made from straw bales for insulation. Truth windows often take on the role of an altar, bringing gratitude for the sources of our materials and reminding us of the reasons for the choices we have made.
Found on Wikipedia.
2. A Maori Raincoat
This woman is wearing a “pake” (raincoat) made of flat “hukahuka” leaves woven so that the rain flows off the cape.
Found on Pinterest.
3. A Teacher’s Guide to The Great Satanic Panic of the 1980s
A teacher found these warning signs documents in her supply cupboard:
Found on Twitter.
4. An Archive of Old Record Labels
Compiled by Reagan Ray, designer and illustrator. Browse them all here.
Found via Present and Correct.
5. Your Weight in Outerspace – a handy chart
Found on Pinterest.
6. Try Picking this Lock
Frank L. Koralewsky served as a traditional ironworker’s apprentice in his native north-German town of Stralsund. After obtaining journeyman status, he worked in various German shops before immigrating to Boston in the mid- 1890s. By 1906 he was a member of the Boston Society of Arts and Crafts, specializing in locksmithing and hardware. This extremely intricate lock, which took seven years to complete, exemplifies the early-20th-century taste for sentimental medievalism and represents the pinnacle of the metalworking tradition at the turn of the 20th century. Exhibited at the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition, where it won a gold medal, the lock illustrates Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s fairy tale “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.”
Found on the Art Institute of Chicago.
7. Waiting for Famous People
A series by Jonathan Monk, who playfully skewers seminal works and ideas from modern, Conceptual, and Minimalist art predecessors like Mark Rothko, Bruce Nauman, and Sol LeWitt.
Found on Fooldot.
8. NYC Cab Driver Spends 30 Years Photographing His Passengers
In 1980, aspiring photographer Ryan Weideman landed in New York City from California, looking to make a name for himself. But he soon found himself focused on more practical matters, like paying the rent….
Full story found on My Modern Met.
9. When tipping was considered deeply un-American and made illegal in 7 states
When tipping began to spread in post-Civil War America, it was tarred as “a cancer in the breast of democracy,” “flunkeyism” and “a gross and offensive caricature of mercy.” But the most common insult hurled at it was “offensively un-American”… tipping was blamed for encouraging servility and degrading America’s democratic, puritanical, and anti-aristocratic ethic. European immigrants surging into the U.S. were charged with bringing this deplorable custom with them.
Full article found on NPR.
10. Frank Lloyd Wright’s 1959 ‘city of the future’ on Ellis Island that never was
Frank Lloyd Wright proposed a $93 million design that didn’t lack ambition. The architect described it as promoting “casual, inspired living, minus the usual big-city glamour.” It would house 7,500 residents, boasting seven candlestick-shaped towers, all orbiting around a giant globe in the center. Residents would have access to all the amenities of a big city, including hospitals, movie theories, restaurants, and more. Eventually, the government put the kibosh on Wright’s futurist plan, and ultimately rejected every developer bid tendered for the island in favor of turning it into a national monument.
Found on Artsy
11. They don’t build churches like they do in Kerala, India
In their series, entitled Postcolonial Epiphany, art studio ‘Haubitz + Zoche’ document the extravagantly-ornamented churches commonly found in the region of Kerala in South India.
Found on Design Boom.
12. Yoga with Audrey Hepburn
Audrey Hepburn doing a series of yoga poses on the set of “Green Mansions”. Photos by Bob Willoughby for McCall’s magazine, 1958.
Found on Pinterest.
13. Happy Spring Equinox
Spring starts on Wednesday!
