He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams.
@nyrra I have neither sufficient length, nor patience to grow it, nor the amount of badassery to pull it off, nor the infinite competence and wisdom for my clients to be okay with seeing me with my beard braided.
This is not to say I haven’t contemplated it 😉
The human world is not more fragile now: it always has been | Aeon Essays
This is to @cubedweller ’s point of humanity as a virus. But also a good read regardless.That humanity is a virus that should not be allowed to spread is a long standing argument with many valid points, too many to list here, but as a representative of that virus, I simply cannot fully get behind it. I don’t really think we are any better or any worse than many other things that happened to this planet, and who is to decide what is a good thing and what isn’t – and humans are (at the moment) they only ones with both the technology and with self-doubt to keep its powers in some semblance of a check.
The human world is not more fragile now: it always has been | Aeon Essays
Putting a Designer’s Polish on Ikea Products
Inevitably, Mr. Christensen said: “We would tell the client, ‘You can save half if you use Ikea carcasses, and we just skin it.’ That’s where the initial idea started.”
Sensing that there was a bigger business opportunity than producing a few one-off kitchens, they discussed the concept for Reform over a beer and soon compiled a list of three collaborators that represented their Danish design dream team: BIG, Henning Larsen and Norm.
“We never imagined they would all say yes,” Mr. Andersen said.
But they did, and Reform introduced its first architect-designed collection in August 2015. (The company also offers a kitchen designed in-house).
Ikea as a platform – who knew
Full Story: NYT
This has been a thing among designers and makers for years – take IKEA bones and dress them up with high end accessories and things like handles (from, say, Anthropologie).
That a cottage industry around this would spring up is only natural. And IKEA has learned their lesson since the time of cease and desist letters they sent to Ikeahackers.net .
We are all broken. That’s how the light gets in.
“Because our species’ time on Earth is very likely to be finite, we should be doing everything we can to colonize nearby worlds — particularly Mars — to increase our odds of survival. Putting a permanent colony of humans on Mars would be an insurance policy against a civilization-ending catastrophe here at home, like an errant comet or an accidental outbreak of thermonuclear war.”
Was near my old home yesterday
The writer Umberto Eco belongs to that small class of scholars who are encyclopedic, insightful, and nondull. He is the owner of a large personal library (containing thirty thousand books), and separates visitors into two categories: those who react with “Wow! Signore, professore dottore Eco, what a library you have ! How many of these books have you read?” and the others – a very small minority – who get the point that a private library is not an ego-boosting appendage but a research tool. Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you don’t know as your financial means, mortgage rates and the currently tight real-estate market allows you to put there. You will accumulate more knowledge and more books as you grow older, and the growing number of unread books on the shelves will look at you menancingly. Indeed, the more you know, the larger the rows of unread books. Let us call this collection of unread books an antilibrary.
Nassim Taleb (via inthenoosphere)
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