The design studio Anagrama developed this unique bookshelves design for a library in Monterrey, Mexico. The city council asked the designers to compose a space that would be comfortable and cozy for the enjoyment of literature. I'd say they succeeded!
The bookshelves form a lattice structure that wrap around the walls and ceiling. The dome-like shape ends in a vanishing point at the top of the stairs that seems so very far away. If you want to retreat into a good book, then this in the space in which to do it. You can see more photos at Design Boom.
Piet Mondrian's iconic painting Composition II in Red, Blue, and Yellow has captivated the public imagination since the artist completed it in 1930. It has inspired people to mimic its enchanting collection of forms and colors in other media, including Jello, cake, and case mods.
Andreas Morgensen, 38, is the first astronaut to hail from Denmark. He's an aeronautical engineer from Copenhagen. On Friday, he arrived at the International Space Station for a 10-day mission. Morgensen brought 26 specially designed LEGO minifigs--one of Denmark's most famous exports.
Morgensen is participating in Project Thor, a study of thunderstorms and lightning. The Daily Telegraph reports:
“It’s a great honour for me to represent Denmark as an astronaut,” Mogensen told fans on an ESA hangout before the launch. “It’s difficult for me to imagine what it’s going to be like … It’s not until I’m strapped in the seat and feel the rocket lighting that I’ll feel: ‘Woah, this is really happening!’”
Mogensen is also taking Danish flags, a classic rye-bread porridge and a text by Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard.
Rocket News 24 tells us that creating 3d character bread loaves is becoming very popular on Japanese Instagram. Disney, Moomin, and Studio Ghibli characters are popping up, fresh out of the oven. In Japanese, they're called "chigiri-pan." Those featured in this post are by Instagram user @umi0407, who is amazingly skilled at the craft.
The spoon doesn't mean to cause you inconvenience. It's just that the soup is so warm. It feels so good! He's got to treat it like a hot tub and slide all the way in. You can stick your fingers in to pull him out or use another spoon to draw him out.
It is, surely, the greatest of all sports. Two men or two women enter a pool of 1,500 liters of gravy. After 2 minutes of savage wrestling in the slippery, meaty sauce, one prevails.
It is a noble tradition in Lancashire, UK.
Joel Hicks--a competitor known as Galdalf the Grey--emerged victorious at the end of the championships in Rossendale. Nicole Taylor-Lyons won the women's category. Many of the competitors wore costumes. Proceeds from the event are donated to charity.
American Ninja Warrior is a television show about an obstacle course of the same name. Completing it, let alone doing so quickly, is an incredibly difficult task requiring great strength, endurance, and dexterity.
Yoshi, who looks about 2 years old, is obsessed with the show. So his father set up an obstacle course in the backyard. Watch Yoshi smash through it, clearing every challenge.
Bonus item: Matt Iseman, the host of American Ninja Warrior, was so impressed with Yoshi that he provided a voice over commentary of Yoshi's run. You can watch it here.
The class rings that the graduating cadets of the United States Military Academy at West Point aren't casually ordered from an outside provider like Jostens. Each graduating class designs its own ring. Since 2002, the metal includes melted down rings of previous graduating classes, donated for this purpose. Seth Lipsky writs in the New York Post:
They’re made from gold from class rings that were worn by earlier graduates and that have been donated, melted and mixed with new gold to make rings for the following year’s first-class cadets.
A small amount of gold is preserved after each melt so that every graduating class will have traces of gold from all the rings that have been donated since the program began.
This has enabled every class since 2002 to “grip hands” with graduates from the past.
The graduating class for 2016 decided that it wanted a new source material for its rings: steel from the World Trade Center towers destroyed on September 11, 2001. Cathy Kilner of the Association of Graduates explains:
“They were raised seeing the footage of what happened and the consequences of that day,” she said.
Paula Rúpolo, a graphic designer, wants to illustrate how color can make a logo communicate. She asked, "How would brands be perceived by us if they had a different colour scheme? Could we get used to them with time or would it produce something unimaginable?" So Rúpolo swapped the color schemes of the logos of major competitors, such as Apple vs. Microsoft, McDonald's vs. Subway, and Google vs. Yahoo. You can see them all here.
Superior Court Judge Carl Fox of Chapel Hill, North Carolina has blood cancer. He needs a bone marrow transplant. Thousands of people have volunteered. Unfortunately, so far, none has been a match.
One of those volunteers might surprise you. Charles Alston, 62, is an inmate in state prison. He's currently serving a 25-year sentence for armed robbery. When Judge Fox was a district attorney, he prosecuted Alston in the case that landed him in prison.
Alston, 62, said he believes Fox, 61, may have saved his life by putting him in jail, so he wants to help save the judge’s life.
“I had a lot of hate for Mr. Fox because he sentenced me to so much time, but I come to church a lot, I found God. So, I thought maybe if I could do something for someone else, I'd do it,” Alston said.
Regulations prevent prisoners from donating bone marrow. But Judge Fox was nonetheless impressed by the gesture:
“I was very touched by it … totally surprised. I never thought Charles Alston would’ve written me and offered me the right hand of fellowship and offer to do something to save my life,” Fox said. “He had every reason to be angry with me, given where he is and the sentence he was given. It means even that much more he did that given the circumstances.”
Maud Le Car, a professional surfer, is currently ranked the 15th best in the world. She wanted to show that although her sport is physically demanding, it can be glamorous at the same time. So Le Car made a short video with Almo Film (auto-start video) showing her enjoying a gourmet meal with wine while wearing a formal dress, then immediately strapping on some high heeled shoes for an afternoon of surfing.
It's called artistic cycling. It's a sport invented in the 1950s and is currently most popular in Germany. The sport is similar to floor gymnastics, except that performers ride bicycles during the whole event. This woman, Nicole Frýbortová, is incredible at it. As the video progresses, her physical feats become only more amazing. It's like she can fly!
The crosswalk is your bro. He's here to keep you safe. Offer your greetings with a friendly fist bump. Alfredo Adan, a Spanish designer in Los Angeles, molded this silicone fist, then glued it to a crosswalk button. He calls it the Walkbump.
First, strip naked. Then rub wet mud all over your body.
Well, not right now. This is all about how to use natural materials to disguise yourself from visual observation. Creek Stewart is a wilderness survival expert. In the past, he’s brought us 10 survival uses for a cell phone and a tampon. Now, at The Art of Manliness, he shows us how to disappear like Rambo did in First Blood Part 2.
You can read his full instructions here. The wet mud is a foundation. Apply loose debris, such as leaves and twigs, before it dries. Roll around on the ground, because that’s what you’re trying to look like. You’ll find this method makes you so invisible that even animals will unknowingly approach you. Stewart writes:
A few years back while giving natural camo a stab while hunting I actually had a squirrel run down the tree I was leaning against and eat a nut while sitting on my leg. I kid you not. I could tell he knew something wasn’t quite right but he had no idea he was sitting on a human! It was an amazing experience and that squirrel was delicious (just kidding, I didn’t kill him). And, yes, at that distance I could tell it was a “him.”
Shaquille Dent, an animation student at the Cleveland Institute of Art, has hair that makes him look like Goku from Dragon Ball Z. It all began in high school, when he learned that he could style his hair into spikes—and they would hold firm! Now he sculpts his hair into broad locks that look like they come from a manga artist’s brush. It takes him only about 2 hours twice a month to keep his hair looking this amazing. You can see more photos at BuzzFeed.
