Winter (at raymond lavoie photography)
@irving_designs this is a lot of food but I think I can handle it! #breakfastwithmelvin #englishbreakfast #minischnauzer
Wonderfully adorable photos of this mini schnauzer!
In all the Chase branches around the country now. Very proud to be part of this campaign.
Sunrise from the WestSide (at raymond lavoie photography)
Heat to the Rescue: Sturdy Oil Drum Survival Kit Also Converts Into Stove.
Like the Haitian earthquake of 2010, last year’s Japanese tsunami disaster spurred designers to re-think what an effective, life-saving response might look like.
Focusing on providing a source of heat, water and food housed in rollable oil drum that can be converted into a stove, Eindhoven-based Japanese designer Hikaru Imamura’s “Heat Rescue Disaster Recovery” kit reflects his belief that something as simple as heat and hot water may mean the difference between falling deathly ill or surviving.
this is fucking awesome.
Aamzingly cool design and functionality for disaster.
cmog:
Interested in seeing the design drawings for these invertebrates?
The Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka archive in the Rakow Research Library includes over 900 original art drawings of plants and invertebrate animals made as studies for the glass models.
Check out the digital archive >
We share all sorts of amazing things that aren’t what they seem at the Geyser of Awesome. Here’s another one, and it’s a doozy:
You may think you’re looking at photos of beautiful undersea invertebrates, but these delicate beauties are actually models made of clear, coloured, and painted glass. Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka, a father and son team of master glassmakers (previously featured here), painstakingly created these extraordinary glass models of invertebrate animals (jellyfish, snails, sea anemones, corals, hidroids, starfish, sea-cucumbers, squid, seaslugs and bivalves) from the mid 1800s until the 1930s.
Photographer Guido Mocafico visited the natural history museums which still house collections of the Blaschka’s work, including Harvard University Herbaria, the Corning Museum of Glass/Cornell University, and the Natural History Museums in London and Ireland, in order to create a marvelous series of photographs celebrating these exquisite models. He set the pieces against dark backdrops and carefully lit them to emphasize their different colours and textures.
As you can see here, the results that Guido Mocafico achieved for his travel and effort are completely wonderful. Click here to view more.
[via Faith is Torment]
Wish these were my photos. Beautiful.
Iceglaas in the garage (at Italian Village)
