IBM UK are at Base Cities London and have been collecting Big Ideas for sustainable cities from delegates and our Twitter and Tumblr followers. We’ve passed your Big Ideas to Scriberia to animate and here are five of the best, along with Sriberia’s pictures.
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Books for walls? Now we’ve seen everything! And so will you if you step inside David Bouley’s long-delayed Japanese restaurant Brushstroke, which puts 12,000 boring old (recycled) paperbacks to good use as the walls in the bar/lounge.
(via Photos: David Bouley’s Brushstroke Uses Books For Walls: Gothamist)
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My Bloody Valentine are reissuing Loveless— with a previously unreleased version of the record mastered from original analog tapes— on May 7. And that’s not all they’re reissuing…
The Book Barge travels around the UK, transporting its book-trade from city to city, via old canals and waterways.
“A student by the name of Bartholomäus Traubeck created a project entitled YEARS for the specific purpose of converting thin tree rings into music. He did this by using a Playstation Eye Camera, which read and converted the wood grain into music. This information was fed into a laptop running Abelton Live and the musical output is something directly out of a horror film. So, next time you’re walking alone in the woods, think of this music and savor the chills running up and down your spine as you realize that trees, were they able to sing, would terrify you.” - A Tree’s Age Rings Converted Into Music Sounds Like a Horror Score
Tenured Professor Departs Stanford, Hoping to Teach 500,000 Students at Online Start-Up - The Chronicle of Higher Education (via davemorin)
I would like to give this guy a high-five, and I would like him to give me a job working for him.
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future home.
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Time Bandits - dir. Terry Gilliam, 1981
David Tennant and various members of the cast & crew singing “500 miles” by The Proclaimers.
THIS CAST AND CREW IS PERFECT.
GRIN YER FACE OFF
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5 excellent West Coast IPAs you’ve probably never heard of, but should totally drink if you get the opportunity.
Saw Drive last night—among its many other excellent qualities, it has a beautifully Moroder-esque soundtrack laced with retro-disco gems. This is one. I recommend listening to the entire soundtrack even if you don’t go see the film.
[Desire - “Under Your Spell”]