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Danny Flies Again

Danny MacAskill and Dave Sowerby create another amazing video of bike vs gravity.. bike wins :)


Watch their first work of art in the form of a bike here.

NYC Subway Mosaic Art

It's one of the few things that can probably get a busy NYC commuter to slow down for a second, the mosaic art underground. Look around next time you are running for a train, it might be worth catching the next one just to look at these up close. I saw these last night. Truly beautiful.



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About them: There are 2 large wall sized pieces of artwork, one on each wall where the staircase exits and transfers are, and the artist for both glass mosaics is Ming Fay (2004). The Downtown side is titled "Shad Crossing" and details two giant shad fish "swimming", along with another wall mosaic of blue waters. In the late 19th century, these shad were found along the Hudson River when new immigrants came to New York, most of them settled on the Lower East side. The new staircase to the relocated F/T booth also has another painting of a shad wrapped around the bottom of the stairs. The Uptown side is titled "Delancey Orchard"; it has a cherry orchard tree mosaic, which symbolized the tree owned by the Delancey family in the 18th century. Along all staircases leading from the F line platforms to either fare control are miniature versions of these paintings (edit: They say "paintings" but they are large mosaics made to look like paintings :))
From Station Reporter
Check out this site for more beautiful mosaic works of art in NYC Subways :)

Journey of the Pyramid, From the Archives

A story just for TLLT
Childhood


Growing and Leaving


Tests of Mental and Physical Strength


Who Remains


Selection


Transformation


The Chosen One



Originally posted 6/16/07

Beautiful Bottle Boats and the Flotsam Flotilla

Floating in the Pacific Ocean there is an island twice the size of Texas (potentially larger!), made of plastic and garbage. What can be done with this garbage, and the garbage you are about to throw away, it's garbage right? Wrong, it's a resource that can be used to do many things. Like what? Put a plastic bottle in a tub filled with water and what does it do? That's right it FLOATS. Look at what some people have done with not only plastic but that other environmental swear word, styrofoam (it takes 500 years for one cup to dissolve!).


"'El Padrino', the brainchild of recycling enthusiast Jesus Roman of Guaynabo, is a functional kayak made of 2 liter Pepsi bottles lashed to a PVC frame."
Created as part of an event to draw attention to the issues of the coast around San Juan Island, PR. Via Surfrider Foundation


"Balachandra Kurup, who used to work in a Gulf country, thought of a plan not only to reduce pressure on the environment from the PET bottles but also to put them to productive use. He used discarded bottles to fabricate a small rowing boat, in which he rows in the Paravur Lake."
He will build them for people with a three year guarantee and had ferried his own family across Paravur Lake. He states, "PET spares for the boat will always be in stock." via The Hindu


"A floating raft home, made of salvaged lumber and floating on chunks of styrofoam. In the early 1990's The Floating Neutrinos set off across the Atlantic using the only the wind and current to push their boat all the way to the coast of Ireland and then on to France."
via The Floating Neutrinos, log on for their latest adventures and news.

And the greatest of these is The Plastiki (please click and give a pledge!), at this moment still on the seas nearing their destination of Sydney, Australia. EDIT, PLASTIKI HAS ARRIVED!!! Read all about it here!


It is a catamaran made of plastic bottles.

(All the Flickr photos from Plastiki here!)

It just crossed the Pacific Ocean from San Francisco, USA. What more proof does anyone need to say, yes stop making more garbage and think of the amazing things it can do. You can also recycle and reduce your use of single-use plastics and say, let's make this a resource that will no longer be called trash but a thing of a different kind of beauty.

David de Rothschild creator of the Plastiki Expedition

EDIT, Thank you Plastiki! :)

Clinton Just South of East Broadway, NYC

Thanks Rick, this is beautiful

Malan Breton Fashion Week Fall 2010

Behind the scenes peek at Malan Breton's Fall 2010 Fashion Week Show. Watch the trailer here:

It was so lovely!











Tying the bowtie, all the little details! It came out beautifully of course :)



The gorgeous dancers at Malan Breton's fashion week show in rehearsal. They were gorgeous and energetic and such sweet smiling faces!




Anoop Desai in rehearsal at Malan Breton's fashion week show, singing his song "My Name".










The atmosphere before the show!


Malan Breton Fashion Week 2010 show begins. Beautiful bird puppets and music starts the show.




Amanda Fields walks in Malan Breton's Fashion Week show. Amanda is not only a beautiful model and a fantastic runway walker she is a great supportive friend to Malan and Blogging Project Runway. She has always shown amazing support for everybody.



Malan Breton, Anoop Desai, Countess Luann de Lesseps. The Fashion Week finale walk, like a moment in a film where they should be walking off into the sunset or on a foggy street :)

Three Legged Mamma Bear with Cub Adapts

By Walking Upright.. go GO! amazing mama bear.

Rainbow Peacock

Thank you Annakim Violette for sharing the last video. All of the dancers are deaf, and create an amazing work of art in movement.