This “map” shows the equivalent climate cities can expect in the future: for example, London of 2071 most closely matches the climate of the west coast of Portugal today. via the Guardian

The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss bound together in a beautiful book.
The Deep by Claire Nouvian

Back from Copenhagen I’m loaded with inspirations and my mailbox is loaded with massages for openings and art viewings. Next days I will update you with a selection of the best.

Tot start with next Sunday, there is an opening in Enschede (NL) by Ben Kruisdijk. It will be an exhibition about the ‘black hole’. The ‘black hole’ is the time after you finished art school, until your first big artwork and birth of your own style and signage. I’m curious. I love his röntgen drawings!

Nieuwe Ruimte
Minkmaatstraat 15a
Enschede
12:00 till 17:00

A beautiful commercial for the Ford Mondeo. Love it! Watch it at beam.tv

Next weekend I’m in Copenhagen. If you have some tips for galleries, shops, people I have to see/meet, give me a message.

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100 Movies, 100 Quotes, 100 Numbers!
via movingpictureblog

I had a beautiful weekend at creamfields in Lisbon with Sander Kleinenberg. I was working on a shoot and the graphic design of his new album: this is™

Nice infographic about the world.

“It was not put up there with the purpose of showing that we hate those people…”
I just don’t know… That people are thinking about it, is bad, that they are actually doing it, I don’t have words for it…
The sign is from the Good News Independent Baptist Church. via Wral. I’m curious what “Good News” in their name stands for.

Check this lovely PDF magazine. Beautiful photographs, playful design.
Five To Nine Magazine, issue 2

A nice photoblog by Elizabeth Atterbury

Beautiful photo’s by Sanna Kannisto at Gallery La Ferronnerie last week at Art Amsterdam

Accelerate discovery. Access knowledge. Access peers. Accumulate knowledge. Act globally. Act locally. Add high quality content. Alert others about vandalism of the environment. Alert others about vandalism on this web site. Analyze information. Analyze policies. Analyze practices. Author articles. Author reports. Build communities of peers. Build upon knowledge of peers. Challenge status quo. Change viewpoints. Collaborate constructively. Compile knowledge. Connect efforts in the world. Consume not social prestige, but earn it. Consume not trivial and pointless products but useful products. Create common good. Create engaging content. Create software and tools collaboratively. Cultivate a collegial work environment. Develop a new culture. Describe web site link. Discuss information. Discuss laws. Discuss projects. Distribute knowledge…

Openecosource.org is an open for participation platform dedicated to stopping global warming. This first project aims to collect ideas and data about what knowledge, actions, laws, products, construction practices, transportation, software, and inventions we need. We are in a process of developing this web site, and will sort all the entries according to categories and regions.

Rocking new work by Dan Tobin Smith for Creative Review

via Luis Mendo – BladBlog

Beautiful works by Zeng Hao at ARARIO Gallery

Super sunglasses hand-made in Italy with a Zeiss lens. They Rock, don’t they?!

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Surprisingly, the very vulgarization of the material presence, as well as the extremity of the luster and its optical power, draw the works towards a quasi-metaphysical existence. Something in the connection between the fantastic literary images and their embodiment in a material which has no clear identity and is covered with a coating that gleams in a variety of changing hues, robs the works of any kind of solidity. It compartmentalizes them as “not from here”, “not now”, and certainly not bearing a promise of constant presence. – Doron Rabina about the beautiful works of Eli Gur Arie

Via Moonriver

I mentioned it before, but now ChangeThis published a manifesto of The Dip. Great stuff and a must read for all people who want to be the best of the world!

The reason that being the best in the world is worth so much is that few can do it. Scarcity carries a premium.
The dip is the long slog between starting and mastery. A long slog that’s actually a shortcut, because it gets you where you want to go faster than any other path. The dip is the combination of bureaucracy and busywork you must deal with in order to get certified in scuba diving. The dip is the difference between the easy “beginner” technique and the more useful expert approach in skiing or fashion design. The dip is the long stretch between beginner’s luck and real accomplishment.
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It’s easy to be a CeO. What’s hard is getting there. there’s a huge dip along the way. If it was easy, there’d be too many people vying for the job and the CeOs couldn’t get paid as much, could they? Scarcity, as we’ve seen, is the secret to value. If there weren’t a dip, there’d be no scarcity.
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The way you become the best in the world is by quitting the stuff where you can’t be the best. That leaves you the resources to invest in getting through the dip.
It’s that simple.
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Being average is for losers.

Justin McAllister is painting these strange and desolate places where catastrophic and apocalyptic things are happening… They are a bit scaring, but beautiful as-well.
love it.