Taking professional photographs of your crafts can be a daunting experience. From shaky images to bad lighting, no matter how great the craft, a bad photograph will make even Martha Stewart’s creations look sloppy. Kristen Magee of the sumptuous (and beautifully photographed) Paper Crave shares how to take professional photographs without having a degree or even a fancy camera — via CraftFoxes
A stacking doorstop and paper weight version of the ubiquitous Jack Light. Manufactured in copper plated aluminium, also available in Black — via Tom Dixon
The house was built in 1967 in the Gatinais-Orleans region, which is around 81 miles from Paris. It sits in land covering around 3.7 acres of primarily woodland, with metal gates and fencing keeping your land separate from nearby residents. OK, here’s where we get technical.
It was designed according to Le Corbusier’s golden ratio and human scale, known as the modular
, with its polychromy created by Sopick, a contemporary architect from the school of Le Corbusier.
It needs some updating, but a price of €295,000 (£236,000) doesn’t seem outrageous — via WowHaus
This is what blowback looks like:
In Sydney, a protest against a provocative film ends in scenes of violent clashes between some protesters and the police.
In Canberra, a young woman in a headscarf is confronted by a random stranger who offers to punch her for the police
.
My smart, quick-witted friend has been taking martial arts classes, so I’m pretty sure that this bigot would have bitten off more than he could chew, had he actually tried to land a punch on her. Luckily for him, my friend told him that she’d prefer to be beaten up by the police rather than by him, and offered to call them on his behalf. He was left confused, but he can console himself that at least he didn/t feel the force of my friend’s Anaconda Choke.
Stories like these generate a range of contradictory responses even within the same individual, never mind an entire community. My most immediate response was pure, undiluted outrage. What the hell makes anyone think that they can treat my friend and other women like her in such a manner? To assume a licence to stand in judgement on a total stranger, and deliver the verdict in such a repulsive manner? Who does he think he is? Are we really supposed to respond to such abuse by showing how friendly and likeable and ordinary we can be?
(My friend, by the way, is both friendly and likeable, but not ordinary. They broke the mould when they made her. She’s extraordinary) — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Australian writer Robert G Barrett has died of cancer on the New South Wales central coast.
Barrett started his working life as a butcher at Bondi in Sydney’s east before turning to writing in a deliberately politically incorrect style.
He introduced his best-known character Les Norton in his 1984 novel You Wouldn’t Be Dead For Quids and has sold more than 1 million copies of his books — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Church houses always sound great in theory, but in practice … what are you really going to do with forty rows of pews, or the space left when they are vacated?
This Australian religious structure started small and ended small, but the latter in the hands of homeowners who could use its entire area without feeling overwhelmed — via Dornob
The WELL, the online community which started out life more than 20 years ago as the Whole Earth Lectronic Link, has been sold to a company founded by some of its long-time users. It has had many owners in its storied history, but its most recent owner, Salon, is the first public company to own the WELL, which raised numerous questions about whether Salon could legally sell the site to the users without trying to realise greater value for its shareholders, including through the sale of the well.com domain name.
Many WELL users have pledged money for a user buyout, and a group of them negotiated with Salon to make the purchase — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Red Cliveas, originally uploaded by Red Wolf.
Up the garden path, originally uploaded by Red Wolf.
St John’s Door, originally uploaded by Red Wolf.
Stiff, unresponsive and gasping for breath, it looked like the end was near for Mandy.
It was only when she saw her best friend, Bianca Otley, that she raised her head and, with the help of paramedic Sandy Macken, began fighting for life.
Mandy is a four-year-old pure-bred greyhound who was rescued from a futon factory fire in Marrickville and resuscitated by paramedics after 45 minutes.
Firefighters found Mandy lying underneath a bed in a dark, smoke-filled room as the Fantasy Futon factory burnt down — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Three brazen
masked raiders stole designer watches worth £1m from a Manchester department store while the shop was busy with customers.
They used an axe and crowbar to smash into cabinets at Selfridges and removed about 100 watches.
The men, who wore high-visibility jackets and trousers, escaped in a black car driven by a fourth man on Wednesday evening.
The haul included brands like Audemars Piguet, Hublot and Cartier.
The raid took place in Exchange Square and the car was found abandoned just over a mile (1.6km) away in Robert Street, in the Strangeways area of the city — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The leader of an Amish breakaway group was convicted on Thursday of hate crimes in beard- and hair-cutting attacks against members of his own faith following a dispute over religious differences.
A federal jury found Samuel Mullet Sr guilty of orchestrating the cuttings of Amish men’s beards and women’s hair last fall in attacks that terrorised the normally peaceful religious settlements in eastern Ohio.
Mullet and four of his children were among 16 people who prosecutors say planned and carried out the five separate attacks that amounted to hate crimes because they were motivated by religious disputes. Prosecutors say the defendants targeted hair because it carries spiritual significance in their faith — via redwolf.newsvine.com
— via Society6
Every industry has an outlier, and in the world of motorcycle apparel it’s Icon. The company is unconventional and unpredictable, and I’m sure that part of its success is down to the unusual customs built by creative director Kurt Walter and his crew.
The Slabtown, Northwest Portland garage has recently produced a Ducati streetfighter, a Triumph Speed Triple drift bike and a post-apocalyptic Harley Sportster. And now we have Thunder Chunky, a 1994 Kawasaki Ninja ZX7. With a 748 cc inline four pushing out 120 hp, Thunder Chunky is packing serious horsepower for a mid-90s bike—and can accelerate beyond 160 mph — via Bike EXIF
Australian architect Matt Gibson designed the Nicholson Residence in Melbourne, Australia — via CONTEMPORIST
Hernando Guanlao is a sprightly man in his early 60s, with one abiding passion — books.
They’re his pride and joy, which is just as well because, whether he likes it or not, they seem to be taking over his house.
Guanlao, known by his nickname Nanie, has set up an informal library outside his home in central Manila, to encourage his local community to share his joy of reading.
The idea is simple. Readers can take as many books as they want, for as long as they want — even permanently. As Guanlao says: The only rule is that there are no rules.
It’s a policy you might assume would end very quickly — with Mr Guanlao having no books at all.
But in fact, in the 12 years he’s been running his library — or, in his words, his book club — he’s found that his collection has grown rather than diminished, as more and more people donate to the cause — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Clean lines, solid materials and a sense of permanence surround this partly-subterranean house on the Aegean Sea. Large areas are reserved for ramps, decks and pools to engage the beautiful outdoor settings on all sides.
Traditional stone and white stucco tie the building into the place, but the modern cubes and rectangles make this clearly a work of contemporary construction at the same time.
Designed by Deca Architecture, there are comforting accents to the austere structure, too, like a natural-wood canopy and wooden benches with copious cushions in one of the outdoor deck areas — via Dornob
Liberal Senator Cory Bernardi has resigned as Tony Abbott’s parliamentary secretary amid a fierce backlash over comments he made linking gay marriage to sex with animals.
During a Senate debate last night Senator Bernardi said the push for same sex marriage was coming from radicals
who were determined to overturn the social fabric of Australian society.
And he questioned where the campaign would end, if society was prepared to redefine marriage based on the latest criterion
that it should be allowed irrespective of gender.
The next step, quite frankly, is having three people or four people that love each other being able to enter into a permanent union endorsed by society — or any other type of relationship,
Senator Bernardi said.
There are even some creepy people out there… [who] say it is okay to have consensual sexual relations between humans and animals.
Will that be a future step? In the future will we say, ‘These two creatures love each other and maybe they should be able to be joined in a union?’
I think that these things are the next step.
Speaking on ABC Radio this morning, Senator Bernardi was not backing down from his comments — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Panerai just announced the Luminor Submersible 1950 Amagnetic 3 Days Automatic Titanio (PAM 389). The Panerai PAM 389 has the classic Luminor Submersible design, with a 47mm titanium case and Panerai’s in-house P.9000 calibre. There are two notable and distinguishing features on the PAM 389: 1) its “amagnetic” properties and 2) its titanium bezel with a ceramic insert — via Perpetuelle
Scientists have printed lasers using standard inkjet printers — a move that may lead to a much easier and cheaper way to make future laser devices.
A University of Cambridge team has used liquid crystals in place of ink to print tiny dots on a surface covered with a special coating.
Once the coating dries, the dots become lasers, the researchers wrote in the journal Soft Matter — via redwolf.newsvine.com
RSS – Posts