Yasuo Okazaki is an amazing woodworker that makes naruko kokeshi dolls — via Vimeo
— via Youtube
Lantana camara cvs originally uploaded by Red Wolf
The Royal Family from 1066 until today — via Youtube
Mind the first step originally uploaded by Red Wolf
Here’s a summer project you’ll definitely want to try your hand at — a macrame-wrapped chair by Alison Allen. Give your patio a summer-ready makeover with a colourful macrame folding chair. It’s a fun, inexpensive way to makeover an aluminium frame, and it’s sure to command attention at your BBQ. Follow the pattern or create your own design, and don’t be afraid to go as bold as you like. Take extra care to make sure the cord doesn’t get twisted as you wrap by keeping your skein under the chair while you work — via Mollie Makes
A fun piece that has been beautifully reproduced from a series of little studies Stephanie drew and hand inked. This is a limited edition print of 40 pieces made, each will come signed and numbered with archival ink. Print measures 7.5″ wide by 9.75″ high and printed on high quality, heavy creme coloured stock Mohawk paper — via Etsy
Self-taught woodworker and industrial design student, Nick Pourfard of Prisma Guitars, designs and builds one-of-a-kind guitars out of his workshop in San Francisco — via CONTEMPORIST
Purple Flowers originally uploaded by Red Wolf
Manchurian Pear (Pyrus ussuriensis), Purple Flowers and Lantana camara cvs originally uploaded by Red Wolf
Originally built in the 1960s an anonymous water tower, the 115-foot-tall structure was saved from demolition in 1990 and renovated into the Torre Arcobaleno (Rainbow Tower), a colourful totem dedicated to the Soccer World Cup held by Italy in 1990. Over the next twenty-five years, however, the landmark’s appearance deteriorated. Studio Original Designers 6R5 Network, the design firm that led the 1990 renovation, spearheaded the 2015 restoration project — via Inhabitat
This awesome crochet amigurumi Exorcist playset from Ravelry user, Croshame, is tagged for Halloween, but I think this film icon carries the pop culture street cred to be whipped up no matter the holiday — via MAKE: Craft
There is a place or fictional characters meet. Outside of time, outside of all logic, this place is known as Hell’s Club, but this club is not safe — via Youtube
British company Terry Lifts have designed a home elevator that looks like something out of Star Trek. The lift is made possible by cutting a hole in the floor, and having a lift pod travel along a track between two floors — via CONTEMPORIST
Yes, you read the title right. If you have a cat, it’s trying to send you signals via meowing, rubbing, and purring. But what are they saying? Learn how to interpret your feline friend in this instalment of The Science of Us
— via Youtube
Nicolas Roeg directing David Bowie in The Man Who Fell to Earth — via Cinephilia & Beyond
Every year, local communities on either side of the Apurimac River Canyon use traditional Inka engineering techniques to rebuild the Q’eswachaka Bridge. The entire bridge is built in only three days. The bridge has been rebuilt in this same location continually since the time of the Inka — via Youtube
British neurologist Oliver Sacks has died at the age of 82, it has been confirmed.
The acclaimed author, whose book Awakenings inspired an Oscar nominated film of the same name, reportedly died of cancer at his home in New York.
In February he wrote about his illness — and being face to face with dying
.
His publicist Jacqui Graham paid tribute to Dr Sacks, saying he was unlike anybody I have ever met
, while JK Rowling said he was inspirational
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
Prolific horror filmmaker Wes Craven, who directed the slasher classic A Nightmare on Elm Street, has died aged 76, his family said in a statement.
Craven, who was also behind the 1990s horror hit Scream, died surrounded by his loved ones at his Los Angeles home after suffering from brain cancer, the statement said.
It is with deep sadness we inform you that Wes Craven passed away,
the family said.
Our hearts are broken.
Craven suffered from ailing health over the past three years, but continued to work on projects including several television shows, a graphic novel and a new film, The Girl in the Photographs, which is set to premiere at the 2015 Toronto Film Festival next month.
He was awarded lifetime achievement awards by the New York City Horror Film Festival and the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, according to the Internet Movie Database — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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