This guy came out of the booth to gift us a crab. What a friendly dude! — via Youtube
One of Scotland’s most cherished cultural icons is partly in smouldering ruins today after fire raged through Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s architectural masterpiece, the Glasgow School of Art, writes Tristan Stewart-Robertson.
In what was last night described as a national tragedy, flames consumed around a third of the interior of building, with some reports suggesting the famous Mackintosh library had been lost.
Widespread emotion and dismay was demonstrated on the streets of Glasgow, and echoed around the world as the news spread.
Hundreds of students, lecturers and shoppers gathered in Renfrew Street and Sauchiehall Street as flames were seen bursting out of windows on the upper floors shortly after noon.
Many wept at the sight of fire engulfing the A-listed school, completed in 1909 and recognisable across the globe as an Art Nouveau gem — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Police on Thursday confiscated a heap of ashes displayed at a Centro Cultural Gabriela Mistral (GAM) exhibition — allegedly all that remains of US$500 million in pagarés
— or debt paper — stolen and burned by artist and activist Francisco Tapia, aka Papas Fritas
.
A video by Tapia went viral in student circles earlier this week wherein he confessed to burning the legal papers certifying debt owed by Universidad del Mar students and had thus liberated the students from their debt obligations. The video and its widespread circulation no doubt prompted the police raid at the art exhibit.
It’s over, it’s finished,
Tapia said in his impassioned five minute video. You don’t have to pay another peso [of your student loan debt]. We have to lose our fear, our fear of being thought of as criminals because we’re poor. I am just like you, living a shitty life, and I live it day by day — this is my act of love for you.
Although authorities began shutting down Universidad del Mar last year for financial irregularities and encouraged students to seek out alternative universities, the university is still collecting on its student loans.
The destruction of the documents occurred during a toma
— student takeover — of the campus and means the embattled university owners must now individually sue each of its students to assure debt payment — a very costly, time-consuming process — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Mesker Park Zoo & Botanic Garden in Indiana has welcomed its first-ever Takin calf, a female named Ching Lan, which means beautiful orchid
in Chinese. In the wild, this little calf would be following her mother on steep mountain paths at three days-old. It looks like she’s practising those motor skills by sneaking up on mum — via ZooBorns
The fridge is a Smeg FAB28RD fridge with freezer compartment, which you can buy with plain design here, there and everywhere. But you can only buy this design at John Lewis. That design is the Cummersdale print, which dates back to the company’s founding year of 1864, and was originally used as a furnishing fabric. It works pretty well on a 1950s-style fridge too — via Retro To Go
Today, in an extraordinary and rarely seen move, the CFMEU, in response to community pleas for help, has placed an historic Green Ban
on Thompson Square, Windsor.
Just as, in the early 1970’s, green bans protected Australian architectural heritage and social history; today this venerable and honourable tradition has been called upon in defence of the oldest remaining public square in Australia.
In the 1970’s green bans occurred against a background of the Askin Government and increasing developer power. Today’s green ban occurs against a background of eroded environmental protection and diminished heritage safeguards in response to an increasingly powerful developer lobby.
In 2014 the power of development over community concerns is well illustrated by the Windsor Bridge proposal and today’s announcement is made against a backdrop of ICAC investigations into political donations, power and influence; although more sophisticated financial arrangements are evident than the infamous brown paper bags
of the past — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Christopher Pyne, Leader of the House and Education Minister.
Originally aired on ABC TV: 22/05/2014 — via Youtube
— via deviantART
Buried Under the Pillow Fort and Watching the Humans, originally uploaded by Red Wolf
Zoran Jedrejcic has designed the Armada High Armchair for manufacturer Hookl und Stool — via CONTEMPORIST
Denver Zoo is celebrating the birth of an endangered Malayan Tapir calf. The male calf, named Baku (Bah-koo), was born to mother, Rinny, and father, Benny, late in the evening on 29 April. He the second offspring of this pair, and only the second birth of his species at the zoo — via ZooBorns
This little fox kit is no bigger than a house cat and is just as curious. It took a few minutes but her(?) curiosity compelled her to emerge from the shadows and see what all the clicking was about… — via Buckmaster Images
Three Asiatic Lion cubs born on 27 March at Finland’s Helsinki Zoo had their first vet visit at five weeks of age — via ZooBorns
Utility Graffiti, originally uploaded by Red Wolf
Relaxed Pod and Being Adorable, originally uploaded by Red Wolf
The first ever fully automatic wolverine claws that deploy and retract automatically. These beautiful 12″ stainless steel claws fire out at the touch of a button and bring me as close as anyone has to feeling like they have adamantium claws — via Youtube
Watch the baby fox we rescued as she regains her strength over the course of a few days. We then take her to Blue Ridge Wildlife Centre for our final goodbye — via Youtube
Some married men don’t wear a wedding ring because they’re up to no good, but others skip the hardware because it can be dreadfully dangerous in everyday life. Certain jobs or hobbies can make the wedding ring a hazard, but putting it on and taking it back off is hard thanks to men’s large knuckles. Designer and machinist Jeff McWhinney set out to create a safer wedding band that could easily be taken off and put back on — and it looks really, really cool. The Active Ring features a hinged opening mechanism that allows it to open with a simple motion and quickly clamp back into place — via Dornob
Four African lion cubs born to Shera on 2 March had their swim reliability test this morning. All lion cubs at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo must take a swim test, carefully monitored by the animal care team, before going on exhibit. As part of the test they must prove that they can swim to land and pull themselves out of the water. All of the cubs passed. They are now one step closer to going on exhibit in a few weeks with their aunts and half siblings — via Youtube
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