Worth One’s Salt
Rain over the Bolivian Salar de Uyuni, the world’s largest salt flat. Via Smithsonian Magazine, June 2012.
A Stair, Wobbling, Beautiful Destruction
Abitare, May 2012
Italy’s finest magazine of architecture, interiors and design is also bilingual, and filled with idea-candy.
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TOM SACHS MISSION MARS
L’Official Art – Avril / Juin 2012
From a conversation with Adam Steltzner from NASA’s jet propulsion lab, and New York visual artist Tom Sachs. So much to look at in this issue. A handy English language index appends each issue of L’Officiel Art.
Descente au pays de la Fee verte - Neon Magazine (Avril - Mai 2012)
Fans of pretty pictures of forests, dripping with dew and sunlit fog and frolicking, pretty much complete our morning. My French is poor, but Neon is a cool new magazine to Zinio, and this article is all about absinthe — the anise-flavored, distilled, highly alcoholic spirit derived from the botanicals and herbs.
The Beauty of Connections
Linkedin’s network of its co-founder, Reid Hoffman. Via Wired UK.
Artist Liu Bolin teams up with Harper’s Bazaar to make fashion designers ‘invisible’ in their own work.
The Boss of it All
Wired UK explains how Tumblr’s CEO David Karp has built a £5 million empire at the age of 25.
Metabolomic Eye
What is this beautiful palette of colors? This technicolor dreamscape is actually an image into the diversity of cells of a mouse eye. Captured by a neuroscientist at the Moran Eye Center in Utah, the image shows 70 types of cells ranging from muscles to retina. The unique process to capture this image is called computational molecular phenotyping (CMP) and made the best visual images of 2011 in Science magazine.
In Memoriam
Two months after his death, GQ remembers heavyweight titan Joe Frazier.
Cinematic
Cinema in a Milan department store from Abitare (December 2011).
