Banksy creates a piece in London on the side of an empty building and clearly makes a statement about consumerism.
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This is a tried and tested formula!
Bugs on book covers
Bristol, England-based artist Rose Sanderson repurposes worn book covers as canvases for her “bugs on book covers” paintings. Really beautiful work.
See more on her site here.
(spotted on Colossal)
Overcoming adversity.
You have been knocked down time and time again but you rise back up every time you are knocked to the ground.
Rather than trying to accommodate what we’ve got, we should work the other way. Find the threshold that makes sense for you, that you’ve got the time to maintain, that you can afford and that creates an acceptable amount of work and complication for you.
A wonderful way to think about the concept of enough and applying it to the data we care about. Read the whole thing because he comes at it from an angle that appeals to me. That being, how easy it is to back up and “spread around”.
Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler tells us the life cycle of his clothing & accessories: “When I found a good shirt, I wore it to death until it turned into a rag, and I hung it from the mike stand. Then I turned that into a scarf, and that scarf turned into something else. At first, it hurt so much to think that someone might feel that it wasn’t cool, but I went, F—k it. I didn’t care what people thought.”
[Photo: Kevin Mazur / WireImage-Getty Images]
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Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler tells us the life cycle of his clothing & accessories: “When I found a good shirt, I wore it to death until it turned into a rag, and I hung it from the mike stand. Then I turned that into a scarf, and that scarf turned into something else. At first, it hurt so much to think that someone might feel that it wasn’t cool, but I went, F—k it. I didn’t care what people thought.”
[Photo: Kevin Mazur / WireImage-Getty Images]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m29nsefjxh1qzs5cqo1_500.jpg)
