hm3 - a collideoscope by @shiftctrlesc
  1. (Source: firsttimeuser)

  2. Imagine this design assignment: Design something that makes oxygen, sequesters carbon, fixes nitrogen, distills water, accrues solar energy as fuel, makes complex sugars and food, creates micro-climates, changes colors with the seasons and self-replicates.

    -William McDonough on designing something as elegant as a tree
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  4. The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

    -Auden, W. H. 
  5. ∞ link reblogged from youthfulidealism
  6.  “A Home is not a House” … “a huge network of cables and tubes, an accumulating “baroque ensemble of domestic gadgets” between the sky (with a Tv antenna) and the earth (a septic unit). (via paavo)

     “A Home is not a House” … “a huge network of cables and tubes, an accumulating “baroque ensemble of domestic gadgets” between the sky (with a Tv antenna) and the earth (a septic unit). (via paavo)

    ∞ link (15 notes)reblogged from paavo
  7. via @openworld
  8. awareness

    October is Brain Injury Awareness Month. Eye Injury Prevention Month; Flu Prevention Month; Child Abuse Prevention Month; Seniors’ & Elders’ Month; Women’s History Month; Dental Hygiene Month; Eye Health Month; National Occupational Therapy Month; Healthy Lung Month, Agriculture, SIDS, Lupus, Breast Cancer, Menopause, Cyber Security, Autism, Celiac, and  Psoriasis Awareness Month.