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photojojo:

Dennis Maitland figured out how to take #fromwhereistand to the next level…that level being the top floor of buildings all over Detroit.

Dennis Maitland’s Rooftop Self-Portraits

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Posted at 1:00 PM 27 January 2012

Chicago 1949 by Stanley Kubrick

Before he started making movies, Stanley Kubrick was a star photojournalist. In the summer of 1949, Look magazine sent him to Chicago to shoot pictures for a story called “Chicago City of Contrasts.”

- Chicago Tribune

via retronaut

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Posted at 11:20 AM 27 January 2012

::Flashback Friday::

With all of the talk this week about Florida’s “Space Coast”, I couldn’t resist this clip.

This is another great LIVE performance from The Midnight Special 1973, when Glam Rock was at its peak.

David Bowie - “Space Oddity” (by redsails2008)

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Posted at 9:40 AM 27 January 2012

20 Reasons to feel hopeful about Michigan’s food in 2012

Any one of these will make you feel good about what we have going related to our food system, “healthy, green, fair, and affordable”.

(via AnnArbor.com)

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Posted at 11:20 AM 25 January 2012

Vertical Farm at Chicago Airport: Simple and Cool! →

agritecture:

I just stumbled upon this great post about a new Vertical Farm project at Chicago airport. Check out the images and notice the varieties of foods that can be grown on these small food production towers.

Set in a seemingly unused nook of the G Terminal, a mezzanine space has been transformed into a high-tech urban garden. I see a lot of projects like this one – usually they have a DIY vibe that is quite inspiring (hey, even I could do that!) This urban garden however looked like it came out of a ride at Disney.

www.urbangardensweb.com

SO COOL!

Edible flowers and ready to eat lettuce. Yummy!

What looks like the most comfortable chairs in the airport are set up around the installation with tables to create a park-like setting. Between the view of the runways and the “sunny” urban garden I now know where I’ll be killing time for the next delayed flight.

www.urbangardensweb.com

DIY experimental Vertical Farming projects in airports…a creative way of increasing awareness of BIA and providing food to airport food distributors.

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Posted at 9:40 AM 25 January 2012

11 Businesses You Can Start in Your Pajamas

Here’s a look at 11 entrepreneurs that ditched the office to cut overhead expenses, be closer to family, and enjoy, as one entrepreneur put it, the “10-step commute.”

(via Inc.com)

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Posted at 11:20 AM 17 January 2012

Dr. Maria Andersen: Where’s the “Learn This” Button?

We heard Dr. Andersen speak this past summer at MakerFaire Detroit about how learning happens. She is a learning futurist at the LIFT Institute and Math Professor at Muskegon Community College.

(via ACU)

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Posted at 9:40 AM 17 January 2012

See The Music: Musical Surrealism

This series of limited edition art prints are created using a unique algorithm.

Each of the pieces is generated in 3D with parameters defined by the name of its composer, its mood, its key and its tempo. Each forms a floral-like surrealistic art piece, and makes a unique contemporary rendition of classical music in visual form.

(via Creative Review)

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Posted at 11:20 AM 16 January 2012

Meet Andra Milcu of Ideas for Sustainability

Called to action at a young age by the idea that “mankind produces, consumes, and throws away - over and over and over.”

(via Ideas for Sustainability A blog by Joern Fischer and his collaborators on sustainability and landscape ecology: engaging your head and your heart)

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Posted at 9:40 AM 16 January 2012

BIGGEST TEAHUPOO EVER, SHOT ON THE PHANTOM CAMERA

This day at Teahupoo- Aug 27th 2011 during the Billabong Pro waiting period is what many are calling the biggest and gnarliest Teahupoo ever ridden. Chris Bryan was fortunate enough to be there working for Billabong on a day that will go down in the history of big wave surfing. The French Navy labeled this day a double code red prohibiting and threatening to arrest anyone that entered the water.

Kelly Slater described the day by saying “witnessing this was a draining feeling being terrified for other people’s lives all day long, it’s life or death. Letting go of that rope one time can change your life and not many people will ever experience that in their life.”