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startupquote:

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

What is design?

viafrank:

Everything you ever needed to know about design, answered in five minutes by Charles Eames.

cepankus:

Yay! It starts tomorrow!!

The thinker of tender thoughts.

Jailed mobsters in Italy are no longer allowed to wear designer clothes while serving their sentences.

For decades Palermo’s Ucciardone prison has been known to its inmates as “The Grand Hotel” – a place where not even a custodial sentence could prevent well-connected mafiosi from enjoying the pleasures of a fine meal and a well-cut suit.

One mobster, Michele Catalano, was even able to hold a champagne and lobster birthday banquet in the gym of the Sicilian jail, while a fellow godfather arranged a formal wedding for his daughter in the prison chapel.

via Brad Colbow - Independent Web Designer, Illustrator - The Brads - This is Why Your Newspaper is Dying

fromme-toyou:

Caught in the rain

There are many differences between the successes of the Harry Potter series and the successes of the Twilight series. However, I think Stephen King point out, most succinctly, the difference in their themes.

(via Harry Potter vs. Twilight « Bits Of Wisdom)

fakescience

Why there are so many competing standards. (via xkcd: Standards)

Soccer and volleyball are too easy for these athletes.

Kung Fu Volleyball or Kung Fu Soccer? (by DailyEpicVideos)

Pixelated animals.

bifanoland:

The frame is not big enough to hold the painting.

Via Super Punch

Live Your Dream manifesto via HOLSTEE.

by Graphic Nothing @ Some Prints.

This reminds me of an ultra pixellated version I posted in May. Again, it’s an incredible example of how the brain is able to recognize and reconstruct images in the imagination just from a few simple suggestions and component parts.

STATES UNITED LETTERPRESS by beauchamping on Etsy)

Synchronized sky diving inside a Prague wind funnel. Just think of the Ok Go video where they’re all on the treadmills, but instead of treadmills they’re flying.

Praha Opening (by RaphCoudray)

Newspeak (via reddit)