Via Reddit and My Modern Net

Walk into the Grace Cathedral in San Francisco from now till the end of February and you’ll find a gorgeous art installation that features 20 miles of ribbon cascading from the church’s vaulted ceiling arches. Artist Anne Patterson is behind Graced With Light, an installation consisting of nearly 1,000 satin ribbons with colors inspired by stained glass. It took the artist months to prepare, which she did in her art studio in Manhattan by constructing a 3/16-inch scale model of it with embroidery floss. Then, on site, it took Patterson and the Grace Cathedral community eight days to hand-assemble the project.

1/7 Art: 20 Miles of Stained Glass Colored Ribbon Hang Inside a San Fran Cathedral

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Homeward Bound

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Filmmaker Harrison Boyce’s dreamlike depiction of his bi-coastal drive from New York to Seattle provides a timely counterpoint to the hectic season of catching planes, trains and automobiles back to wherever counts as ‘home’ in time for Christmas. Soundtracked by NOWNESS regularBoyce‘s brother Hamilton’s band, Song Sparrow Research, the video evokes the family spirit of the season; to accompany the piece, New Yorkerand McSweeney’s writer Kate Hahn dwells on how best to package the myriad feelings that the trip back brings out of us with her twelve-step guide to handing the pressures that familial saturation might bring. “Every holiday road warrior carries one piece of luggage,” she explained to us, before boarding a flight from Los Angeles to New York for the break. “It is called the emotional suitcase, and it is crammed with feelings associated with a journey home. It is heavy, awkward, musty, criss-crossed with the duct-tape of denial, and dented from being slammed into life’s many obstacles. Here are a dozen tips that will make packing yours much easier.”

Street Art By Sika in Bassano del grappa, Italy

Via STREET ART UTOPIA

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12/18 Art: Street Art in Bassano del grappa, Italy

Via @MegMoran

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12/17 Art: Beauty is in the eye of the beholder #2

13 Dec

2013

8 Places That Are Nearly Impossible To Get To (And How To Get To Them)

(Via Buzzfeed)

The Yemeni town of Qalansiyah is an isolated town on the western tip of the island of Socotra. Because of Socotra’s remoteness, a high number of plants and animals can be found only there.

There are a lot of options for your first flight. You can choose from Cairo International Airport in Egypt, Dubai International Airport or Abu Dhabi International Airport in the United Arab Emirates, Doha International Airport in Qatar, Bahrain International Airport in Bahrain, Charles de Gaulle Airport in France, Leonardo da Vinci–Fiumicino Airport in Italy, Kuwait International Airport in Kuwait, Frankfurt Airport in Germany or Istanbul Atatürk Airport in Turkey.

From your first stop, you will get on a flight to Sana’a, Yemen. Depending on where you transfer through, this could be a flight that lasts just about an hour or several hours.

From Sana’a, take a flight across the Gulf of Aden to the Socotra Airport. This airport is the only way on or off the island without a boat.

Once on the Island, hire a driver for the trip to Qalansiyah. The drive from the airport to the remote village is about an hour in length, but, be advised, Socotra is known as a hide out for pirates and other dangerous folks.

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