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Fishing the Long Island Sound
Last night, our electrician came over to help install a sound system. His son Max is a smart, jovial 11 year old who lost his mother to cancer at a young age. Max usually chills on his iPad playing video games while his dad works his electronic magic in the basement. My friend and I […]
Enstitute- An alternative to college for digital elite?
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/05/business/enstitute-an-alternative-to-college-for-a-digital-elite.html?_r=0&pagewanted=all
12/5 Art: Artist cultivates magical worlds with miniature bonsai trees
The spiritual and cultural significance of growing miniature bonsai trees derives from a thousand-year-old horticultural tradition in Japan, representing a careful, contemplative and Zen-influenced relationship between humans and nature. Taking up this time-honoured practice of cultivating trees, Japanese artist-architect Takanori Aiba gives his bonsai an unusual twist by adding on miniature, realistic structures like bridges, stairs and intricately detailed […]
Disconnecting, to Connect
Via Nunodonato on Reddit: “6 months ago (time flies!) I closed my Facebook account. I feared I’d miss important things. I never used it a lot, but liked to share interesting stuff and also to read the posts of a few people. Honestly speaking, I never imagined it would be that easy. Since the day […]