My friend Mike Butcher told me about the wonderful INSTABEAT well worth checking out if like me you always forget how many lengths you have done when swimming!
Everybody needs a Monday late-morning pick-me-up and this M.I.A song always gets me head-bopping in my chair.
New Science of Cosmography Reveals 3-D Map of the Local Universe
The three-dimensional structure of the local universe may one day become as familiar as our local geography thanks to a new generation of maps that reveal our neighbourhood’s rich complexity and our place within it
Full Story: MIT
New GRAMMY Museum set to open in Cleveland, Mississippi in Summer 2015!
“Mississippi’s influence can be heard everywhere…The music born in Mississippi has shaped the development of popular music in America and beyond. The GRAMMY Museum Mississippi will help the rest of the world recognize Mississippi’s contribution to American music culture.”
An Interview With Ford’s Futurist Sheryl Connelly
From The Motley Fool:
Sheryl Connelly is the head of Ford’s Global Trends and Futuring Division, where she separates trend from fad and helps the automaker determine what global changes will influence the market in years to come.
Join us to learn Sheryl’s insights on how demographics, technology, the environment, and other global issues have shaped today’s market, what these trends could mean for our future, and how one company is responding.
(via emergentfutures)
Interactive print here we come!
Here is the New Music City documentary created by AllSaints, Kings of Leon and KOL’s wonderful independent record label Serpents and Snakes. AllSaints now have a film division and this is their first release - you can check out more music and film projects at WWW.ALLSAINTS.COM/MUSIC . A lovely hybrid of fashion and music - music to our earrings hahaha
Sculptures in modern clothing.
All over this ‘Street Stone’ series by French photographer Léo Caillard and art director Alexis Persani who’ve styled some of the Louvre’s sculptures into hip, fashionable types.
Photographing the statues first, the duo then stacked imagery of models in similar poses before on top before removing everything but the clothes from the top layer in Photoshop.
Resulting in a juxtaposed contrast between modern and classical culture.
This graph dramatically illustrates the rapidly decreasing price of solar power.
Solar power’s massive price drop, in one graph.
(via emergentfutures)
New Music.. album sampler from The Crystal Fighters - Cave Rave!!
