1. As we face the holiday gift-buying season, here are some good reasons to buy local…

    As we face the holiday gift-buying season, here are some good reasons to buy local…

  2. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
    Mark Twain
  3. when i first looked at this, it looked like an art piece.
floatingheat:thepublics:


A plot of land sustained both cows and people amid floodwaters at the village of Jeram Perdas in the northern Malaysian state of Kelantan on Saturday. Hundreds of villagers were temporarily evacuated from the area after floods were triggered from the start of the annual monsoon season (Fathil Asri/AFP/Getty Images)

    when i first looked at this, it looked like an art piece.

    floatingheat:thepublics:

    A plot of land sustained both cows and people amid floodwaters at the village of Jeram Perdas in the northern Malaysian state of Kelantan on Saturday. Hundreds of villagers were temporarily evacuated from the area after floods were triggered from the start of the annual monsoon season (Fathil Asri/AFP/Getty Images)

  4. fuckyeahghosttowns:

Château de Noisy, Celles, Houyet, Namur, Belgium (via missionabandoned)
Le Château de Noisy (also named Château Miranda) was built by the English architect Milner in 1866 as a summer home for the family of the Count of Liedekerke-Beaufort. The family stayed there until World War 2, when the castle was briefly occupied by the Nazi’s. In 1958, the NMBS (the Belgian railroad company) used it as a home to shelter the railroadmen’s children and wives.
Since 1991 the building is abandoned. The village of Celles tried several times to buy the castle and its ground but the family doesn’t want to take distance of the castle. The building has over 500 windows, which are almost all shattered along with several of the staircases inside. There is still a clock tower of 56 meters tall. The castle is popular amongst urban explorers.

    fuckyeahghosttowns:

    Château de Noisy, Celles, Houyet, Namur, Belgium (via missionabandoned)

    Le Château de Noisy (also named Château Miranda) was built by the English architect Milner in 1866 as a summer home for the family of the Count of Liedekerke-Beaufort. The family stayed there until World War 2, when the castle was briefly occupied by the Nazi’s. In 1958, the NMBS (the Belgian railroad company) used it as a home to shelter the railroadmen’s children and wives.

    Since 1991 the building is abandoned. The village of Celles tried several times to buy the castle and its ground but the family doesn’t want to take distance of the castle. The building has over 500 windows, which are almost all shattered along with several of the staircases inside. There is still a clock tower of 56 meters tall. The castle is popular amongst urban explorers.

  5. I just like to watch people moving around on a familiar neighborhood corner. Looks like a Mr. Rodger’s miniature city in fast-forward action.

    (from the NYTimes new Bay Area blog)

  6. I don’t usually post clothes. But I think this TIBI dress is pretty fabulous.

    I don’t usually post clothes. But I think this TIBI dress is pretty fabulous.

  7. Ira Glass on Storytelling - Part 4

  8. Ira Glass on Stroytelling - Part 3

    > Keep making stuff, a lot of stuff

    > You will close the gap between your ‘good taste’ and bad production

  9. Ira Glass on Stroytelling - Part 2