Madame Vastra & Jenny Appreciation Day
Madame Vastra & Jenny Appreciation Day
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Watts.Designer unveils wooden light bulb
Marrying traditional Japanese craft techniques and energy-efficient lighting technology, designer Ryosuke Fukusada creates an LED bulb wrapped in a thin wooden shell that, yep, glows.Wat
Hey, that light bulb looks…burnt…out? OHOHOHOHO
London underground during the war, 1941.
my father had to sleep down there as a baby with my grandparents
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In the spring of 2011 Anouk Vogel was invited to make a garden for the Gardening World Cup held in Nagasaki, Japan. The brief was to make a garden of 24 sq m for the duration of one month in the autumn of the same year.
For this event Vogel choose to make a design entirely folded out of white paper. The idea is based on an old Japanese legend that grants a wish, such as a long life or recovery from illness or injury, to anyone folding a thousand origami cranes. Inspired by this tradition Anouk Vogel folded a thousand paper flowers with a team of 15 local people to express a wish for world peace and tolerance. The team needed two weeks to fold all the parts composing the garden. The plants are made with special paper that can absorb water without being destroyed. The flowers open when moist and fold back in shape when drying.
Anouk Vogel’s Paper Garden