I Eat My Salt with a Spoon

2013-05-21 123,966 notes

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2013-05-18 81 notes

paleofuture:

MINI-RHINO PETS OF THE FUTURE

House rhinos anyone?

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paleofuture:

$18 for a Dozen Eggs by 2010? Inflation Fears in 1982

8 dollars for a loaf of bread and 33 dollars for a movie ticket?! On the other hand, the prediction was pretty on par for what I pay for a men’s haircut and paperback books.

Gosh, if only these wages were true…

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2013-05-17 8 notes

Fashion Fridays: Are Vellies the Original Clarks?

crankyskirt:

An excerpt:

In his 2010 hit song “Clarks,” Vybz Kartel outlines the official outfit for an original “badman” down to the footwear. His shoes, the ubiquitous Clarks, are so attractive that everyone wants to know where he got them. The answer to this question might be more complicated than initially thought.

Clarks are a popular brand of shoe that originated in England in 1825. By the 1960′s, Clarks—and specifically the Desert Boot, a chukka shoe with a sole crepe developed by Nathan Clark after shoes worn by British troops in North Africa during World War II— had become the most sought-after footwear for young Jamaican men. Its continued popularity has since made it as Jamaican as mesh tops, bun and cheese, and kalooki.

Ask any Jamaican where they got their Clarks, and you’d expect to hear England or America. But the answer might actually be Namibia. In fact, Namibians created a shoe exactly like desert boots as far back as the 1600s. Called “Vellies”—short for “Velskeon”—these shoes, made from durable kudu skins, were originally worn by the Khoikhoi tribe before being adopted by the British.

This is so cool! So glad I found this. I’ve seen vellies before and am a fan.

Check out Brother Vellies… gotta save up for a pair, but the colorways are gorgeous and I’d much rather give them my loot if I’m going for the Clarks look.

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2013-05-16 35 notes

foundmonton:

Sit’n Chill Upgrade

Last night an amazing thing happened. A bench which had been created by a community art collective and then subsequently crumbled under the seasons of a northern city was rebooted into a bigger and better incarnation. True Edmonton style. We had the privilege of being able to ride up and give the creators the experience of witnessing pure elation at the site of their creation. Yesterday we posted pictures of what we thought would be the last form of the Sit’nChill bench, broken and tagged up. Just hours before we passed the original sit’n chill and remarked at how it had lived a long time, as an unsanctioned installation, but its time had likely come. Crossing 109 st to see a bench that fits in so well with surroundings, that we had to assure ourselves our first impressions we were not false, was an amazing experience. An event like that reassures your faith in a place and the people you share it with. This is the underlying spirit of the original “Make Something Edmonton” ethic that has permeated this city for a long time, the unsanctioned, unaccredited, selfless and fun. As one of the creators put it this is “Fine Graffiti”, unsanctioned, and thus perhaps illegal, but refined to have a purpose and distinctive character which can be appreciated on many levels. This is just a glimpse of the possibilities that can be produced through an accountable street art and graffiti culture if we seek to open up our streets to artistic and other interventions. Thank you so much to the creators for taking the time, and the risks, to give something beautiful back to this city. Stay Rad Edmonton!

Absolutely gorgeous.

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2013-05-15 131 notes

wnyc:

Isabella Rossellini is probably the only renowned female actress who has fully embraced the medium of the web video. In her latest effort, Mammas, she takes an unsentimental look at motherhood — very unsentimental. The mothers in the new series of film shorts take multiple husbands, abandon their young, even cannibalize them. And they take maternal self-sacrifice to an extreme, letting their hungry young devour them. Studio 360 got the lowdown.

I already love the Green Porno series that Isabella Rossellini did, and this is along the same line of YES.

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2013-05-14 132 notes

lustik:

Giant Duck Finally Succumbs to Lung Cancer via Hong Wrong

and via @heypanita on Twitter

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This how I react when I am alone in the hallways at work and see somebody; when I am at home and someone enters the room; when I open a door and somebody else is on the other side; when I’m sitting in my room and someone knocks on the door; when the wind touches my face (kidding about this one).

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