The surprising transformation of houses of worship into beautiful spaces.
via Beautiful Churches That Have Been Converted into Secular Buildings – io9.
The surprising transformation of houses of worship into beautiful spaces.
via Beautiful Churches That Have Been Converted into Secular Buildings – io9.
In your life, you have at least one relative stranger whom you’ve grown close to. Maybe it’s a doorman. Maybe it’s the cashier at the local bodega. Maybe it’s the guy who works in the next cubicle over. So what if you only know their first name, and you’ve never had a conversation that exceeded 45 seconds? Over months of opened doors, midnight candy bars, and borrowed staplers, you’ve become quite familiar. You have a bond, a friendship, that can only be built over countless moments of tiny social friction. So why would things work any differently online?
via Facebook’s Secret To Building Friendships: Many Small Interactions | Co.Design.
Chicago-based photographer and storyteller, Paul Octavious has begun a mission to “match all the PANTONE  colors to things I find in everyday life.â€Â In the new series, aptly called ‘#ThePantoneProject,’ Octavious captures images of his hand holding up a PANTONE swatch that matches identically with the background environment.
via Photographer Matches Pantone Swatches With Everyday Life – PSFK.
At some point in the past two million years, give or take half a million, the genus of great apes that would become modern humans crossed a unique threshold. Across unknowable reaches of time, they developed a communication system able to describe not only the world, but the inner lives of its speakers. They ascended — or fell, depending on your preferred metaphor — into language.
Imagine an art form that uses living, respiring material; an art form that creates mini eco-systems in often complex and beautiful patterns. It changes the face of urban landscapes and redefines the term “urban jungle.†It breathes life anew.
