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Colours For Your Weekend by AnyMotion on Flickr.
PIZZA TIME by Jon Vermilyea on Flickr.
Photo realistic pencil drawings by Cath Riley.
I love this fantastical illustration work done for the Vimeo home & login pages, by NYC artist Ian Higginbotham.
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Watercolor scales
!!!The Lions Mane Jellyfish is the largest jellyfish in the world. They have been swimming in arctic waters since before the dinosaurs (over 650 million years ago) and are among some of the oldest surviving species in the world. The largest can come in at about 6 meters and has tentacles over 50 meters long. Pretty amazing when you think these things have been swimming around for so long.
![I’m relieved to see people finally starting to talk about this (after four years).
thoughtyoushouldseethis:
Shown is an image of the Apple store in Pudong, Shanghai. Beautiful, right? Sleek, elegant, swooping, stunning. Everything you’d expect from Apple. Look and love. Then read this New York Times story, In China, Human Costs Are Built Into An iPad. The piece tells the story of the rather less stunning conditions at an Apple location in Chengdu, some 2,000 kilometers away from the glorious glass temple we see here.
Do also listen to this wonderful episode of the radio program, This American Life, Mr Daisey and the Apple Factory, in which a tech geek tried to find out more about working conditions at an Apple factory. It’s a beautiful piece of journalism (from, note, a non-journalist) that should also make us all stop and think the next time we approach a shiny Fortress of Macness. (I say “should.” How likely this is given Apple’s blockbuster results announcement yesterday, in which it revealed its highest quarterly revenue and earnings figure ever — and that it sold nearly 15.5 million iPads during the last quarter — remains to be seen. But stories like these can surely only help to influence the company to be ever more mindful of its workers and the environments in which they work.)
[Article via my colleague, Erik van Crimmin and others. This American Life episode via Sam Potts. Image c/o Apple.]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyf27z4yi51qikpxao1_1280.jpg)
I’m relieved to see people finally starting to talk about this (after four years).
Shown is an image of the Apple store in Pudong, Shanghai. Beautiful, right? Sleek, elegant, swooping, stunning. Everything you’d expect from Apple. Look and love. Then read this New York Times story, In China, Human Costs Are Built Into An iPad. The piece tells the story of the rather less stunning conditions at an Apple location in Chengdu, some 2,000 kilometers away from the glorious glass temple we see here.
Do also listen to this wonderful episode of the radio program, This American Life, Mr Daisey and the Apple Factory, in which a tech geek tried to find out more about working conditions at an Apple factory. It’s a beautiful piece of journalism (from, note, a non-journalist) that should also make us all stop and think the next time we approach a shiny Fortress of Macness. (I say “should.” How likely this is given Apple’s blockbuster results announcement yesterday, in which it revealed its highest quarterly revenue and earnings figure ever — and that it sold nearly 15.5 million iPads during the last quarter — remains to be seen. But stories like these can surely only help to influence the company to be ever more mindful of its workers and the environments in which they work.)
[Article via my colleague, Erik van Crimmin and others. This American Life episode via Sam Potts. Image c/o Apple.]
