I didn’t expect to be so affected by September 11th today. I’ve written this post several times, but I’m at a loss for words to say much of anything. Instead I want to share this speech made by Jon Stewart ten years ago – Jon at his most honest. Perhaps you like his show, perhaps you don’t, but I recommend the clip all the same.
Better quality can be found on the Daily Show website.
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Glass sculptures by Shayna Leib. To create each sculpture, Leib pulls over a mile of thin glass and cuts it into tens of thousands of pieces. Check out the process here.
{via Colossal}
Beautiful poster available at Degree. (In no way associated with the film, although both are wonderful.)
“Morbid Anatomies” by Ronald Searle. Note the artist’s ink-pen shoes up top!
Searle is one of my very favorites; I’ve posted about him before, and in all likelihood I’ll be posting about him again soon.
{via Ronald Searle Tribute}
Because it’s raining in New York, and this is too sweet to go unposted:
“Dedicated keepers at the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust’s Nairobi Elephant Nursery in Kenya protect baby Shukuru from the cold and rain, and the risk of pneumonia, with a custom-made raincoat.“
{via kelzuki}
Originally an architecture historian, Terunobu Fujimori didn’t become an architect himself until age 44. “Since I was a famous architectural historian,” he says, “I thought my architecture should be totally unique, dissimilar to any architecture that came before. I figured that if I did something traditionally European or Japanese, everyone would say ‘Oh, it’s because he’s a historian.’ I didn’t want that criticism.” His work is definitely unlike anything I’ve seen.
More photos are after the jump.
{photos and quote via dwell – follow to read the full essay}
