A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. In some cases a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of water. Small rivers can be referred to using names such as stream, creek, brook, …
The Most Comfortable Athletic Shoes You Don’t Own Yet
Athletic shoes are specifically designed to be worn for participating in various sports. Since friction between the foot and the ground is an important force in most sports, modern athletic shoes are designed to maximize this force, and materials, such as rubber, are used. Although, for some activities such as dancing or bowling, sliding is …
On the Delicate Relationship Between Inspiration and Muse
Not only are the Muses explicitly used in modern English to refer to an artistic inspiration, as when one cites one's own artistic muse, but they also are implicit in words and phrases such as "amuse," "museum" (Latinised from mouseion — a place where the muses were worshipped), "music," and "musing upon." In current literature, …
New Camera Turns Amateur Photographers Into Instant Nomads
A nomad is a person with no settled home, moving from place to place as a way of obtaining food, finding pasture for livestock, or otherwise making a living. The word Nomad comes from a Greek word that means one who wanders for pasture. Most nomadic groups follow a fixed annual or seasonal pattern of …
These Black & White Photographs Evoke a Bygone Era
A farm is an area of land that is devoted primarily to agricultural processes with the primary objective of producing food and other crops; it is the basic facility in food production. The name is used for specialised units such as arable farms, vegetable farms, fruit farms, dairy, pig and poultry farms, and land used …
Pictorial Proof that Breakfast Really is the Best Meal
Breakfast is the first meal of a day, most often eaten in the early morning before undertaking the day's work. The word literally refers to breaking the fasting period of the prior night. There is a strong tendency for one or more "typical", or "traditional", breakfast menus to exist in most places, but the composition …
1920s Bank Turned Coworking Space
Since 2006 a few studies have shown the number of coworking spaces and available seats have roughly doubled each year. San Francisco continues to have a large presence in the coworking community, and is home to a growing number of coworking places.Also in the bay area, Anca Mosoiu established Tech Liminal in 2009, a coworking …
Ranch House Modern: Exposed Beams Will Never Go Out of Style
Ranch (also known as; American ranch, California ranch, rambler, or rancher) is a domestic architectural style originating in the United States. The ranch house is noted for its long, close-to-the-ground profile, and wide open layout. The house style fused modernist ideas and styles with notions of the American Western period of wide open spaces to …
The Making of a Music Video
A music video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings. There are also cases where songs are used in tie in marketing campaigns that allow them to …
Five Transcendent Desserts Worth Pausing Your Diet Over
Sweets were fed to the gods in ancient Mesopotamia and India and other ancient civilizations.Dried fruit and honey were probably the first sweeteners used in most of the world, but the spread of sugarcane around the world was essential to the development of dessert. Sugarcane was grown and refined in India before 500 BCE and …
This Versatile Jacket Will Have You Feeling Like a Modern Day Paul Bunyan
William B. Laughead, an independent adman, was the first to utilize Paul Bunyan for commercial use in a series of campaigns for the Red River Lumber Company. His first endeavor was a pamphlet entitled "Introducing Mr. Paul Bunyan of Westwood, California," but it did not prove effective. It was not until "Tales about Paul Bunyan, …
Synchronized Balloons
https://vimeo.com/5269879 Credit: Video by kenji kawasawa. This video is under Attribution License 3.0 A balloon is a flexible bag that can be inflated with a fluid, such as helium, hydrogen, nitrous oxide, oxygen, air or water. Modern day balloons are made from materials such as rubber, latex, polychloroprene, or a nylon fabric, and can come …