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“When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us.

APARTMENT THERAPY

The home of The Sleeper family (Curtis, Deborah, and their three kids) who live in a cave. Literally. It's a 17,000 square foot gouge in the earth that dates back to a 1930s sandstone mine in Festus, Missouri. Measuring in at 45 feet underneath a forest, this unusual home has to be seen to be believed.

“I Now Have Absolute Proof That Smoking Even One Marijuana Cigarette is Equal in Brain Damage to Being on Bikini Island During an H-bomb Blast.”

Environmental Graffiti

Costa Rica, Cleanest Nation in the World, Environmentally… Costa Rica already has an excellent reputation in the sphere of green issues. It has protected areas which cover more than a quarter of the tiny Central American republic, including national parks and jungle reserves. It already uses renewable energy to generate more than 96 per cent of its energy and it plans to further reduce and offset the emissions created from agriculture, transport and industry. The environment Minister, Roberto Dobles said the state would promote the use of hybrid vehicles and planting of trees through economic compensation. Landowners are paid to grow trees to capture carbon and protect watersheds.

This, according to Esteban Brenes, a conservation finance specialist at the WWF, is the secret of Costa Rica’s success “The fact that Costa Rica has applied the payments on a national scale is what’s innovative.” This is the reason why countries such as Norway are losing out in the race to become carbon neutral. Critics however, point to the fact that Costa Rica has a poor reputation regarding national corruption and that landowners should be compensated for growing crops rather than trees.

Their logic is based on the fact that an already poor country could get poorer through a false economy of tree-planting and that the money could be put to better use, such as improving social justice. Critics are also quick to suggest that this may be part of a larger marketing strategy to put the country “on the map.”

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Do You Realize That If We Played By The Rules Right Now We'd Be In Gym?

Now you can own a peice of Saturday morning movie rerun history. The house(in the above photos) that appeared in the 1986 John Hughes movie, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, where it was the fictional home of Ferris’ best friend, Cameron Frye (played by Alan Ruck) is up for sale by Sotheby’s.

The house was designed by architects A. James Speyer and David Haid, both students of Mies van der Rohe. The home’s steel and glass International Style shows Mies’ influence, and the floor-to-ceiling windows provide 360-degree views of the surrounding woods. All just for a measly 2.3 million.

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When I See an Adult on a Bicycle, I Do Not Despair for the Future of the Human Race.

In what looks to be a solid combination of Germany’s fixed gear community and stunning cinematography, the latest upcoming video project to emerge revolving around cycling is seen here with Fixed City. The trailer delves into the lives and inspirations of various personalities.

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I Appreciate Preservation. It's What You Do When You Run for President. You Gotta Preserve.”

WTC Logo Preservation Project by Ji Lee
New York designer Ji Lee has launched a project to collect photographs of logos that show the former World Trade Center in a New York skyline. Lee publishes the photos on the project website; anyone can contribute by uploading their own images. “These logos will not last forever as many of the small business will either update their logos at some point or close their doors eventually,” says Lee.By collecting and publishing the logos, he hopes to preserve the towers’ iconic image. Visit www.wtclogo.com to contribute.

Here’s an explanation from Ji Lee:

After 9/11, I started to noticed the Twin Towers in many logos containing the New York City skyline. These were mostly from small businesses: dry cleaners, delis, movers, and so on. I experienced a strange mix of sadness and joy seeing the iconic Towers standing there majestically, as if nothing happened. These logos will not last forever as many of the small business will either update their logos at some point or close their doors eventually. Thus the Twin Towers would sadly vanish forever. In order to preserve them, I started photographing them whenever I found one – and there are many of them around. Soon it became an enjoyable game every time I was on the streets of New York, like a treasure hunt which never ceases to be rewarding.

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I see painting as an evocative magic, and there must always be a random factor in magic, one which must be constantly changed and renewed

images courtesy of Chris Jordan

Environmental Graffiti

Interview - Chris Jordan

Like a magician, Seattle-based artist Chris Jordan first conceals everyday objects like cans, tooth picks and paper cups, just to throw them in our face when an image is viewed in detail. In an interview with Environmental Graffiti, the photographic artist talks about the inspiration for his mind-boggling artworks, viewers’ reactions to them and works in the pipeline.

Viewers who are familiar with Chris Jordan’s work will remember their reaction to his images as much as the photographic images themselves. For those new to his work, let’s simulate what visitors to one of his exhibitions experience by looking at a full view of one of his images and then slowly zooming in.

Unlike the Magic Eye images that were a craze in the ‘90s, viewers of Jordan’s images don’t set out looking for the hidden image in the picture; they’re hit by it quite unpreparedly. Let’s hear what the artist has to say about his images and the effect they have on viewers.

EG: You are taking ordinary objects and recycling them into art

, creating something beautiful at first glance, whose message kicks in later. Have visitors to your exhibitions commented on this “oh” effect?

Chris Jordan: It’s fun for me to go to exhibitions because there’s a double layer to my work. Seen from a distance, the images are like something else, maybe totally boring pieces of modern art. On closer view, the visitor has an almost unpleasant experience with the artwork. It’s almost a magic trick; inviting people to a conversation that they didn’t want to have in the first place. One visitor recently compared me to a “sleight-of-hands-magician” that makes people face up to a difficult truth, I quite liked that.

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