Pumpkin Pecan Pie is outta the oven and the turkey lurkey is in! #thanksgiving (at Bell Kids)
Kimchi Sunday #kimchi #sunday #instagram #cabbage #koreanfood
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April 1, 2014, Vancouver, BC – Today, Metro Vancouver carshare Modo announced it has added a silver 2015 DeLorean DMC-12 to its fleet of 310 shared vehicles. Any member of the local not-for-profit car co-op may book the sporty time machine for rates as low as $3…
Choices
Here in our fourth celebratory guest post, Brand and lettering designer Andrei Robu reveals his philosophy for high quality work.
I’ve realised I’ve been searching for a new place to call home.
I’ve just realised that we’ve been in and out of South East Asia for the past two years. Together with my girlfriend, we’ve spent three months in Indonesia, two in the Philippines, eight months in Bangkok. I’m writing this from Berlin and next week I’ll be in Vienna. All of this while freelancing, and all because we were searching for something.
It all started out as an excuse to relax. I needed some time off after getting out of a partnership in a design studio - managing people is damn exhausting. Time away made me realise how important the simple things are, having your coffee at your favourite coffee shop in the morning, enjoying the sun at lunch, meeting friends in the park in the afternoon, living in a big apartment in a nice and safe city… they are all priceless and wouldn’t be possible without my work. I get to draw for a living.
I stare at the strokes, move the beziers, redraw until it feels right, and I get at peace while doing it.
I drew letters all my life but while travelling I first discovered the pleasure of drawing a typeface. Type design for me is balance. I do it without pursuing perfection in any of its forms. I just do it because I love it. It’s a bit like meditation: I stare at the strokes, move the beziers, redraw until it feels right, and I get at peace while doing it. I know many like-minded people who love the sound of the pencil touching the paper; discovering a nice ligature by accident. It’s pure pleasure; it’s passion, and you feel there’s this certain elegance of the craft.
After working for so many years I’ve realised that I need plenty of time and space to be able to create the best work for my clients. Going to an office can be fun but not being able to choose the projects you take on is bad for you and your client.
My next step is to find the place where I get to choose my opportunities. I want to do the best work I can and I need balance in my life to do it. That means having time and freedom for thinking and perfecting my craft.
Yesterday’s post marked the 100th post on the site - and this image shows a large selection of the graphics that have made up those posts! Don’t forget, you can reach all of them via the site’s index page (http://goo.gl/2KMzxO), or even by just flicking over to the facebook page’s photos tab.
Thanks to everyone who’s followed the site & shared the graphics so far - many more to come!
Caribou - Can’t Do Without You
Ok, I’m late to the party… but this is great.
Also, over the weekend Caribou did an Radio 1 Essential Mix, it’s also pretty great.
Good Morning! The Earth has a bit of a weight problem - it’s gaining about 100 tons per day.
Electro Swing Mix Ep.4 (mixed by 9T)
100 Riffs (A Brief History of Rock N’ Roll) 12 minutes
Woman builds 186 sq. ft. “tiny house” in North Vancouver
I saw the person named in the article above the day before the it appeared and this new chapter in her life was never mentioned for a very good reason: it wasn’t her!
" well, i guess i’m going to break my facebook hiatus. this is the OTHER isabella mori - isabella legosi mori to be correct. you guys would NOT believe how often i have been mixed up with her, owing in part to the fact that we have a lot in common. tiny houses it is not one of them, alas. that tiny house would probably fit on my porch, with a yard around it. however - we are both writers and poets, have lived in south america, have lived in the same neighbourhood, used the same bank and library, etc., etc. and i have YET to meet this mysterious woman! "
I don’t know my friend that well, but some of the book titles and DVDs in the photo gallery above didn’t seem to fit the person I know. Turns out that I was right.
The World’s Very First REAL-TIME Northern Lights Captured in 4K Ultra Hi…
An apology to a telefundraiser.
In the industry that I work in, this rarely happens.
(via 12 vegetarian Thanksgiving dishes to make omnivores jealous | Grist)
(via The lazy (or busy) girl’s guide to kombucha | Natural Fertility and Wellness)
Making Sauerkraut and Other Fermented Vegetables
The sky is the limit when making sauerkraut. See what other fermented vegetables you can use.
By Paul Virant with Kate Leahy
Photo By Taiftin
Electro Swing Mix Ep.3 (mixed by 9T)
Alexander Gerst’s Earth timelapses
Images of snow of which we see little of in Vancouver, BC.
Source unknown.
All Alone in the Night - Time-lapse footage of the Earth as seen from the ISS.
Amazing first find for 2015; Philip Glass on Sesame Street
Includes reading and listening
Sunrise on New Year’s Day 2015
Now, that’s an omen.
How so? / Of what?
