the ancient cultural tradition sees tappers climbing up palms the height of tall buildings to extract the sweet, milky, white sap from the trees’ flower stumps.
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Today, the International Olympic Committee announced that skateboarding will become an Olympic sport for the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics. The athletes (aka. skateboarders) will compete in various events including men’s and women’s park and street competitions, with a total of 80 skaters competing in each category.
Woah! Explore Google Maps’ beautiful 3D imagery of the Himalayas alongside a 500 foot Yeti named Verne.
Given the huge amount of controversy surrounding guns and gun law at the moment, it's not exactly surprising that Apple has decided to replace its hand gun emoji with a far less intimidating bright green and orange water pistol.
This Gradient Puzzle makes me incredibly happy. How zen! Also available in Blue and Orange.
Carolyn Sewell said it. Chris Piascik illustrated it. And I am trying to teach it to my kids.
German monumentalist painter Katharina Grosse has unveiled her latest work in Fort Tilden, a neon pink reclamation of an abandoned army base nestled away on the Rockaways peninsula of Long Island, New York.
Jamie xx and director Romain Gavras released a new video collaboration today on Apple Music for single Gosh, from last year’s Mercury Prize nominated album In Colour.
<b>Evénement</b> — 18 juin → 3 juillet 2016
For sixteen days Italy’s Lake Iseo is being reimagined. 100,000 square meters of shimmering yellow fabric, carried by a modular floating dock system of 220,000 high-density polyethylene cubes, undulate with the movement of the waves as The Floating Piers rise just above the surface of the water.
With one day left until the polls open for the EU Membership Referendum, a cooperative last minute creative brief has been organised urging pro-remain artists to design and contribute an image reflecting their views on and motivations for staying in the European Union.
According to a senior government official, Germany will soon be imposing a mandate for all new cars to be emission free by 2030. The move is part of the country's missions to cut carbon dioxide output by 80% to 95% by 2050.
Australian photographer Tim Samuel stumbles upon a fish trapped inside a jellyfish while free diving in Byron Bay. Gotta love how the fish just keeps swimming! More shots of the bizarre occurrence below.
“The Floating Piers” is a giant floating dock system nearing completion on Lake Iseo in Italy. 220,000 high-density poly-ethylene cubes will be covered in 100,000 square meters of shimmering yellow fabric to create an epic walkway 3 kilometers long.
The project is the brainchild of artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude, known for large-scale installations. Although Jeanne-Claude passed away in 2009, Christo has continued to pursue “The Floating Piers”, originally conceived together in 1970. More progress shots below!
This summer’s Palace of Versailles artist collaboration sees the acclaimed Danish-Icelandic conceptual artist, Olafur Eliasson installing a series of spacial, elemental interventions in and around the Palace and its gardens.
The Serpentine Gallery in London has unveiled its 2016 pavilion designed by BIG founder Bjarke Ingels. The Danish architect formed the structure out of fibreglass blocks, stacking them in such a way that it the entire pavilion constantly morphs though shapes and opacity shape as you move around it.
The Palace of Versailles has reopened its doors today replete with the sculptures and installations of acclaimed Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson, guest artist for Summer 2016.
Good news for all the emoji users out there (which is basically everybody right?), 72 brand new ones are on the way later this month. The Unicode Technical Committee, the body in charge of emojis, has announced that 77 new characters have been accepted, with 72 coming on June 21 with the Unicode 9.0 update, and a further 5 (but hopefully more) will be released in June 2017.
Included in the 72 are the much needed Fingers Crossed, Fist Bump, and Facepalm emojis, as well as Man Dancing, and Prince to go with the existing Woman Dancing and Princess.
We also get an Avocado, Shrug, Potato, Pancakes, Spoon, Gorilla, Fox, Selfie Arm and more! Take a look at a selection of the new emojis above and head to Unicode’s website to see the full list.
the jury stated that the 'makoko floating school is a powerful demonstration that architecture can amplify the importance of education.
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A selection of panels by illustrator and comic artist Sharmila Banerjee. More images below.
