Old Things Never Die posts a terrific video on the complete restoration of a rusty tin football game. Very detailed, dialogue-free, step-by-step breakdown and reassembly.
Toronto vlogger Maurice Moves with another excellent video, this one on top-notch prep for international travellers. These are great tips that most travellers don't realize they need until it's too late:
Ev Williams (one of the creators of Blogger, Twitter, and Medium) on his new app, Mozi:
Clearly, it would need to be private. Non-performative. No public profiles. No public status competitions. No follower counts. No strangers.
Mozi claims to be a private social network that connects you to people you already know via your contacts list. This may seem a little counterintuitive, but here's a true example from my own life:
I lived in a small town called Oliva, Spain, from September through November, 2017. In the summer of 2018, when I was living in Culver City, CA, I saw a photo on social media of a friend I'd drifted apart from and hadn't seen in 20 years. That photo was taken in Gandia, Spain, in October, 2017. Gandia is the neighboring town to Oliva and my friend was staying just 2KM away from where I was living. In fact, in those months, while I was hiking through Orange Groves, we were closer to one another than we are when we're both home in Toronto.
Had Mozi existed back then — and we'd both been using it — we would have been alerted to each other's presence and been able to make plans to meet.
I'm not normally someone to evangelize for social media, but I do find the purpose of Mozi to be useful and am therefore giving it a shot. At the moment it's only available for iPhone (there's an Android waitlist) and it's pretty much pointless unless your contacts are on it, but I'm willing to give it a shot and see what happens.
One of the most famous bonsai trees in the world, John Naka's 'Goshin' or Protector of the Spirit features a tree for each of his grandchildren. This foemina juniper resides at the National Bonsai & Penjing Museum at the National Arboretum in Washington, DC. It is featured in Stephen Voss' new book of bonsai photographs entitled In Training.
Via Nag On the Lake.
"The day before the Taliban trammeled her freedom, a young woman went for a bike ride."
Terrific long-form piece in Bicycling about female cyclists in Afghanistan after the return of the Taliban. The Taliban of course doesn't want females to ride bikes because the bike seats "threatens a woman’s chastity": The Alchemists by Kim Cross.
These Women Were Some of Afghanistan’s Best Athletes. Then They Started Getting Death Threats.
They led a cycling revolution in a country where women were forbidden to ride. When the Taliban returned to power, their only hope was a harrowing escape to an uncertain future.
Kim Cross
You ever see those images of future-spaces or -buildings that are "coming soon" and wonder who creates them?
One of the companies responsible is Design Distill and their work is great. Who wouldn't want to be in these places?
More at Design Distill.
Alex Hogrefe is one of the partners there and he's also responsible for the Visualizing Architecture site, which offers tutorials and has a blog, though it hasn't been updated in a few years. You can see some of this gorgeous work below.
I've been reading Craig Mod's wonderful books about walking Japan and I realized how infrequently I see photos of the country that are not Tokyo, or at least not bustling. A bit of searching led me to these lovely b&w photos from Seiki Hayashi.
Many more on his Hayashi's Behance page.
TOILET FESTIVAL captures the essence of festivals through unexpected photographic portraits of festival-goers emerging from the toilets. These photos, taken spontaneously with a flash, reveal a gallery of unusual looks and attitudes, tinged with a touch of humor, constituting a sociological inventory of the various festival communities.
More on the Toilet Festival web page.
Someone name Terry is posting images of and thoughts on Edward Gorey to a blog. I'm letting you know, because who doesn't love Edward Gorey?
View the rest on Nature's Website.
