Emily Tobias

Loving the colorful creations of French Street Artist Mademoiselle Maurice. The color, scale and overall presentation are excellent! Check out some photos below:

Thanks to the folks at Notcot, I found this beautiful video about an installation artist speaking about and showing her latest work, called Unwoven Light.  Watch the video and have your day brightened!

Soo Sunny Park: Unwoven Light from Walley Films on Vimeo.

Since moving back to Baltimore and living in a house again I have been on a Succulent kick! I have bought them all over… Trader Joes, Ikea, Home Depot, Whole Foods, and of course some amazing local nurseries… the Farmers Daughter and Homestead Gardens are two that I can remember. Thanks to Aaron (who btw thinks I am NUTS for obsessing about these plants) they are potted inside and outside the entire house! Here are some photos of my beautiful and exotic plants!

(text taken from the Wired website)

One big problem with renewable energy projects is that they have to go somewhere. They have to occupy a part of the very environment that their proponents are often trying to save.

Photographer Jamey Stillings beautifully captures this tension in his images of the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System (ISEGS). Located in Southern California’s Mojave Desert, the plant aims to eventually be the largest solar thermal power plant in the world – making enough electricity to run 140,000 homes all by focusing the sun’s energy to create steam.

Problem is, the system is located smack in the middle of the threatened desert tortoise habitat and the companies that built the system have already had to allocate $56 million to care for and relocate these ground dwellers. At least one major environmental group has argued the plant should have never been built on its current location.

Thanks to swissmiss I have found a new tumblr page that I have fallen in love with. The site is called Geometry Daily and for me is it mesmerizing. As a person who is devoting their entire thesis to the study of patterns in design, I had to stop my self from scrolling through this whole site. Another dangerous thing I just learned is that he is now selling his daily designs as prints! Anyways, here are a few of the designs but I urge you to explore this beautiful site on your own!