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  For the June 8, 2026, Fiction Issue cover, the artists Sergio García Sánchez and Lola Moral collaborated on a shared vision of a life filled with books, enjoyed by a whole community. The two work in close partnership: he draws, she applies the colors, and they develop their ideas together. “Our home is literally filled with books in every room, even the bathroom. We and our children read them, study them, live with and among them,” the couple told us. They quoted Federico García Lorca, a writer from their home town of Granada, Spain: “No sólo de pan vive el hombre. Yo, si tuviera hambre y estuviera desvalido en la calle no pediría un pan; sino que pediría medio pan y un libro.” His words translate to: “Man does not live by bread alone. If I were hungry and destitute on the street, I would not ask for a loaf of bread; I would ask for half a loaf and a book.”

Book covers in three languages, Ursus's Swiss German, English, and French (the Chinese sign reads: 'Do not litter')  

 

Portugal Gemas Esta é uma variedade muito especial e valorizada de safira que foi primeiramente descrita no Sri Lanka e que junta na sua cor uma proporção muito particular de vermelho e amarelo. Segundo Richard Hughes (um dos maiores especialistas em safiras no Mundo), o nome deriva de uma corruptela de o sansrito/cingalês “padmaraga” (padma = lotus; raga = color), em alusão à cor  da flor de lotus. Saber que tonalidade se pode enquadrar na designação padparadscha gera, por vezes, controvérsia, até porque não existe grande consenso na definição desta variedade. Os laboratórios gemológicos mais importantes definem-na como de cor pastel entre o rosa e o laranja. Hoje em dia, as safiras padparadscha ocorrem não só no Sri Lanka, mas também no Vietname, Tanzânia, Malawi e Madagáscar, sendo ocasionalmente aquecidas a baixas temperaturas para melhoramento da cor. Os seus valores de mercado, que variam com a qualidade da cor e com a dimensão, são elevados, podendo atingir as...

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A roundup of paper dolls for all of David Bowie's many iterations, by OpenCulture  

Best Actresses in Fashion :) Courtesy of: Mediarun

The Sojourner, already aged likea fine wine The Scrabble keyboard From DataMancer ;)

(interspersed with some Hipsters that I like from the slideshow) A Brief Defense of the "H Word" To defend the hipster is to redefine the hipster. It is to reclaim a dirty word, a marketing word, and reappropriate it for good rather than evil. "Hipster," as it is commonly used today, is a slur, a vague, derisive catchall for a cool-kid monoculture that fetishizes novelty but makes nothing new, that drifts through life in a nihilistic haze of irony, cannibalizing the culture, high and low, only to regurgitate its mediocrity. Worse still, the "hipster" has become marketing's patient zero, inhabiting a demographic Petri dish of instant focus groups and easily commoditized cool where the line between "content" and "commercialism" is all but gone. With these deeply negative associations, then, it's not surprising that the very people for whom the label is so appropriate are the least likely to refer to themselves ...

A network of lasers crisscrosses the inner courtyard of Lyon's town hall, and a multi-colored, glowing garden of almost 50 gigantic flowers is perched on the local mountain. The facades of the Church of Saint Nizier on the peninsula have been brought to life using projections and soundtracks, and even the town's landmark, the Basilica of Notre-Dame de Fourvière, has been lit up by a range of lighting effects that pulsate in time to the chimes of its church bells. Each year, beginning on Dec. 8, this city in eastern France celebrates its four-day "Festival of Lights," a visual and audio spectacle that draws artists, urban planers, lighting experts and professionals who organize such events from all over the world. Some of the designs for this year have already been released. The festival has its roots in Lyon's rich history. It pays tribute to the Virgin Mary, who is said to have spared the city from the plague in 1643. Almost 200 years later, on Dec. 8, 1852,...

Says Gemma Correll: I recently started a Flickr group dedicated to drawings of "What I wore Today". This is the blog , showcasing the best of those drawings...

Vynil stickers by ETSY

Since clearly I am not Lost in Translation(s), why not? A is for ARGOT Nothing makes you feel more like a tourist than not understanding the locals, and fashionland has a language all of its own. Viz: anti-fit (definition: clothes that don’t fit); “channelling” (copying); “investment bag” (expensive bag); “pieces” (clothes); “product” (clothes and accessories); “editing” your wardrobe (throwing away old clothes); “pricepoint” (price); ferosh and/or fierce (rather nice). Some terms are beyond translation — “directional”, for example. Nobody seems to be entirely sure what that means. See also PRONUNCIATION. B is for BLACK “The new black” became the new shorthand for “the next big thing” in the early 1980s, when minimalism and Kraftwerk ruled, and lots of people wore black. The phrase stuck, even when only undertakers wore black. Soon, though, “the new black” will once more be literally accurate: 2010 promises to be a very black year, hue-wise. So right now, “black is the...

Six years ago, the world came together to stop a trade in gems that was fuelling civil war in Africa. Now the architect of the deal has quit, warning that jewels 'have blood all over them' again. The leading architect of the international system to stop the trade in blood diamonds has warned that the safety net is close to collapse with governments and the industry failing to act against gross violations. Ian Smillie, the "grandfather" of the landmark Kimberley Process, that was agreed in response to appalling civil wars in Africa fuelled by illegal gems, said he had "stomped out" on his scheme as it was no longer working. "It isn't regulating the rough diamond trade," the Canadian expert said yesterday. "It is in danger of becoming irrelevant and it's letting all manner of crooks off the hook." The Kimberley safeguards came into effect in 2003 and helped restore consumer confidence in precious stones. Today they regulate 99.98 pe...

TAKEN BY STORM - The Album Art of Storm Thorgerson: 40th Anniversary Edition • ONLY 500 SETS WORLDWIDE SIGNED BY STORM THORGERSON • Includes 4 Fine Art silkscreen prints produced by the world-famous Coriander Studios Rest of the Gallery at Telegraph