Everywhere in the world, amazing and wonderful things continue to unfold.
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My name's Jaireh. By day, I'm a Lead UX Designer for a big bookstore a big telecom company. I have also been: a designer of many things like this and this.Welcome to my internet Wunderkammer.
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Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
“גם זה יעבור. This too shall pass. The phrase appears in the works of Persian Sufi poets, such as Sanai and Attar of Nishapur. Attar records the fable of a powerful king who asks assembled wise men to create a ring that will make him happy when he is sad, and vice versa. After deliberation the sages hand him a simple ring with the words “This too will pass” etched on it, which has the desired effect.”
I just spent one week in the philippines. I spent most of my days looking at the beach. I thought the reflection of light from the horizon during this sunset was a very interesting visual effect. I thought perhaps it could be captured in a UI or two.
Florian Maier Aichen’s photographs are quite painterly
SF pretty much the best place on earth.
Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who’s in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It’s like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven’t seen in a long time
Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the shore
“When the artists Andre and Lee married, Andre set out to make a painting to show his love for Lee. He worked on the same canvas their entire lives, never feeling it was done.
At the end of his days, Andre grew sad before the unifinished work.
“I did not love you enough,” he said.
“Not true,” Lee replied, presenting her husband with a box filled with photos of his canvas.
“I’ve been taking these , one a week,” she said, “for the past forty years.”—
Paul Madonna, all over coffee
And if you’re not buying the book, here is an online archive of his work.
maborosi was such a sad and beautiful movie
Timothy Saccenti really understands pattern and manipulating ephermeral things like light, smoke, and dust particles
Beautiful dappled light in the illustrations of British firm, I love dust.
Can buy the prints here.
