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Joyful activism, guerrilla style
Joyful activism is a theme that keeps popping up these days. Rather than angry protests, a lot of people are realizing that a good way to effect change is to make people feel good. I love this...
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I love love love these wonderful videos of flowers growing and blossoming in time-lapse. I get a visceral wave of joy watching each one. Above, the ornithogalum reminds me of popcorn popping open....
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Joy of pattern
Patterns give me joy, and this quiz from @Issue magazine suggests that they bring joy to many cultures around the world as well. The quiz asks you to match the patterns above with the nationalities...
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Delicious books
Well, I was going to leave you for the next few days* but then I saw these and I couldn’t wait to put them up. For these Penguin Classics, designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith, I might actually think...
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Toyota’s flowers
Nice mention of AoJ in this post on Brandchannel about Toyota’s creation of two new flower species that absorb nitrogen oxides and take heat out of the atmosphere. The two flowers, variants of the...
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Carnations, pink and joyful
These variegated poufs of carnations are like a gorgeous brand of cheerleaders’ pom-poms. I love how this arrangement makes a prosaic blossom seem so luxurious. They’re so tactile too — you can just...
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Precious potholes
Artist Pete Dungey says of his Pothole Gardens, “If we planted one of those in every hole, it would be like a forest in the road.” Indeed. And a gorgeous, surprising example of urban renewal and...
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Technicolor landscapes
I’ve taken many plane rides before, but never seen a landscape quite like this. I recently stumbled upon this article showing Holland’s tulip fields from above. Can you believe there’s a landscape...
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Dior’s joyful abundance
Have you seen the madness that is the installation created for the Dior 2012 AW haute couture show? These photos leave me a bit breathless. Giddy, like I could forget the clothes entirely, see a show...
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The importance of rainbows
Sometimes there’s a theme that just begs you to write about it. You ponder it, you scribble down a few thoughts, you procrastinate — but it just keeps following you. That’s how it’s been these past...
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Aesthetics of early spring
We expect spring to arrive a little each day. But the world doesn’t thaw along a smooth gradient, it comes herky-jerky, in warm, cold, and wet gusts that lurch towards greenness. Eventually there will...
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Flower House
In nature, nothing stays dead for long. A tree falls, and moments later there are fungi, slime molds, and earthworms turning all that bark and pith into food. Nothing good is wasted. With notable...
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Flower Power
When you think of a pit bull, what comes to mind? If you’re like many people, you might see an aggressive dog straining at the end of a leash, teeth gnashing, barking ferociously. That’s certainly the...
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{the joy of} 72 Seasons
Saturday was one of those magical late winter days where you can wear a light coat and walk around with it unbuttoned. It was what some might unkindly call “a tease,” but I prefer to think of it as...
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Beautiful birds + Friday finds
This has been one of those weeks that goes slow slow slow at the start and then speeds up and boom! It’s Friday. Time is funny that way. It stretches and contracts, usually based on how we feel about...
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Awesome Blossoms
Isn’t it wonderful when you time an adventure just right? When you happen to put yourself in the path of a fleeting thing at just the moment it floats past you? So it is with me and the cherry...
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Joy of pattern
Patterns give me joy, and this quiz from @Issue magazine suggests that they bring joy to many cultures around the world as well. The quiz asks you to match the patterns above with the nationalities...
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Aesthetics of joy or eyesore? happy roses
A friend sent me this link to a company selling these strange, multicolored “happy roses.” They’re presumably made by dye absorption, which you may have tried in a lower school science experiment with...
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Delicious books
Well, I was going to leave you for the next few days* but then I saw these and I couldn’t wait to put them up. For these Penguin Classics, designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith, I might actually think...
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Toyota’s flowers
Nice mention of AoJ in this post on Brandchannel about Toyota’s creation of two new flower species that absorb nitrogen oxides and take heat out of the atmosphere. The two flowers, variants of the...
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