Crop to Cup
Crop to Cup is a great coffee company that buys directly from farmers in Uganda at twenty percent above market price with ten percent of company profits and five percent of every purchase going directly into their communities. Though not certified organic or fair trade yet (the company is still too small to afford those distinctions), they’re still doing something admirable. Full disclosure: I’m friends with Taylor Mork, one of the two main guys behind C2C, but I know how much of a coffee geek he is, and I dig their product and what they stand for.
Since coffee was the original black gold, spurring a lot of global commerce first in the Middle East, and then throughout Europe in the seventeenth century — the Dutch grew it in their colony of Java in Indonesia, probably at the cost of many a life, and it was so popular that the Pope banned it as ‘the Muslim drink’ — it’s rad that small-scale and responsible production of such a finicky crop is possible (it’s pretty much impossible to grow within the continental United States), and that a genuinely good and sustainable cup of joe is available on the market.
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Damn is this funny. Not only funny, but beautifully illustrated and sometimes educational. The Oatmeal has been around for a while and has been publishing a stack of new comics lately. My favourite is ‘15 things worth knowing about coffee’. I’d been wondering where the term ‘Americano’ comes from, and due to an amusing illustration and an educational note I now know during WWII American soldiers ordered water with their espresso to dilute the strong flavour. Isn’t that something? To have a laugh and learn a few things, check out The Oatmeal. Read more
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Israeli illustrator Asaf Hanuka is currently documenting via comic his family’s search for a home – you can read The Realist in Hebrew or in English, online or in the Israeli newspaper, Calcalist.
The Bea Arthur Mountains Pizza website
You know, pictures featuring Bea Arthur, mountains, and pizza are the best, but there are still a lot of duds out there. Good thing Bea Arthur Mountains Pizza has collected the best of the best Bea Arthur, mountains, and pizza pictures all in one place.
Something Awful just posted some hilarious movie poster mash-ups, matching images to titles that result in inappropriate allusions to the core premises of each film.
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Sarah Appleboum makes a neon felt and yarn explosion in your face and everywhere, the epicenter of which is in San Francisco. While you’re unconscious from the impact, you will dream of rainbow yetis, shamans, and soft revolvers.
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Our celebrity-saturated culture makes many of us irrationally hateful of the faces we see on our TV screens and magazine pages. Good thing there’s Celebrity PunchOut to let off some of that steam.
Emma McNally creates abstract graphite drawings inspired by cartography, maps, and musical notation. Occasionally her pieces suggest depth and dimension, while some of her other pieces seem like star charts for imaginary galaxies.
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is a reminder of why the medium of film is so special. It features first rate visuals, performances, direction and acting, all of which fits together into one of the most insightful, powerful and touching pieces of cinema ever. Read more
These twin sixty-story towers to be built in Malaysia feature a combination of ‘continuous, flowing, double-curved perforated surface with a flickering, crystalline, transparent single-curved surface that is triangulated on an enormous scale’. The design by New York-based architectural firm, Asymptote, includes a 400,000 square foot retail section and the Penang Performing Arts centre.
With Lungfish guitarist Asa Osborne’s latest project, Zomes, he continues to explore loops and cycles with endlessly repeating musical phrases, this time played on circuit-bent keyboards. The resulting tracks sound at times like medieval court music at others like the soundtrack to a Hal Hartley movie.
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I live the upbeat, feel good tempo of the new single — A Hundred Hearts — from Philly group, The Swimmers. Off their latest album, People Are Soft, this song is a strangely fitting anthem for the blustery day outside.
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Creative advertising packaging
Despite the intentions of many, it’s not so often that advertising — as an industry — truly thinks outside the box. Yet, when executed well, clever eye-catching advertising actually works. It does. As these examples will attest to. Read more
Oslo artist Gry E.Pedersen blends digital artwork and photos, but her generally experimental artwork also includes more traditional forms of paintings. Read more
Kate Banazi’s silkscreen artwork
A three-lettered ‘wow’ explodes in my mind whenever I look at the work of Sydney-based silkscreen artist Kate Banazi. Her latest work is fantastically dynamic, stylistic and abstract, making clever use of colour-bomb palettes. Read more
Damn hipster dogs coming in here with their parents’ money, acting like they own the place, not respecting us real dogs who know what real culture and art are. We were here first and we knew about all those bands before they did. Read more
The new Runaways movie looks at the formation of the seminal girls’ group which spawned Joan Jett’s career. We have a Runaways prize pack to give away, including Neon Angel: A Memoir of a Runaway, the Joan Jett and the Blackhearts Greatest Hits CD, the film’s soundtrack, and Joan Jett’s photobook with Todd Oldham. To enter, just leave the name of the city you live in! Read more
This pendant by Portland designer Stephanie Stimek hangs from an eighteen inch 14 carat gold chain. Made from a Japanese quail egg, the entire shell has been coated in plastic for strength and is available for purchase through the Lost At E Minor store. Read more
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