hotrod

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.”
— Louise Erdrich

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bauldoff:

Camera lenses sliced down the middle, here & here. The engineering revealed inside is fascinating.

You can purchase the top-pictured Lecia Tri-Elmar-M cutaway model on ebay for $995US.

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Plant Appreciation: How to Make Moss Graffiti. »

plant-appreciation:

Moss graffiti, also called eco-graffiti or green graffiti, replaces spray paint, paint-markers or other such toxic chemicals and paints with a paintbrush and a moss “paint” that can grow on its own. As people become more eco-friendly and environmentally aware, the idea of making living,…

itshadrian:

Mirrored house.

It’s like a stealth house.