This Ikea site is crazy. Yet really awesome, I think . here

Notice you can change the song or upload a song of your own.. cooool

Alliteration is the repetition of the first consonant sound in a phrase. A common example in English is “Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers” or “Tigers took Title Today”. Alliteration can take the form of assonance, the repetition of a vowel, or consonance, the repetition of a consonant; however, unlike a strict definition of alliteration, both assonance and consonance can regularly occur within words as opposed to being limited to the word’s initial sound.

Some critics hold the opinion that the term “alliteration” applies just as accurately to phonetic repetitions that occur elsewhere than the first position (first letter), sometimes falling on later syllables, yet retaining alliterative properties due to the form of the example’s meter, which, through affecting the syllables’ stress may mimic the intensity of the initial. Further, the use of differing consonants of similar properties (labials, dentals, etc.) is sometimes considered to be alliteration.^[1] Similarly, phrases such as “Apt alliteration’s artful aid” still seems to retain the efficacy of alliteration despite the unique pronunciation of the “a” in each word. This has been attributed by the American writer Fred Newton Scott to the sharing of the attribute of a glottal stop (which he terms the “glottal catch”) by virtually every vowel in the English language when it is found in the initial position.

Thank you wikipedia!

“glottal catch” eh?

korean artist yeondoo jung decided to bring children’s drawings to life in a series of photographs called “wonderland“. after collecting more than 1,000 drawings from south korean children between the ages of 5 and 7 he narrowed the drawings down to a small selection of favorites and staged full-scale photoshoots designed to bring each drawing to life.

link on designsponge with more pictures

I absolutely love this. It makes me want to draw again and throw caution to the wind - a practice that has escaped me since design school I love the creative minds of children. In a related story, a favorite blog of mine: Heading East has many posts about the author’s children and the lovely things that their minds create.

A patented cut and method of preparation give red espresso richer flavour, colour and health properties than regular Rooibos, yet it is still naturally caffeine-free and is claimed to contain five times more antioxidants than green tea—a full 10 times more than regular Rooibos tea itself. Like coffee-based espresso, it can also be made into lattes and cappuccino-style drinks.

Woo hoo! Can’t wait! Off to Whole Foods I go!

via: springwise

I have only lived with one dog ever in my life and it was a sheepdog named Sammy. I was around 8 years old and he was ridiculously cute and I loved his long hair that got in his eyes. This is not Sammy, but holy cow is this cute.

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This is really really amazing. The balls are being dropped into the reservoir to shade the water from the sun. Wow. But I must ask - are there any ill effects of leaving these plastic balls out in the environment? Obviously you couldn’t use something that would break down, but I’m curious about this whole -putting plastic in the enviornment thing. Very interesting approach to the problem though

“The water needs to be shaded because when sunlight mixes with the bromide and chlorine in Ivanhoe’s water, the carcinogen bromate forms, said Pankaj Parekh, DWP’s director for water quality compliance. Bromide is naturally present in groundwater and chlorine is used to kill bacteria, he said, but sunlight is the final ingredient in the potentially harmful mix.”

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Flight Patterns!

via Aaron Koblin’s Flight Patterns site

Its a tunnel! Its a house! Its a tunnel! Its a house!

Isn’t it great how creativity kicks in when times running out. Take for example this incredible and beautiful installation by artists Dan Havel and Dean Ruck a few months before this house was to be demolished…. I’m guessing they saw any opportunity to do something freaking crazy cool to a space that was going to be destroyed and turned this old house into a trippy wooden warp zone!

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This is seriously one of the best things I have seen in a while.

Eric Clough isn’t your typical architectural designer. Sure, he’ll design you a fine den or kitchen, but he’s clearly got a creative streak that goes much deeper than that. That’s why, when given the opportunity, he secretly built an incredible scavenger hunt into a $8.5-million, 4,200-square-foot Park Avenue apartment that included ciphers, riddles, poems and a lot of hidden doors and compartments.

…In any case, the finale involved, in part, removing decorative door knockers from two hallway panels, which fit together to make a crank, which in turn opened hidden panels in a credenza in the dining room, which displayed multiple keys and keyholes, which, when the correct ones were used, yielded drawers containing acrylic letters and a table-size cloth imprinted with the beginnings of a crossword puzzle, the answers to which led to one of the rectangular panels lining the tiny den, which concealed a chamfered magnetic cube, which could be used to open the 24 remaining panels, revealing, in large type, the poem written by Mr. Klinsky.

I completely love the fact that this was built. It makes me believe in magical things again! Read More + See More PICTURES!