After days of political drama, high anxiety, and little sleep, I need some good old natural drama. Thank you Yannick Calonge for this amazing aerial footage of Iceland. Serendipitously, we were in country at the same time this September.
International ad agency Havas Worldwide recently created these amusing public safety cartoons for RATP the Paris and Ile de France transport organization. I just wonder why they’re all in English. Are tourists the only dumb train riders?
Brazilian street artist and accomplished muralist Eduardo Kobra recently completed this amazing David Bowie 180 foot-tall mural for Jersey City, New Jersey’s Artober festival.
You may call me a sappy romantic, but I love this little promotional film from the hotel booking site Booking.com. Just like artists Rachel Long and Antosh Wojcik, I’m a big fan of the work of Gustav Klimt, and a bigger fan of Vienna. Whenever I visit the Austrian capital, I always schedule time at the glorious Schloss Belvedere Museum to see the terrific Klimt collection.
For the last 12 years, Svein Ivar Vinnes has been sailing his floating library through Norway’s fjordland. Focusing mainly on children’s books, the Epsos visits at least three small communities each day. Along with books, librarians, and reading specialists,the flytande bibliotek also offers story hours, plays, and other entertainment for villages along the Møre og Romsdal and in Hordaland.
Red Cabins in Reine, Norway
Yesterday I read a depressing article on New York Magazines digital site about the low success rate of “pay-what-you-want” restaurants. Apparently it doesn’t matter if these schemes are designed to support charitable endeavors, or just appeal to the inherent goodness of people. While there are a few high profile projects here in the U.S., such as the Panera restaurant chain’s Panera Cares Cafes, most of this type of restaurant only stay in business for brief periods.
The story reminded me of the wonderful, and very successful, Trust Café that I visited this summer in Amsterdam. Situated in the heart of the Albert Cuypstraat street market in the lively de Pijp neighborhood, Trust is a small, welcoming restaurant with a simple philosophy that encourages visitors to pay what they want or just what they can for their food and beverages. They sum it up with this quote, “The best way to see if you can trust somebody, is to trust them.”
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