Passengers in the Copenhagen Metro were surprised by a Philharmonic Orchestra’s Peer Gynt performance.
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Tags: Classical music, Copenhagen, Denmark, Entertainment, Metro, Music, Subway
Going Through Books
14 May
Campaign for Greenville Literacy Association.
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Tags: Art, Books, Culture, Literacy, Litterature
Spanish Slaughterhouse Turned Cinema
14 May
In Matadero de Legazpi, Madrid.
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Tags: Architecture, Art, Cinema, Design, Entertainment, Madrid, movies, Spain
Contemporary Apartment In An Old Water Tower
16 May
Zecc Architects Utrecht managed to transform a 1931 water tower in Soest, The Netherlands, into a nine-level modern home.
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Tags: Architecture, Business, Construction and Maintenance, Design, Freshome, Netherlands, New Idea, New York City, United States, Water tower
Pohutukawa Beach Residence, New Zealand
17 May
Herbst Architects designed this organic beach house, not far from Auckland, New Zealand.
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Tags: Architecture, Auckland, Design, New Zealand
Transparent Cube In Copenhagen Harbour
19 May
Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects designed the hedquarters for one of Denmark’s leading mortgage banks, Nykredit. The ten-storey glass structure amply endows the office spaces with natural light from the harbour, thus linking the floors together. The CEO’s office is situated on the 9th floor and contains a clothing cabinet with a hidden escape hatch, built on his request.
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Tags: Amager Strandpark, Architecture, Bronze sculpture, Christianshavn, Copenhagen, Denmark, Design, Germany, Malta, Nyhavn, Nykredit, Sculptors, Sculpture, Shopping, Visual Art
10 Reasons To Quit Your Job Right Now!
26 May
The game is over. That game where they get to hire you for 40 years, pay you far less than you create, and then give you a gold watch, and then you get bored, you get depressed, and you die alone.
It wasn’t that fun of a game anyway.
When I had a corporate job I would wake up depressed. I couldn’t move out of bed.
Coal industry pays fake activists $50 to wear pro-coal shirts at public hearing
25 May
The pro-coal T-shirts at the Chicago hearing. (Photo by Lauren Kastner/Beyond Coal.)
A version of this post originally appeared on Climate Progress.
Apparently unable to find real activists, the coal industry paid astroturfers $50 to wear pro-coal T-shirts at an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) hearing yesterday.
The EPA hearings, held in Chicago and Washington, D.C., were focused on the agency’s
You can identify poor neighborhoods from space
25 May
Tim De Chant at Per Square Mile has noted that rich urban areas have way, way more trees than poor areas in the same city. In fact, the difference is so stark that income inequality can be seen from space. The satellite images above are low-income West Oakland and high-income Piedmont, and I probably don’t have to tell you which is which.
Tags: Lifestyle, Technology, Urban planning
If Facebook Buys Opera, It Can Be Bigger Than Google
25 May
Facebook is still trading well below its IPO price, and suddenly it’s hip to dump on the company. Sure, that IPO was ugly, and its negative effects will continue to be felt for some time. But to everyone out there who thinks Facebook has already played all its revenue tricks and so isn’t worth all the hype, I say: hold up.
Watch Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg Deliver Her Speech To Harvard Business School Graduates
25 May
It has been a week since the Facebook IPO, with a whole lot of drama in the aftermath about the glitch with Nasdaq (and the legal implications), and questions about how much traders have lost as a result, while the share price has fallen: from a start of $38 it is now $32.79 in pre-market trading. But in a speech earlier this week to the 2012 graduating class of Harvard Business School, Facebook’s COO Sheryl Sandberg steered very clear of these topics.
Tags: Education, Harvard University
SurfAir's 1st Round Of Funding "Oversubscribed," Jumps to Nearly $14m
25 May
SurfAir, the company launching a new small jet service between Silicon Valley and Southern California, has gotten so much interest from the Venture Capital community that we’re hearing it’s accepting a little more than expected.
When we originally interviewed SurfAir CEO Wade Eyerly last March, he indicated the company was seeking about $2 million. But over the past couple of days we’ve gotten unsolicited calls from investors, who wish to remain anonymous at this point, who have told us that there was so much demand that the company has raised nearly $14 million.
Tags: Business, California, Silicon Valley, Technology
Tycoons are dumping their superyachts
25 May
Reblogged from Fortune Tech: Technology blogs, news and analysis from Fortune Magazine:
Talk about a sea change. These three business titans are cutting back.
Athena, companion of heroes.
FORTUNE — The oldest adage on the sea is that the two happiest days in a sailor’s life are the days he buys his boat and the day he sells it. For three business titans, the days seem to be getting happier.
In 2009, Tom Perkins, the nonpareil venture capitalist of Silicon Valley, sold the Maltese Falcon, a 289-foot futuristic Darth Vader-esque square-rigger.
Photos by Daniel Cheong
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