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Thursday, March 15, 2012

Fresh Guacamole


With grenade avocados and golf ball limes this stop-action animation is oddly intriguing. It's by PES, who made Western Spaghetti in their previous short film.

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Keep Calm and Carry On



Barter Books is a secondhand bookshop located in Alnwick's old Victorian railway station in Britain. One of Flavorwire's 20 Most Beautiful Bookstores In The World, it is worthy of its own post dedicated to the gorgeous inner workings, preserved tea rooms and waiting rooms.

After winning an auction for a box of antique books, the owners of Barter Books found one of the original Keep Calm posters that the British government had printed during WWII. Thus began a design trend that has swept the world. Take a look at this beautiful video that tells all about the provenance of the iconic poster.
More here.