So as the earthquake hit in China, a young couple had just finished exchanging their vows. They had just moved on to the photographs when the the ground started shaking. Oddly, the photog continued to shoot the wedding. And apparently, and happily, none of the 33 guests were injured. Thanks to Ethan for the link.

Classic.

AND And there’s tons more on youtube…

So I just read two books that are blowing my mind. They are by Margaret Wheatley, a systems theorist and organizational development expert. Her specialty is to learn from super complex natural systems (like the universe, and life), and to suggest how these lessons might be applied in our organizations and in our approaches to [...]

Lucy and Bart like to get conceptual about body stuff. Their work gives me feelings of vague uneasiness. Check this link if you want to feel uneasy too.

So my father has been working on a project called Seeing Peace: Artists Collaborate with the United Nations. The premise is this: if we cannot first envision what peace actually looks like, we will never make it so. So he’s asked artists from United Nations member nations to make art works that show what peace [...]

These are the Kaibo Zonshinzu anatomy diagrams, painted in 1819. They’re nasty. And awesome. Cuz you mostly see very bland, very antiseptic anatomy diagrams. Not so here. Ooof.

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo. via worldwide wall.

So you may have noticed that there’s been much less writing and opinionating on this here inspiration feed than there used to be. There are a lot of reasons for the lull, but they’re not as remarkable as the way we reacted to it. We beat ourselves up for not doing more, started feeling like [...]

this is the sky bridge in langkawi, malaysia, a stunning cable-stayed bridge which actually curves around the single support column from which it’s suspended, 687 metres above sea level. completed in october 2004, the structure relies on an 87 metre high support column to hold the weight of the deck, this weight distributed through 8 [...]

I love that sometimes, the lore of a city turns out to be true and that all the mystery we thought lacking in our lives becomes present again. Here’s what I mean: The lost rivers of Manhattan are real; hundreds of streams and whole wetlands were paved over and filled so that the roots of [...]

Sega’s new game, Condemned 2, is so dark and nasty that they built a site filled with ponies and hearts and rainbows so you can offset the evil.