This weekend saw packed sessions with Andy Puddicombe, the guru from Headspace - ‘meditation, but not as you know it’ - and we simply couldn’t squeeze any more people into the jammed Forum! So, to give people another chance to get some calm and clarity (and wash away those post event blues!), those nice people at Headspace are offering Wilderness goers 2 for 1 tickets for their next legendary 1 day live event (at LSO in London) on Sept 10th, (which means they are under £50 for you guys, reduced from original price of £125!) Step 1 = Purchase 1 x £99 ticket from www.getsomeheadspace.com/events. Step 2 = Claim your 2 for 1 offer by simply emailing info@getsomeheadspace.com quoting “Wilderness” in the subject matter and your ticket will be upgraded for 2 attendees.
Welcome to the latest installment of Five For Friday! We take five cool things from the web this week and deliver them to you on a shiny Tumblr platter.
Turn Your Instagrams into Magnets
Now this is amazing. With Sticky Gram, you can turn your Instagram images into cool little magnets. Just create your magnet pack through their website and they’ll deliver them direct with free worldwide shipping.
Micro-Sculptures Made Within The Eye Of A Needle
Birmingham artist Willard Wigan creates the most wonderous micro-sculptures in the eye of a needle or on a pin head, which can only be viewed through microscope. Little wonder his work is now in significant demand from art collectors around the world.
Virtual Supermarkets in the South Korean Underground
This is the greatest invention. Ever. Commuters in South Korea can now do their food shopping whilst waiting for the train to arrive using their mobile phone to scan the QR codes of the virtual goodies they want. The order is then delivered direct to their doorstep the next day. Amazing!
Mona Lisa created from 6,239 connected dots
Melbourne-based artist Thomas Pavitte uses basic techniques to create complex artworks. For his take on Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, he carefully arranged and numbered 6,239 dots and then spent the next nine hours connecting them. The result is not only the (unofficial) world record for the most complex dot-to-dot drawing, but also happens to be a seriously cool piece of art.
Dinner jacket made from computer keys
Japan-based artist, Julien David, is a total nerd, and it shows with his latest geek chic collection that includes a tuxedo jacket made using computer keys. Appropriately named the 900 Jacket, it has 900 computer keys sewn onto wool material and is available for sale in speciality boutiques globally and, ironically, for purchase online.
Treat your Mind, Body and Soul over the weekend at this year’s Wilderness Festival Spa, featuring the finest quality yurt Sauna, provided by festival favourites, Lost Horizons Sauna, a hot moment tipi to re-invigour your skin after the Sauna, the finest quality wood fire heated hot-tubs and the pure, clean, fresh Wilderness Swimming Lakes.
f you would like to purchase tickets to the Spa click here - Sessions cost £10 for the hour.
A further look into the goings on at this year’s festival with Oxbox TV. Meet Festival Organiser Jim Whewell and Festival Chef Thomas Hunt as well as taking a look around the amazing Cornbury Park Estate. To find out more details and purchase tickets head to www.wildernessfestival.com
Observer Food Monthly will be visiting Wilderness this year and you can get yourself a free Observer Food Monthly limited edition bag and cookbook worth £25 if you subscribe on site!
Save up to 45% when you subscribe - you can also catch up with the world through the Guardian and Observer which will be available on site all weekend :)
Welcome to the latest installment of Five For Friday! We take five cool things from the web this week and deliver them to you on a shiny Tumblr platter.
Bacon Wrapped Eggs You Say?!
This beautifully shot and designed ‘how to’ video teaches you how to make bacon wrapped eggs and is sure to entice just about anyone with its bacony goodness. Check out more from the creators, Recipe Cards.
Yowayowa Levitation
Natsumi Hayashi goes by the name of Yowayowa camera woman and what she likes to do with her camera is take pictures of herself levitating. In a world full of bloggers taking pictures of themselves in cute poses and cute outfits, Natsumi is a refreshing change.
Feeling Blu?
Well this will cheers you up! Absolutely our favourite find this week is this Italian artist named Blu. Blu has become one of the most applauded street artists out there, and rightly so. His work is phenomenal, as this stop motion animation reveals.
Adriane Strampp
The life-sized animals in Melbourne-based artist Adriane Strampp’s most recent project exhibition — Erlösung: The Animal Gaze — are not cute. They are solid, monumental creatures drawn life-size, yet they remain fragile and exposed, vulnerable to the encroachment of mankind.
And with their wary gaze, the animals seemingly stare back in this project which was produced in conjunction with her 2011 residency at Sydney’s Taronga Zoo. They make you question your daily actions which may be harming the world by bringing other inhabitants of this world to look over your shoulder.
Flashing, Lights.
What do you get when you combine neon glowsticks, blenders, 700 crystal glasses, and 200 meters of hose? An installation in which a DJ uses neon lights to move with the beat of electronic music. Wild.
Welcome to the latest installment of Five For Friday! We take five cool things from the web this week and deliver them to you on a shiny Tumblr platter.
An Urban Gardening Special
Gardening is regaining popularity as a pastime for all types of people across the world, with gardens popping up in the most unexpected places. While the traditional image of a garden may not exactly fit into the reality of most urban environments, the fact is you can grow your own food whether you live on a rural farm or in a tiny Manhattan apartment. Urban gardening is all about using space wisely to regain a closer connection with your food and beautify your home or neighborhood.
There are a handful of different types of urban gardens, and the ones we’re going to focus on here are indoor gardening, container gardening, community gardening and guerilla gardening. Perhaps you’ve got a tiny townhouse yard, a balcony, a south-facing window – or perhaps you live in a basement apartment that won’t support anything but mold. You can still grow enough of your own food to save a considerable amount of money and enjoy the freshest, healthiest produce possible.
1. Indoor Gardening – Apartment Dwellers Can Grow Food, Too!
Okay, so growing pumpkins, corn or zucchini indoors probably isn’t all that feasible. But, any window that gets at least 6 to 8 hours of sunlight a day can support leaf crops like lettuce, endive and arugula as well as small-crop tomatoes, peppers, root crops and even bush beans. Growing vegetables indoors requires different soil requirements, watering, pollination, and pest control techniques than doing so outdoors. You must also consider things like air circulation and ambient temperature. You may need supplemental lighting – cheap shop lights from the hardware store work just as well as expensive grow lights. If you’re a total novice and growing veggies in your kitchen window seems intimidating, try herbs first. Chives, basil, parsley, oregano, cilantro, peppermint and rosemary are among the herbs that do well indoors and they’ll add lots of fresh, pesticide-free flavor to your meals. 2. Guerilla Gardening – Who Cares if it’s Someone Else’s Land? For those with no access to land at all, or people who would just prefer to put their efforts into beautifying forgotten public spaces, guerilla gardening will satisfy your impulse to dig in the dirt. Guerilla gardening is planting vegetables, fruit, herbs or any other plants in land that’s not yours – whether it’s a vacant lot, a park, a median, the side of the highway or those sad little strips of dirt between streets and parking lots. Also called ‘pirate gardening’, the essential goal of guerilla gardening is to improve public spaces and make sure perfectly good land doesn’t go to waste. Some guerilla gardeners surreptitiously sow and tend patches of vegetables or flower gardens under the cloak of night, ready to run for it if cops or the property owners appear. Others get permission from landowners or the city and openly garden in spaces that aren’t technically theirs. There are lots of different ways to guerilla garden. Some people secretly plant food – like strawberries, melons, zucchini or tomatoes – among ornamental plants in city-tended gardens. Some take over vacant lots altogether, or simply throw ‘seed bombs’ anywhere that plants could potentially take hold. Seed bombs are little balls of soil, clay and seeds. 3. Container Gardening – Growing Food on a Small Scale
Container gardening allows urban residents with small yards, patios or balconies to grow practically any plants in practically any container that will hold soil. One of the most fun parts of growing food in containers is that you can get incredibly creative with coming up with new uses for old junk. Wine barrels, used tires, feed sacks, kiddie pools, buckets, leaky watering cans and even shoes are among the items intrepid container gardeners use – and that’s just the beginning. You can also build your own self-watering containers, as illustrated in the video below.
4. Community Gardening – Rent a Plot in Your Neighborhood
If you don’t have any space at all to grow plants, community gardening may be your best bet. Most cities have some kind of community garden program, where residents can rent a plot of land for a nominal fee (it’s even free in some places). There are an estimated 10,000 community gardens in the U.K. alone, allowing people who don’t have land of their own or who simply want the community experience to grow food, relieve stress, connect with the environment and interact with other members of the community. In community gardens, residents share the responsibility of maintaining and managing the garden. Some community gardens are communal instead of divvying up land between members, so everyone shares in each others’ efforts. 5. The Ultimate Urban Garden - The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew For those of us who reside in England’s capital, exploring the ‘great outdoors’ is made very possible by the abundance of splendid public parks dotted around London. Those with a penchant for plants however, will find that their passions will be infinitely better served by a visit to London’s globally-renowned Kew Gardens.
Within easy reach for Londoners and visitors to the capital alike, the historic Royal Botanical Gardens in Kew offers an authentic escape from the trappings of city life and the opportunity to marvel at trees, plants and flowers from all over the world.
Welcome to the latest instalment of Five For Friday! We take five cool things from the web this week and deliver them to you on a shiny Tumblr platter.
Stunning Maps of Flickr and Twitter Usage Around The World
Eric Fischer had a bright idea: he mashed up data from Flickr (the orange dots are pictures uploaded to Flickr) and Twitter (the blue dots are Tweets) to reveal that people Tweet more in urbanised environments and upload photos more in scenic surrounds. The white dots? Locations that have been both Tweeted and uploaded to Flickr.
Grains of Sand, Magnified 250x Real Size
Who knew sand could look so damn colourful and interesting? Gary Greenberg, that’s who, whose incredible microphotography reveals each grain of sand to be a kaleidoscope of colour and texture that defies its rather bland reputation.
Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder.
He received a PhD in Theoretical Physics from Yerevan State University in 2001 for research in the field of Quantum Chaos and investigations in the field of Quantum Technologies. Yet, Suren Manvelyan is probably best known for his stunning macro-photography. Especially popular is his series of close-ups of human eyes called Your Beautiful Eyes.
Chocolate Printer Prints 3D Chocolate Print-Outs
Using specially designed temperature and heating controls, the printer takes uploaded 3D CAD designs and turns them into the stuff of your sweet toothed dreams.
Tighten Up
These handmade Phillips Head Screw cufflinks will really tighten up a man’s outfit. Very quirky, they add a casually-sophisticated vibe to a shirt.
Welcome to the latest instalment of Five For Friday! We take five cool things from the web this week and deliver them to you on a shiny Tumblr platter.
VVORK
VVORK is an amazing international contemporary art website full of amazing images and videos that’s updated daily.
Puyehue, Chile
These photos show the dramatic effects of huge volcanic ash clouds being shot through by fierce lightning bolts at the recent Puyehue eruption in Chile.
Relativity
Here’s a crazy rendering of M.C. Escher’s iconic piece Relativity done from a single piece of cardstock without the use of any adhesives.
Cars Re-imagined
Poster art company Old Red Jalopy re-imagined a several iconic movie cars as characters in the Pixar film franchise Cars.
Bob Bob Richard
All you need to know is about Bob Bob Richard is this: You press a button at your table, and these waiters dressed in powder pink suit jackets will bring you champagne. Go. Now. Just don’t have a break-up date there, the champagne doesn’t taste as good then.
