Thank you Mattel and Sports Illustrated for reigniting a serious debate about how society perceives what is ‘real beauty’ by selecting Barbie as your Swimsuit cover doll. Â I don’t believe we would be sharing this elevated level of discourse had you gone with your usual carbon-based life form gracing your pages.
Here’s what the New York Times has to say about the selection. Barbie’s Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue Causes a Stir Online.
The bike remains the most efficient method of transportation on Earth, and in times of energy efficiency and environmental compatibility, it’s also one of our most sustainable products. It allows the purest experience of the landscape and the body.
An intelligent mashup of my two favorite sports – Baseball and Soccer. Mark Willis shares his football fashion vision of the American League Central teams. Mark’s reimagination of the Minnesota Twins’ uniform as a soccer kit is fresh both with his design and explanation – showing that he’s a thoughtful fan of both games.
Soccer Out of Context: the AL Central — M.Willis.
Skateistan began as a Kabul-based NGO, and now operates projects in Afghanistan, Cambodia, and Pakistan, with a second facility opening in Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan, in 2013.
via Students of DIY Workshop Make First Skateboards in Afghanistan | Creativity on GOOD.
The Richards Group created “Farmer” for Ram Truck – I believe the best commercial of Super Bowl 2013.
“And on the eighth day, God looked down on his planned paradise and said, “I need a caretaker.” So God made a farmer.
God said, “I need somebody willing to get up before dawn, milk cows, work all day in the field, milk cows again, eat supper, then go to town and stay past midnight at a meeting of the school board.” So God made a farmer.
God said, “I need somebody willing to sit up all night with a newborn colt and watch it die, then dry his eyes and say,’Maybe next year,’ I need somebody who can shape an ax handle from an ash tree, shoe a horse with hunk of car tire, who can make a harness out hay wire, feed sacks and shoe scraps. Who, during planting time and harvest season will finish his 40-hour week by Tuesday noon and then, paining from tractor back, put in another 72 hours.” So God made the farmer.
God said, “I need somebody strong enough to clear trees and heave bales, yet gentle enough to yean lambs and wean pigs and tend the pink-comb pullets, who will stop his mower for an hour to splint the leg of a meadowlark.”
It had to be somebody who’d plow deep and straight and not cut corners. Somebody to seed, weed, feed, breed, and brake, and disk, and plow, and plant, and tie the fleece and strain the milk, . Somebody who’d bale a family together with the soft, strong bonds of sharing, who would laugh, and then sigh and then reply with smiling eyes when his son says that he wants to spend his life doing what Dad does. “So God made a farmer.” – Paul Harvey
