BZ2rD-nIMAEQ_8yThat  fuppin’ close.

Lansdowne Road, Dublin this afternoon.

New Zealand’s Aaron Cruden sinks Ireland with retaken kick at the last (Guardian)

Thanks Whatshewears

Meanwhile, was it for this?

unionjackUnion Jack phone cover at Lansdowne Road, Dublin this afternoon.

Thanks Vic Mackey

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From Steve Vistaunet’s Pinterest  – a sample of many, many examples of hand-decorated cassette spines from the golden era of the mixtape.

What do you mean ‘what’s a mixtape?’

Ask your dad.

Jeez.

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https://vimeo.com/65542790

Photographer Dean Saffron’s short film about bike collector James Macdonald:

…a very enigmatic man who has taken it upon himself to collect one bicycle from each developmental epoch for future generations to enjoy , a kind of time capsule…

Related: Evolution Of The Dandy Horse

(H/T: Mark Geary)

cuba-1 cuba-6 cuba-5 cuba-3 cuba-2Kiwi photographer Andrew Smith’s idyllic shots of ocean landscapes around his New Zealand home. As detailed in his Before And After Lightroom Blog, all photos are shot with a NikonD800 and processed in Adobe Lightroom.

Hundreds more sumptuous shots here.

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butterflyalphabet1sssIn the course of research for the Smithsonian Institute in the 1980s, Kjell Sandved saw the letter ‘F’ in the markings of a butterfly wing.

Over the next 24 years, he found the entire alphabet and the first ten numbers on moth and butterfly wings, in the process becoming an accomplished wildlife photographer and author. The results of the Butterfly Alphabet project were published in a 1996 book which is also available as an art print.

He’s also done a pareidolic Nature Alphabet of plants and flowers.

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