TechniColor: I Love a Nice Bathroom

I have officially decided that the three most important rooms in a house include: her bathroom [his and her bathrooms are a must], the library, and whichever room the really big and comfy couch goes [you know, the kind of couch where you have to wear floaties and swim your way out of it].

This week in links and pictures:

via apartment therapy
homedesign.marthastewart

Those green goblets in the center are gorgeous. They would get the most spectacular place in my library. Did you think I was going to say kitchen? Silly you - I would put these in an important room.





The Illustrated Guide to a Ph.D
I am going to print this off and give it to every PhD student who dares roll his or her eyes at an undergraduate again. And then, when I become a PhD student, I'll forget all about it and ride my power trip all day long.





 Liu Bolin keeps it simple but ingenious - he paints himself with crazy detail  to blend in with his surroundings.


He doesn't use any software or special effects - just straight-up paint. Can you even see him in this picture?

via v1kram's posterous





What Kind of Facebook Poster are You?
Sadly, I confess I am a Dear Inanimate Object poster. There is truth in this post.








I Love Charts 

Very important graphs and statistics. I urge you to browse them all.








via apartment therapy

Low-energy light bulbs from Plumen.














novel eats

Will someone bake me these mini apple pies? Apparently, kitchens aren't important enough to be in my house. Plus I don't bake. Plus food is so much better when it's miniature, and then you can eat a bazillion of them.






Social Media: Preparedness 101: Zombie Apocalypse
Advice from the CDC on preparing for the zombie apocalypse. Love it, learn it.

via lovely package

Ivan Maximov designed these really cool take-away beer mugs for a series of pubs in Russia. Very slick.










How to Style Maiden Braids
I want to do this at some point.

Masha Sardari's photographs seem like snippets of a fairytale or dream, but with some edge.Beauty with grit. This one below might be my favorite.

via bumbumbum









University of Chicago Shows Off its Automated Library
A giant dome filled with reading tables houses the Joe and Rika Mansueto Library. Instead of  lots and lots of beautiful old books through which to browse, the books are stored in optimal conditions by size under the reading room. 
It makes me a little sad.

via apartment therapy

Dirtless planters. Kind of eccentric and sweet, maybe?










This is both laugh-worthy and impressive
Made my day. Slash year. 

arch daily

I think this might have been Cleopatra's bathroom. I've always been a shower person, but I'd be willing to convert for this bathroom - who wouldn't want to pretend to be a mermaid in that thing?

French By Design

That shower is amazing. And I never ever want a couch in my bathroom...but it looks pretty pimpin'.

India & Claire

A sweet out-door bathroom for the non-potty-shy. All images via apartment therapy.

via 22 words
Stick World Comics

The advantages of texting over phone calls. 












via Jetsetta

Underground housing. I would try it...for a week.







source unknown

This lace dress is a someday thing I kind of want.
Someone pinned  it but didn't cite her source. I don't really know the protocol, then...

The Estate of Things

Pardon the blurriness - it's a movie still from "Stranger Than Fiction". Check out the chandelier in the upper left hand corner.Believe it or not, people have gone crazy trying to figure out where to get that chandelier. I wish I had a clearer picture. Ana Pascal's eccentric apartment is incredible. The set designers outdid themselves.

via theBerry, I think...

Have a great week, everyone.

-bRob 

TechniColor: Color Thirsty

Judging by the bold colors peppering this post, I would say my soul is color-starved. And also, I'm in love with open spaces and converted living spaces.

St. Jakobus Church in the Netherlands has been converted to a modern residence by Zecc Architects. And I am loving it - the juxtaposition of the personality of a house and the austerity of a church.

via toxel

"True justice  is a banana peeling a human."

-on-campus grafitti 

what does this mean?

Read more at 24Flinching

Artist Jason de Caires Taylor submerges his sculptures in a Mexican underwater museum.

via apartmenttherapy
source: Domino Magazine

incredible.

via bumbumbum

Pedro Campos painted these hyper-realistic images. Painted. Oil on canvas. 
awe-struck?

Highly Trusting People Better Lie Detectors
I don't think I believe it.

via apartmenttherapy

A pretty trendy DIY mirror tutorial. If you have it in you. I'm going to marry someone really handy who can make all this stuff for me.

Anthropologie

Rich and vibrant. Oh, Anthropologie. I can't afford you and it makes my heart hurt. Like, the opposite of heart bubbles. Not being able to afford Anthropologie is like acid reflux-induced heartburn.

A mad tea party with alis

Julia

Airy outdoor spaces via apartment therapy.

I don't like this miniature library. It hurts my feelings. Books are for reading. Not....shrinking.

via contemporist
source:  Velichko Velikov.



via a mad tea party with alis
source: Alexandra Angle Design

Last Two Speakers of a Dying Language Refuse to Talk to Each Another
I don't know if this is heartbreaking or straight-up dumb.

Is symmetry as beautiful as we think it is? Read about Julian Wolkenstein's picture series.

"The Kiss" via apartment therapy
source: inaluxe's etsy shop

Did you honestly think I would leave you without a weekly addiction?
Create your own snowflake.

Architect: Ricardo Bofill

 "A former Cement Factory is now the workspace and residence of Ricardo Bofill" via yatzer. As you know, this is just the sort of thing I go crazy about.

I saw this girl on the bus today. She was holding an unopened box carrying what I assumed to be one of the world's best cupcakes, judging by  the logo of my favorite cupcake shop emblazoned across the top. Being raised by a father with an underutilized sense of shame and a gregarious personality (and a mother, too), I finally asked her what kind of cupcake she had gotten. She told me she hadn't picked it out. She had been dumped on Monday, and her friend bought her a cupcake. I assured her it would be a wonderful cupcake, and while breakups are terrible and terrifying, the cupcake might help a little, because it is awfully good. She smiled a big, beautiful smile and told me it was chocolate, with chocolate icing, sprinkled with chocolate chips.

Sometimes this world is a special place.

-bRob

Strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow.- Thomas Chisholm