grace&truth

cabinporn: Hunter/grower/gather/blogger Rohan Anderson built a...

Tue, 11 Sep 2012 22:54:05 -0400

Hunter/grower/gather/blogger Rohan Anderson built a log smokehouse from timber on his property in Victoria, Australia.

The beautifully shot film is a collaboration with Smith Journal and a full account of the story can be found in their most recent issue.

View a time-lapse gif of the build here.

Wonderful!

laughingsquid: French Horn Urinals in the Men’s Room at...

Mon, 02 Jul 2012 00:52:47 -0400

laughingsquid:

French Horn Urinals in the Men’s Room at Romania’s Jazzissimo Lounge

Tim!!!!

unconsumption: bookshelfporn: Piano Bookshelf. We here at...

Fri, 29 Jun 2012 15:32:47 -0400

unconsumption:

bookshelfporn:

Piano Bookshelf.

We here at Unconsumption love coming across examples of musical instrument repurposing, and this uncredited piano-cabinet-turned-bookshelf photo is a great one to add to the group.

(Note: We always prefer seeing photos posted with proper attribution and link(s) to source(s). If you know the source of this piano-shelf photo, tell us!)

Tim!!!!!! Tim!!!!!!! Tim!!!!!! I thought you would like this!

futurist-foresight: The synthetic meat of the...

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 22:50:43 -0400

futurist-foresight:

The synthetic meat of the future.

kateoplis:

Fake meat: is science fiction on the verge of becoming fact? | Guardian

Professor Patrick Brown could easily be taken for a deranged visionary. He is intense, driven and unfazed by critics and rivals. This 57-year-old ultra-lean, sandal-wearing, marathon-running vegan wants to stop the world eating meat. Not through persuasion or coercion, but by offering us carnivores something better for the same price or less. […]

Brown, a specialist in the genetics of cancer, is a tenured Stanford University molecular biologist, a member of the National Academy and the founder of a non-profit academic publisher. For two years, he has been working on creating synthesised meat and dairy products. “I have zero interest in making a new food just for vegans,” Brown says. “I am making a food for people who are comfortable eating meat and who want to continue eating meat. I want to reduce the human footprint on this planet by 50%.”

What Brown is talking about is a revolution that will remake our relationship with our planet, and with our fellow animals.

Eating meat is bad for the environment, of that there is no doubt. And the moral arguments against killing animals are compelling. Humans currently slaughter about 1,600 mammals and birds every second for food – that is half a trillion lives a year, plus trillions more fish, crustaceans and molluscs. The total biomass of all the world’s livestock is almost exactly twice that of humanity itself. And while crops that feed people cover just 4% of the Earth’s usable surface (land that is not covered by ice or water, or is bare rock), animal pastureland accounts for a full 30%. Our meat, in other words, weighs twice as much as we do and takes seven times as much land to grow.

And we are going to have to feed a lot more people in the coming decades. The world’s population stands at a little over 7bn; by 2060 this will have risen to perhaps 9.5bn, and that is a fairly optimistic scenario. Not only are there more and more of us, but we are eating more and more meat. Demand for it is expected to double by 2050. The market in chicken, pig, cattle and sheep flesh is worth about $1trn a year. By mid-century this will more than double, perhaps triple at today’s prices, as the cost of land rises.

This is bad news for the Earth. Meat production accounts for about 5% of global CO₂ emissions, 40% of methane emissions and 40% of various nitrogen oxides. If meat production doubles, by the late 2040s cows, pigs, sheep and chickens will be responsible for about half as much climate change impact as all the world’s cars, trucks and aircraft.

But it is animal suffering that usually turns people vegetarian. Meat farming is, say its critics, an obsolete technology that produces a nutrient-dense food in just about the most inefficient (and cruel) way imaginable. The problem – the big problem – is that, when given a choice, most of us like to eat meat regardless. It may be inefficient, dirty and cruel, but there is no denying that cooked animal flesh tastes good.

Read on.

Tim!!!!!!! Read this!!!!

unconsumption: A suspended boat daybed? Okay! (via...

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 10:03:37 -0400

unconsumption:

A suspended boat daybed? Okay!

(via Unstitched)

Tim! Freakin Awesome!

laughingsquid: Vincent van Gogh’s Starry Night Recreated Using...

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 10:03:11 -0400

laughingsquid:

Vincent van Gogh’s Starry Night Recreated Using Over 7000 Dominos

Tim! I haven’t seen this yet, but I absolutely love Starry Night! Probably my favorite painting ever.

ilovecharts: -junebug694 Tim! We are still unproductive when...

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 10:02:02 -0400

ilovecharts:

-junebug694

Tim! We are still unproductive when only two of us are involved.

enochliew: Living Room House by Seifert Stoeckmann The bedroom...

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 10:00:58 -0400

enochliew:

Living Room House by Seifert Stoeckmann

The bedroom hangs in a sliding drawer that can be opened over the street for alfresco sleeping.

Tim! Let me just pull out my bed for an afternoon nap across the horizon of the city. No big deal.

laughingsquid: Summer Tim!

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 09:59:58 -0400

laughingsquid:

Summer

Tim!

tballardbrown: pleatedjeans: via This joke is bass....

Sun, 24 Jun 2012 01:09:02 -0400

tballardbrown:

pleatedjeans:

via

This joke is bass. Ha.

Tim!!!!

tballardbrown: theatlantic: What Killed Us, Then and Now The...

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 23:03:26 -0400

tballardbrown:

theatlantic:

What Killed Us, Then and Now

The chart ranks the top ten causes of death for each year. In addition to the remarkable decline in mortality overall, it’s also noticeable how heart disease and cancer have surged to become two of America’s top killers. In 1900, cancer and heart disease accounted for 18 percent of all deaths. Today, that figure’s jumped to 63 percent. In addition to being responsible for a greater share of deaths overall, the absolute number of people being killed by these chronic conditions has also grown, from 201 people out of every 100,000 in 1900 to nearly 380 per 100,000 today.

Read more. [Image: New England Journal of Medicine, via Sarah Kliff]

Hm. Interesting. - Tanya B.

Tim, this is crazy!

I’m sitting here in the airport watching these...

Fri, 11 May 2012 14:30:46 -0400

I’m sitting here in the airport watching these businessmen. Here they sit with there Swiss suitcases, soft leather briefcases, Mac books, and five dollar coffee. I can’t help but wonder if they even know whats important in life. What prize do they run their race for, and for whom? I’m a victim of this same plague. I get wrapped up and consumed with what society tells us we need, what we have to have. I have faith that God will provide me with what I need, and I don’t need to be consumed by the ways of this world.

The 13 Most Useless College Majors (As Determined By Science)

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 15:25:30 -0400

The 13 Most Useless College Majors (As Determined By Science):

chels:

newsweek:

1. Fine Arts

2. Drama and Theatre Arts

3. Film, Video, and Photographic Arts

4. Commercial Art and Graphic Design

5. Architecture

6. Philosophy and Religious Studies

7. English Literature and Language

8. Journalism

9. Anthropology and Archeology

10. Hospitality Management

11. Music

12. History

13. Political Science and Government

(Ed: Your primary tumblrs majored in two of these and now work in the field of a third.)

I majored in #11 and then a version of #13 in undergrad and ended up with a Masters in #8. Looking down this list, it seems these are the majors that make you happy instead of making you rich. They also seem to be degrees that prepare someone to contribute thoughtful or beautiful things to the world. I think we need a new definition of useless.

True

Photo

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 17:01:52 -0400

thegreenurbanist: invaderjones: fiend4bikes: The Mythical...

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 16:29:00 -0400

thegreenurbanist:

invaderjones:

fiend4bikes:

The Mythical MBTA Bike Train! (by Lovely Bicycle!)

Would this be so hard?

What a fantastic idea!

Can we get this on Amtrak trains too please?!

True, how many times are you never even close to an...

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:43:29 -0500

True, how many times are you never even close to an Arby’s.

Photo

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:42:55 -0500

soupsoup: I want to have a kid just so I can put him in this...

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 18:46:51 -0500

soupsoup:

I want to have a kid just so I can put him in this costume next Halloween.

This is a designer’s mock-up, but I think Apple should hire...

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 18:48:51 -0500

This is a designer’s mock-up, but I think Apple should hire this guy and get the iCam into production as soon as feasible.

This will be me every night of the coming week.

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 18:46:54 -0500

This will be me every night of the coming week.