Happy Labor Day weekend, dear Thersians!  May it be filled with BBQs, beer, and perhaps even a large body of water of some sort.

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Now that Hurricane Earl it officially cruising up the east coast, we thought it might be the perfect time to share this series of hurricane drawings created by our very talented friend, Stephen Floyd.  You need to click to enlarge, because each of the 30 hurricanes comes complete with a short and often hilarious bio.  I’m not sure if any of these are still available, but I’ll fight whoever gets in my way of owning one.

See the rest of the series HERE.

images via stephenfloyd.com

I’ve seen this Gulf oil spill-inspired spread from a recent issue of Vogue Italia around on various sites and I know it has drawn a lot of criticism.  I personally think the photos are haunting and beautiful, but yet still evoke the same sense of sadness that those previously published in various media publications.  Since the spill has been an ongoing topic in the media, it was only a matter of time before other media outlets (ie: fashion magazines) dealt with it.

Of course everyone is entitiled to their opinion, and I think some may argue that this spread exploits the spill and the sadness that surrounds it, but I think that Vogue rather smartly used this spread to make a statement and bring more awareness to all of those effected by it.

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Things have been pretty chaotic around here recently, made especially so with the endless DIY wedding projects we’ve been working on.  I don’t know what crazy frame of mind we were in when we decided to take all of it on, but here we are finding, baking, printing, and constructing everything from our invites, to lighting, to our decorations (w/ the help of dear friends & family, of course!)

Since we’re paying for it ourselves, we are trying to stay on a very tight budget.. So when any possible creative freebies come along, we don’t hesitate.  We decided to pass on a professional florist and keep things simple with a mix of Georgia wild flowers and a couple of our personal favorites.  Instead of buying 100 + vases, we decided to take what Brooklyn itself was offering.. free glass bottles from the 1900-1950s!  Want to find out how?  Keep reading..

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Here’s a little summer lighting idea c/o PostlerFerguson. Made from jet cut plywood, it contains a central neon tube, is finished in bare wood and has hand painted fluorescent highlights.  Cute!

(And I’m trying to ignore any other possible shapes that one on the left may look like alone..  Or is that just me? Anyone?)

rendering:

via designboom

This is pretty awesome.  This video was created  freedivers Guillaume Néry and Julie Gautier, and as they sum it up best by stating, “World champion freediver Guillaume Nery special dive at Dean’s Blue Hole, the deepest blue hole in the world filmed entirely on breath hold by the french champion Julie Gautier.”

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Following yesterday’s Players Navy Cut post, I figured I would put together a collection of images that further that sort of 1910′s nautical idea that I was describing.

And two stills from “City of Lost Children”….

There is some sort of salty, seagull-sounding, 1910′s nautical feeling that I think might be contained inside an old Player’s Navy Cut tin on our shelf in the living room.

John Player’s graphics department was on a roll for years- there is something really great about almost all Player’s packaging and ephemera.  There is a gorgeous nicotine stained porcelain Player’s Navy Cut sign at my favorite bar that has been there for decades- the thing must be really nailed to the wall.

The mascot depicted in almost all Player’s Navy Cut packaging is named Hero, and his face constantly changes through the years of packaging, but no matter what he looks like I think he belongs in Marc Caro & Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s film “City of Lost Children”.

Get on my shoe rack immediately!  It appears that Need Supply will in fact, be supplying me with my needs in the shoe department all summer.

Cute & inexpensive gets me every time.

I was looking all over the internet the other day, trying to find an underwater light that was not a pool light- finally found it!  In case you have the same problem, this should save you some time.  Good for ponds. $125

This is pretty weird: French prisoners of war were put on crappy old British ships and fed beef, and the French POWs made model ships out of the beef bones to sell to the English public to buy better rations.

I know that the last thing I would carve if I was on a rotting British ship would be a ship. Also, if I was getting served beef I think I would be fine with that, but if I was going to carve something I think I would carve a shiv to get out of there- oh, wait, they were POWs with carving knives.  Maybe the US Naval Acadamy Museum is just making this  &**^ up.

Photo Via caroundtheworld

LA photographer, Jill Greenberg created this wonderful underwater series of synchronized swimmers..  with some in heels!  Ok, now I’m almost ready to accept the fact that summer is on its way.

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I don’t know where these two lovely ladies are, but it’s exactly where I want to maintain my residence immediately.  When you live in a city as long as I feel like I have, places like this look film sets.

Beautiful series by Antonella Arismendi. See the rest of it HERE.

The Dornier Do X was the largest, heaviest, and most powerful flying boat in the world.  It was produced by the Dornier company of Germany in 1929 and was powered by 12 water-cooled engines, with a crew of 14 and designed to carry 66 passengers long distance or 100 on shorter flights.  Video below.