One quarter of the world’s population lives in extreme poverty, and 70% of that 1.5 billion people are girls and women. Women are less likely to be literate, properly nourished or treated with respect. It is with this in mind that Plan (formerly Foster Parents’ Plan) has established ‘Because I am a Girl’; a global [...]
Here’s a site that puts the humanity back in the way we tell time. The Human Clock is a site with thousands of photos depicting people that are somehow displaying the time. Every minute, the clock updates with a new photo. The pics themselves are fascinating due to the variety of the banal. Click here [...]
In 1980, Finnish potter Otto Heino attended a ceramics conference in Japan. There he met a Buddhist monk in search of a lost colour: a pale oat-yellow that had been made popular in 4th Century China. The process that made the colour had become lost, because it was so sought after and so esteemed, that [...]
London interior designer David Carter wants to tell you a story, and he wants to do so in his own house. Just last year, Carter turned his beautiful 18th Century townhouse into a boutique hotel with only two rooms to let. (Those are them pictured by the way. Ya I know – stunning.) 40 Winks, [...]
This weekend, Britain’s Royal Opera House will debut a work unlike any other they’ve exhibited before. The libretto to ‘The People’s Opera’ was written solely by Twitter users – “Tweeters”, I suppose. For months, the venerable ROH has been accepting additions and plot twists 140 characters at a time. Once the story began to take [...]
In London’s Trafalgar Square, there are three plinths holding royal statuary. There was a fourth built in 1841 by Sir Charles Barry, and meant to display an equestrian monument of William IV. There were insufficient funds however, and the statue was never completed. To this day, Londonders have grown used to the empty platform, which [...]
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