Thabto jpegs make a smart adjustment to a pretty banal object.

I was at the Post Office the other day and saw these beautiful Earthscapes stamps in the glass case. I was buying a large amount of stamps for one of Anna’s mailings. Unfortunately they did not have 50 sheets of them, so I ended up with the plain old flag stamps.

While I’m not a huge fan of cruisers, these ones from Globe do make pretty looking toys.

The Google Glass project has a lot of promise and is going to be the future at some point. You can even apply to be part of the first rounds of the product. However, I hate to think that a lot of the time looking through them is going to be starting at a computer at a desk in an office.

Looking more like a scene from a sci-fi movie than something right under your feet in midtown, these photos from the MTA’s East Side Access project shows that the MTA really does make progress in some pretty serious construction projects. Now if only the 2nd Ave subway could be finished soon…

Assimilation series by photographer Dillon Marsh.

In the vast barren landscapes of the southern Kalahari, Sociable Weaver Birds assume ownership of the telephone poles that cut across their habitat.Their burgeoning nests are at once inertly statuesque and teeming with life. The twigs and grass collected to build these nests combine to give strangely recognisable personalities to the otherwise inanimate poles.

Russian House Architectural Blocks from Haba.

Swatch Random Ghost and Black Ghost.

Tom Ngo – Work and Home. Imagery from another era of architecture.

Beautiful color blocks on the Marimekko Tilkkutäkki apron