Posts tagged wood
"Diversity of Species in the Rainforest," ad by Oro Verde: Die Tropenwaldstiftung (The Rainforest Foundation) :: via FFFFOUND!
Cool for sustainable timber harvest, one hopes. Do follow the link for a much larger version—sadly, I have to conclude that the "range" maps for each type of machine are probably rather fabricated. The amazing six-legged Timberjack Harvester (awesome promo video) is only a working prototype; John Deere bought the company that designed it, but doesn't seem to offer them yet.
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Wooden whales
Wooden whales
via FFFFOUND!
I simply liked these whales in shades of wood (provenance unknown—but isn't that the way with whales?), combining both a handmade/natural and graphic-design aesthetic. And these lines I read yesterday in the Literary Review, from a piece on Philip Hoare's Leviathan, or, The Whale: "Right now, as you read this, whale oil lubricates the Hubble Space Telescope, 'while the Voyager probe spins into infinity playing the song of the humpback to greet any friendly aliens—who may wonder at our treatment of the species with which we share our planet.'"
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