Wonderful work of wildlife photography from the photographer Peter Lindel. Wild life photography needs a perfect timing to take the photos.
Wonderful work of wildlife photography from the photographer Peter Lindel. Wild life photography needs a perfect timing to take the photos.
Many modern women canât fathom leaving home without laying on at least some makeup, and sometimes we are glad for it. However, see these with and without makeup photo comparisons to decide for yourself whether or not makeup worked its magic.
In 2005, Norway initiated a massive 15-year agenda to generate more tourism. The government turned to architects and designers to concept and build tourist routes and architectural rest stops to enhance the experience of the stunning Norwegian landscape. The projects span from the southern town of Jaeren to the northern tip of Varenger. Visitors and Norwegian natives alike are afforded the luxury of safe roads and reveling in clean and relaxing architecturally inspired viewpoints.
The ongoing project has been aptly named, The National Tourist Routes In Norway, and features an array of architects including Margrete Friis, Peter Zumthor, PUSHAK arkitekter, Code Arkitektur, Manthey Kula, Snøhetta AS, and Jensen and Skodvin to name a few. The architects have worked together to connect the dots throughout the country and form a network of breathtaking valleys, farms, rivers, and mountain cliffs â creating a lattice of scenic masterpieces that would make just about anyone (Nordic or otherwise) want to shimmy into warm genser, bring a matpakke, and take in the sights.
(Photographs Provided By The National Tourist Routes In Norway)
This bag will surely protect your sandwich while working in the office. Noone will touch it⌠Check out below howâŚ
TreeHugger promotes healthy diets and frugal living, so taking your organic arugula sandwich on homemade whole-grain beats the KFC any day. But such delicacies are often stolen by people who “accidentally” mix them up with their own bologna on Wonderbread.
Sherwood Forlee to the rescue, with the Anti-theft Lunch Bag.
This December, in a surprisingly simple yet ridiculously amazing installation for theQueensland Gallery of Modern Ar, artist Yayoi Kusama constructed a large domestic environment, painting every wall, chair, table, piano, and household decoration a brilliant white, effectively serving as a giant white canvas. Over the course of two weeks, the museumâs smallest visitors were given thousands upon thousands of colored dot stickers and were invited to collaborate in the transformation of the space, turning the house into a vibrantly mottled explosion of color. How great is this?
Haugen/Zohar Architects have designed an outdoor fireplace in Trondheim, Norway.
Full description after the photosâŚ.
Photography by Grethe Fredriksen & Jason Havneraas
Outdoor Fireplace by Haugen/Zohar Architects
Together with the standard playground facilities we wished to combine an enclosed space for fire, storytelling and playing.
Given a very limited budget, reusing leftover materials (from a nearby construction site) was a starting point that led the design to be based on short wooden pieces. Inspired by the Norwegian turf huts and old log construction, a 5,2Ă4,5 meters wooden construction was built and mounted on a lighted and brushed concrete base. The structure is made of 80-layered circles. The circles have varied radiuses and relative centre point in relation to each other. Every circle is made out of 28 pieces of naturally impregnated core of pine that are placed with varied spaces to assure chimney effect and natural light.
Oak separators differentiate vertically between the pine pieces to assure airflow allowing easy drying of the pine pieces.
A double curved sliding door was designed for locking the structure.
Visit the website of Haugen/Zohar Architects â here.
Sometimes you have to die a little on the inside first in order to be reborn and rise again as a stronger, smarter version of yourself.
Nobody gets through life without losing someone they love, someone they need, or something they thought was meant to be. But it is these losses that make us stronger and eventually move us toward future opportunities for growth and happiness.
Here are some lessons weâve learned along the way:
â No matter how chaotic the past has been, the future is a clean, fresh, wide open slate. You are not your past habits. You are not your past failures. You are not how others have at one time treated you. You are only who you think you are right now in this moment. You are only what you do right now in this moment.
â You are who you are and you have what you have, right now. And it canât be that bad, because otherwise you wouldnât be able to read this. The important thing is simply to find one POSITIVE thought that inspires and helps you move forward. Hold on to it strongly, and focus on it. You may feel like you donât have much, or anything at all, but you have your mind to inspire you. And thatâs really all you need to start moving forward again.Â
 â Part of living and growing up is experiencing unexpected troubles in life. Peoplelose jobs, get sick, and sometimes die in car accidents. When you are younger, and things are going pretty well, this harsh reality can be hard to visualize. The smartest, and oftentimes hardest, thing we can do in these kinds of situations is to be tempered in our reactions. To want to scream obscenities, but to wiser and more disciplined than that. To remember that emotional rage only makes matters worse. And to remember that tragedies are rarely as bad as they seem, and even when they are, they give us an opportunity to grow stronger.
 â You donât always have to pretend to be strong, and there is no need to constantly prove that everything is going well. You shouldnât be concerned with what other people are thinking either â cry if you need to â itâs healthy to shed your tears. The sooner you do, the sooner you will be able to smile again. And a smile doesnât always mean a person is happy. Sometimes it simply means they are strong enough to face their problems.
There may not be a tomorrow â not for everyone. Right now, someone on Earth is planning something for tomorrow without realizing theyâre going to die today. This is sad but true. So spend your time wisely today and pause long enough to appreciate it. Every moment you get is a gift. Donât waste time by dwelling on unhappy things. Spend it on things that move you in the direction you want to go.
 â The faster you accept this, the faster you can get on with being brilliant. Youâll never be 100% sure it will work, but you can always be 100% sure doing nothing wonât work. Doing something and getting it wrong is at least ten times more productive than doing nothing. So get out there and try! Either you succeed or you learn a vital lesson. Win â Win.
â Feelings change, people change, and time keeps rolling. You can hold onto past mistakes or you can create your own happiness. A smile is a choice, not a miracle. Donât make the mistake of waiting on someone or something to come along and make you happy. True happiness comes from within.
 â You are far greater than your problems. You are a living, breathing human being who is infinitely more complex than all of your individual problems added up together. And that means youâre more powerful than them â you have the ability to change them, and to change the way you feel about them.
 â You should never let one dark cloud cover the entire sky. The sun is always shining on some part of your life. Sometimes you just have to forget how you feel, remember what you deserve, and keep pushing forward.
â Everyone you meet, everything you encounter, etc. Theyâre all part of the learning experience we call âlife.â Never forget to acknowledge the lesson, especially when things donât go your way. If you donât get a job that you wanted or a relationship doesnât work, it only means something better is out there waiting. And the lesson you just learned is the first step towards it.
 â Ask yourself: âWhat is this situation meant to teach me?â Every situation in our lives has a lesson to teach us. Some of these lessons include: To become stronger. To communicate more clearly. To trust your instincts. To express your love. To forgive. To know when to let go. To try something new.
 â The bad news: nothing is permanent. The good news: nothing is permanent.
 â There comes a point when you get tired of chasing everyone and trying to fix everything, but itâs not giving up, and itâs not the end. Itâs a new beginning. Itâs realizing, finally, that you donât need certain people and things and the drama they bring.
 â Every time you subtract negative from your life you make room for more positive. Life is too short to spend time with people who suck the happiness out of you. Let go of negative people, for they are the greatest destroyers of self confidence and self esteem. Surround yourself with people who bring out the best in you.
 â Thereâs no such thing as a perfect, ideal relationship. Itâs how two people deal with the imperfections of a relationship that make it ideal.Â
 â One of the most painful things in life is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too. When was the last time someone told you that they loved you just the way you are, and that what you think and how you feel matters? When was the last time someone told you that you did a good job, or took you someplace, simply because they know you feel happy when youâre there? When was the last time that âsomeoneâ was YOU?
 â Sometimes you just have to live not caring what they think of you, shake off the drama, and prove to YOURSELF that youâre better than they think you are.
â Always forgive people and move on, even if they never ask for your forgiveness. Donât do it for them â do it for you. Grudges are a waste of happiness. Get that unnecessary stress out of your life right now.
 â To lose sleep worrying about a friend. To have trouble picking yourself up after someone lets you down. To feel like less because someone didnât love you enough to stay. To be afraid to try something new for fear youâll fail. None of this means youâre dysfunctional or crazy. It just means youâre human, and that you need a little time to right yourself. You are not alone. No matter how embarrassed or pathetic you feel about your own situation, there are others out there experiencing the same emotions. When you hear yourself say, âI am all alone,â it is your mind trying to sell you a lie.
 â Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of brave people who are overcoming it. Sometimes you have to forget whatâs gone, appreciate what still remains, and look forward to whatâs coming next. Henry David Thoreau once said, âWealth is the ability to fully experience life.â Even when times are tough, itâs always important to keep things in perspective. You didnât go to sleep hungry last night. You didnât go to sleep outside. You had a choice of what clothes to wear this morning. You hardly broke a sweat today. You didnât spend a minute in fear. You have access to clean drinking water. You have access to medical care. You have access to the Internet. You can read. Some might say you are incredibly wealthy, so remember to be grateful for all the things you do have.
â A loss, a worry, an illness, a dream crushed â no matter how deep your hurt or how high your aspirations, do yourself a favor and pause at least once a day, place your hands over your heart and say aloud, âHope lives here.â
â You must see things how they are instead of how you hoped, wished, or expected them to be. Itâs always better to be slapped with the truth than kissed with a lie.
 â Connecting the dots going forward is nearly impossible, but when you look backward it always makes perfect sense. Success is often closer than it seems, and arrives suddenly, when you least expect it.
 â Not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of good luck, because it forces you reevaluate things, opening new doors to opportunities and information you would have otherwise overlooked.
 â Laugh at yourself often. Find the humor in whatever situation youâre in. Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.
 â Weâve all made mistakes. Weâve let people take advantage of us, and weâve accepted way less than we deserve. But if you think about it, weâve learned a lot from our bad choices, and even though there are some things we can never recover and people who will never be sorry, we now know better for next time. We now have more power to shape our future. Remember, failure is not falling down; failure is staying down when you have the choice to get back up. Get back up! Oftentimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
 â Worry will not drain tomorrow of its troubles, it will drain you of your strength today. Â
 â Especially in trying times, itâs important to continuously push yourself forward. Because momentum is everything! As long as you keep the momentum positive â even if youâre moving at a snailâs pace â youâll eventually get to the finish line. So celebrate every step you take today, no matter how small. Because every step will lead you farther away from where you were yesterday and closer to where you want to be tomorrow. Be it a better life or a dream we long to realize, we reach our destinations by taking many, many small steps in the same direction, one at a time.
 â You canât be everything to everyone. No matter what you do, there will always be someone who thinks differently. So concentrate on doing what you know in your heart is right. What others think and say about you isnât all that important. What is important is how you feel about yourself.
 â The sad truth is, there are some people who will only be there for you as long as you have something they need. When you no longer serve a purpose to them, they will leave. The good news is, if you tough it out, youâll eventually weed these people out of your life and be left with some great friends you can always count on.
 â When you catch yourself comparing yourself to a colleague, neighbor, friend, or someone famous, stop! Realize that you are different, with different strengths â strengths these other people donât possess. Take a moment to reflect on all the awesome abilities you have and to be grateful for all the good things in your life.
 â But you can control how you react to things. Everyoneâs life has positive and negative aspects â whether youâre happy or not depends greatly on which aspects you focus on. For instance: Did you catch a head cold? At least itâs only a temporary virus and nothing life-threatening. Did you lose a basketball game? Thankfully you got to spend the afternoon with friends doing something fun and healthy. Did your stock market savings go down? Itâll bounce back in the long-term. And besides, itâs great that youâve been diligent and fortunate enough to save a nest egg of savings when many people are barely making ends meet. You get the idea.
 â If you expect it to be, you will perpetually disappoint yourself. Achieving anything worthwhile in life takes effort. So start every morning ready to run farther than you did yesterday and fight harder than you ever have before. Above all, make sure you properly align your efforts with your goals. It wonât be easy, but it will be worth it in the end.
 â Regardless of how filthy your past has been, your future is still spotless. Donât start your day with the broken pieces of yesterday. Donât look back unless itâs a good view. Every day is a fresh start. Each day is a new beginning. Every morning we wake up is the first day of the rest of our life. One of the very best ways to get beyond past troubles is to concentrate all of your attention and effort on doing something that your future self will thank you for.
 â We all have doubts that make us feel trapped at times. If you doubt your ability to make a life-altering decision, to take on a new chapter in your life, or to fend for yourself after years of being overly-fostered, consider this: Surely if a bird with healthy wings is locked in a cage long enough, she will doubt her own ability to fly. You still have your wings, but your muscles are weak. Train them and stretch them slowly. Give yourself time. Youâll be flying again soon.
 â There is good reason why we canât expect to feel pleasure without ever feeling pain; joy without ever feeling sorrow; confident without ever feeling fear; calm without ever feeling restless; hope without ever feeling despair: There is no such thing as a one-sided coin in life, with which one can buy a pain-free, trouble-free existence.
 â No matter what, there are always at least two options. If you canât physically change something, you can change the way you think about it. You can sit in the dark, or you can find your inner light and discover powerful pieces of yourself you never knew existed. You can view a crisis as an invitation to learn something new, viewing the shake-up in your outer world as an enlightening opportunity to wake-up your inner world.
 â No, they wonât always be able to pull you out of the dark place youâre in, but the light that spills in when they enter will at least show you which way the door is.
 â There are no positive answers to, âWhy me?â âWhy didnât I?â âWhat if?â etc. Would you allow someone else to ask you the demoralizing questions you sometimes ask yourself? I doubt it. So stop and swap them forquestions that push you in a positive direction. For instance, âWhat have I learned from this experience?â âWhat do I have control over?â âWhat can I do right now to move forward?â
 â Say to yourself: âDear Past, thank you for all the life lessons you have taught me. Dear Future, I am ready now!â Because a great beginning always occurs at the point you thought would be the end of everything.
source: Marc&Angel
Martin Schoeller is a celebrity photographer from New York, whose style is distinguished by similar treatment of all subjects whether they are celebrities or unknown. His work appears in The New Yorker, Outside Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, Rolling Stone, GQ, Esquire, and Vogue.