To add to the gallery of examples of pallets repurposed for various uses, there’s this: Stephane Beauchet’s mosaic table — with tile inlaid between the pallet’s wood slats. Brillant!
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These might look like antique books, but they’re actually salvaged bricks that have been painted to look like they belong in an old library. The faux literature is the brilliant work of Daryl Fitzgerald, who transforms the bricks by stenciling them on both sides with titles of literary classics.
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The Google Map of the 19th Century
It seems like the quintessentially contemporary phenomenon: the pedestrian, walking along, distracted from his surroundings by the glowing blue dot of the map in his smartphone.
But there have been some oblivious palm-gazers, it turns out, since long before Steve Jobs came along. In London, during the Great Exhibition of 1851, the merchant George Shove designed a ladylike accessory that would allow its wearer to navigate, discreetly and easily, the fair’s Hyde Park environs.
The proto-mobile map! Subtle and delightful! As Harvard’s John Overholt put it, the map-in-the-hand is basically “a 19th century PalmPilot.”
Read more. [Image: UK National Archives]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzjp9ziZgF1qcokc4o1_500.jpg)
The Google Map of the 19th Century
It seems like the quintessentially contemporary phenomenon: the pedestrian, walking along, distracted from his surroundings by the glowing blue dot of the map in his smartphone.
But there have been some oblivious palm-gazers, it turns out, since long before Steve Jobs came along. In London, during the Great Exhibition of 1851, the merchant George Shove designed a ladylike accessory that would allow its wearer to navigate, discreetly and easily, the fair’s Hyde Park environs.
The proto-mobile map! Subtle and delightful! As Harvard’s John Overholt put it, the map-in-the-hand is basically “a 19th century PalmPilot.”
Read more. [Image: UK National Archives]
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CLEAN SWEEP: A homemade street sweeper was attached to a vehicle in Dangyang, Hubei province, China, Wednesday. (ChinaFotoPress/Zuma Press) (via Photos of the Day: March 15 - Photo Journal - WSJ)
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“A door made from recycled oil drums marks the entrance to a mud compound at the village of Kunkak in southern Afghanistan’s Helmand province, February 23, 2011. ”
