Timing - The Most Creative Lunch In History

Source: Influential Marketing Blog

In 1855, a Scottish clergyman named James Gall had an idea that should have changed every map ever created, but didn’t. It was four years before Charles Darwin would publish his Origin of Species, and Gall was presenting his w ...
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Adam Dant: Journey to the Heart of East London

Source: Dazed Digital

Adam Dant's artwork takes the history of the East End and juxtaposes it against the reality of what it is today, creating hand drawn maps that are part fantasy, part reality. For his recent collaboration with the Museum of London, ...
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Mind the Map: a journey through London cartography – in pictures

Source: Guardian Unlimited

The London transport network not only inspired Harry Beck's famous tube map, it has birthed a dazzling array of posters, designs and cartographic artwork for more than 100 years. Now a new exhibition, Mind the Ma ...
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A Chat with Mickey Hart

Source: Jam Base

Dennis Cook has played some big spaces – Madison Square Garden, The Great Pyramids, Golden Gate Park – but he’s going really BIG with his latest project, Mysterium Tremendum (released April 10), which finds the Grateful Dead pe ...
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Young Love, Wes Anderson-style, in Moonrise Kingdom

Source: LA Weekly

It's 1965, the rainy end of summer on the rocky coast of a fictional New England isle. Twelve-year-old Sam (Jared Gilman), a scrawny, bespectacled outcast with an unusual aptitude for cartography, disappears from the Khaki Scout camp, abscond ...
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Film review: Moonrise Kingdom (12A)

Source: The Scotsman

Here’s another film only Wes Anderson could make, with great, against-type performances by Bruce Willis and Edward Norton WES ANDERSON makes fastidious films about fastidious people. Detractors hold that against him, but Moonrise Kingdom brillian ...
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Rio issues land titles to slum residents

Source: WTOP News

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - The home Jose Nazare Braga built in the Rocinha shantytown is his life's work, an investment that grew from a shack to a three-story building over 30 years. A restaurant and a paper-goo ...
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Fate of Gladwyne's Odd Fellows Hall unsure, as historic cemetery suffers

Source: Mainline Media News

Just days before Memorial Day activities, a historic cemetery in Gladwyne that is the resting place of military veterans, along with some of the early residents of the village, lies overgrown with grass and weeds, the headstones barely visi ...
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Transnistrian Time-Slip

Source: The New York Times

Earlier this month, Catherine Ashton, the European Union high representative for foreign affairs [1] , applauded the resumption of freight rail traffic through eastern Moldova as “a crucial step forward for restoring confidence between the sides ...
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