Givenchy and Hepburn

Grammar Lesson

"You can never be overdressed or overeducated"
-Oscar Wilde

Jay-Z, Warren Buffett and Financial Education

Jay-Z and Warren Buffett are teaming up to educate American youth in financial literacy via an animated web based tv show.
Read more at GOOD.

Keaton Music Typewriter

First patented in 1936, there are only a few dozen Keaton Music Typewriters in existence- many of which are in museums and private collections. For more, visit This is Colossal.

For more curious office machines, see the Safir Office Machines Museum in Tehran. 

la réinvention

New York's High Line and Paris' Promenade Plantée (or Coulée Verte) from Paris vs New York, a tally of two cities: la réinvention

Potty Mouth

While profanity is anything but elegant, profanity usage visualized in a time lapse, aggregate heat map is absolutely stunning. And, admittedly, just a bit charming.

Watch the visualization because this photograph really does not do the map justice.

So We Beat On

From Coralie Bickford-Smith

Hyde Park

More at These Are Things