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Scans of City Textures

Using a handheld scanner, designer/illustrator Noah Nolet captures textures from surfaces in cities around the world, including Tokyo, LA, Paris, Kyoto, NYC, and Berlin. On his website , he offers city packs of hundreds of scans for sale and free sample packs as well. You can

Jimbōchō Book Town

I visited Jimbōchō today, a neighborhood that’s home to more than 100 used bookstores. Many sell only Japanese books, but some of them have books in English or sell magazines, posters, or visual books that are interesting to browse no matter what language you speak. I visited

Emerson on How to Trust Yourself

"It is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."

KnotChat: Nicole Walters

Nicole Walters is a bestselling author, a TV star, a community leader, a mom and a maker of magic. Here’s the conversation we did about The Knot. PS to celebrate the book, my publisher put the Kindle edition of This is Strategy on sale for $2 this week. CORRECTED LINK: Today at

Where a land ethic blooms

Caring for this planet entails decisions that are intimate, about our farms, our homes, our human and our wild neighbours - by Craig Maier Read on Aeon

Responsibility, fault, blame and shame

They’re not the same. They (mostly) don’t even rhyme. People can evade responsibility by saying it’s someone else’s fault. They can take responsibility, even if it’s not their fault. In fact, being an adult involves taking responsibility for things that we could point out are