The Book & Stumbleupon.com

Recently, I've had the privilege of achieving enlightenment through an amazing online tool called Stumbleupon.com. It's a neat search engine that produces random websites that might interest you. With a click of a button (literally, the button says "stumble") you discover things you've would never expect. It's a 100% free adventure. Everything is random and unexpected. Call it the embodiment of spontaneity :) How stumble works is that when you sign up for sutmbleupon, you check off what topics you're interested in such as: photography, art, drawing, books, cooking, news etc. When you access your stumble account, click on your stumble button and stumbleupon will display page after page of interesting and unique websites that one may never have come across solely due to that fact of an unawareness to it's existence - it's kinda like shaking an Eight-ball and seeing what comes up next, minus the whole future prediction part. While exploring and stumbling, Stumbleupon allows you to catalogue and keep track of sites you liked and organizes them in categories so you can refer back to them later. Personally, I selected a lot of photography and art related interest categories and the types of websites that I've stumbled upon have been phenomenal. Many of them are personal websites of artists displaying their work. Others are blogs or other official websites that are related. There's some really amazing stuff you can find.

Today, I Stumbled across this really interesting site. It's called "Book". This excerpt is straight from the web page. I couldn't figure out a better way to describe it as the original text so here it is:

For 36 weeks, a sketch book was sent in random order between 4 artists: 2 in Brooklyn and 2 in Belfast. Every Wednesday one participant would receive book and the following Monday it was sent out, giving each artist 5 days to complete a spread in response to the one that proceeded it. A small portion of each entry extends on to the following page. Beyond this, there was no communication between the artists concerning the content of book during it's making. Book's first trip across the Atlantic was on 2 June 2003. It's final trip was on 2 February 2004. By the time it was completed, book had travelled over 60,000 miles.

On the web page you can see some of the images inside the book. Checkout http://www.lookatbook.com/

It's really cool.

Another cool idea for a web service is Book Mooch. It's a book listing network where you can post up books you want to give away and in return you can get books that other people are giving away as well. The only catch is the for every 2 books to take, you must put up 1. There is no cost to use the site. Your only responsibility is postage to the recipient. You can search for books by title, genre or country. It's a neat idea and perhaps you can create a mini book club through it. It's an idea :) Check out http://bookmooch.com/

Other photos and thoughts to brighten the day:

It's a pirate cat!!!! ARRRRRR!!!

Kanye has gained control of Google search...

Even Darth Vador can be eco-conscious and environmentally sustainable. If it wasn't space, I'm sure he'd ride a bike.


It really is funnier...I mean more fun.

JAY-Z!!!!!!

Try it! I highly recommend it. Although, with a word of caution - it's highly distracting. Once you start stumbling, it's hard to stop.

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