Over the Rhine’s Karin Bergquist and Linford Detweiler ruminate on the intimacies of sharing life and music together, from dating, to marriage, to what music means to them as a couple. The deeply moving artists share their story as part of Paste’s "Musical Sweethearts." [Paste mPlayer [6]]
The famous “dogs eating spaghetti” scene from the 1955 classic Lady and the Tramp comes to life, as Disney prepares to release its new blu-ray edition. [The Daily What [7]]
Champion Jenga-Players Behold: Here’s some incredible unnerving footage of one man stacking 3,117 coins on top if a single dime, and setting a world record. Through the wonders of video editing you can watch the whole construction process in four and a half minutes. [Mail Online [8]]
Ever wondered what could be done with all your old CDs? Artist Sean Avery takes fragments of broken discs and layers them to create one-of-a-kind animal sculptures. [Colossal [9] and Deviant Art [10]]
Forget traditional, boring family pictures. Document the lives of your children in a creative and engaging way, like this father. [GOOD [11]]
Chipotle doesn’t have a clean track record when it comes to humane, environmental practices, but they’re working to change that. With a new ad that ran during the Grammy’s and a new mission on their website, it looks like the fast food superchain is putting thought into its progress. [OnEarth [12]]
The Chicago eatery Alinea Restaurant has taken to serving its customers edible helium filled balloons for dessert. In this clip they talk briefly about how it’s made and comsumed. [Eater [13]]
Joshua Witchger is an online assistant at Sojourners. Read more from Joshua at hail fellow well met [14].
Links:
[1] http://sojo.net/blogs/gods-politics
[2] http://sojo.net/biography/joshua-witchger
[3] http://sojo.net/blogs/2012/02/16/afternoon-links-awesomeness-feb-16-2012#comment-covenant
[4] http://sojo.net/letter-to-web-editor?post=Afternoon%20Links%20of%20Awesomeness%3A%20Feb.%2016%2C%202012
[5] http://sojo.net/donate
[6] http://mplayer.pastemagazine.com/issues/week-31/articles#article=/issues/week-31/articles/over-the-rhine-karin-and-linford
[7] http://thedailywh.at/2012/02/14/disney-irl-of-the-day/
[8] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2059123/That-s-way-using-spare-change-Man-stacks-3-118-coins-single-dime.html
[9] http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2012/02/animal-sculptures-made-from-shattered-cds/
[10] http://seanavery.deviantart.com/gallery/
[11] http://www.good.is/post/intermission-you-ve-never-seen-childhood-photos-like-these/
[12] http://www.onearth.org/blog/chipotle-grammy-ad-factory-farming
[13] http://eater.com/archives/2012/02/13/watch-the-chefs-at-alinea-make-an-edible-helium-balloon.php
[14] http://jwitchger.wordpress.com