Double Dog Design

All Streets consists of 240 million individual road segments. No other features — no outlines, cities, or types of terrain — are marked, yet canyons and mountains emerge as the roads course around them, and sparser webs of road mark less populated areas. 

DIY Inspiration: Crafty Wood Log Chaise Lounge

Rustic spaces, whether they are outdoors or indoors– always call for natural elements. If you’re sick of looking at expensive leather chaise lounges from Restoration Hardware, think outside the box and get crafty.Gathering up wood logs from yardwork or lumber scraps can prove to be a positive thing when you’re looking to make a beautiful chaise lounge. Instead of chopping up firewood or putting wood into a landfill, grab the toolbox and make your very own wood log lounge chair. It only takes a few simple tools and steps, and with this simple step by step video (below)– you’ll be sipping iced tea in no time. via

Forbes piece on the amazing power of spending locally.  (via poptech)

Submerged Churches.

These churches from all over the world are not victims of natural disaster, they all sit in the valley of a reservoir. Many reservoirs were created in valleys with small towns or villages nestled in them, the benefit of having reservoirs always outweighed the cost in relocating a small population. In many of these settlements the religious buildings were the tallest and once the valleys were flooded they could still be seen poking out of the water in a surreal post apocalyptic manner. Lots of them still survive, making more of an appearance every time the water level drops.

Water Map by Julia Kononenko

Use a topographic map as a basin where the water flows through the ducts resembling the river channels.