Let It Be

 "…we twisted up some of that great, grandaddy California kush and mixed the big homie with it.“

They weren’t sure “ how serious he was about it,” but they “ took the s–t serious.”

Another fun Gretzky fact: Together, Wayne and his brother Brent hold the NHL record for most combined points by two brothers - 2857 for Wayne and 4 for Brent.

ART: Hypnotic Vector Animations by David Szakaly 

Hungarian/German graphic designer David Szakaly has taken zeitgeist to a whole other level, creating the Web’s most hypnotic, artist gifs on the web since 2008. 

How on earth would you feed a city of over 200,000 people when the land around you was a swampy lake? Seems like an impossible task, but the Aztec managed it by creating floating gardens known as chinampas, then they farmed them intensively.

These ingenious creations were built up from the lake bed by piling layers of mud, decaying vegetation and reeds. This was a great way of recycling waste from the capital city Tenochtitlan. Each garden was framed and held together by wooden poles bound by reeds and then anchored to the lake floor with finely pruned willow trees. The Aztecs also dredged mud from the base of the canals which both kept the waterways clear and rejuvenate the nutrient levels in the gardens.

A variety of crops were grown, most commonly maize or corn, beans, chillies, squash, tomatoes, edible greens such as quelite and amaranth. Colourful flowers were also grown, essential produce for religious festivals and ceremonies. Each plot was systematically planned, the effective use of seedbeds allowed continuous planting and harvesting of crops.

Between each garden was a canal which enabled canoe transport. Fish and birds populated the water and were an additional source of food. [x]