LOOKING AROUND
A blog about ideas worth spreading, inspiring news and cool things people are doing and making around the world.
August 10, 2018
“I am an architect, a constructor of worlds, a sensualist who worships the flesh, the melody, a silhouette against the darkening sky. I cannot know your […]
August 6, 2018
Just how common are mental disorders? You’d be surprised. According to the World Health Organization, one in four people in the world will be affected by […]
July 15, 2018
During the Middle Ages, in the Ottoman empire, “effendis” was a noble class of cultivated men that wore fine clothing and visited salons and tea shops. […]
July 15, 2018
Because my family moved around so much when we were young, I grew up to become very curious about the world and also loving air travel. […]
July 10, 2018
The lyrics to the anthem of the United States came from a poem called “Defence of Fort M’Henry”, written by a 35-year-old lawyer and amateur poet […]
July 9, 2018
Mariachi, as a musical expression, goes back a long time in Mexico. At least to the 18th century. Mariachi, however, really started becoming more popular in […]
July 27, 2013
Although there are examples in the 1920s in New York, and similar concepts that date as far back as the 17th century, in Hakka walled villages […]
March 26, 2013
Despite having a highly developed economy, the world’s eighth highest per capita income, ranking 7th in the United Nation’s Human Develoment Index and being the second […]
December 30, 2012
Skateistan is an unconventional school in an unconventional place. What began in 2007 as informal skateboarding lessons by Australian Oliver Percovich in an empty fountain in […]