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Spring Snow Break: Part Two

Once upon a minion...

(An epic battle takes place just outside the Beyond offices.)

Spring Snow Break

If we had more time we could have created bunches of minions a la Calvin and Hobbes. Mailing or minions? Mailing or minions? Maybe later.

Monday, Monday: Here comes the sun.

It's a monochrome Monday outside the little Beyond offices with snowflakes slowly falling from an overcast sky. So it is with great relief that we post photos from Vancouver where a reader tells us she moved her "indoor source of sunshine" outside for a quick morning picture.

And a re-interpretation of our Verdant Green post. We love seeing our little Beyonds nestled  inside of reader homes. Too fun.

The verdant green.

Photograph: Janine Vangool

Green days remind us of the last two pages of our Beauty issue with lyrics by the then-named Jane Siberry:

and everything the dappled
everything the birds
everything the earthness
everything the verdant
the verdant green

Friday Roundup: brains

The All About feature in our issue on Beauty with an illustration by our friend Aaron Leighton.

Neuronatomist Jill Bolte Taylor talks about the insights gained during her own stroke. (18:44)

Games for the Brain

Savant Drawings (5:12)

X-treme Fruit!

My afternoon orange is a dude. With a backwards ball cap. And Dude is Health. Don't you forget it.

Beyond Flickr Set

Artwork by Katie Radke

As you may have noticed, every Tuesday our thoughts turn to Uppercase's Type Tuesday offerings - an eclectic and joyful offering of type of every kind. We thought we would post Uppercase's flickr set of some of the pages of the latest Beyond in case some of you needed a) to see something purty and  b) another reason to get your own Beyond in your own purty little hands.

Through the peephole.

A lovely Beyond Reader let us know in her twitter feed that she had posted some pictures of Beyond saying that she wanted to "place her most beautiful magazine in her most beautiful magazine holder" which just makes us feel all warm and ready to face Monday.

We liked the title of this one too called "art on art #1".

Do you have a picture of your Beyond floating somewhere in your place of work or living? Let us know and we'll share the fun.

Number of Inhabitants per Doctor

As I continue to recover from oral surgery, my mind goes to this image:

via adsoftheworld

Typewriters

Uppercase Gallery also posted this. If you click on their image, you can see a beautiful  typewriter slideshow. Mmmmmm, typewriters.

Beyond 15

It's here. The long awaited Beyond 15: Where We Are.

Featuring:

Photographers Karin Bubas, Adrian Fish, Chris Jordan and Sebastiao Salgado.
Beyond's Very First Words and Pictures Contest
Kinbrace House by Giselle Culver
Lifting the Veil: Nelofer Pazira  with Matthew Francis
In Conversation with K'naan
All About: Bread
Sir George by Mary Jo Leddy
Film Journey: Los Angeles Plays Itself by Doug Cummings

And much more. Page previews to come. We're migrating this blog over to another platform in the next few days and so there will be better ways to subscribe, get involved, and become part of the Beyond reader community. But meanwhile, did we mention the new issue is here?

 

Darfur Drawn

The Conflict in Darfur: Drawn Through Children's Eyes

On mission along the border of Chad and Darfur, Human Rights Watch researchers gave children notebooks and crayons to keep them occupied while they spoke with the children’s parents. Without any instruction or guidance, the children drew scenes from their experiences of the war in Darfur: the attacks by the Janjaweed, the bombings by Sudanese government forces, the shootings, the burning of entire villages, and the flight to Chad.