Buy it for $100

It’s a very simple app, really. Just dreamy colorscapes that change with the weather with 24-hour and 3 day forecasts. The coolest feature, however, is when you swipe up you can fast forward in time to pinpoint the time in the 24 hour forecast you’re looking for. This app won’t change your life or make qualified to be a storm chaser, but it is a gorgeous way to see if you need to bring an umbrella to work tomorrow.

Buy it in the App Store for $0.99.

Pick up one of these tote bags from Mark Errington’s Etsy shop for $18.50.

Buy it for €19.90

(via National Geographic)

Vintage Sparklers from NBDG/Etsy – $20

3 Boxes of Vintage Sparklers from History Cellar/Etsy – $30

Thank you to those of you who have checked in with me via email or Twitter…I’m still alive. And I plan on jump starting CMYBacon again.

Anyways, on to today’s post: The Wardrope, designed by Veronika Wildgruber and Susanne Stofer, is a really unique storage device. Porcelain hooks mounted on a rope, which can be adjusted by sliding them, form a novel, hanging coat rack. The Wardrope screws into the ceiling (or can be hung from another hook) and has a weight at the bottom of the rope to keep it under tension. Such a fun twist on the traditional coatrack, don’t you think?

Available for purchase from Authentics

(via You Are My Fave)

The current state of foster children who age-out of foster care at age 21 is grim. Here are some stats: Nationally, 1 in 5 will be homeless. 1 in 4 will be incarcerated within two years of aging out. About 1 in 2 young women will be pregnant within one year. Only about half will graduate high school. It’s an epidemic, really, and few people are aware of how dire the circumstances for these young people are.

There’s a lot that needs to be done to fix the system, but first and foremost, this sobering issue needs to receive more attention before anything will actually happen. My good friend, Maggie Soladay, spearheaded a project by Salaam Garage in which a team of photographers, videographers and journalists dedicated to brining forth positive social change have spent the better part of a year documenting the lives of young adults who have aged out of the foster care system at 21.

To raise awareness for the issue, Soladay and team have launched a Kickstarter to fund a book and a photography exhibition at The Long Island Children’s Museum.

This is a worthy cause that deserves more attention, so do what you can and become a backer of their Kickstarter campaign. It ends in 5 days!!

(via Behance)

On one side, the desk rests on giant-size Jenga blocks and on the other it’s suspended by balloons. That’s right…balloons are holding up the desk. But these are no ordinary balloons, mind you. They’re made of a special rubber composite that allows the balloons to be truly air-tight and they’re filled with a Helium/Hydrogen hybrid gas with an atomic weight 150 times lighter than Helium alone.

And if that weren’t enough, the ribbons are reinforced with Carbo-Titanium and secured to the table on an aerospace grade titanium cleat.

Yep, this is one badass desk.

Dan the Dog

Gully the Goose

Lizzy the Elephant

Thank you, Fredrik, for telling me about Lau’s Ark!

(via Dazed)

Pick up a package from Stupid.com for $5.95.