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</description><title>Tea&amp;black figs</title><generator>Tumblr (3.0; @tea-and-blackfigs)</generator><link>https://tea-and-blackfigs.tumblr.com/</link><language>en-us</language><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:summary>Just things I like in my little corner of the universe… Things like art and design, the sea, bit o'fashion, music, buildings, breakfast, cool women, photography, film, fashion, figs and tea….good looking, soul-stirring things mainly… there is unlikely to be a lot of math on this blog… Email me: teaandblackfigs@gmail.com FOLLOW ME: Subscribe in a reader OR WITH BLOGLOVIN’: </itunes:summary><itunes:subtitle>Just things I like in my little corner of the universe… Things like art and design, the sea, bit o'fashion, music, buildings, breakfast, cool women, photography, film, fashion, figs and tea….good looking, soul-stirring things mainly… there is unlikely to </itunes:subtitle><item><title>
“ This is like a puzzle to me. I make sure that all the...</title><description>&lt;img src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_md54pwziVj1qfzfu3o2_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_md54pwziVj1qfzfu3o1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;“ &lt;em&gt;&lt;span&gt;This is like a puzzle to me. I make sure that all the objects are properly aligned to maximize the effect of motion, then add, step back, add something else, step back again and then maybe remove a piece. I keep on going until the piece looks completely formed but not overly dense…When my sculptures are observed from a distance, they represent the great beauty and harmony in our community. Through my sculptures I believe that I transmit a message of hope. ”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Japanese Artist &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sayakaganz.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Sayaka Ganz&lt;/a&gt; on her animal sculptures made out of discarded plastic. Recycling at its finest….&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Read more at &lt;a href="http://www.yatzer.com/Sayaka-Ganz-Animal-Sculptures-Made-of-Salvaged-Plastic" target="_blank"&gt;Yatzer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>https://tea-and-blackfigs.tumblr.com/post/35306412057</link><guid>https://tea-and-blackfigs.tumblr.com/post/35306412057</guid><pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2012 20:00:20 -0500</pubDate><category>art</category><category>sculpture</category><category>Sayaka Ganz</category><category>Yatzer</category><category>recycled plastic</category></item><item><title>"To be frank, we're a Mad Men party in a Modern Family world."</title><description>&lt;p&gt;GOP strategist Chuck Warren in an email earlier today.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="203" data-orig-width="300"&gt;&lt;img src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/d0f9595df78013004b5ee2d2b8ce15cc/4168d0453ebb6c4e-6c/s540x810/cb057b0c9dbacd3fa6ab143f0013420d42258ef2.jpg" data-orig-height="203" data-orig-width="300"/&gt;&lt;/figure&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Come now Chuck&amp;hellip; right sentiment&amp;hellip;but as&lt;em&gt; if&lt;/em&gt; you guys look that good in a suit.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>https://tea-and-blackfigs.tumblr.com/post/35229999410</link><guid>https://tea-and-blackfigs.tumblr.com/post/35229999410</guid><pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2012 18:10:13 -0500</pubDate><category>election victory</category></item><item><title>So much to do… so little done at my desk….</title><description>&lt;img src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mczz3pdIrc1qfzfu3o1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;So much to do… so little done at my desk….&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>https://tea-and-blackfigs.tumblr.com/post/35038112399</link><guid>https://tea-and-blackfigs.tumblr.com/post/35038112399</guid><pubDate>Sun, 04 Nov 2012 23:28:37 -0500</pubDate><category>countdown</category></item><item><title>SOrry friends and tumblr folks for my long absence… I...</title><description>&lt;img src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mctrjsaVjC1qfzfu3o1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;SOrry friends and tumblr folks for my long absence… I have been making babies (due next week) and finishing off a degree (dissertation handed in on Tuesday thank you very much), both of which have meant the only time left in the oh-so-short-days has been used sleeping, eating spaghetti with &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botargo" target="_blank"&gt;bottarga&lt;/a&gt; (don’t ask) and pondering how a human stomach could ever become so very much like a beach ball…. I am likely to go AWOL again next week, but I hope only briefly while I take time out to meet my daughter, and in the meantime I give you this….&lt;a href="http://www.zundelcristea.com/projects/?lang=en#/culture-sport/pont.html?lang=en" target="_blank"&gt;trampoline bridge in Paris&lt;/a&gt;… for all the darkness in the world, it’s trampoline bridges which convince me that bringing new humans into it is still a reasonable proposition…..&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>https://tea-and-blackfigs.tumblr.com/post/34775640367</link><guid>https://tea-and-blackfigs.tumblr.com/post/34775640367</guid><pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2012 15:59:00 -0400</pubDate><category>http://www.zundelcristea.com</category><category>Trampoline bridges</category><category>AWOL</category><category>degree</category><category>daughter</category><category>little one</category><category>bottarga</category></item><item><title>Photo</title><description>&lt;img src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwz76uTZPQ1qzdiqvo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;</description><link>https://tea-and-blackfigs.tumblr.com/post/15477760607</link><guid>https://tea-and-blackfigs.tumblr.com/post/15477760607</guid><pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 19:04:06 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>simplypi:

Modern Light Bulbs by Plumen
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&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Modern Light Bulbs by Plumen&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>https://tea-and-blackfigs.tumblr.com/post/15463517809</link><guid>https://tea-and-blackfigs.tumblr.com/post/15463517809</guid><pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 14:24:05 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>serendipity2012:

Elle Mexico November 2011
</title><description>&lt;img src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lu9v1xMVVn1qc39xio1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://serendipity2012.tumblr.com/post/12828007931/elle-mexico-november-2011-model-leticia-lamb" target="_blank"&gt;serendipity2012&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Elle Mexico November 2011&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>https://tea-and-blackfigs.tumblr.com/post/15408070551</link><guid>https://tea-and-blackfigs.tumblr.com/post/15408070551</guid><pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 14:21:06 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>neako:

Ad Reinhardt  New York 1966
</title><description>&lt;img src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lv7uxmQDDh1qbsvn3o1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://neako.tumblr.com/post/13296415675/ad-reinhardt-new-york-1966" target="_blank"&gt;neako&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ad Reinhardt  New York 1966&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>https://tea-and-blackfigs.tumblr.com/post/15370099852</link><guid>https://tea-and-blackfigs.tumblr.com/post/15370099852</guid><pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 19:19:06 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>snkswm:

1200 bike sculpture. (via Fast Company)
</title><description>&lt;img src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lx99bsSn5h1qbyzyvo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://blog.snkswm.com/post/15277651143/1200-bikes" target="_blank"&gt;snkswm&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;1200 bike sculpture. (via &lt;a href="http://www.fastcodesign.com/1665720/ai-weiwei-piles-1200-bikes-on-top-of-each-other-for-dazzling-effect" target="_blank"&gt;Fast Company&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>https://tea-and-blackfigs.tumblr.com/post/15355086963</link><guid>https://tea-and-blackfigs.tumblr.com/post/15355086963</guid><pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 14:24:05 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>TODAY, I LIKE IT HERE. </title><description>&lt;a href="http://texturism.tumblr.com/post/15277847568/for-instance-meryl-streep-says-forking-at-a"&gt;TODAY, I LIKE IT HERE. &lt;/a&gt;: &lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;for instance,’ [meryl streep] says, forking at a bread-crumbed oyster, ‘we are taught about benedict arnold, the first traitor in america, but i’ve never heard—until i went onto the [national women’s history museum] web site—about deborah sampson, the first woman to take a bullet for her nation….&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;via &lt;a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://texturism.tumblr.com/post/15277847568/for-instance-meryl-streep-says-forking-at-a" target="_blank"&gt;texturism&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>https://tea-and-blackfigs.tumblr.com/post/15279371676</link><guid>https://tea-and-blackfigs.tumblr.com/post/15279371676</guid><pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 23:23:02 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>Photo</title><description>&lt;img src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwt4wiPyPY1qbw8y4o1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;</description><link>https://tea-and-blackfigs.tumblr.com/post/15271031306</link><guid>https://tea-and-blackfigs.tumblr.com/post/15271031306</guid><pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 20:50:06 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>nosecretsbetweensailors:

Both of ‘em, but the gentleman on the...</title><description>&lt;img src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lrxoznymeF1qfg7mlo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://nosecretsbetweensailors.tumblr.com/post/10549024517/both-of-em-but-the-gentleman-on-the-left-is-spot" target="_blank"&gt;nosecretsbetweensailors&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Both of ‘em, but the gentleman on the left is spot on.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://melancholiceuphoria.tumblr.com/post/10522502508" target="_blank"&gt;melancholiceuphoria&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;GQ STYLE Tweed feature outtake photo&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Model: Nick Appleton &amp; Paul Bommer&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Photo: Andreas Larsson&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Styling: Julian Ganio&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(My favourite from the whole shoot)&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>https://tea-and-blackfigs.tumblr.com/post/15261677332</link><guid>https://tea-and-blackfigs.tumblr.com/post/15261677332</guid><pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 18:05:06 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>thomforsyth:

Ladder for Booker T. Washington | Martin...</title><description>&lt;img src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lr9elzu0Lb1qmd1axo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://www.thomforsyth.com/post/9994759388/ladder-for-booker-t-washington-martin-puryear" target="_blank"&gt;thomforsyth&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ladder for Booker T. Washington | &lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Martin Puryear&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth Texas&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Photography: David Woo&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>https://tea-and-blackfigs.tumblr.com/post/15252706443</link><guid>https://tea-and-blackfigs.tumblr.com/post/15252706443</guid><pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 15:15:05 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>Photo</title><description>&lt;img src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ln1c2haswR1qeb74to1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;</description><link>https://tea-and-blackfigs.tumblr.com/post/15246228129</link><guid>https://tea-and-blackfigs.tumblr.com/post/15246228129</guid><pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 12:38:05 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>superbruut:

-SuperBruut / Facebook / Twitter
</title><description>&lt;img src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lq56nhhAJQ1qctkfbo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://superbruut.com/post/9178133609" target="_blank"&gt;superbruut&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;-&lt;br/&gt;&lt;strong class="username"&gt;&lt;strong class="username"&gt;&lt;strong class="username"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://superbruut.com/" target="_blank"&gt;SuperBruut&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong class="username"&gt;&lt;strong class="username"&gt;&lt;strong class="username"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;/ &lt;a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/SuperBruut/176828585703725" target="_blank"&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong class="username"&gt;&lt;strong class="username"&gt;&lt;strong class="username"&gt;&lt;strong&gt; / &lt;a href="http://twitter.com//superbruut" target="_blank"&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>https://tea-and-blackfigs.tumblr.com/post/15215475784</link><guid>https://tea-and-blackfigs.tumblr.com/post/15215475784</guid><pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 20:38:05 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>bohemea:

Tom Ford
</title><description>&lt;img src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ljiswmy1yr1qzoaqio1_r2_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://bohemea.tumblr.com/post/4556457785" target="_blank"&gt;bohemea&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tom Ford&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>https://tea-and-blackfigs.tumblr.com/post/15206817427</link><guid>https://tea-and-blackfigs.tumblr.com/post/15206817427</guid><pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 18:03:05 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>Photo</title><description>&lt;img src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_luculk76mq1r23jaco1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;</description><link>https://tea-and-blackfigs.tumblr.com/post/15189366468</link><guid>https://tea-and-blackfigs.tumblr.com/post/15189366468</guid><pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 12:38:05 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>Photo</title><description>&lt;img src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lu9gklB2py1qdjijro1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;</description><link>https://tea-and-blackfigs.tumblr.com/post/15154720492</link><guid>https://tea-and-blackfigs.tumblr.com/post/15154720492</guid><pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 20:31:05 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>theswingingsixties:

Hunter S. Thompson, 1960s.
</title><description>&lt;img src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lu7lkcSmfQ1qcr5lso1_500.png"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://theswingingsixties.tumblr.com/post/13156761964/photography-designer-fashion-clothes-internet-shopping-h" target="_blank"&gt;theswingingsixties&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hunter S. Thompson&lt;/strong&gt;, 1960s.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>https://tea-and-blackfigs.tumblr.com/post/15146130890</link><guid>https://tea-and-blackfigs.tumblr.com/post/15146130890</guid><pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 17:51:05 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>Photo</title><description>&lt;img src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lumwvhH7wQ1r23jaco1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;</description><link>https://tea-and-blackfigs.tumblr.com/post/15138205909</link><guid>https://tea-and-blackfigs.tumblr.com/post/15138205909</guid><pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 15:16:05 -0500</pubDate></item></channel></rss>