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Craig Green’s winning entry from 2010

Premier baseball cap purveyor New Era—brand of choice for the MLB and streetwear aficionados—is pleased to announce New Era Introducing, inviting designers to reimagine their flagship model 59FIFTY fitted cap, as they did for last year’s XC contest.

New Era Introducing is a global creative project showcasing unique talent from across the world. The project gives creative minds of tomorrow an opportunity to make their own statement using a blank New Era 59FIFTY as their canvas. Those judged to show the most unique display of self-expression will go on to form a touring gallery exhibition and be published in a limited edition New Era Introducing book.

New Era Introducing will initially be launched in EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa) where the winning creation for that region will be awarded a £10,000 bursary to launch their creative career.

To reiterate: the contest is currently only open to residents of UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Sweden, UAE and South Africa. Phase I calls for digital images by September 7, at which point 15 lucky entrants from each country will be given the opportunity to actually create their design on a blank cap. Ten of these Phase II entries will make it into a traveling exhibition and limited edition book.

Gallery of 2010 entries above; more after the jump…

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Dans le même esprit que la première série “Aerial Photography”, voici de nouveaux clichés uniquement aériens de la Grande Bretagne. Des découvertes de lieux inédits et surprenants au dessus du paysage britannique. A découvrir dans la suite de l’article.

Previously on Fubiz

• Landscape Photography
• Adahy
• TV Portraits

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Yesterday, my grandmother turned 102. The two of us have been close my entire life, and it doesn’t surprise me that she’s still alive. She has always been a rule breaker (she has traveled the globe alone, went straight to business school after graduating high school, and established her career path before she got married at 30, which was rare for a woman in the Depression-era 1930s). She also is extremely witty, a voracious reader, and insists on wearing a strand of pearls and makeup every day. She ran a successful thousand acre family farm for more than 60 years and worked in the Kansas Legislature until they forced her to retire in her late 80s.

Whenever I see my grandmother or think about her, the word fearless pops into my mind. In all my life, I’ve never known her to be afraid of anything. She has strong resolve and even greater determination. I’m partially convinced the reason she is still alive is because she has successfully convinced Death that dying isn’t an option for her.

I’m writing about my grandmother today because I’ve realized that her fearless attitude has greatly improved the quality of her life. She has lived an incredible 102 years because she’s never been afraid to take advantage of each moment. She has also lived a life primarily free of clutter — even now all she has are her eyeglasses, clothes, shoes, some jewelry, a wheelchair, bedding, toiletry items, and hundreds of photographs of friends and family. When she still lived in her farmhouse, she didn’t own much, either. Her happiness hasn’t ever been found in things and it hasn’t been controlled by fear.

Is fear cluttering up your life and keeping you from experiencing the life of your dreams? Is physical cluttering keeping you from focusing on what matters most to you? Take a lesson from my amazing grandmother and get rid of the fear and clutter and commit to pursuing the life of your dreams.

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DIY’ers and carpenters know the trick of using a piece of string to measure something you can’t get a tape measure around; you wrap the string around, say, a pole, mark it, measure the string, and now you’ve got your circumference (and can calculate the diameter).

The Smart String Tape Measure finally encapsulates this practice into a tool. The retractable string corresponds with an on-screen display that gives you the dimension, which you can then plug into the equation of your choosing; it even stores multiple dimensions, which will come in handy if you’re measuring-&-CADding. The industrial design of the tool itself looks pretty lame, and I don’t like that it’s one more thing you have to carry in your toolbox and that it’s delicate, but if you have to measure a lot of irregular surfaces it’s probably a damn sight quicker than marking and measuring string.

The tool’s popularity has outstripped production; at press time the $11.99 item was out of stock, but the next shipment’s due in just a few days.

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