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May 30, 2013 Subscribe · Forward Behold The Strawscraper! The Swedish architecture firm Belatchew Arkitekter devised a bizarre new plan for updating one of Stockholm's tallest buildings. They have proposed adding thousands of large, hairlike straws to the exterior of the Söder Torn tower to harness wind energy. The innovative -- yet entirely strange -- idea could amount to the world's first ever "Strawscraper" if it ever comes to fruition. Continue reading... PHOTO OF THE DAY The Cutest Doodle Project We've Ever Seen This Week's Most Incredible Photos From Around The World A Photographer Falls In Love With A Tree Uncle's Gift To Blind Nephew Will Make You Cry Inside A Veteran's Sketchbook From WWII Uncle's Gift To Blind Nephew Will Make You Cry A Photographer Falls In Love With A Tree WATCH: 5-Year-Old Child Prodigy Is Completely Adorable Uncle's Gift To Blind Nephew Will Make You Cry JOSH KLENERT Huffington Summer Issue: The 'Best Summer Ever' Cover in the Making (VIDEO) For our special summe issue of Huffington, we commissioned Toby and Pete to illustrate the cover. Here's a look at it in the making. Continue reading... DAVID WILD Steve Martin: My First, My Last, My Everything The first performer who I ever saw in concert was Steve Martin, and whether this man wants the credit or not, he changed my life forever. Continue reading... CAMILLE ZAMORA City Songs: A Brief History of the Street Piano This summer, once again, New York City will play home to a truly Big-Apple-flavored Street Piano installation. Continue reading... JOHNNY NEVIN The Years It Takes to Make a Moment: Pascal Rioult Premieres Iphigenia Pascal Rioult is a choreographer, but he constructs his works from materials that very few others know how to find. Continue reading... JADE SIMMONS A Cameraman's Bird's Eye View at the Cliburn: It's Not What You Think I fear it's this venom that is the same thing that repels newcomers away from the Classical music experience and further thickens the stinky atmosphere of snobbish elitism. Continue reading... Received this from a friend? Sign up for alerts from The Huffington Post here. Unsubscribe here. Huffington Post, 770 Broadway, New York, NY 10003