Best of the Month - Vol. 11

Best of the Month - Vol. 11

Despite tundra-like conditions hitting our small country this month, winter is technically over! With a new month comes a new roundup of our favourite stories, photos, accounts and music that we've been uncovering to keep us cosy as we prepare for a very exciting spring / summer launch. Enjoy!

Best of the Web 

Ikea partners with Hasselblad in an effort to offer more “inspiring” prints for its frames. Are you sick of the black-and-white-but-the-taxis-are-yellow prints of Times Square too?

 

Grandfather becomes Spain's oldest Erasmus student. He is 80 years old, has suffered a heart attack and quadruple bypass, but this month, Miguel Castillo will head off to start a new semester as an Erasmus student in Italy.

 

This flooded river in Bonito, Brazil turns a somewhat ordinary jungle path into a crystal clear underwater world.

“Svart” from Norwegian architecture firm 'Snøhetta' is the first Arctic building to be built according to an energy standard where more renewable energy is produced over its lifetime in total than would be required to build, sustain daily operations, and demolish the building.

 

Here's the winner of the urban category in National Geographic's photography competition 2018. See all the winning images here.

 

Tens Soundtrack

Here are some of our office favourites, mostly new, some old. Who else should we be checking out? Visit our profile on Spotify to check out our previous months' soundtracks.

 

Who to Follow

Here are some of our favourite accounts to follow on Instagram. If you know anybody that we should be following, let us know! This month we've got @kateballis, @jamies_jungle, @accidentallywesanderson, @josselin & @peggyseyes.

#TensMoments

At Tens we put our community first, no matter what it is that we're up to. Here's where we share some of our favourite customer photos with Tens from the last month. We love seeing your tags with Tens, so be sure to tag us in them for your chance to be featured!

 
 
 
 

 

Photos submitted (in order) by @middlevancleave@alexander_kirk@hanphn@urbantraveller & @humansafari.

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What things have you discovered this month? Are we missing anything? Message us on Facebook with suggestions!

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