All Mine Sleeping in a 500-Year-Old Silver Mine from UrbanDaddy

This week, you watched 33 miners emerge to a hero’s welcome in Chile. And naturally, you found yourself thinking about just one thing: getting your own hero’s welcome.

Of course, you’d change a few things—a shorter stay in the mine, for one. No actual mining, obviously. And you wouldn’t mind exchanging Chile for Sweden...

Welcome to Sala Silvermine, a 500-year-old hand-carved mine in Sweden converted into a solitary suite, taking reservations now.

You’ll check in at the mouth of the mine, where the concierge will lead you outside to a sturdy elevator (emphasis on sturdy) to the bottom floor, a tenth of a mile underground. From there, you’ll walk past a gaping medieval dining hall, through an echoing cavern stained with smoke from centuries-old torches and, finally, to a cozy nook in the far wall, lit only by a few candelabras and an oil lamp.

Fortify yourself with the champagne and, yes, cave-aged gruyère waiting in your room. Then, take a guided half-mile stroll through the caverns, return to the surface to zip-line across the mouth of the cave or try the riskiest challenge here: diving into the bottom half of the mine, which happens to be sunk under ice-cold water. Only a handful of people have explored it—it’s so dangerous, you’ll need a cave-diving certification (like scuba for caves) before they’ll let you anywhere near it.

What’s the worst that could happen.


Sala Silvermine
Dr. Christina’s Rd
Sala 733 36
Sweden
+224 677 250 
official website


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Lenses for phone pics with a punch

It's hard to believe you were that Snobby McSnobberson of yore. You were dedicated to film 100%, cringing at the "D" in DSLR and the mere thought of shooting in JPEG. But then. iPhone happened. It was the readiness with which you could whip out this camera that made you fall in love. Yes, it had you at hello, and now your only wish is to bathe your beloved with lavish accessories. Well, your wish is granted! A new high-clarity glass cell phone lenses that are like pro lenses for your camera-phone, giving you crisp and clear shots every time. These two small yet powerful and finely constructed lenses, one fisheye and one combo wide-angle/macro, attach to your cell phone transforming your standard flat phone photos into wide and up-close wonders. They work with any camera phone and attaching them is easy breezy! A detachable magnetic ring sticks to your cell, providing a sturdy, shake-free hold between the lens and your phone. Go with the combo wide-angle/macro lens for capturing sweet crowd shots at concerts or that awesome ally-way mural. When the same lens is set as a macro, you can really get in there to shoot a super-close-up detail! Meanwhile, the fisheye creates fun-tastic curved edges with its 180 degree angle whilst making everyone look like they live in a plastic bubble! Facebook camera-phone album, get ready for pics like you've never seen before. Here's the link and its under $50  Cell Phone Lenses

Re:Form School

Re:Form School: Join 1000s of artists at this group exhibit and event series featuring the likes of Michel Gondry and Shepard Fairey, Sat-Mon. GO! 

 http://reformschool.letsredu.com/

Hot like a runaway slave...

Much respect to the ancestors, I recently stopped by a farm to pick some of my own vegetables and apples.  I had so much fun but I have to say running around in a corn field is hot as hell!!!  As you can see I wasn't feeling it for a minute but eventually nature won out.  The fresh air, fresh veggies and sweet delicious apples off the tree turned my frown upside down.  Definitely go apple picking this fall if you can, it's a great day outdoors. 

Morning Quickie courtesy of Thrillist

Music Strap Speakers: Ditch pesky earbuds for these portable speakers that neatly affix onto your backpack straps. GO!

Some very helpful tips:

Some very helpful tips:

1. Budweiser beer conditions the hair 
2. Pam cooking spray will dry finger nail polish
3. Cool whip will condition your hair in 15 minutes
4. Mayonnaise will KILL LICE, it will also condition your hair 
5. Elmer's Glue - paint on your face, allow it to dry, peel off and see the dead skin and blackheads come off
6. Shiny Hair - use brewed Lipton Tea
7. Sunburn - empty a large jar of Nestea into your bath water 
8. Minor burn - Colgate or Crest toothpaste
9 Burn your tongue? Put sugar on it! 
10. Arthritis? WD-40 Spray and rub in, good on insect stings too
11 Bee stings - meat tenderizer
12. Chigger bite - Preparation H
13. Puffy eyes - Preparation H
14. Paper cut - crazy glue or chap stick
15. Stinky feet - Jell-O
16. Athletes feet - cornstarch
17. Fungus on toenails or fingernails - Vicks vapor rub
18. Kool aid to clean dishwasher pipes. Just put in the detergent section and run a cycle, it will also clean a toilet. 
19. Kool Aid can be used as a dye in paint also Kool Aid in Dannon plain yogurt as a finger paint, your kids will love it and it won't hurt 
them if they eat it
20. Peanut butter - will get scratches out of CD's! Wipe off with a coffee filter paper 
21. Sticking bicycle chain - Pam no-stick cooking spray
22. Pam will also remove paint, and grease from your hands!
23. Peanut butter will remove ink from the face of dolls
24. When the doll clothes are hard to put on, sprinkle with corn starch and watch them slide on
25. Heavy dandruff - pour on the vinegar!
26. Body paint - Crisco mixed with food coloring. Heat the Crisco in the microwave, pour in to an empty film container and mix with the food color of your choice! 
27 Tie Dye T-shirt - mix a solution of Kool Aid in a container, tie a rubber band around a section of the T-shirt and soak 
28. Preserving a newspaper clipping - large bottle of club soda and cup of milk of magnesia, soak for 20 min. and let dry, will last for many years! 
29. A Slinky will hold toast and CD's!
30. To keep goggles and glasses from fogging, coat with Colgate toothpaste 
31. Wine stains, pour on the Morton salt and watch it absorb into the salt.
32. To remove wax - Take a paper towel and iron it over the wax stain, it will absorb into the towel.
33. Remove labels off glassware etc. rub with Peanut butter! 
34. Baked on food - fill container with water, get a Bounce paper softener and the static from the towel will cause the baked on food to adhere to it. Soak overnight. Also; you can use 2 Efferdent tablets, soak overnight! 
35. Crayon on the wall - Colgate toothpaste and brush it!
36. Dirty grout - Listerine
37. Stains on clothes - Colgate
38. Grass stains - Karo Syrup
39. Grease Stains - Coca Cola, it will also remove grease stains from the driveway overnight. We know it will take corrosion from car batteries! 
40. Fleas in your carpet? 20 Mule Team Borax- sprinkle and let stand for 24 hours. 
41. To keep FRESH FLOWERS longer Add a little Clorox, or 2 Bayer aspirin, or just use 7-up instead of water.
42. When you go to buy bread in the grocery store, have you ever wondered which is the freshest, so you "squeeze" for freshness or softness? Did you know that bread is delivered fresh to the stores five days a week? Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Each day has a different 
color twist tie.

They are:
Monday = Blue,
Tuesday = Green,
Thursday = Red
Friday = White and
Saturday = Yellow.

Pope's Costume Birthday Bash

Its that time of year again and we are coming home to Harlem.
Come celebrate with me at a great new spot Uptwown
It has been a crazy year, so many blessings, lessons & change. As I am sure it has been for you as well. So I want you to put on your costumes, come up to Harlem and PARTY!!!

As always there will be gifts, prizes and tons of surprises more info to come...

See you there and please RSVP here

Pope's Costume Birthday Bash

Friday October 22, 2010 9pm

Bier International

2099 Frederick Douglass Blvd btw 113th & 114th sts.

Harlem, NY

There no cover or anything crazy like that, just stop by have a bite to eat, and definitely try some of BIER INTERNATIONAL's BEERS

As always Costume's Optional but Appreciated

Any questions 646.708.5687