Bonsai kit If your girlfriend has a green thumb, gift her this cool Bonsai gift set.
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Bonsai provides simple contract and payment tools that let freelancers sign deals with clients, and Bonsai makes sure they get paid on time.
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Related: A Brave Bonsai Goes Where No Plant Has Gone Before Reinventing The Bonsai Tree Under Water Plant Artist Grows Roots into Awesome Patterns
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His snapshots of bonsai travelling the world trended just as hard as Air Bonsai, but are the culmination of a long, hard-won career.
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The partners, with some help from the bonsai master, recently developed a new recipe using ingredients from another of Bocabello's bonsai trees: the junipers.
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ROSLYN HEIGHTS Show, lecture and demonstration on growing bonsai indoors, sponsored by the Bonsai Society of Greater New York with John Capobianco, the society's president.
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BONSAI #5868 Altitude : 25907m Temperature : -49.1°C For years, Japanese artist Azuma Makoto has struggled to elevate bonsai and other plant sculpture to art world status.
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Bonsai master Seiji Iimura—who kept a garden in the Saitama prefecture outside of Tokyo—was robbed of seven small bonsai trees valued around 13 million yen, reports CNN.
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Kicking off this definite new trend (which is definitely going to happen) is the Air Bonsai — a floating bonsai tree that levitates with the help of a magnetic base.
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Air Bonsai is a new bonsai-style miniature plant that hovers and spins over a magnetic base, all while you zen out to its sci-fi-like image of peace from the East.
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Unlike real trees, these bonsai don't begin at the root.
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The bonsai master is particularly interested in native Brazilian trees.
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It snagged Bonsai in June to help simplify AI development.
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Just like howStern: The bonsai tree is still a tree.
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The artist is rather famous for his precious Bonsai collection, but his collecting habits may come as a surprise: "I keep not only living, greeny Bonsai, but also dried-out ones, too," he says.
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Services like Bonsai or Google's AutoML could help make it accessible.
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The Japanese Garden features the Zen Court and breathtaking bonsai collection.
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He spotted an overgrown bonsai tree which looked like a chair.
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"Bonsai are like our children," said Fuyumi Iimura, Mr. Iimura's wife.
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"All we want is the bonsai to be returned," he said.
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Related: Stunning Photos of a Bonsai Traveling the World Artist Plants a Red Flower Tower in the Sea This Artist is Trapping Flowers in Blocks of Ice A Brave Bonsai Goes Where No Plant Has Gone Before
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Today, Amazon has a selection of succulents and Bonsai trees on sale.
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We remind you that the bonsai for our prototypes is just an image.
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Make sure you have a Bonsai tree at home to complement it well.
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And I hear bonsai is a healthy outlet for redirecting anxiety and rage.
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I hate invoicing so much but I use Bonsai and it's pretty chill.
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Flames consume a structure as the Lilac fire burns in Bonsai, California earlier today.
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Some of the AI-centric investment by the fund include the likes of Bonsai.
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Microsoft on Wednesday said it has acquired Bonsai, a small artificial intelligence start-up.
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Bonsai CEO Mark Hammond worked for Microsoft in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
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If your girlfriend has a green thumb, gift her this cool Bonsai gift set.
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The bonsai and the bouquet never returned, but footage of the mission, called "Exobiotanica," did.
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There was no Mr. Miyagi like figure tending bonsai trees to greet the untested beginner.
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Existing investors Seaya Ventures, Entreé Capital, Caixa Capital Risk, and Bonsai Venture Capital also participated.
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Unfortunately, before he even received the bonsai, Rich decided not to invest in Kerpen's business.
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Matt tries turning a bonsai tree on a nearby shelf, which opens a secret door.
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Hammond said Bonsai has engaged with companies dealing in oil, ventilation systems, robotics and cars.
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Bonsai Kakigori also has a stand in the Canal Street Market and appears at Smorgasburg.
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" To that end he's using the massive bonsai in order to "overcome the power of nature.
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Get the Flyte Lyfe for $249 here or the Levitating Air Bonsai Plant for $65 here.
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Fuyumi also wrote a post on Facebook saying she raised the bonsai like her own child.
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He alternates the pattern on each wire in order to mimic the look real bonsai have.
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At one point Gus sits quietly at a table by himself, working on a bonsai tree.
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You gotta see this Yes, these are rat-shaped bonsai trees, and yes, they are ART.
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Elliott first started making bonsai sculptures as a hobby and has slowly perfected the craft over time.
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Get Flyte Lyfe for $249 See Details Get the Levitating Air Bonsai Pot for $65 See Details
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But supporters will find out for sure when the first Air Bonsai products begin shipping in August.
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By creating these sculptures, Andy encapsulates the beauty of a bonsai in a way that'll last forever.
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Sunday • Learn the techniques and traditions of the Japanese art of bonsai at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
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Bonsai was founded in 2014 and has around 42 employees, with offices in Seattle and Berkeley, California.
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These bonsai trees are shaped to look like rats, and were made to order in small quantities.
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Microsoft acquired AI start-up Bonsai earlier this year, and last year it bought one called Maluuba.
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Bonsai currently has 10,000 freelancers using its platform, and is available in the U.S., U.K., Canada and Australia.
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One is Brother Kun, who posts videos and articles about plant-related things like caring for your bonsai.
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But when you're growing shrubs by the thousands, the manual Bonsai approach just isn't going to cut it.
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In it, Johnson plays on the joke that he can do it all -- from bonsai to space travel.
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Heroica's beers not only combine hops, barley, and yeast; they also use branches of centennial Japanese bonsai trees.
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To be clear, Paperspace is in a category of its own, aside from startups like Bonsai and H20.
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Scroll ahead to immerse yourself in Ikea's garden oasis — fiddle leaf figs, bonsai trees, and millennial pink pots included.
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Related: Stunning Photos of a Bonsai Traveling the World Why is This Artist Trapping Flowers in Blocks of Ice?
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With some wire, he suspended a 50-year-old Japanese white pine bonsai within a cube-shaped metal frame.
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Its sibling, an even more gargantuan monstrosity in bronze, towered over the pathway of sculpted bonsai in the garden.
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The yoga room, for instance, is the Bonsai Room, named for an atmosphere of meditation, harmony, peace and balance.
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There are 10 million full-time skilled freelancers out there, and Bonsai lets them work like full-fledged businesses.
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For example, a two-day bonsai tree immersion in Tokyo costs $431 per person for up to six guests.
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He took the chance, quit his job, and started Bonsai alongside Keen Browne, a friend from his Microsoft days.
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By buying Bonsai, Microsoft gains a product that has picked up some business use to help with the push.
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Liberty London even hung a huge pink bonsai-inspired tree in the middle of its tudor-style department store.
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World of Hyatt introduced its experience platform, Find, last summer, now offering more than 100 options such as hiking with wolves in California (5003,429 points), a bonsai class with a professional bonsai designer (10,714 points) and a noodle tour in Cambodia with the chef of the Park Hyatt Siem Reap (21.5,26 points).
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Watching these 2D pages transform into 3D structures is better than tending to an entire forest full of bonsai trees.
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Its customs and crafts are executed in painstaking detail — patterned kimonos, painted geishas, bonsai trees, tea ceremonies, and Zen gardens.
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Narrator: Andy Elliott twists, coils, and curls metal wires into these bonsai sculptures, but none of these movements are random.
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After reading that their exchange partner PaltryPenguinu likes r/trees, the Redditor decided to gift him with a Bonsai tree.
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"I'm going to make some bonsai trees, get the grass better, I'm going to get some flowers," Mr. Khaled said.
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Hong Kong's illicit wildlife trade, North Korea's unusual — and addictive — Lunar New Year gifts, and a deeply troubling Bonsai theft.
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Keeping bonsai trees requires a potent mixture of dedication and skill, commonly creating a deep emotional connection for their owners.
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Bonsai, part of Y Combinator's Winter 2016 batch, has created a tool designed to guide freelancers through contract creation and invoicing.
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He's frozen bouquets in ice blocks, created floating botanical gardens, and photographed bonsai trees underwater, in the desert, and in space.
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He was an expert in the Japanese tradition of bonsai when he moved from Tokyo to Paris almost 30 years ago.
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They have been joined in the round by Almaz Capital, Bonsai Partners, All Iron Ventures and FJ Labs as new investors.
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Top off your zen sanctuary with this bonsai plant that'll bring a sense of calm to any window sill or countertop.
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For the next month, more than two hundred flowering trees are in fleeting bloom, representing around thirty species (bonsai count, too).
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Bonsai trees are notoriously difficult to keep, requiring meticulous shaping, watering and caring that creates a deep connection for their owners.
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That leads him to an AI startup named Bonsai, which attempts to build systems that can ultimately explain their decisions to users.
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Fuyumi Iimura, the wife of the bonsai master, told CNN that one tree was worth more than 10 million yen, or $90,000.
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Fuyumi Iimura told CNN that bonsai masters sometimes find their stolen trees on social media, but they rarely get the plants back.
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Shop by brand: Choose from top online plant retailers like Shop Succulents, Delray Plants, Brussel's Bonsai, Proven Winners, and New Life Nursery.
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There was also the Bonsai Blade, the Bottle Cutter, the Go-Go Comb, the Comb Gray Away comb and much, much more.
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At the outset, the starlet is described as "human bonsai," about as good a metaphor for female celebrity as I've ever read.
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The MIT Media Lab's experiments with magnetic levitation tickle the same sci-fi fancy as Air Bonsai, but put it to use.
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The idea for using bonsai branches came to him after he tasted a cachaça infused with branches of kuromatsu (Japanese black pine).
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The seeds were brought by a member of the Hayashida family, who passed down the tradition of bonsai art among his descendents.
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Watanabe was an active gardener and grew fruits and vegetables until he was 104 and grew and exhibited bonsai trees until 2007.
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Some artisans have spotted their bonsai on social media sites, she added, but few have been able to reclaim their tiny trees.
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Sachs contributes his own garden sculptures, though of bronze: a 10-foot-tall stupa, a Japanese lantern, and a large bonsai tree.
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There is a humility in celebrating the beauty of a grain of wood or in the changing leaves of a bonsai tree.
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One was a 50-year-old Japanese white pine bonsai, from Makoto's personal collection, that he suspended within a cube-shaped metal frame.
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They're currently appearing at a gallery in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York, along with two bonsai suspended in their own steel frames.
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Manchester-based artist Andy Elliott says he experiences a similar therapeutic sensation when he creates his bonsai tree sculptures using strands of wire.
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LONDON (Reuters) - From bonsai trees to freshly made sushi, a cultural center in London hopes to offer a taste of all things Japanese.
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The decency pledge is a bare minimum; it equates to being the tallest bonsai, and in the land of Redwoods, that's not enough.
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After meeting with a venture capitalist named Rich, Kerpen sent him a bonsai tree as a way of thanking him for his time.
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It had been all I could manage to remain on top of my un-botchable after-school job watering the neighbors' bonsai trees.
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Isn't this why some Japanese homes have a small bonsai tree to remind them of their connection to the eternal mystery of existence?
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From Friday to Sunday, Simon Miller covetable Bonsai bucket bags, denim and ready-to-wear will be marked down up to 50 percent.
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Such old trees as Shimpaku or Ezo spruce are taken from mountains, and are taken care of for decades to become beautiful bonsai.
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It was like watching a master bonsai [gardener] know where to trim a tree here and there — or what to say here and there.
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Apparently kiridashi—the shape of knife being made here—are often used for pruning bonsai because they have lots of leverage near the tip.
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When I look at bonsai trees, they're so pretty to look at, but it's so hurtful to think of what we've done to them.
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I'm telling the cab driver about this video where a guy is making music with a bonsai tree [Link to this video on youtube].
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It's easy to get disoriented in the labyrinth, but bonsai-tree-growing kits and wasabi-flavored Kit Kats will reaffirm that you're in Japan.
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In August, he and his team lowered four elaborate bouquets and a bonsai tree into Japan's Suruga Bay, near the base of Mount Fuji.
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The museum has a nationwide APB out to recover the stolen goods, and photos of the missing 70-year-old bonsai are in circulation (NPR).
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Existing investors Banco Sabadell and IGNIA reinforced their position, along with Barcelona-based investors Antai Venture Builder, Bonsai Venture Capital and Mexican investor Pedralbes Partners.
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These miniature trees are just like the real ones that so many people have fallen in love with, but these wire bonsai can last forever.
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The place is enormous and gorgeous, and my favorite part of it is the house inside that's filled with a bunch of old Bonsai trees.
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One of them has an Asian theme, with extraordinary bonsai, while another is planted with the cactuses and spiny plants of the American Southwestern desert.
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Her "Beguiled" is less a hothouse flower than a bonsai garden, a work of cool, exquisite artifice that evokes wildness on a small, controlled scale.
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Bonsai tree plantations in Ben Tre province, southern Vietnam, produce about 300,000 different products annually, a third of which are animal-shaped trees, VTV reported.
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Buying options: Brussel's Bonsai Ponytail Palm Tree, available at Amazon, $18.95Ponytail Palm in recycled plastic pot, available at Bloomscape, $65Ponytail Palm, available at Etsy, $69.95
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" Yuji Tamura, an editor for the Japan Bonsai Association, said the tree had once received an award at a conference and was "regarded as excellent.
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Similarly, with the bouquet and the bonsai, 40% of the men preferred to give the bouquet but only 28% of the women preferred to receive it.
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Bonsai steps in with helpful pro tips that show up throughout the contract creation process, sourcing answers from lawyers in every country where the service operates.
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Bonsai is a Japanese art form that involves pinching and pruning the branches of ornamental trees in order to prevent them from reaching their normal size.
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As a matter of fact, Microsoft is about to acquire Bonsai, a small Berkeley-based startup it hopes to make the centerpiece of its AI efforts.
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Click here to view original GIFLike maintaining a zen garden, or pruning a bonsai tree, some people stack and balance rocks as a way to relax.
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The Japanese artist Azuma Makoto launches bonsai and flower arrangements into space and photographs them, experimenting with how they might look with Earth as a background.
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In this world, a book with a cover featuring one bonsai tree leaning lovingly toward another does not appear likely to find much of a place.
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Then faster, passing up through a tiny pine forest, hearing mourning doves coo loudly at one another among the strange bonsai tangle of the scrub oaks.
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Here, too, is an oversize bonsai tree — an assemblage of pipes connected by screwed-on metal plates, with cotton swabs as budding branches — cast in bronze.
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The bonsai came from Azuma's personal collection, and he designed the frame to dangle beneath a helium balloon that would carry the little tree into the stratosphere.
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The cheapest option costs $200 for the basic Air Bonsai set, which includes the "energy base," AC adapter and the circular moss ball that supports the plant.
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Related: 7 Levitating Artworks Cooler Than the Air Bonsai Artist Folds Photographs into Endless Geometric Sculptures These Charming Optical Illusions Pop Off the Page | Monday Insta Illustrator
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Bonsai, an artificial intelligence startup based in Berkeley, California, just announced a new investment of $7.6 million, co-led by Microsoft Ventures and New Enterprise Associates (NEA).
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This is how Ikeda grows his surreal, hyper-dense illustrations into existence: slowly nurturing the empty canvas like a bonsai tree until his vision is fully realized.
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Hong Kong (CNN)A bonsai thief has stolen seven tiny trees worth at least 13 million yen ($118,000) from a garden space in Saitama prefecture near Tokyo.
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Four centuries' worth of work Fuyumi Iimura's husband, Seiji Iimura, is a fifth-generation bonsai master whose family practice dates back to the Edo period (1603-1868).
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While some bonsai grow from seeds, creating the shimpaku is a laborious process, not least because the original trees are dangerous to collect, growing on precarious cliffsides.
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The Flow Table Lamp doesn't just illuminate, it invigorates, with a design that, contrary to its name, doesn't evoke water so much as a maximally pared bonsai tree.
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Related: Listen To The Color Of Pizza With This Synesthetic App Springing to Life with VT Pro Design's Kinetic Wall Stunning Photos of a Bonsai Traveling the World
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His sculptures are based off a bonsai shape but also imagine a tree that is sliced in half so you can see the details of the branches inside.
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Bonsai will soon release a $19 per month premium version with extra workflow and admin tools, and will develop cash flow tools for escrow, collections, and cash advances.
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The company said in a blog post announcing the acquisition that Bonsai will help create an "AI toolchain" for creating and running autonomous systems on its Azure Cloud.
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They meet in a bonsai room at a greenhouse, and Patricia clearly has her own issues, too, stemming from her gambling addiction which resulted in her losing her daughter.
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For about six minutes, the viewer travels through levels of lucidity, from abstract graphics to a sort of vaporwave Shangri-La replete with Egyptian tombs and mirrored bonsai trees.
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Once the bonsai arrived, however, Rich moved to introduce Kerpen to another VC who might be a better fit, and that second VC ended up investing in Kerpen's business.
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Campos left to be the head of AI at a startup called Bonsai that pitches itself as a platform that makes it easy to integrate machine learning into apps.
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The loot included a rare 400-year-old shimpaku tree, a star of the bonsai world, which was due to be entered in a Japanese beauty competition this month.
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They dubbed it "bonsai", which literally means "planted in a container," and -- at its most elementary level -- the art is simply growing a wild tree inside a small vessel.
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Mr. Thanh said that when Ms. Huong arrived, she was short of money and came bearing only one gift: a bonsai plant worth 100,000 Vietnamese dong, or about $5.
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All manner of airborne accessories have floated across my desk — from light bulbs and bonsai trees to clocks and speakers — and it feels like the gimmick is ready to die.
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Living sculpture pioneer and plant artist Azuma Makoto, perhaps best known for launching a bonsai into space, hit Paris with a stunning pop-up installation called Petal Box on Monday.
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We know plenty of people who'd get a kick out of a bonsai forest growing kit, a leather iPhone case — hell, even these light-up chopsticks — regardless of their gender.
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We feel stressed and out of control in our lives, so we buy a bonsai tree and gain satisfaction from being able to care for it and keep it alive.
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For some recipes, the pruned branches come from trees that can cost more than $20,000 US. The idea came from Renato Bocabello, one of the biggest bonsai masters in Brazil.
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Platforms: Windows, Mac Creator: samperson Price: Free, with a $2.00 suggested donation While not necessarily a desktop companion, Mountain is like a virtual bonsai tree that grows independent of you.
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We meet a transgender thug named Joyce (Sam Louwyck), and Kenny's former cellmate (Jan Bijvoet), whose hobbies include the tending of bonsai trees and the unlawful use of a cleaver.
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TOKYO — For decades, a prized, 400-year-old Japanese bonsai tree has been shaped, watered and cared for with all of the precision needed for a priceless piece of art.
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Taking part in the round are original backer Antai Venture Builder, Spain's Seaya Ventures, Entreé Capital, Caixa Capital Risk, and Bonsai Venture Capital, along with a number of Glovo's previous investors.
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In China, the bereaved, with a few clicks of a mouse or taps on a smartphone, can buy replicas of everything from bonsai plants to flat-screen televisions for home delivery.
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"It's really disheartening what they're putting him through," said Jeanne Maher, 66, from Langhorne, whose husband, a bonsai artist, affixed a "Hillary for Prison" sticker to his motorcycle during the campaign.
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It's also worth noting that Bonsai allows freelancers to get paid by ACH, which isn't available in many other freelancer payment tools and results in much lower fees for high-earning freelancers.
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With 240 minutes of continuous run-time and the ability to shred credit cards, CDs, and more, the Bonsai Paper Shredder offers the capacity of a commercial shredder at an affordable price.
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The most futuristic flower art we've yet seen is Azuma Makoto's undertaking to launch a bare bouquet and bonsai tree out of our atmosphere and 90,000 feet directly up into the stratosphere.
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That vision is articulated by the character Chen Yanshi, a respected party elder who turns away exotic gifts that are sent to his home — 35 birds, 43 bouquets and 16 bonsai trees.
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"It's not the money, these plants were like children to me," Suzanne Berv, of Great Neck, N.Y., told The New York Times in 1978 after eight of her bonsai trees were taken.
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BERLIN – The leader of Germany&aposs center-left Social Democrats says the conservative governor of Bavaria is acting like a "bonsai Trump" amid a deepening spat within the government over its migration policy.
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Microsoft announced that it will acquire Bonsai, a Berkeley-based artificial intelligence company that helps non-programmers develop machine-learning tools for industrial applications like manufacturing, heating and cooling systems, and vehicle testing.
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Originating from the Chinese ancient art of "penjing," or miniature landscaping, bonsai was introduced to Japan in the 6th century by a group of Japanese Zen Buddhism students returning from their overseas travels.
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"I got to seeing a headstand as kind of a bonsai performance, sort of the minimum of performance," he explained in an oral history recorded in 2016 for the Archives of American Art.
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Then over the next one to two months, the United States is required to take steps to pave the way for imports of fragrant pears, citrus, bonsai trees and Jujube fruit from China.
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LUMI Self-Sanitizing Toilet Brush and Base — $259.99 See Details Become a plant parent and trick your houseguests into thinking you're a highly trained magicianat the same time with this floating geometric bonsai pot.
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Now a clutch of other gig economy companies, like Fiverr, Dribbble, Bonsai, HoneyBook, Samaschool and Wonolo have signed up for the service — and the motivating factor is healthcare, according to chief executive Noah Lang.
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Nadella's Microsoft has bought properties like email app start-up Acompli, storage company Avere Systems, AI start-ups Bonsai and Lobe, education start-up Flipgrid, and the Wunderlist to-do list app developer 6Wunderkinder.
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"This technology is important, since so many companies are adopting AI and need to teach these systems," says Mark Hammond, co-founder of Bonsai who is now general manager of business AI at Microsoft.
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Related: Massive Nature-Inspired Sculptures Explore Growth and Decay A Massive Bonsai Tree Brings "A New Stage of Beauty" to the Top of a Mountain A Pixel-Based Plant Performance Took Root in Barcelona
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Related: Learn Quillwork and Indigenous Culture at North Dakota Gallery Five Nations Arts Artist Weaves Intricate Bonsai Trees with Copper and Aluminum Wire These Adorable Felt Animals Are Definitely Side-Eyeing You Right Now
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Tokyo-based florist-turned-artist Azuma Makoto has installed just that with Shiki Tou, the latest in his series of adventurous bonsai that have explored glaciers, deserts, underwater landscapes, and even space, the final frontier.
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It's not often we get to see the surreal imagery of Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki come to life, but thanks to a new startup, real life bonsai-style trees just got a lot more otherworldly.
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You may have seen the bonsai plant above floating in your news feed, either jammed down your throat via auto-playing Facebook video or enticingly advertized through your favorite design-minded news site or blog.
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The Air Bonsai aced current trends in sci-fi decór, plant-based art, and throwing magnets onto random objects, a flawless machine designed to surge through social media algorithms like a Ferrari on the Autobahn.
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From Thursday through Sunday, the latest store from this Japanese chain will be serving free red, white and blue shaved ice from Bonsai Kakigori, the dessert shop that recently opened on the Lower East Side.
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He created Bonsai to help guide freelancers through necessary business operations with two products: a plain-English contract template tool, and a simple invoicing system to process invoices that the freelancer can create and send themselves.
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Related: A Massive Bonsai Tree Brings "A New Stage of Beauty" to the Top of a Mountain Inside the Botanical Laboratory of Japanese Flower Artists AMKK Sensual Drawings of Gnarled Hands Touching Nature | Monday Insta Illustrator
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The tree, a 33-inch-tall Shimpaku, was among seven trees stolen from the garden of Seiji Iimura, 4003, the fifth-generation owner of a bonsai shop in the city of Kawaguchi, near Tokyo, in January.
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Keeping a bonsai tree is as much an art as making a painting of one, with owners using wiring and pruning to shape the trees, often over several decades, into miniature versions of those found outdoors.
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But that was impossible in a tower, and so instead, he chose to place the two bonsai trees in a rectangular garden in the dining room, a 10½-foot-long slab of Komatsu stone between them.
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Recognizing the shortage of data science professionals, M12 invested — and Microsoft later acquired — Bonsai, a start-up that helps engineers, even those without AI expertise, build their own artificial intelligence models and incorporate AI into their business.
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Bocabello usually prunes his more than 400 bonsai trees (a hundred of which are kuromatsu) twice a year, so he ends up with many pounds of these precious leftovers that can be used in the IPA recipe.
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Bonsai theft: A prized 400-year-old tree was among seven stolen from a store near Tokyo, unsettling the owner so deeply that he begged the thieves to return them, and to water them in the meantime.
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Keeping Jill happy at home with balancing rent and small joys like posters, hologram-bonsai trees and vintage video games, will help her stay focused during her work shift, and make her more attuned to cocktail suggestions.
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Other prior investors in CornerJob include Mediaset Italy and Mediaset España (through its subsidiary Ad4Ventures), the TF1 Group, Sabadell Venture Capital, Media Digital Ventures (MDV), Cube Investments, Ithaca Investments, Bonsai Venture Capital, Samaipata Ventures and Caixa Capital Risc.
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A spat within the German government over migration has turned to name-calling, with one ally of Chancellor Angela Merkel accusing another of acting like a "bonsai Trump" by threatening to turn some refugees back at the border.
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Participating artists include Snuff Puppets, a collective from Australia; Masashi Hirao, who practices the traditional Japanese art of tailoring bonsai trees; and Mounir Fatmi, a photographer and video artist who has a solo show now in Marrakesh, Morocco.
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Szechuan Mountain House, with its koi pond, bamboo groves, and delicately pruned bonsai, styles China's most famous regional cuisine for the ambience-conscious age, happily challenging the notion that vibrancy of flavor must come at the price of presentability.
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Started in 2420 by Tom Forcade, an underground journalist, drug smuggler and Yippie, the magazine was originally conceived as a parody of Playboy, but with lurid centerfolds of cannabis buds the size of bonsai trees instead of nude women.
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When she's not on her bike or running the dash, she likes to take care of the house, tend to her bonsai trees, and engage in her primary workout: running from the garden to answer the phone when it rings.
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Investors include Antai Business Angels and Mediaset (through its media for equity subsidiary Ad4Ventures), VC funds from Sabadell Capital, Bonsai Venture Capital, Cube Investments, Ithaca Investment, Samaipata Ventures (founders of La Nevera Roja), La Caixa Capital Risc and Media Digital Ventures.
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"Going forward, we see a massive opportunity to empower enterprises & developers globally with the tools and technology needed to build and operate the BRAINs that power these intelligent autonomous systems," Bonsai co-founder/CEO Mark Hammond said in a blog post.
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It's a bit like what fact-checking sites such as Snopes did in the early days of the internet, when email chain scams (remember Bonsai Kittens?) were the trolls' mode du jour and verifying information was harder than it is now.
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In the case of Heroica, located in the Brazilian city of Jundiaí (about an hour from São Paulo), the small gypsy brewery relies upon a bonsai master to provide some of the exquisite ingredients they use in their brewing processes.
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Lookiero, the online personal shopping service for clothes and accessories, has closed a $19 million funding round led by London-based VC MMC Ventures, with support from existing investor All Iron Ventures, and new investors Bonsai Partners, 10x and Santander Smart.
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If the windows offer a lightness, a moment to pause in time and drift into infinity, then the two bonsai, whose dense, visible surface roots (nebari, which are considered a balance to the tree's sinuous branches) return you to earth.
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Ride along in our Lincoln MKC to see architecture that horoscope readers will flip for, the best place to view the Bean without the bustle, and a bonsai garden that makes the terrariums we hung in our apartment look, well, a little sad.
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Named for the British artist Rachel Whiteread, who creates casts of negative spaces inside and surrounding quotidian objects — chairs, closets, beds, houses — it's a stark one-room concrete structure, standing sentry over the small weed-strewn garden dominated by a giant bonsai pine.
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They picked three pairs of appropriate gifts: a dozen roses in full bloom versus two dozen rose buds that were about to blossom; a bouquet of freshly cut flowers versus a bonsai; and a heart-shaped basket of biscuits versus a similar basket of fruit.
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Prices start at $200 and go up to $10,000 For $200 you can get an Air Bonsai starter kit, including a magnetic base 15 centimeters across by 6 centimeters high, and a mossy ball (the "little star") that will be the home for your plant.
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After acquiring AI startup Bonsai, which specialized in reinforcement learning for autonomous systems, the company today announced the limited preview of a new Azure-based platform that is partially built on this acquisition and that will help developers train the models necessary to power these autonomous physical systems.
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Without denying its patrons either of the first two, Szechuan Mountain House, with its koi pond, bamboo groves, and delicately pruned bonsai, styles China's most famous regional cuisine for the ambience-conscious age, happily challenging the notion that vibrancy of flavor must come at the price of presentability.
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A greenhouse in the back contained tropical palms and painted gnomes; a stone table sat near my grandfather's woodworking shed (where, during retirement, he spent hours fashioning small sculptures of platypus), its surface adorned with bonsai; and there was a birdbath and a sundial, both of which seemed very exotic.
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The public areas are divided by an atrium with a retractable glass ceiling; Toogood turned the area beneath into a contemplative place for morning coffee by staggering five floating plaster shelves on the wall, each topped with a bonsai, with hopes that Atalla would tend to them for years to come.
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Shell isn't opposed to the possibility of giving Stella CBD, if there was a need to do so — he even gave his late Shiba Inu, Bonsai, CBD oil toward the end of his life to alleviate his arthritis — but he has been more careful with keeping human-grade edibles out of her reach.
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Leyland Cypress fast-growing evergreen tree — $14.16 String of Dolphins succulent — $9.99 Venus fly trap — $5.81 Aloe Vera succulent — $13.80 Tricolor prayer plant — $9.99 Spider plant — $4.99 Majesty palm — $27.04 Mini Pachira five braided bonsai tree — $9.99 White Bird of Paradise — $4.99 Rosary Vine (Ceropegia woodii) — $7.99 Rattlesnake Plant (Calathea lancifolia) — $10.63
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Which, funny enough, is exactly how Apple depicts Siri in this recent ad, which features Dwayne Johnson using Siri to check his calendar appointments while pruning a bonsai, and listen to his email while painting the Sistine Chapel, among other things: In reality, that system needs work; Siri still disappoints more often than it delights.
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Earlier this year, it showed at its big conference for developers what it will be like to live in a world infused with AI. The company is hiring engineers to work on AI chip design for its Azure cloud division and, in recent months, snapped up two artificial intelligence start-ups: Bonsai and Lobe.
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Elsewhere, Fluidity is a wonderful physics-based puzzle game with music from Sega legend Richard Jacques; Rock N' Roll Climber is a bizarre climbing game that uses the Wii Fit Balance Board; and Bonsai Barber is a surreal plant-trimming simulation by Martin Hollis, who led design on Goldeneye and Perfect Dark while at Rare.
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In Mr. Sachs's alternate universe, the traditional toro Japanese lantern incorporates a walker as a base and a tennis ball as a finial; Yoda the Jedi master replaces a chrysanthemum on top of a charcoal brazier; and a cast-bronze bonsai is modeled on a construction of hundreds of Q-tips, toothbrushes and tampon tubes.
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The Steinhardt Conservatory, named for the Wall Street investor Michael E. Steinhardt and his wife, Judy, who donated $22007 million, is a 22015,000-square-foot ethereal glass and steel complex composed of a central rectangular building for aquatic plants, bonsai, ferns and other plants, and three octagonal ones that house tropical, temperate and desert plants.
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In this bonsai-esque universe where molecules are even smaller than motion A girl prayed for a set of Lionel trains minus the trains— Just thumbnail shrubbery, tiny plastic people she could maneuver, Position in indefensible battle, infuse honey-honesty into their unprotesting Zipped lips, force them to love each other with their clothes on.
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Other trees are symbolic survivors of disaster, such as the American elm that lived through the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, the tiny Japanese white pine bonsai that witnessed the 1945 bombing of Hiroshima, and the Callery pear at the World Trade Center, nursed back to health after 9/11 and replanted at the Manhattan memorial in 2010.
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Your chosen character smashes through windows, knocks down and executes goons at point-blank range, lets off pipe bombs and sets up gun turrets to tear through gang members, plasters up posters, steals cheese, burns ganja, retrieves bonsai trees, and unleashes purring-but-deadly kitten bombs about the place, all in the name of... politics, actually.
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Since May, it has acquired: Conversational AI startup Semantic Machines, which helps bots sound more human (May) Bonsai, which aims to reduce barriers to machine learning (July) Lobe, which makes tools to help companies embrace AI without having to write code (September) The company is also using AI to power several new philanthropic efforts under the umbrella label AI for Good.
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While you may never have occasion to build your own "debris hut," make your own kimchi or experiment with kokedama (the "moss ball" style of Japanese bonsai), you can still wander through the pages of A WILDER LIFE: A Season-by-Season Guide to Getting in Touch With Nature (Artisan, paper, $29.95), by Celestine Maddy with Abbye Churchill, in awe and appreciation.
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Going beyond the social media-friendly tchotchke, we've decided to take a look back at the artists and innovators who explored the technology and aesthetics of levitation so that Air Bonsai could shatter it's $80,000 Kickstarter goal, enter mass production heaven, and inevitably become the next great cubicle decoration for the coworker you don't know well enough to get creative with.
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He agreed, though both sides were unaware that it would eventually require four years, multiple trips to Japan, the shipping of rare materials (stones salvaged from an old Kyoto tram station, enormous planks of ancient cedar wood) from Japan to New York, the flying in and housing of specialized craftsmen from Japan to complete finishing details, the training of New York-based contractors in other site-specific tasks and the dedicated input of several experts, including the Brooklyn-based architects Susan Yun and Felix Ade of Yun Architecture; the main contractor, Xhema of New York; and the former curator of the bonsai collection at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Julian Velasco, who imported and shaped two ficus trees grown in Florida, 75 and 85 years old, for an indoor garden Sugimoto designed.
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