From on-the-the road in California and Seattle, in hotel rooms, and in flight, we’ve been reading your thoughtful ideas for taglines, posted in Comments or sent via email – lots of them! Even far from our home base, we feel connected by the community that has grown up around ‘the improvised life’ and awed at…
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‘the improvised life’ needs a tagline on its HomePage so newcomers who jump onto the site with no introduction can get the gist quickly, and find their way more easily. We’ve been mulling possibilities for a while now and ask for your help in figuring out which of the phrases below describes the site best.…
Read Morereal life is messy
Periodically we like to feature the messy workspaces of artists as a reminder that being creative often means making a mess…We see it as an antidote to the shelter-magazine vision of a nice neat life that has infiltrated our heads over the years. To take the idea a step further, we thought it would be…
Read Moreipad + velcro (+ imagination)
We were charmed and enthralled by Jesse Rosten‘s video about expanding the world via an iPad and velcro, “two of mankind’s greatest inventions”… ….And we especially love his caveat: “Note, this is an exploration of what is possible, not necessarily what is practical.” …exploration of what is possible = the way to find the unexpected path……
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