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Read More‘the idea of potential and possibility’ (marni stern)
We’d never heard of Marni Stern before we read about her in the New Yorker last week, in Sasha Frere Jones’ “Note by Note: Marni Stern’s rapturous guitar“. Something she said made us go to Amazon to check out her music: “The idea of potential and possibility is the only thing that drives me to…
Read Morecopy this: leather strap catch-all
An image we saw on Ancient Industries put us on the trail of Evert Collier, the 17th century Dutch still-life and trompe l’oeil painter. Several of his works show strips of leather tacked onto a board or wall to make a kind of catch-all, into which you could slide or hang all sorts of essential…
Read Morecreative pursuit as deep sea dive (dave eggers)
The other day, Kerri Smith’s blog featured a potent bit of a Guardian interview with Dave Eggers, about his writing process: “I procrastinate worse than anybody. Writing is so hard. I need eight hours to get maybe 20 minutes of work done. I had one of those yesterday: seven hours of self-loathing. …Writing is a deep-sea dive.…
Read Moreneil gaiman’s benediction for new year’s (or any other time)
Neil Gaiman‘s New Year’s Wishes from LAST year are surely some of the best wishes to bestow on those you love at ANY time of year… As wonderful to hear, as to read: May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and…
Read Morethe beauty of black masking tape
We hadn’t realized how beautiful black masking tape could be – we actually hadn’t realized there WAS such a thing – until we saw it used to hang a poster on Annaleena’s Hem. The black takes it out of the realm of masking tape and into a bold, intentional, very cool, happily impermanent, unframed picture…
Read Morewhat’s on your ideal cookbook shelf?
We were wandering around 20×200, gallerist Jen Bekman‘s site of limited edition work for sale and stumbled on this painting by artist Jane Mount, who paints people’s ideal bookshelves. Right in the center of it is Sally’s striped A New Way to Cook, among very good company. Wrote Mount: This set is actually a “Super-Ideal”…
Read Morea new year’s wish spirals on
Alexander Calder, Louisa James CalderOn New Year’s Day forty-five years ago, the sculptor Alexander Calder and his wife Louisa James Calder took out this full page ad in the New York Times. It was a fierce statement made in protest of the Vietnam War and caused quite a stir at the time. It is still a…
Read Moresnowman in paradise, with new year’s wishes
Artist Heike Weber’s snowman installation somehow seems a fitting holiday greeting from ‘the improvised life’. We wish you a New Year full of big ideas, wondrous things, and ever-expanding views of the daily possible…
Read Morea new year: 20 seconds old…
…at the Big Apple Circus in New York City. (After the late show in the one-ring circus in a tent, just before midnight, clown noses, hats, noise makers and champagne are passed out to the audience… …then, in a moment, the old year turns to new: JOY as clowns, performers – aerialists, acrobats, contortionists, jugglers…
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