We never knew studs in clothes could look quite so wonderful until we stumbled on this picture of London’s Carnaby Street in 1966, the center of mod at the time. (If you’re tempted, Studs and Spikes has all you’ll need to get going.) Here are The Kinks singing their 1966 hit, Dedicated Follower of Fashion. Photo…
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We just thinking how refreshing these colored cabinets are as opposed to our usual default WHITE, and were reminded of the multi-colored cabinets we posted sometime back AND Pascal Anson’s wonderful array of mismatched cabinet doors. Then we came across photos of Ikea’s new look at Core 77: a clear mainstreaming of the trend to…
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Interdependence is a word we’ve been thinking about as we watch the events unfolding in Egypt, and feel that what happens there, impacts us here. So it seems fitting (and a bit of gentle relief, perhaps) to run this trailer to Connected, Tiffany Shlain’s much heralded documentary about technology and interdependence. It’s only been shown…
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Events in Egypt are shifting moment by moment in what Huffington Post is calling the “Battle for the Future”. Al Jazeera‘s ongoing reporting covers both immediate events in Egypt as well as the wider region and neighboring countries, as pro-democracy demonstrations seem to be igniting from one country to another. Although the news outlet is only sparsely available…
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Years ago at a tag sale, we bought some ancient flower frogs, tiny spiked metal stands meant to hold flowers in a graceful arrangement. They are weighted so they won’t tip over. We never used them for flower arranging; instead we stuck pictures in them, for an impromptu, instantly changeable display. We’ve had them on…
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…’nuff said… …though the story is very cool: ‘think-make-think’ by Clifton Burt (at 20×200, Jen Bekman’s great virtual gallery of affordable art)…was inspired by a haiku graphic designer John Maeda “quietly posted on his blog…Over the next few months, that haiku often found its way to the forefront of my mind. When our studio acquired the…
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We love this array of shabby mirrors found on Emma’s blog, a relief from the perfection of new framed mirrors. It reminded us that purposeful groupings of beat-up things can turn them into something…ELSE, somehow increasing their perceived value (and made us think about taking old mirrors OUT of their frames)… …Then, because when we…
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We were knocked out by Ariston Anderson’s interview in 99% with the great director Francis Ford Coppola who made The Godfather, The Conversation and Apocalypse Now among other astonishing films. In talking about film, he talks deeply about making any kind of art, and about living. Here are some excerpts (read in context, they are even…
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