We’ve been so busy that we almost forgot that it’s MARDI GRAS, until we stumbled on this divine video that Constant Siege posted. Here’s the great Mardi Gras.com site that will bring you in… Video link here. Related post: fasnacht: wild + creative antidote for winter
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…from MondoBlogo‘s great Man Ray riff: Dada-ist Man Ray shaved his cool “tonsure” in 1921. One hundred years later, shaving designs are the rage.
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Spotted in Annaleenas HEM: taping down an electric cord with a charming warning…the opposite of the usual mass of gaffer’s tape. We’re thinking this would encourage people to step OVER the cord rather than stepping on it as gaffer’s tape does. We’re wondering how long it would stay in good shape. It also makes us think…
Read More(Video link here.) Steven Berlin Johnson’s Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation is one of those books that you can open ANYWHERE and find something inspiring and useable in your creative life. In this BBC interview, he gives the gist (or one of them) and some ideas for cultivating an environment for…
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Mark Visser Rides JAWS at Night! from Mark Visser on Vimeo. Professional surfer and extreme sports enthusiast Mark Visser rigged his gear with LED’s to ride a huge wave in the moonlight: a strangely beautiful 28-second MOMENT. Read more here… Video link.
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Our friend Charles McFarlane, who attends highschool in New York City, sent us this astonishing photo in an email… “Recently my friend hurt her wrist. Our teacher, whose father is a hand surgeon, rigged this up for my friend until she could get to the doctor.” Stainless steel ruler + rubber gloves (or are they balloons?)…
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This Saturday afternoon in New York City, The Calder Foundation is sponsoring a twelve-hour one-day event that presents a continuous series of artist film screenings, performances and music. It takes its name from Alexander Calder’s response to Work in Progress, his 1968 theatrical production, Maybe I should have called it ‘My Life in Nineteen Minutes’. An extraordinary…
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Every morning we scroll through A LOT of blogs looking for delicious/interesting/useful ideas and improvisations. Lately, we spotted some Ikea pieces buried in features about stylish interiors. Our view of Ikea is that when it’s great, it’s really great, like the Alto-esque stacking stools they used to sell for $12 and the geometric rug, above,…
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Dutch artist Theo Jansen has worked for over 20 years trying to make “new forms of life”, mechanical beasts made of PVC pipe, whose power to move on their own comes from the wind. He calls them Strandbeests. “The breeze gives it life…I want to put this out into the world where they can live in…
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We found this messed-up wall in Axel Vervoordt: Wabi Inspirations; it is made chic by drawing attention to it and what is around it. It reminded us of the beautiful wreck of wall that photographer Maria Robledo uncovered in her studio years ago. The many layers of paint and plaster made it look like an artwork; it…
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We are completely smitten with our latest find in the blogsphere: artist Roy Arden‘s UndertheSun. Totally visual, with variously-sized, in-your-face photos and video, Arden posts riffs whose connections can start out clear and then veer into wild territory: this is blog as artwork. This crazy good video of James Brown’s dance lessons (which makes us want…
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We clipped a few excerpts from the compelling Letter from Cairo: On the Square by Wendell Steavenson in a recent New Yorker, describing improvisations devised by protestors in Tahrir Square during the recent revolutionary actions: “At Friday prayer, ranks of men laid out improvised prayer mats: kaffiyehs, newspapers, an Egyptian flag, slogan placards. They wiped…
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What kids do. What we should do. Photo unattributed, via Under the Sun.
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Remember those potholders you used to make as a kid by weaving stretchy bands of fabric in a grid on a simple loom? Artist/crafter Crispina ffrench took the idea and scaled it UP. She uses a giant loom to weave cotton tee shirts or wool sweaters in the very same way, to make thick, dramatic…
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We found this compelling image on one of Tara Mann’s blogs, and followed it to photographer Jeanie Choi’s Tumblr. Don’t know what the story is but IMAGINED what a funny thing it would be to have a party and offer guests their choice of glasses (sans lenses, perhaps) as an instant change of identity plus conversation…
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