via the great Constant Siege. Related post: what is the most powerful word in the english language?
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tina fey’s 4 1/2 rules (in 4 1/2 minutes)
This video is of comedienne/writer/producer/brilliantina Tina Fey’s hour-long interview with Google’s awkward, SO not-quite-getting-it Eric Schmidt about her book Bossypants. The best bits for us are 4 1/2 minutes right up front, starting at about 3:30 when Fey talks about her rules for improv, and Saturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels rules for hiring/collaborating. Although…
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healing worry (via anne herbert)
From the always illuminating Peace and Love and Noticing the Details…
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toast spoons and the (r)evolutionary process
When Consilientist | Futurist Stuart Dambrot alerted us to Norwegian designer Siren Elise Wilhelmsen’s toast spoons, we were totally smitten. We envisioned them brushed with olive oil and a cut clove of garlic, to eat our soup/stew/eggs with. Then we realized that they were part of a bigger study, of the idea that “Like the fascintating species of nature…
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fast-and-loose dining table via the selby
Our two favorite takeaways from The Selby’s latest photo story of Charlotte Rust, stylist and co-owner of vintage store Fast and Loose in Auckland, New Zealand: her funky “tattooed” wooden table that invites friends to carve it + the candles stuck with melted wax right onto the table, pooling as they burn down to nothing.
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a mother’s day gift that saves lives
All week long, we’ve been getting Mother’s Day gift ideas in our email box…mostly deals on cornball flower arrangements. Then we got one from Doctors Without Borders, the great international aid organization, about sending one of their e-cards for Mother’s Day, and using that $20/$50/$100 worth of short-lived-flowers money as a donation that will really…
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vietnam’s culture of improvisation via charlie allenson (happy birthday charlie!!!)
Our friend Charlie Allenson had a big birthday a few days ago, and we had big plans to give him a shout out that day and find ourselves, THE DAY AFTER, having been swept away by..everything. Damn. Charlie’s at the jazz festival in New Orleans so we thought we’d publish some of the very cool…
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role model ->defy expectations!
…spotted in Design Milk’s story on the Log Chop Bench. We didn’t care for the final product but love the photo and this nugget: “The log was debarked and the seats were axed out by a professional ‘Lumberjill’”. Lumberjill!!?? Googling it lead to the discovery that during World War II there was a branch of…
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calder via ‘world of interiors’ + ‘the improvised life’
The other day we got an email from our friend A.S.C. Rower, President of the Calder Foundation (we know him as Sandy). It’s subject line read: “More Noise Please!” The title of a poem by the late Steven J. Bernstein, a mutual friend, was the go-ahead for ‘the improvised life’ to feature posts about Rower’s grandfather,…
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reminder: get out there an enjoy it
Mondoblogo recently published this cell phone shot of a “my cousin’s” house AFTER a tornado set down on Tuscaloosa, Alabama, with these words: “He is a 1st year law student on full scholarship at U of A. (Roll Tide) He and his wife Ceci are lucky to be alive. They were trapped in their bathroom until…
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knife rack as magnetic note board, recipe holder
Tucked into Remodelista’s recent Knife Rack Roundup was this image: knife rack as impromptu message board, holding a recipe or list, or billet-doux (a love letter). Great!
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morning jump start!
This is the model of joy and energy we’re aspiring to today….. (Slim and Slam Allstars, featuring Whitey’s Lindy Hoppers…from “Hellzapoppin” (1941) )Video link here.
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