mystery tree structure contest winner!!!! (+ 25 great notions)

Our minds are boggled by the twenty-five wondrously imaginative entrees we got for our Mystery Tree Contest…“prototyping to the sky”…”a fitting room for very chic lumberjacks” …”infrastructure articulated”…YIKES! We were so hard-pressed to pick a winner, we ran it through random.org. The winning entry contains some interesting philosophical underpinnings (totally in line with ‘the improvised…

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contest reminder: name the mystery tree and win a prize

Don’t forget to enter our Mystery Tree Contest. Just tell us what you think it is in the Comments section below for a chance to win a signed copy of Sally’s award-winning cookbook The Improvisational Cook. To check out the wonderfully imaginative entries that have come in so far, scroll down to the bottom of the…

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sagan’s mixtape of the human experience – for aliens

In 1977, as NASA was preparing to launch two spacecraft as part of the the Voyager Interstellar Mission, they enlisted astronomer/astrophysicist Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan, the creative director of the project, to create a golden record that would be sent into space on the spacecraft. It was to be the ultimate mixtape of the human…

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guerilla florist bella meyer: “flowers as natural art supplies”

Marc Chagall‘s grand daughter Bella Meyer got a Doctorate in medieval art history from the Sorbonne and has held a variety of jobs – designing props for the theater, working as a puppeteer – before stumbling on her true calling: floral design. After friends asked her to design a blossom-laden chuppah for their wedding, Meyer,…

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bumper crop on the nyc taxi farm

Two summers ago we profiled an intrepid group of New York City car service drivers who planted three little farms on abandoned pieces of land right in the heart of the Bronx. They harvested abundantly and each of their wives took turns cooking weekly feasts for the assembled breadwinners (and cornwinners and beanwinners). We followed…

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