We’ve been looking for an excuse to post Koko’s Earth Control, a beautiful, dark 1928 cartoon by Max & Dave Fleischer about the end of the world, since we stumbled on it right after the recent apocalypse predicted by millionaire evangelist Harold Camping didn’t happen. We figured it was a moot point. But according to Yahoo…
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We always admire people who fearlessly take things apart on the way to REconfiguring them in a new way. So we love the antique table Faye from You are the River hacked, to give it a rustic/modern look; she salvaged rough-hewn top and added moderne legs. “I picked up a super funky table on Craigslist for…
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When she was two years old, Aelita Andre, now four, created paintings so sophisticated and beautiful, they fooled an art dealer, who thought they’d been done by an adult and wanted to represent her. Since then, Andre has gained worldwide fame, and her own website and dealer. Seeing her gallery of paintings makes us think…
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We found this on Roy Arden’s great blog Under the Sun, and have no idea what it is. So we thought we’d make it into a contest. Tell us what you think this Mystery Tree Structure is in the Comments box below. Fiction and fantasy are fine. The best one gets a prize: a signed…
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We are completely smitten with Variations on Normal, Dominic Wilcox’s blog about his inventions and simple,”out there” solutions to everyday needs and wants. Wilcox is a self-described “artist, designer, inventor and ‘thinkeruper’ who works within the territory of the ‘everyday’.” That’s our favorite territory. Each of Wilcox’s concepts and inventions is annotated. To make his room…
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