Long-haul flights can seem like a singularly uncreative time for many people. Artist Nina Katchadourian discovered that an airplane’s lavatory provided the art materials necessary to make Lavatory Self-Portraits in the Flemish Style. It is part of her larger piece Seat Assignment, in which she improvises with a camera phone and materials on hand in…
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We found this bit of unexpected brilliance on Rough Linen‘s slideshow of reader’s applications of its lovely linen products. A rustic zinc bucket hung above the table serves as an easy to reach wine cooler: practical, charming, fun. It is the very inspired improvisation of Austalian stylist Kara Rosenlund. We also love the bunch of…
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(Video link here.) The amazing Yoko Ono’s new video embraces being a BAD DANCER, and doing it anyway, WITH NO REGRETS. As she says: When your heart is dancing, your mind is bouncing! Break a leg Cut the thread I’m a bad dancer Full speed ahead! As usual, she undermines accepted wisdom, judgments and inhibition, and…
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El Cosmico, a hippy-ish retreat/hotel with wonderful amenities and a very cool philosophy, offers a variety of simple, unique accommodations — teepees, tents and trailors — that promote sitting on porches, naps and other moments of non-action
Even El Cosmico’s website is both freshing and inspiring. We took a mini virtual vacation.
We were thrilled when Remodelista contacted us about using images we’d posted some time ago of an essential design trick we’d used throughout the Laboratory’s renovation: replacing the squat 6’6″ doors with tall, eight-footers. Their strong vertical lines make our lowish 8’2″ ceilings look higher. Check out our images on Remodelista. In the meantime, here are…
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We felt a little nervous about walking the short block to see New York City marathoners round Marcus Garvey Park, as they entered the last leg to the finish line. The Boston Marathon bombing was still fresh in our minds; we wondered at the possible danger we might be putting ourselves in if we joined…
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(Video link here.) We were knocked out by this short wondrous film by Grace Jackson, about Jack English, a 93-year-old who lives in an isolated cabin deep in the Ventana Wilderness, California. After his wife died, he moved to the land he’d hunted on and “fell in love with” as a boy. He built a small cabin using…
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