(Video link here.) This little video just goes to show that just about ANYTHING can be an art material and a vehicle for expression. We don’t think we’re gonna do this with our morning coffee but love the possibility, the shift of view of what a coffee ring can be (and one degree father ‘out…
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Dig this brilliantly-devised graffiti artists coat, lined with cans of colored spray paint: genius! It is the perfect example of devising/hacking/creating tools for your own unique needs and vision. It reminds us this principle from Bruce Mau’s Incomplete Manifesto for Growth: Make your own tools. Hybridize your tools in order to build unique things. Even…
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We are always on the lookout for moveable room dividers that we can use to define a space in many ways, as mood or need dictates. We are taken with these moveable walls spotted at Desire to Inspire’s recent Studiopepe round-up. They appear to be made of two-by-fours faced with a thin plywood panel, and affixed to…
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Maria Robledo sent us this very wise quote from Oprah whose ‘Fail at it. Try again.’ echoes Samuel Beckett’s great ‘Try again. Fail again. Fail better‘. We especially like Oprah’s spin on it:
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Some of the best and simplest recipes in my repertoire have come from home cooks at whose tables I’ve been lucky enough to be a guest. These dishes invariably teach me more than delicious flavors; I get inside information about how to handle an ingredient, or a novel technique I never thought of. And sometimes,…
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I did not REALLY know how to make a great marinara sauce until Lucia LoPresti taught me how. The key: Lucia’s trick of sauteing the onions in a liberal amount of olive oil, which makes for an mellow, curiously velvety tomato sauce. It is a perfect sauce for pasta and a fine base for many…
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When his guests didn’t show up, Colbert Report’s Stephen Colbert made this fab, full-of-joy, on-the-fly video of a brilliant practice we should all do: Dance to… GET LUCKY!
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Our recent Facebook post about alternative ways to meditate got a lot of hits. Its single line —’Can’t sit still when you meditate?: try turning everyday actions into a practice’ — told us that there are A LOT of people who have trouble sitting and meditating. So we thought we’d elaborate. The solution is an…
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Designer Laura Handler sent this post script to our post on the unexpected possibilities of inflatable furniture: When architect David Mann bought his country house – knowing what a minimalist he is – I bought him INVISIBLE furniture as a house warming gift. Well, it wasn’t entirely invisible as we blew the chairs up at…
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Recently we posted about services that sell wall murals —both readymade and custom of your own photograph or design — to transform a room. The usual approach is to hang one big mural of an image or design on a wall. We’re smitten with this iteration from Milan-based Studiopepe. The image is a graphic black-and-white photograph,…
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Dig this amazing picture of Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards’ hands: the gnarled, expressive hands of a man whose been improvising (and pushing his luck) for most of his life. His perfect two-line philosophy and blessing: It’s good to be here, it’s good to be anywhere. via Wandering But Not Lost
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We must admit to be quite taken with the idea of outdoor inflatable furniture when we saw this stylish “Chesterfield” sofa by Blofeld. Our free-associating brain seemed to leap from inflated inner tubes floating down a river at summer tubing parties to this, with a big Why not? First off, it costs over $1,000. But…
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Remodelista recently published the winner of the Best Reader-Submitted Office Space in their Considered Design Awards. We find the image of the office downright eerie: not a paper in sight, no evidence of…a person, the opposite of photographer Ralph Morse’s perfect capture of Einstein’s desk, where you could practically hear his thoughts. It made us…
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(Video link here.) Jewelry designer, Jill Platner gained fame for her chic, elemental “wearable sculptures” that are at once fluid and seem to mold to your body. (You can buy them at Barney’s, Twist and at her shop on Crosby Street in Soho/ New York City). It seems inevitable that she’d eventually scale up her work…
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Maria Robledo forwarded this image of a wildly-wrapped gift a friend received. Her words: Thought ud like this wrapping! Totally up our alley: newspaper, duct tape, string. Perfect! Related posts: diy stamped gift wrap (from erasers + potatoes) gift: endlessly useful furoshiki cloth…you can even wear it reader improv: ny times illustrated wrapping paper an artwork…
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(Video link here or on YouTube.) We spent part of this weekend poking around Rough Linen, an online store and information resource for fine affordable linen products made by proprietor Tricia Rose. (We are mulling using one of her Summer Covers as a multi-configurable/multi-purpose bed skirt but more on that in another post; we’re still figuring…
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While poking around designer NoahWall’s websites, we stumbled on SHSK’H, an only-online music label specializing in contemporary avant garde music. You can stream albums through the site or download free MP3’s, as well as participate in developing music projects. The site features a very cool, beautiful rotary music player that is worth checking out.
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We first posted furniture designer Roxane Beis‘ work last march after we stumbled on her unique stenciled tree trunk side tables whose splits and cracks were vividly painted red. Only we didn’t know whom to credit. When a reader sent us an email with a link to Beis’s site, we discovered a trove of interesting furniture, like…
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Spotted at Dumb Little Man: 6 Unconventional, But Scientific Ways To Be The Happiest Person On Earth. Many of these six practices are based on neuroscience and other scientific evidence…but then EVERYTHING is these days. We figure, what have we got to lose by trying them out? Visualizing throwing an anxiety or negative thought in a…
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Hungry for color but don’t quite know how to pull it off? Check out this house tour of a seriously colorful modern home from the 60’s. Loud + inspiring! via Design Milk
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