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cheap, chic, useful: anthropologie’s ephemera clip

A satisfying find from the recently-redesigned Remodelista: Anthropologie’s Ephemera Clip. Made of distressed iron (wonder if it will rust…then it might get REALLY beautiful), with a hole in one handle so you can hang it, it is like a little sculpture…Endlessly useful for clipping together receipts, papers, closing food bags… Related posts: holiday gifts: cheap…

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cool, helpful wallpaper for your computer or ipad

Art Director Gustavo Vieira has created a an Is Life Good tumblr where you can download this sign in different resolutions customized for your computer, tablet or phone, to use as wallpaper FREE… …A great, simple to-the-point question/answer/reminder. via Swiss-Miss Related posts: ‘replace fear of the unknown with curiosity’ gandhi: ‘our beliefs become our…destiny‘ ‘what’s not…

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on the rightness of being wrong via TED

After reading yesterday’s post “What is Failure?”, a reader alerted us to the compelling TED talk, “On Being Wrong”  by Katherine Schulz, a”wrongologist”, who studies what it means to make mistakes. Schulz has some interesting ideas about where “feeling right” and “being wrong” intersect; it’s worth listening to whole 10 minute talk to follow the flow.…

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elizabeth streb on the necessity of risk-taking

(Video link here.) We’ve long been a fan of Elizabeth Streb, an “action architect” whose wondrous choreography interweaves risk, action, danger, and flow into a thrilling experience;  her dancers interact with swinging concrete blocks and giant wheels where the potential is full-on hurt if they make a mistep; they often run into walls and  fall…

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‘i had cancer’ = social networking with a purpose

(Video link here.) I tend to have mixed feelings about the growing number of options for social networking. I’ve definitely noticed my own reliance on social networks making me a little more self-indulgent and a little less personal in my communications with friends. But the power of social networking sites to create communities for people…

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‘what every girl/person needs’ via miranda july

We’ve loved Miranda July’s work for a long time because her work always directly addressed the INSIDE of our heads, all those crazy voices and opinions and questions that take up so much space, and are really NOT who we are. Suddenly she’s become pretty famous because of the Future, her recent film that is getting…

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“don’t give up!” (the inspirational letters project)

The Animators Letter Project was started by Willie Downs, an animation student who, just a year ago, was an aspiring animator pursuing a career he knew wasn’t right for him. Petrified of the risk he would be taking in dropping out of an expensive and presumably more reliable degree program to attend animation school, Downs wrote…

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sighting: shelves made of stacked books (books as bricks)

BoingBoing recently posted a compelling video (below or link here) of a toupeed fellow named Augustus Gladstone giving a tour of the room he lives in in an abandoned hotel, in some unnamed city. Gladstone’s apartment is an eccentric, strangely homey place decorated with what appears to be mostly found stuff and collections of bric-a-brac. There’s some…

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survey superstars: THANKS and one last call

We cannot THANK YOU enough for participating in the survey we posted last week. Not only has the information been extremely helpful in planning for the future of the site, but we were completely blown away by the sheer force of kindness and inspiration in your comments. For those of you who missed it, the…

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