Things seem so dire politically, that we jumped on to the New Yorker’s cartoon bank to see if we could find something that would lighten things up a bit.
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Saul Steinberg: How to Find Something New
We’ve found A LOT of great stuff in Sandra Davidson’s book The Calder Family and Other Critters, Portraits and Reflections, about the many interesting people who surrounded her famous father Alexander Calder and the family. This lesson she learned from the great Saul Steinberg is WAY more than about making a portrait.
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The New Yorker’s Cartoon Instagram is a Big Relief
We love instagram (especially our own SignLaboratory) but also get tired of….er….photographs. So the New Yorker’s cartoon-a-gram has come as something of a relief; we love having a cartoon fly into our day at random. We’ve found that a number curiously echo Improvised Life’s themes and messages…
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Why The Glass is Always Totally Full
In response to A New View of Losing Years of Work, a reader named Ann sent us this perfect cartoon and commentary: I’m not sure this link* will take you to the place I intend. I want to link you to the cartoon that shows a man tied to a chair while masked men steal…
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