constraints

Using Limitations As If They Were a Tool For Your Benefit

In this unique view of constraints, not having enough —money, help, whatever— can be a good thing…

Sally Mann on ‘Relishing the Limitations of the Ordinary’

Hold Still, A Memoir with Photographs, by legendary photographer Sally Mann reads like an epic novel shot through with photographs and remarkable insights about the creative process, and embracing the “limitations of the ordinary”.

Maud Lewis’ Expansive Gaze

Maud Lewis, who by most measures had everything against her — being crippled by severe rheumatoid arthritis, no means of support and losing her parents at an early age — had what was essential: extraordinary resourcefulness and the soul of an artist. Her house tells — and a new film – tell the story.

The Challenge and Wonder of Boxhood (Emil Ferris)

Emil Ferris, creator of the breakout graphic novel, My Favorite Thing is Monsters, writes eloquently about the misunderstood notion of thinking outside the box. She knows what she’s talking about; she’s navigated extraordinary challenges with aplomb.

Our Wild Carvel Cake Time-Lapse Adventure

A video posted by @signlaboratory on Jan 22, 2016 at 10:59am PST A lot of wild things go on in the Laboratory as we play with materials and hatch plots, then follow the trails of ideas that are defined by unexpected constraints and glitches. Witness our groovy, strange 15-second instagram time-lapse video that started with…

momofuku’s david chang improvises with space food

If you like, skip the stilted, overlong 2:22 minute set-up of this video about the food International Space Station astronauts eat…Jump right to 2:23 and Momofuku chef David Chang improvising with pouches of freeze dried shrimp, asaparagus and cheese grits (among other things) in an attempt to jazz up the fare for astronaut Chris Hadfield. It…