Neil Gaiman‘s New Year’s Wishes from LAST year are surely some of the best wishes to bestow on those you love at ANY time of year… As wonderful to hear, as to read: May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and…
Read Morebeing ‘a landing strip for ideas’
…excerpted from the blog of Nick Ward, screen writer and tinkerer: One of the questions I get asked the most is ‘where do your ideas come from?’ Usually I simply say: ‘I steal them from other people.’ But the truth is I have no real idea at all. Many years ago I remember hearing a…
Read Morewhat bottle caps can be: el anatsui’s liquid mosaics
Some time ago in the New York Sunday Times Style Magazine, Alexi Worth wrote about El Anatsui, an African artist who uses twist-off bottle caps to make shimmering sculptures that look like liquid mosaics. The story of how El Anatsui discovered his unlikely material for art is compelling. It is a fine example of the…
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