The past two weeks on vacation yielded many wonders: an anonymous heart forged of pebbles and the incredible Fairy Sanctuary made of bits of this and that, below, both stumbled upon while wandering beautiful Omega Institute in upstate New York (Who MADE them, we wondered?). But MOST astonishing was this message we received via text message: It…
Read MoreSourcing USABLE Home Ideas in a Museum
On a recent trip to Pittsburgh, I stopped at the Carnegie Museum of Art to wait for a friend who worked there. In my short rambling, I saw some wonderful works ‘in person’ that I’d previously only seen online, including On Kawara’s date paintings. Reading the little info cards alongside the works often gave me…
Read MoreFAB, Curiously-Addictive Miniature Food Videos
(Video link here.) The Japanese YouTube channel Miniature Space has married the satisfying addictiveness of food shows with doll-house fantasy-thinking into strangely mesmerizing videos that we can’t seem to get enough of. Miniature Space prepares real food in teeny cookware. Some videos focus on assembly, like a layer cake and a sushi plate. Others require actual cooking (over a tealight),…
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