Instead of a mirror over the sink, this bathroom has a framed charcoal portrait. We wondered what it would be like to see an artwork and not dive right into our own image, as we all do first thing in the morning? So we tried it and found it to be a surprisingly potent guerrilla action…
Read MoreBuild A One-Page Beautiful Website for Yourself or Your Project or…Anything, Fast
If you are daunted by the prospect of creating a website for yourself or a project, check out Carrd, a free platform for building simple, stylish responsive one-page sites, fast.
Read MoreGive it up. Go bare. Go free. Accept Your Shelf Life As Given (Guest Post)
Nobel Prize winner Dr. Jim Allison’s headshot filling the back cover of a recent New Yorker got me thinking. Would that photo fly as a full-page ad if Dr. Jim were a woman?
Read MoreJohn Ashbery’s Internal Tailoring
Before he died poet John Ashbery compared his work to tailoring, and told why a poem, like clothing, needs to be “slightly off”.
Read More‘I Am More Than_______’ Illuminates the Richness of Our Identities
If someone asked you to finish the statement “I AM MORE THAN_______”, what would you write? What is the identity or cliche that you feel limits you? How are you MORE than that? That is the question that Pamela Hovland asks in a startling exhibition at the Westport Arts Center.
Read MoreJenner: on ‘Dealing with Yourself’ and ‘Doing This to Live.’
Along with the rest of the world, I’ve been watching the transformation of Olympic gold medal decathlon winner Bruce Jenner into ultra-femme Caitlyn Jenner, culminating in Annie Leibovitz’s Vanity Fair cover portrait. Having worked with Leibovitz years ago I know that, beyond the 10-hours of facial-feminization surgery, Caitlyn has been styled to-the-hilt by makeup, hair and…
Read Moreidentity crisis: 5-years of one man’s “looks” + our own
This stop-action video tracking 5 years of one man’s appearance makes us wonder how much how we look, and what our style is, affects our experience and identity…And the many choices we can make about our appearance.
Read Morechristopher rehage’s time machine
The Longest Way by Christoph Rehage Every day for a year, as Christopher Rehage walked across China, he made a picture or video of himself, documenting his hair growth along the way. Day One shows him clean shaven, almost bald; he gradually turns into…a completely other version of himself. When he returned, he made this…
Read Morerethinking business cards
Shouldn’t a business card reflect/echo/transmit a sense of the business or person it’s representing? If you’re in thinking of (re)designing your card, check out the outside-the-box business card that [Re]Encoded.com compiled. They are FUN and make your expectations shift instantly.
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