The other day Reference Library posted an image from the Flickr archive of a brilliant junk collector and “seer” of things. It was of the UNDERSIDE of an old light bulb package: the red-striped ends of its six sides folded into an elegant overlapping “star” like some beautiful Japanese Packaging. The only editorial comment was…
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A few years ago, I clipped this image from Reference Library, the always-surprising visual blog that rarely gives explanations. It said simply: “Michelangelo Pistoletto Struttura per parlare in piedi (Oggetti in meno) 1965-66 This is just about my most favorite thing.” In English, Pistoletto‘s artwork is called “Structure for Talking Standing Up”, part of a series he…
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Really big bags are essential for all sorts of projects, like hauling food home from the farmers market, or a brick or two or a piece of pipe from a construction site, or [rocks] from out of town. I’ve had a variety of bags over the years, some which are still with me, though pretty…
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