fun stuff

Mallomar, the Seasonal, Interactive, Pop Culture Cookie

Available only in winter months when it’s real chocolate coating won’t melt, Mallomars are a deeply satisfying seasonal cookie that inspires very personal improvisation…(and has MANY cultural references to boot).

Because Something is Invisible Doesn’t Make It Any Less Fun

We got a big smile on our face when we saw this surprising, very magical little video. It is charming, and, as Swissmiss put it so perfectly: HAPPINESS.

Perspective: Politics 75 Years Ago, via The New Yorker

Things seem so dire politically, that we jumped on to the New Yorker’s cartoon bank to see if we could find something that would lighten things up a bit.

Practice ‘How to Be an Explorer of the World’ by Traveling into Ancient Paintings

This charming 3-minute animated journey through four ancient Chinese paintings is a lesson in experiencing art and life; it called to mind Kerri Smith’s How to Be an Explorer of the World….

How a Cheap Wig and Selfies Revealed Another Possible Self

About 2 years ago, I bought a cheap, silvery wig on Amazon for $13. It would prove to be a might catalyst for change…

‘The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore’ A Short Animated Film about The Healing Power of Books

We took out 15 minutes to watch the wonderful short animated film The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore and found oursevles charmed and refreshed.

yayoi kusama does halloween: ‘the spirit of the pumpkins descend into the heavens’

For Halloween, we’re loving pumpkins transformed by Yayoi Kusama’s unique vision. She made them wondrous in ways no one had ever imagined and changed the way we see them forever.

Million Dollar Idea: Yayoi Kusama Bandaids (Art Medicine)

When I first saw the image of a Yayoi Kusama skateboard, I thought: How swell: Yayoi Kusama BANDAIDS, an idea made even more meaningful by Kusama’s practice of art medicine.

Sardinian Women Show How to Wash Dishes with Passion and Joy

Our friend Peggy Markle took this remarkable little video of women in a church rectory’s kitchen in Sardinia washing dishes as one sang loudly in dialect, refusing to be shushed…The BEST way we’ve seen to transform an ordinary household task.

Annals of Personal Ritual: Self Portrait in Wedding Clothes Taken Every Anniversary

Fran Black enjoys creating very personal rituals in order to collect memories in ways that feel meaningful, like this unique yearly celebration of her long marriage…

How Hermeto Pascoal Turned a Lagoon into a Musical Instrument

On a hot day, we can think of nothing more inspiring and refreshing than Pascoal’s astonishing Musica de Lagoa, made in a lagoon…inspiration for our own summer music.

Find Your Address As It Was Millions of Years Ago (+ Other Perspective Expanders)

Type in any modern address to see it on earth millions of years ago, for a powerful shift of view. Then read what poet Gary Snyder has to say…

Disillusioned Designer Deconstructs Ordinary Stuff and Tinkers Them Into Tiny, Sublime Animated Films

Tired of designing for consumption, Dina Amin employs her love of taking things apart and tinkering to create tiny videos that are charming and illuminating.

Annals of Found Art: Anonymous Side-by-Side Toilets Rival Duchamp and Cattelan

In a coffee shop restroom, we stumbled on a mind-blowing installation that rivaled Marcel Duchamp’s ground-breaking Fountain.

How to Do Almost Nothing on Memorial Day Weekend

Memorial Day weekend is the real start of summer in our minds. And our minds are full of ideas for simple pleasures and ramblings, whether home or away.

Girl Group from the Far Indian Ocean Drums Water To Make Their Joyful Song

When we want a dose of pure, energizing joy, we watch these women in flower head-dresses hanging out together in hip deep water, using IT as their instrument.

PES’ Gone Fishin’ is 15 Seconds of Quirky Magic

Fifteen amazing seconds from Oscar-nominated stop motion animator PES is full of strange brilliance as is the poem we found to go with it.

We Paraglide Weightless Through the Floating World

“Something opens our wings”, wrote Rumi, the perfect words for this lovely video that took us soaring with joy through the Azores, France, Brazil…weightless

The Rocks I Use Around My Home are Really Ancient Artifacts

Seth Boyden’s charming video, An Object at Rest, has changed the way I view the nearly two dozen rocks and stones I use around my space.

Love is Telepathic

Walking along the Lower East Side of Manhattan, we looked down and found this amazing message pasted onto the curb…

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