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.
Read Moreyayoi 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.
Read MoreMillion 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.
Read MoreSardinian Women Show How to Wash Dishes with Passion and Joy
Our friend Peggy Markel 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.
Read MoreAnnals 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…
Read MoreHow 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.
Read MoreFind 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…
Read MoreDisillusioned 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.
Read MoreAnnals 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.
Read MoreHow 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.
Read MoreGirl 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.
Read MorePES’ 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.
Read MoreWe 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
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreLove is Telepathic
Walking along the Lower East Side of Manhattan, we looked down and found this amazing message pasted onto the curb…
Read More24 Sublime Dancing Goddess Gifs Share Their Joy
Animator Nina Paley created two dozen sublime early goddess GIFs, including a sassy Venus of Willendorf. We don’t know when we’ve seen so much forthright joy.
Read MoreCandide Thovex Skis Everything But Snow (With Zen View)
We didn’t know that skiing without snow is possible until we saw Candide Thovex traverse the globe in this magical, thrilling, uplifting two minutes, with unexpected lessons in Zen.
Read MoreAlt Universe We Want to Inhabit
This New Yorker cartoon nailed in in the most surprising way. It completely changed our view.
Read MoreLiana Finck Makes Beautiful Interiors Out of Cast-Off Furniture
Liana Finck has x-ray vision, or perhaps better put, x-ray imagination. She photographs cast-off furniture and overlays her completely other vision of what they might be, providing them with a kind of redemption.
Read MoreWake UP with Jumpin Jive + the Nicholas Brothers ‘Pure Genius’ Dance
When we saw the great Cab Calloway singing Jumpin Jive, we had to check out the wild lyrics. We were doubly knocked out by the dance routine that went with it.
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