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.
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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 MoreFor 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 MoreWhen 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 MoreOur 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 MoreFran 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 MoreOn 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 MoreType 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 MoreTired 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 MoreIn a coffee shop restroom, we stumbled on a mind-blowing installation that rivaled Marcel Duchamp’s ground-breaking Fountain.
Read MoreMemorial 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 MoreWhen 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 MoreFifteen 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 More“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 MoreSeth 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 MoreWalking along the Lower East Side of Manhattan, we looked down and found this amazing message pasted onto the curb…
Read MoreAnimator 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 MoreWe 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 MoreThis New Yorker cartoon nailed in in the most surprising way. It completely changed our view.
Read MoreLiana 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 MoreWhen 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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