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Weekend Playlist: All of Leonard Cohen’s Music in Chronological Order

If there ever was a writer whose songs spoke gently to the hidden dark and broken parts of ourselves, it is Leonard Cohen. Spend the weekend streaming his music/poetry via a complete chronological playlist.

Little Inventors Take the Power of Imagination Seriously and See Where It Leads

Designer/imagineer Dominic Wilcox applies a unique philosophy to encourage kid’s to invent things. Grownups can use it to spark their creativity.

Listening to Scents, Falling Asleep to Their Descriptions, Laughing

Deciphering the fragrance notes in the perfume samples I order from Twisted Lily is akin to listening with every sense. It is incredibly fun, as is reading their dreamy descriptions, and the New Yorker’s brilliant riff.

Apparel for Living: Roz Chast’s Survivalist Cargo Pajamas

We totally relate to this perfect Roz Chast cartoon in this week’s New Yorker.

Annals of Bad Design: Fitting Room Mirror Stenciled with Busy Signage

How nice to have a sign in a fitting room that says: If you don’t find what you are looking for, we can order it online. UNLESS that sign is printed in bold right in the center of the mirror you’re trying to see yourself in.. That is what I found at Zara, a store…

James Broughton on Nowness, Laying Yourself Open and the Benefits of Twirling

This hunk of perfection from James Broughton (whose nick name was Big Joy) brings us right into NOW every time we read it.

Tape in the Hands of Artists Like You Make for Sublime and Unpredictable Outcomes

Eric Timothy Carlson’s abstract tape painting reminds us a) how great ordinary tape is for making stuff, including a la minute artworks b) you don’t need to get crazy about it. It can be a fun, chill few moments of exploration that you rip off the wall when you’re tired of it. Perfect for the weekend.

Let Miss Eaves, Walt Whitman and the Venus of Willendorf Help Liberate Your Summer Bod

Who doesn’t find a part of their self-image or their mindset locked in a prison of some sort? Let Brooklyn Rapper Miss Eaves, Walt Whitman and the Venus of Willendorf break you out in time for summer.

Mothers Day Special: Moms Rewrite Ivanka’s Clueless Rules

In this video, Mira Keras and four working mothers read from Ivanka Trump’s book Women Who Work: Rewriting the Rules of Success, and share their thoughts on Trump’s strategies for succeeding at work without sacrificing family life and well-being. Mira’s strategy trumps Ivanka’s!

Very Surprising View from the Bottom of a Water Bucket (Emily Dickinson + Randall Jarrell)

The Bucket is one of the sweetest, charming and curiously refreshing videos we’ve seen in ages, and presents a serious shift of view.

A Baby Elephant Shows What To Do When You’re Stuck

We watched this amazing video and thought, yeah, we’ve been there…

The Typewriter Orchestra’s Drum Circle

The Typewriter Orchestra makes music on vintage desktop and portable machines. And suddenly we see typewriters as percussion instrument, in addition to unique tool for tapping the poetic subconscious…

Here’s Your Joy Permit!

As we passed a Police/Fire Emergency alarm on 123rd Street, we noticed an official looking bright yellow form taped to it. We walked by then turned back to read it; something didn’t look quite right. We discovered that it was a sort of makeshift dispenser of…JOY Permits,

Poetry in Motion: James Brown Dancing WITHOUT Music

Out of the blue, we had the idea to TURN THE SOUND OFF on a video of James Brown demonstrating dance moves. It is a revelation.

Tying the Devil: A Turkish Practice for Finding Lost Things

In response to Kathryn Schultz’s very moving ‘When Things Go Missing, Reflections of Two Seasons of Loss’, Yesho described a unique Turkish practice for finding lost things.

Martino Gamper’s Chairs are in Our Head

When we stopped to ponder the legless back and seat of a ubiquitous faux Eames polycarbomate chair we found on the street, we suddenly realized the influence designer Martino Gamper had on our thinking, whose clever 100 Chairs in 100 Days inspire completely novel iterations.

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