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Blockprinting with The School
I stumbled upon these great blockprinting photographs via Line x Shape x Color this morning and thought I'd share. We're well over the drudgery of winter, but who doesn't love a go...
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When you mix creativity with education, you get SLÖJD.
April 18, 2013 -
The Art of Art Collecting: Christy Tennant Krispin and Art Patronage
April 12, 2013 -
Tinker, Tamper, Strings and Dampers: the Prepared Pianos of HAUSCHKA and John Cage
April 11, 2013 -
Photographic Taxidermy by Andrew Zuckerman
April 04, 2013 -
When Legos and Robots Sync
March 28, 2013 -
Handselecta's Flip the Script
March 21, 2013 -
Risa Hirai's Cookie Canvases
March 14, 2013
The Seven Deadly Sins of the Academy
From the Times Higher Education: The Seven Deadly Sins of the Academy. When the historian David Starkey left the University of Cambridge in 1972, he told an interviewer that he "knew exactly how an ingrowing toenail felt". There was something deeply dispiriting, he said, about "the sense of introversion, of knowing everyone". The inward-looking, incestuous atmosphere of university life has long made it a breeding...
Looking In at the Americans
Looking In: Robert Frank's The Americans is recently opened at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. We ran an article by Laura Bramon Good on the exhibit when it was at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. You can read the article here....
The Hunt for the Real Autumn
Photo: pdbreen Each year around this time, without fail, New York City is abuzz with the residents' autumnal alacrity, having had had quite enough of the sweaty summer season. Enthusiastic praise is given first to the colors, then to the smells, eventually the tastes, and finally to the sensation of a crisp breeze wafting through city streets. With warm smiles anticipating the romance of a fairy tale, friends look a...
Best things to eat, ever
From The Observer: The 50 best things to eat in the world, and where to eat them. From cake, steak and tapas, to oysters, chicken and burgers, Killian Fox roamed the world to find the 50 best things to eat and the best places to eat them in, with a little help from professionals like Raymond Blanc, Michel Roux, Ruth Rogers and Rose Gray....
Facts, Errors, and the Kindle
From More Intelligent Life: Facts, Errors, and the Kindle. Nietzsche famously said that there are no such things as facts, only interpretations. Be that as it may, every writer knows that there are certainly such things as factual mistakes. Errors are common in all forms of media, but it is mistakes in the printed word that are perhaps the most pernicious. Once a "fact" has been pressed onto paper, it becomes a trus...
Zappos: Happy Feet
From the New Yorker: Happy Feet. At its most rarefied, shoe shopping still takes place in hushed, pastel-carpeted salons, with salesmen (they are usually men-one doesn't like to think too closely about why) staggering under stacks of boxes and kneeling down to insure the perfect fit before whisking away the charge plates of their waiting Cinderellas. Some people still consider pawing through the sale racks at Bloomi...
Big Food vs. Big Insurance
From the New York Times: Michael Pollan on Big Food vs. Big Insurance. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, three-quarters of health care spending now goes to treat "preventable chronic diseases." Not all of these diseases are linked to diet - there's smoking, for instance - but many, if not most, of them are. We're spending $147 billion to treat obesity, $116 billion to treat diabetes, an...
Nevermind the Gap
I was 16 when I first visited London for a whirl of a wind, five-hour tour during a Heathrow layover. I remember only snapshots revealed as I emerged from subterranean escalators: Piccadilly's hypnotic lights, Buckingham Palace's wedding cake font, and Big Ben watching over all the bustle like some staid judge. It was big and disjointed and, in my mind, the only thing that held these wondrous bits together was the ...
