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Kraft Paper Dispensers That Let Your Write On the Walls, and Elsewhere
George & Willy / Etsy Kraft paper is so wildly useful that if I had the room in my city apartment, I’d keep a roll on a wall to have easy access when the mood/need hits.
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Visit Alexander Calder’s Alive, Colorful Homes via Pedro Guerrero
© Pedro E. Guerrero Archives If the usual interior porn leaves you cold, I recommend spending time at photographer Pedro Guerrero’s website to roam through his photographs of Alexander Calder’s very...
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Crazy Beautiful Joy Dance via Issey Miyake PFW20
We’ve watched this little video on instagram many times now, vicariously soaking up its unexpectedly BIG expression of joy AND its insight into the most common of personal catalysts…
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Sublimely Analog Chalkboard Drawings of Mathematicians, Rudolf Steiner,...
Jessica Wynne “This is what thought looks like” begins Dennis Overbye’s article about Jessica Wynne’s remarkable photographs of mathematician’s blackboards, that reminded us of Steiner and Cy Twombly…
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Annals of Bad Design: Giant Wardrobe in a Small Room, With a Fix
Bethany Nauert and Lauren Moore Many of the design suggestions in Remodelista’s “Expert Advice…for Creating the Illusion of Space” are indeed effective. Not this one. So we figured out some solutions…
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Lessons in Slowing Down (Pico Iyer, Vija Celmins, W.S. Merwin…)
@mindpollutants The past week or so, the same message arrived through a variety of sources: in an email sent by a friend, a poem stumbled on on instagram, a notice of a museum exhibition…
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Wendell Berry on The Real Work We Do
NeoMeesje CC BY-SA 4.0 We know quite a few people who are making major life changes these days, living with the question of what to do next, waiting for the path to become clear. What’s the mindset to...
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Inspiring, Do-able Interior Design Ideas from Paola Navone
Whenever we look at designer Paola Navone’s homes, we come away with a zillion ideas that we could actually do, without a ton of dough. Here are our favorite steal-able ideas.
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Lee Krasner on How to Build Joy, Discovery and the Unexpected into Work and Life
Barbian Centre Artsy’s Alexxa Gotthardt combed through interviews with legendary abstract expressionist artist Lee Krasner for her insights into “how to be an artist”, with three essential lessons.
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Improvised Life’s Sea Change
tc.pbs.org Dear Improvised Life readers, Improvised Life is experiencing dire technical issues and has crashed several times. Hence, no new content, or at times, even a website to visit. The site is...
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Patti Smith: “The Secret to Improvisation I Have Accessed My Whole Life”
amazon.com As we work to move Improvised Life to a new form, we came across this passage from Just Kids, Patti Smith’s memoir of finding her artistic voice: the secret of improvisation she learned...
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Gordon Hempton: Silence is the Presence of Everything
This lovely immersive video follows acoustic ecologist Gordon Hempton to one of the quietest places on earth. It draws our awareness to just what it is we’re hearing, or not, and the unique,...
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House Tour: Massimo Vitali’s Chill “Natural Habitat” in a 14th Century Church
Barbara Anastacio / Nowness With its practical, ordinary fridge and quirky design decisions, photographer Massimo Vitali’s home in an ancient church reflects his easy-going and thoughtful sensibility.
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For those of you who missed the recent post Improvised Life’s Sea Change, Improvised Life and I have been going through major upheaval: dire technical issues, crashes, and the need to rethink,...
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