Another thing added to my painfully long online shopping dream list - these lovely Rainy Days porcelain vases with handcut graphic transfers by Meyer-Lavigne. I could picture these being very striking on a fireplace mantelpiece.
If you are not already listening to the WNYC Radio Lab podcast, you should be. Their podcasts have shown me what radio really can do as a medium - create audio landscapes, spark vivid visual imaginings, clearly explain difficult concepts and open your mind to new perspectives. Episodes are on a wide range of complex [...]
Car Crash Studies is “a thought provoking photographic study of life’s fragility” by Nicolai Howalt playing with that interesting intersection between the horrible and the beautiful, the abstract and the real. Love it.
(via today and tomorrow)
Trying my hand at more freelance blogging by becoming a contributor at Vegdaily and now the local Ottawa event blog Apartment 613 that writes about great, less-well-known events in this often underestimated Canadian capital.
My first post is about the new weekly Practical Pastry classes by Morsel Foods. Weekly dessert classes that are vegan, fair-trade and [...]
Very clever idea - a handmade checker set by Etsy user Goosegrease pitting pirates against ninjas. (via the Awesomer)
I really want to buy this print, but I’m hoping that blogging about it will be enough indulgence to satisfy this desire. Still have lots of prints that remain unframed in my art box, because framing is expensive while prints are tantalizingly affordable … print collecting is an unfortunate addiction that way.
Untitled (Let’s Get Lost) [...]
Unconventional oil paintings are so fascinating, especially when they mix realism with the fantastic, and Brian Cooper’s work is no exception. I think I could get lost in these paintings.
Stuck in the Finite, Longing for the Infinite
2009, oil on panel, 8″ by 10″
The Romance of Space and Time
2008, oil on canvas, 48″ by 36″
Iconic illustrations created by Tyler Lang at Always with Honor as part of a series called Glory of Vermont. Lovely, emblematic, and like how they are captured in motion.
(via FFFFOUND! and my sister’s Google Reader shared feed)
The challenge: read David Foster Wallace’s highly-praised novel Infinite Jest during the summer of 2009 from roughly June 21st to September 22nd, at about 75 pages a week.
Since I’ve had this book sitting on my reading pile for a while now, I have decided to accept this challenge and follow along at the very interesting [...]
Maybe you have heard about the new animated comedy featured on ABC in the US about a family of ‘do-gooders’ - vegans and environmentalists who live in a solar-powered, rain-water collecting home with their (evidently starved) vegan dog and adopted son. Here’s one of the promos:
Joshua Catcher of the Discerning Brute had some strong [...]
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