Photo © David Farrell I was only five years old when John Lennon was murdered. I don’t know where I was or what I was doing when it happened (it was late…
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“I’m a little taken aback by anyone calling himself an artist because of my feeling that that’s the kind of designation that other people should give. You can be an artist in…
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Urban installation by Mehmet Ali Uysal // Chaudfontaine Park, Belgium In case you missed them, here are my favorite tweets from this past week. Enjoy! + This installation piece in an urban…
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When I was in art school, I had a great professor, Bill Deere, who encouraged me to take notice of “environmental typography”—everyday type on the street, whether good or bad. Salon windows,…
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When we bought our house in the wintry beginnings of 2006, the very first thing we did (well, after paying someone to take away all the junk that was behind by the…
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I decided to stain the fruit crates black. At first I thought I’d want to leave the wood bare or oil it, but after giving them a good cleaning and sanding, it…
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The vegan pecan pie I made for Thanksgiving was completely delicious. The recipe is definitely a keeper. Remember that overly-ambitious to-do list I drew up a couple of weeks ago? Yeah, well,…
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The holiday season in New York City can get a little nuts. Despite being a secular Christmas-celebrating atheist half-Jew (or perhaps because of it), I do my best to succumb to the…
