music for monday: bobby mcferrin improvises with richard bono

In 2003, Bobby McFerrin and Richard Bona did this ten-minute improvisation at the Montreal Jazz Festival. McFerrin is known for using his fluid voice and body as instrument, making many levels of sound and beat simultaneously. Bona is a Cameroon-born guitarist and musician. At the beginning, you can see and hear the two musicians feeling…

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improvised street kitchens + utensils

In an email yesterday morning, a reader mentioned that her experiences living in developing countries led her to develop an approach similar to ‘the improvised life’s. We asked where she had lived and what that approach was and were knocked out by her answer: “I lived in Vietnam for four years and Bolivia for three…

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ps: kitchen cabinets (cheap + unique)

Andrea Raisfeld whose location rental website is full of inspiring photos, alerted us to the kitchen of “one of my cleverest homeowners, Harley Swedler, an architect, interior designer, designer, blogger…” It follows the train of thinking started in Pascal Anson on (Cheap) Kitchen Cabinets – making unique configurations of base cabinets and then figuring out…

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moon games

One of those anonymous chain emails arrived in our Inbox today, with a subject  line that read “Playing With the Moon”. It’s a series of photo illusions that someone went to great pains to create. It LOOKS LIKE real – not Photoshopped – photos that they made with their kids, out on some beachy dune…

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cool sofa disguise ( + twitter test)

Yikes! have we had a glitch sending ‘the improv life’ via Twitter. So this is a test to see if we’ve finally got it figured out… …we’re sending along a teeny post: a very simple cool way to disguise a sofa with panels of fabric, to take the focus off the original homely cover without…

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