Plum and Cherry Tart with Thyme + other fast tart improvs

Ellen Silverman, who LOVES to improvise radically on my recipes, recently posted her iteration of my Improvisational Fresh Fruit Tart Formula on Instagram: a sensational Plum Cherry Tart with Thyme. She said it was a huge HIT at her dinner party. Made with lush summer fruits, freeform fruit tarts are the perfect summer dessert (though you can make it all year round). Here’s the simple formula:

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Laura Handler’s Checkered Duct Tape AC Surround

Designer Laura Handler, whose chic Montana cabin and cool teeny ‘everything’ vial we’ve featured, sent us images her latest brilliance. The Harlem building in which she recently renovated her apartment is having the bricks repointed, which is seriously messy work. To keep dust OUT, Laura first made a barrier of blue painter’s tape around her (very cool)…

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Instant Gratitude Shift via a Powerful Data-Driven Song

(Video link here.) We are haunted by Brian Foo’s strange data-driven song and animated video. It was made by assigning sounds to the movement of refugees fleeing their homelands around the world, from 1975 to 2012, and then animating their paths of flight. Writes Foo: As the song progresses, more instruments are added and the…

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573 Essential Words about Gun Violence (Charlie Allenson + Yoko Ono)

A few years ago, Yoko Ono tweeted a photo of John Lennon’s bloodied glasses. The image, taken not long after his murder — an artist’s way of healing — would become part of a powerful control campaign. Charlie Allenson took his own step toward healing by writing about the murder of his beloved niece in Huffington Post. ‘The Car in the Lot’ is a potent 573 words worth of essential reading.

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Ocean Vuong Thinks You are Perfect

In a recent New Yorker, we found ourselves moved and boggled by the poem Someday I’ll Love Ocean Vuong, as though its language were working on us like a painting or a subtle medicine. We looked up the poet Ocean Vuong. His bio reads: Born in Saigon, Vietnam, he currently resides in New York City. He thinks you’re…

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