Warning! 10% Battery Left

Over years of working daily at a computer, we’ve come to see how similar it is to our human brain (or vice versa).  Just as computers that have had too many different applications working at one time can get slow and boggy, and benefit from being shut down for a while, so do we humans. We’ve…

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Stripes Modernize a Dark 19C Interior (Martin Creed)

The Martin Creed show at the Park Avenue Armory gave us much to think about plus one great decorating idea. We’d normally find the ornate 1880’s dark wood-paneled grand corridor rather oppressive —unlike the astonishing 55,000 square foot Drill Hall. We found the space curiously modernized by Creed’s inspired black diagonal stripes

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Latex Glove Balloon’s Beyond Our Wildest Imaginings

We found this clever latex glove balloon bobbing around the park across the way, an escapee, we imagined, of some kid’s birthday celebration. We hadn’t realized just how great a toy the ubiquitous gloves could be (especially when we’re waiting around alone in an examining room), so we looked for other iterations. We found one…

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An Unusual Memorial for a Loved One: Hair

Hairstory Studio in downtown Manhattan calls itself “part think-tank, photo studio, art space, and production house…challenging beauty stereotypes through the art of cutting, coloring, and styling hair”. Each month it welcomes a handful of people for fresh cuts, color, and portraits. And to tell their story through their hair. We find Oakley’s to be the most deeply personal and unexpected.

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