We are not alone in feeling that things have never been so bad, that the world is in seriously dire straits. Psychologist Steven Pinker offers some clarifying strategies that shift our view.
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Pink Balloons: The New Mood Therapy (+ Party Installation)
Want to change your mindset and/or your space? Or devise a SERIOUS JOYFUL installation for a party? Create a floating sea of pink balloons, as Margaux Rodot, Mickaël Martin & Benoit Tastet did at the recent Lively Architecture Festival in Montpellier, France. They filled the courtyard of the Hotel de Griffy with balloons in varying shades of pink…
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Pink Inspiration, Erotic and Otherwise
At the ever-inspiring Aqqindex the other day, I came across this sublime pink sleeping nook in Tunisia and thought WANT! I know the influence of pink because of the pink wall in my bedroom: in the three years I’ve slept there, I’ve not grown tired of the hopeful, serene-yet-jazzy vibe it sends me. Then I found…
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Klee’s Pink Spring in Deep Winter
(Video link here.) A camera mounted to an umbrella captures the experience of walking down the snow-covered streets of New York City in winter in this short video from the New York Times. We saw it not long after we heard a mother reassuring her little girl, as they walked through the frigid, still-snowy park across the way, that…
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Tiny Pink Cupcake ATM is Brilliant Lateral Thinking
This little pink ATM in NYC is restocked with yummy cupcakes every night offering 24/7 access to cupcakes. We love the application of the essential idea of an “ATM” to something completely unexpected: cupcakes instead of cash. Why not?
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Powerful Pink Transforms a Vintage Loft via Betsy Johnson
All the elements of a classic, unrenovated loft are here: tin ceiling, pipes and sprinklers snaking across the ceiling and down a wall, big old iron radiators, electrical boxes showing, a door that had been painted a million times… Fashion Designer Betsy Johnson totally transformed it by painting walls and ceiling a daring LOUD pink.…
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Dirty Pink Obsession: Arquitectonica’s Casa Andes
We’d love to come upon a dirty pink building like this in our urban wanderings. It’s Arquitectonica’s Casa Los Andes, built in Lima, Peru in 1984… …and dig its very odd, beautiful windows, fab-looking from the outside…
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Dirty Pink Obsession: Even Donald Judd Loved It
It seems that even Artist Donald Judd liked muted, “dirty” pink walls, the focus of our ongoing obsession. Here’s one of the rooms in the Cobb House that he renovated in Marfa, Texas, the vast army base he bought and transformed in the 1990’s.
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Is Dirty Green the New Dirty Pink?
While browsing Elle Decoration’s cool new online image gallery, we noticed a lot of green interiors — slightly “dirty”, muted greens that is. It made us wonder if odd greens are the new “dirty pinks” we’ve been crazy about and monitoring…
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Variation on a Theme: Dirty Pink Walls #3
There’s been a good amount of interest in “Dirty” pink walls since we posted about our own some time ago. (“Dirty” pink, as opposed to the more expected bright pinks.) Here’s a new addition to our digital file of this curious theme.
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More Fab Dirty Pink Walls: Kitchen in the Veneto
Maria Robledo, who advised us to paint a bedroom wall “dirty pink”, sent us a great example of the subtle, muted, every changing hue of pink.
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the pleasures of ‘dirty pink’ in home decor
“Paint one wall in your bedroom pink”, Maria Robledo advised during the course of the Laboratory’s renovation. My generous friend with a brilliant eye for color had become my ad hoc paint color advisor. “But have it be a dirty pink, and paint it glossy” she went on, “not a bright loud pink.” Then she helped me pick…
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what a pink outdoor wall can do
Spotted at Still + Company’s website: a fab pink wall outdoors. Wonder where it is? We’re told it’s Luis Barrigan’s. We didn’t recognize it, though we’ve written about him, smitten, in the past. Check out Our Lesson in Pink.
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moment of ocean and pink sky gif
The forecast for today: a wondrous pink sky and an ocean full of ideas… via 40licks Related posts: an evening gif: gratitude… practice makes! what have you been making today? peep show gif: funny, risqué, slightly x-rated color/pattern meditation break gif-inspiration: devise, invent, create…try something new
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color inspiration: pink, acid yellow + a blue geometry
We always have our eyes for ideas we could use at home, office, spaces we need to support us and lift our spirits. The right color can do that. Since we’re not being entirely comfortable picking colors on our own, we look to ways other people have done it for inspiration and guidance. First we…
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painted miracle: pink-washed plywood
We are completely smitten with the pink-washed walls in this photo from the Milan Furniture Fair. It looks like plywood to us (or we imagine it as that) color-washed with an incredible shade of pink…(though it may also be a surface unevenly painted in close shades of flat pink paint) It made us start thinking…
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one chair or table leg painted (pink!)
We’ve written about painting chair and table legs, and we’ve written about pink but we’ve never considered putting the two ideas together…until we came across this image of just one leg of a chair painted pink. It’s a lovely visual surprise that makes an old chair looks like it’s dressed to-the-nines. Although in reality, every…
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pink’s existential dilemma
We were completely smitten with this wondrous PINK staircase, wondering how we’d feel if we had it to walk down/up everyday, when we came across a video by Minute Physics explaining why pink doesn’t really exist.
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paint your shelf edges….pink!
Painting the edge of a shelf an unexpected color is such a simple way to put some surprise into a closet…it reminds us of the orange painted door edges and hinges we featured a while back. (We’re thinking that edging the shelf with a beautiful tape would do too.) It’s easy to do, and give a big…
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our lesson in pink (paint)
We never would imagined how beautiful and NON-kids room pink walls could be until we saw pictures of a house designed by the great Mexican architect Luis Barrigan in 1947. Pink upon pink balanced by yellow, wood, dark floors…. expanded our view of a color we’d inadvertently made short shrift of… With thanks to the…
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