Archive | March, 2011

the appalachian trail (2200 miles in 5 mins) + we’re gone!

to-do list tattoo

1 good idea: freeform bent-pipe faucet

reminder: ‘the improvisational cook’ book giveaway

laurie anderson reprise: jerry-rigging

the secret of white painted floors

divine inspiration: design via butterfly

swell rigged kitchen island on sawhorses

stripping things to their essence (le corbusier)

stout + ice cream floats (for grownups)

cool finds + good value, for home

hanging shelf = art + practicality

‘self-confidence produces fine results’ (sagmeister’s banana wall)

noguchi: ceramics, ikibana + space

book giveaway: ‘the improvisational cook’

japan’s dark spring via the new yorker

inspiration journals: walls, books, software…

how to remember anything

spring!

alt flower arrangement: a little vase of herbs

creative process: from simple to intricate (via krazy kat)

climbing

japan: resources, how to help, and hope

formula for cheap, fab, chic dinner parties

simultaneity of saturn and a pottery bowl

flowers akimbo (un-arranged)

on things not going as planned (addendum)

small space inspiration: 24+ rooms in 344 square feet

what to do when things don’t go as planned

led-illuminated shipping pallet bed

history as evidence, inspiration and guide (ww II)

science -> wonder <-art

d-i-y plant watering globes (made beautiful with wine and other bottles)

very expensive “nothing”

weekend nature walk: ant architecture

Grant Achatz’s Self-Made Challenge –> Scaffolding Dreams

life is going on all around, anyway

building -> growing -> alive (in memory of eleanor mailloux)

the fragrant herb salt recipe is fixed

make or buy: fragrant, wildly all-purpose herb salt

hey, today’s mardi gras!

hair as apparel, identity, art (man ray)

inspired electrical cord safety (tapedown with warning)

steven johnson on cultivating good ideas (daily)

today’s sign

vicarious thrill: surfing big by l.e.d + moonlight

makeshift hand splint/sculpture

experience a pour painting LIVE + calder, yves Klein, wegman + more (12 hrs of inspiration)

stylish improvs on ikea

theo jansen’s new forms of life

the beauty of a messed-up wall

roy arden’s blog: james brown’s dance lessons and homemade ferris wheels…

egypt: improvising a revolution

playing, dreaming, improvising

crispina ffrench’s potholder rugs

party favor/catalyst: random pairs of glasses