Archive | October, 2011

boo!!!!!!!!! happy halloween!!!

paper bag = potent, fast, minimalist halloween costume

modern art gallery as halloween costume

living a portable life via jeroen toirkens ‘nomad’

joy ride: practice makes wondrous perfection

what’s in the innovator’s cookbook?

crepe paper walls, lanterns, plaid…

theo jansen’s ‘life forms’ evolve!

annals of bad design?: sculptural bathtub

a unique approach to living (+ dying)

role model? the inimitable frida kahlo completely self-possessed

brick lust (where are cool bricks hiding?)

portable milk crate farm (d-i-y), for roof, terrace, lot

johnny swing’s welded coin chair

4-step algorithm for change

wearing clothes backwards

alexander calder’s breakthrough year

dept of mindshifts: pencilhead ‘right here, right now’

cool low shelf…bench…table…altar…

invent to thrive: plastic bottles of daylight

holton rower-inspired artwork screensaver

finnish country house tour: bovik farm

life change: photographer into farmer

color/pattern meditation break

more fab (and daring) painted floors (to d-i-y?)

“can do” (maira kalman)

focus!!!! (an instant tattoo)

folding chair arbor / sculpture

practicing yes

your body and other improvised gyms

sighting: improvised bike carriers

baskets dipped in paint, liquid rubber, or plasti-dip

on the rightness of being wrong via TED

making an experimental wall

dill weed (and other edible) flower arrangements

what is failure?

friends with benefits: the paypal glitch is fixed

role model: playing hopscotch at any age

life shift: tips for frugal living from an urban homesteader

who is ‘occupy wall street’?

sightings: resourceful man, with a wealth of cans, reading

d-i-y: paint a headboard right on the wall

‘what’s not wrong?’ and other ways to start your day

kid’s book we love: joel henrique’s ‘made to play’

d-i-y bench of strapped-together boards

apple’s ‘think different’ video: tribute to steve jobs

elizabeth streb on the necessity of risk-taking

steve jobs: ‘you have to trust…’

kickstarter project: a magazine about ‘makeshift’

transforming cheapo materials with paint

dept of the future: how would you like to be remembered?

help us fly!

the lightbulb dilemma: looking for beautiful light, environmentally-friendly

be a guest-blogger for the improvised life; tell us Iris’s story

‘without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible’

voyeur: suzanne shaker’s interiors

the ten principles of burning man (and life in general?)