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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?)
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