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

We found a swell 21 second video on YouTube but imbedding is disabled so click this link to watch it.  It comes with our wishes for a HAPPY HALLOWEEN! Related posts: happy halloween!!!!! (2010) happy halloween!!! (2009) halloween inspiration: cardboard box as the empire state building

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modern art gallery as halloween costume

Over at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories, we found a how-to for a swell group Halloween costume: a traveling exhibition of modern art… Here, Mark Rothko, Piet Mondrian, and Jackson Pollock are represented because… “… the best choices are iconic artists whose distinctive styles may be recognizable even in third-rate attempts (like ours) to mimic their styles.” The only tweak…

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living a portable life via jeroen toirkens ‘nomad’

The best part of Maria Popova’s Brainpickings blog is, for us, the glimpses she gives us into new books. With extensive pictures and well-selected quotes, she immediately and completely draws you in to the world of the book she’s featuring. This picture from the book Nomad by Jeroen Toirkens particularly spoke to us, as it reveals the…

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what’s in the innovator’s cookbook?

(Video link.) We’re excited for Steven Johnson’s new book, The Innovator’s Cookbook: Essentials for Inventing What Is Next. It looks like he has called upon an all-star cast of innovators and researchers to discuss what makes for successful innovation. In the video, he gives away some important parts of the recipe: We like being instructed…

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theo jansen’s ‘life forms’ evolve!

(Video link here.) We’ve posted before about artist Theo Jansen’s remarkable Strandbeests, creatures made entirely from PVC pipe that move on their own using wind-power. Watching them scurry across the beach like enormous prehistoric insects never ceases to delight us. Jansen, who has been working on his beasts for over 20 years, has often referred…

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annals of bad design?: sculptural bathtub

Apparently this dramatic bathtub was made out of a “giant pebble-shaped granite piece brought back from Bali and sculpted”…The pipes fixtures are cleverly hidden in the wooden chest that sits next to it and the Baroque chandelier doubles as a shower head. Hmmmm…we’re serious fans of baths and wonderful bathtubs. Could this one possibly be…

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wearing clothes backwards

This photo entitled simply “Curious Photo” (from the George Eastman House collection), reminded us of the many possibilities for wearing clothes backwards. We remembered a chic woman we knew that used to wear ordinary cardigans backwards, turning them into a something ELSE… …then we thought: Ohhh, THAT’S what we can try with an Issy Miyake shirt out made…

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