In this 3-minute video, Harlem fried chicken legend Charles Gabriel shares the secrets to perfect, REAL fried chicken.
Read MoreRoad to Joy: Understand that the Glass is Already Broken (Achaan Chah)
Achaan Chah, the Thai meditation master, devised a simple mind-shift that loosens our grip on the impossible notions of perfection and forever.
Read MoreHow to Recycle Your Outer and Inner Garbage
The New York Times’ 6 Things You’re Recycling Wrong set us straight about a few things. But Epictetus really gets to the heart of the matter.
Read MoreOpened at Random: Twyla Tharp’s The Creative Habit on How to Be Lucky
This morning I opened “The Creative Habit, Learn It and Use It for Life” to this…
Read MoreCalm Your Blues and Anxiety with an Elephant’s Lullaby
This 2-minute is a visual tonic for the blues and anxious times.
Read MoreDisillusioned Designer Deconstructs Ordinary Stuff and Tinkers Them Into Tiny, Sublime Animated Films
Tired of designing for consumption, Dina Amin employs her love of taking things apart and tinkering to create tiny videos that are charming and illuminating.
Read MorePoem for the Summer Solstice (Mary Oliver)
During the Summer Solstice, the sun will bathe us in sunlight for longer than any other day of the year. That deserves a poem, one of Mary Oliver’s most famous, The Summer Day.
Read MoreSimple Ways to Create Private Space with Fabric Room Dividers and ‘Slung Cloths’
The quest for a calming, private space can feel like an impossible dream, particularly for those who share tight living quarters. Here are some ideas…
Read MoreFrom Opera to Improv: How Deborah Domanski Found Her True Voice
After years of singing professionally to great acclaim, Deborah Domanski found herself on an unexpected quest to find her true voice.
Read MoreAsking This Question Every Day Expands Your Sense of Time
Everybody I know, no matter what age or where they live, complains about how fast they feel time flying. Here’s a way to slow it down.
Read MoreThe Metaphysics of Mayo + Fast, Delish Ways to Transform Storebought
Poet, critic and theorist Fred Moten’s insights into the true nature of mayonnaise got me thinking about my favorite ways to jazz up storebought Mayo
Read MoreMake Your Mark with Sculptural Drawing Chalk
Designer Nikolas Bentel designed the ultimate chalks for sidewalk graffiti and chalk-board painted wall decoration. Each one is a little sculpture onto itself with which you can draw parallel lines, dots and circles.
Read MoreOpened at Random: The Mountain Poems of Stonehouse
This morning we opened The Mountain Poems of Stonehouse to this:
Read MoreAnnals of Found Art: Cathedral of Vines (with Haiku)
We frequently stumble on objects that are readymade artworks unto themselves. If we saw them in a gallery, we would ponder them in the way we do “real” art.
Read MoreHow to See the Trees in Your House
52 Types of Wood and the Trees They Come From will make you see trees that the wood in your home come from. The Overstory will make you appreciate them more…
Read MoreListen to Your Favorite Artists Sing A Capella (Lady Gaga, Marvin Gaye…)
A capella “raw vocals” music videos— instruments stripped away to leave only pure voice tracks — got us hearing thinking about voice in a new way.
Read MoreHunting Art in Apartment Galleries and Salons We Found Amezkua’s Women with Power Tools
Living room galleries provide community meeting places for artists and alternative ways to exhibit their work, and continue the salon tradition.
Read MoreSimple Furoshiki Cloth Becomes a Carry Bag, Apron, Kitchen Towel, Scarf…
This useful little video and chart demonstrate ways of using furoshiki cloths — large multipurpose squares of cotton fabric — to make carry bags, aprons, more…
Read MoreWhy Walking Helps Us Think (Rilke + Ferris Jabr)
Science has proven what painting, poetry, and our own experience know: walking helps us think, and be.
Read MoreHidden Bricks and Paving Stones Inscribed with Poems (Alison Hawthorne Deming)
Walking along the overgrown path near the Snow Leopard’s lair in the Central Park Zoo, I found two bricks inscribed with a poem, nestled into the dirt …
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