With its practical, vin-ordinaire fridge and quirky design decisions, photographer Massimo Vitali’s remarkable home in an ancient church has some very cool ideas to steal.
Read MoreGordon Hempton: Silence is the Presence of Everything
This lovely immersive video follows acoustic ecologist Gordon Hempton to one of the quietest places on earth. It draws our awareness to just what it is we’re hearing, or not, and the unique, extraordinarily complex sounds of silence.
Read MorePatti Smith: “The Secret to Improvisation I Have Accessed My Whole Life”
As we work to move Improvised Life to a new form, we came across this passage from Just Kids, Patti Smith’s memoir of finding her artistic voice: the secret of improvisation she learned from Sam Shepard.
Read MoreLee Krasner on How to Build Joy, Discovery and the Unexpected into Work and Life
Artsy’s Alexxa Gotthardt combed through interviews with legendary abstract expressionist artist Lee Krasner for her insights into “how to be an artist”, with three essential lessons.
Read MoreInspiring, Do-able Interior Design Ideas from Paola Navone
Whenever we look at designer Paola Navone’s homes, we come away with a zillion ideas that we could actually do, without a ton of dough. Here are our favorite steal-able ideas.
Read MoreWendell Berry on The Real Work We Do
We know quite a few people who are making major life changes these days, living with the question of what to do next, waiting for the path to become clear. What’s the mindset to embrace in limbo: all questions, few clues, no answers?
Read MoreWhat is it that I can offer in this present moment? What about it is asking for a deeper look?Garrett Bradley
Lessons in Slowing Down (Pico Iyer, Vija Celmins, W.S. Merwin…)
The past week or so, the same message arrived through a variety of sources: in an email sent by a friend, a poem stumbled on on instagram, a notice of a museum exhibition…
Read MoreAnnals of Bad Design: Giant Wardrobe in a Small Room, With a Fix
Many of the design suggestions in Remodelista’s “Expert Advice…for Creating the Illusion of Space” are indeed effective. Not this one. So we figured out some solutions…
Read MoreSublimely Analog Chalkboard Drawings of Mathematicians, Rudolf Steiner, Twombly Inspire Our Own
“This is what thought looks like” begins Dennis Overbye’s article about Jessica Wynne’s remarkable photographs of mathematician’s blackboards, that reminded us of Steiner and Cy Twombly…
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