miranda july’s perfect, rule-breaking website

Miranda July is a filmmaker, artist and writer whose work has been presented at many amazing venues like Museum of Modern Art, The Guggenheim Museum and The Whitney Biennale. We’re started to check out her work having been knocked out a really funny, charming, completely unexpected website she made about one of her books, No One Belongs…

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sally talks miso on ‘the splendid table’ + grilled miso-glazed fish recipe

This weekend, Sally talks about improvising with miso, the versatile Japanese seasoning, on The Splendid Table, Lynne Rosetto Kasper’s terrific food show on public radio. She’ll cover the basics of miso, and give ideas for using this essential refrigerator staple. Click here to stream the show or find out when it will be aired in your neighborhood.…

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d-i-y “masked” painted tables

Jon at Happy Mundane spotted these cool adaptable dining tables by Muuto (which means “new perspective” in Finnish) that can be ordered with different legs, tops, and colors. They reminded him of the possibilities for painting wooden tables in interesting ways by masking off parts with tape, something he did to wooden chairs a while…

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‘the improvised life’ in remodelista!

We were THRILLED to see ‘the improvised life’ blogged today in the renowned home design site Remodelista, as “a favorite recent blog discovery”. They featured our post A Mantle as Furniture (No Hearth). Boy, are we in good company! Thanks, Remodelista! Related posts: A Mantle as Furniture (No Hearth) Remodelista, Expanded (in Beta)

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joshua allen harris’ subway air-fueled street art

New York Magazine sponsored this video about Joshua Allen Harris’ and his very cool street sculptures. He creates giant creatures out of taped-together plastic bags and positions them on subway grates; gusts of warm air from passing trains inflate them momentarily, animating them. He’s made a Loch Ness monster and an uncannily life-like polar bear,…

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valiant make-shift (and spirit) in haiti + a cool way to help

A couple of weeks ago in the New York Times, Lawrence Downes wrote a beautiful report from Haiti called The Kite Makers that painted a vivid picture of the devastated country in a few short paragraphs. He described the resourcefulness at play everywhere for those “with skills, strength and luck”. At the Petionville Club camp – donated tarps forged…

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