Keeping score with vampires
When I was in New York earlier this year, I dragged a friend to see the Valerie Project, an amazingly out-there movie-meets-music project created by members of the Philadelphia-based freak-folk outfit Espers…
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Too cool for school
At long last, Los Angeles’ hippest design store/gallery, Reform School, has unveiled a new retail storefront (and excellent online shop), that’s chock full of great art (by ReadyMade faves Alyson Fox, Lisa Congdon, and Jill Bliss), books, and housewares, all of which I’m coveting…
The people’s choice
Who doesn’t like the idea of design by democracy? Starting this week, the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum is asking citizens of the world to weigh in on good design…
DIY to the core
I arrived at my desk today to find a big envelope stuffed with books, DVDs, and zines from Portland’s indie publishing house Microcosm. A leading force in the DIY community for 10 years…
Making it, then breaking it
When I was a kid growing up in Berkeley, I often visited the Exploratorium, an interactive science museum in San Francisco that’s so much more than that. I best remember two excursions…
Wanting is not the same as needing…
But the premise behind this art project is still pretty smart, in an “aren’t-we-so-clever” kind of way. Justin and Christine—a New York City couple fixated on tracking their material “wants”…
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