Archive for May, 2006

More Cardboard Furniture

I was poking around online looking for sustainable design and found Crazy Cardboard, which offers corrugated cardboard furniture, including the "Royal Assets," at right. They also have tables, a bookcase, a fireless (fire)place, and a line of kids' furniture. I'm not sure how durable their furniture is, but like the cardboard...
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More Spring Observations

Walked by a fenced-in grassy lot tonight that smelled of freshly mown grass, whatever those chemical compounds are that cut grass emits. Which reminds me that I recently read about "freedom lawns" in the book Suburban Safari, by journalist Hannah Holmes. Freedom lawns are free of pesticides and fertilizer and...
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Krampus

Went to check out the Whitney Biennial yesterday, the title of the 2006 exhibit being Day for Night. I usually tend to "get" the mixed media projects, appreciate the works displaying obvious technical proficiency, and ignore the films altogether. I am not one of those people who rushed out to...
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Spring Observations

Flash of blue: I don't know why I should have been surprised, but I hastened to catch another glimpse. There it was, a bluejay, perched on the gutter of a house. Its feathers were a rich blue, not glossy bright like on the bluejays I've seen (when was the last...
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Loss

"We lose our youth as we grow, we're all losing our parents, losing people we know; we're losing all the time. There's a deep sense of loss. It's what I'm dealing with in my work. ... It hurts me to see these things die, fall down, collapse, decay. ... But...
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