Number one this week honestly has to go to Jim Campbell and his light installation: I would love to have something like this as a permanent installation somewhere in Austin. It really is stupefying beautiful. 2. Anthony Burrill created these prints with oil from the Gulf oil disaster. You can buy one of the limited edition series here. [...]
1. Sometimes your water gets boring, admit it. So effervescent drink tablets it is… also comes in bacon. 2. Derek Gores got an A+ in paste and never stopped. 3. Miriam Aust 4. Cauliflower Parmesan Cake! You heard me. this makes a sturdy omelet that slices like a cake and works as a hefty main course. But rather than being [...]
1. You now what you didn’t know you needed? Food interpretations of your states… or mine! Go find YOUR state at Short Handed Studio! 2. Something I featured years ago elsewhere: Uninvited Collaborations With Nature The Mended Spiderweb series came about during a six-week period in June and July in 1998 which I spent on Pörtö. In the forest and [...]
1. a Friday should start off with a little colour: From Moscow Design Week – Sit in my face: 2. Or maybe something from Design*Sponge? 3. Or maybe something from the Kitchn – they call them cupcakes but they are pretty clearly muffins. 4. Rebekka Guðleifsdóttir makes pretty things. 5. Autumn Sky BY CHARLES SIMIC In my great grandmother’s time, [...]
The baseball playoffs are about to fire off and the sportsverse is in its annual rush to prove exactly how smart it is by making a snap judgment about who’s going to win win each series… because Bud and the Morning Zoo Crew read some bullets off ESPN.com this morning and now they get to talk about CC Sabathia like [...]
Aaron Sorkin and David Fincher’s film The Social Network had a tidy little weekend this weekend scooping up $22.5M. I enjoyed the film very much but this post isn’t about that. I saw the film, as I see most of the films I see, at the Alamo Drafthouse. The Drafthouse is an Austin institution (coming soon to a New York [...]
My good friend Will Hollis Snider recently answered an emergency call for headshots newer than my junior year of college. That ol’ headshot was fine (or a reasonable facsimile of fine) through the last time I auditioned for someone other than my good friend Will Hollis Snider…. That headshot: Is pretty well out of date at this point. It’d been [...]
One: Let’s start with a moving art… I’ve been watching The United States of Tara season 2 (LOVE) and I have to say that the opening credits kill me, and puts me in the perfect place to watch the show… The song is by The Polyphonic Spree’s Tim DeLaughter and the pop up book style is great – also? Toni [...]
