August 17th through 26th will see the installation of Mark Reigelman's "Stair Squares" on the cascading staircases of Brooklyn's Borough Hall. A study in human interactions with public furniture made possible by a grant through the Center for Craft, Creativity…
Continue Reading →What's the story with Buffalo? Equally mocked and praised in popular culture for its industrialist décor, its nowheresville pace and its quintessentially American toughness, for most of the nation the town remains just a punch line or an obscure touchstone.…
Continue Reading →There has never been so apt a cliché as "nature calls," for no matter where you are in the world, what your mood is, how you're dressed or what appointment you have to make, your body tends to have a…
Continue Reading →I have a sad obsession with DIY hacks and, if I had any motivation or attention-span to create my own instead of ripping off stuff I find in Readymade, I may very well have found myself in the Etsy field…
Continue Reading →Being that I live in Manhattan and have no backyard to speak of, I tend to get a little of the summertime blues, reminiscing about grilling outside. With the 4th of July just around the corner and families all over…
Continue Reading →My last pair of sunglasses (very classy, very chic Diors) recently met an unfortunate demise, and it's days like today (very sunny, very hungover) I kick myself that I haven't yet replaced them. It doesn't help me feel any better…
Continue Reading →There's something at MIT, wouldn't you know it, called the Aesthetics + Computation Group, whose aim is "the design of advanced system architectures and thought processes to enable the creation of (as yet) unimaginable forms and spaces." Two thoughts. First,…
Continue Reading →My inability to motivate myself out of bed this morning had nothing to do with the sinus infection I've been battling for the last week, the presence of some Adonis-like character (or any man, for that matter) there with me…
Continue Reading →During college I had a brief love affair with a manual Nikon and a hopeful image of myself as the next Annie Lebowitz. Sadly, due to my inability to hold my arms still, an inherent aversion to darkrooms and irreconcilable…
Continue Reading →This is why I love Capitalism. (1) See a niche, (2) fill that niche, (3) sell the thing that fills the niche on the internet. It really couldn't be simpler. The people at Genius Pad have mastered that formula. They…
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