…with the San Gabriels in the distance was my welcome home ..
…of Midwestern monoculture are giving me something to look at and think about while anticipating a return to L.A. home at long la..
…is the activity for the day, as we fled the spring rain and cold and leaky drafty dome of the Colony compound to gather in the nearby anonymous modern building, where we made ourselves at home on the floor of the lobby surrounded by piles of old clothes, and scissors, and random creations we weren’t ..
…designed by Zaha Hadid will be opening soon (but not as soon as they thought while battling some construction and eccentrically shaped glass fabrication issues) and cool to see in person, but even more interesting to see a small monument on the adjacent piece of land – that will soon become a sculpture park – ..
…is the title of today’s event featuring farmers, market stands, local honey, fresh produce, and talks (including one by me and also by Bay Area artist friend Amy Franceschini of Future Farmers) organized by the yet to open MSU Broad Museum (to be housed in a Zaha Hadid structure still under construction) here in East ..
…in a gallery space at UNC Greenboro where piles of cast-off clothes are slowly being transformed into a rainbow-colorful rug, braided with the help of students (each making their own personal braid which can be finished and absorbed into the spiral rug when they leave) being nourished with my homemade soup of locally sourced produce ..
…is a local arts space started over 10 years ago by George Scheer (in the buildings where his grandmother ran a thrift store for decades) which I had heard a few stories about but nothing prepared me for the inspiring visit this afternoon, encountering room after room after room after room after insane (in a good ..
…begins today as I arrive to their glass Gatewood Gallery where a mountain of old clothes, fabrics, towels, and sheets have been donated and collected for me in advance of my arrival – so after much thought about this new long-term collective traveling rug-making activity, later to be used as a stage/field/platform/lounge upon which local ..
…is usually the preferred route when I have a choice while navigating the city by foot through that part of lower NYC, which is more and more dominated by NYU lately, though walking through the park today on a warm spring afetrnoon, you still get a sense of of that lively youth culture meeting the ..
…on a steamy sunny summer-like afternoon brought some unlikely activity to the lawns of Princeton University, as we sought out a patch of shade next to the Princeton Student Colony platform for our student guru leader to guide us in some simple asanas for a..
…is the descending rhythmic order of the crosstown two-way streets striating Manhattan you experience in a special way while flying south along the island, looking down the tight rows of streets like crops from a speeding car, occasionally punctuated by those wider streets of that amazing grid – coming to us from the Commissioners’ plan ..
…in the low bushes of my nephews backyard where we get a good view of the skittish somber colored brown mama on her li..
…looms over the house, only for a few days every spring it becomes a blossomy pink giant, reminding us of w..
…is busting out of the trees around the towns of St Paul and Minneapolis – all the more welcome and special and anticipated in a climate where most of the year is getting ready for winter, winter, or the dregs of winter – but lately the winters have been wimpy global-warming versions that don’t come ..
…today brought a busy day running around the city, an evening flight, and a sunset on the way to Minnesota where I’ll be for a few days visiting family and having meetings and hoping f..
…at the Princeton Student Colony today takes the form of taping the platform into a geometric pattern, followed by each student wielding a brush of color upon a segment, and then as the sun set, a ball of student-made bread dough is divided into nine pieces, each formed by a different set of hands into ..
…where I’m returning for a Monday meeting of the Princeton Student Colony – we pass over the always surprising lush wooded landscape, before the abrupt shift to the industrial coast, and the descent to Newar..
…follows on the heels of others from Jan 16 and Mar 2, and today the reports are coming in of wildflower blooms, big fat broccoli heads, more kale than a kale-lover can consume, lines of leafy greens getting harder to keep up with by the day, meager strawberry harvests that allow for little more than ..
…organized by animalarchitecture.org has just been announced, check out the details… Urban areas are quickly becoming the densest concentrations of human life on the planet and with that comes the well documented positive and negative impacts to local biodiversity and ecologies. But humans are not the only urban animals – squirrels, pigeons, mice, crows, raccoons, ..
…is the pleasure of late winter L.A., enjoyed as four guests are coming over for a midday meal, so today it will be everything veg for a big pot of soup, plus leafy green salad, and the last of th..
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