Great view, great energy savings Sliding glass windows a plus for environmentally conscious modular home
It began with a story in Sunset Magazine on a new style of modular home that is compact, energy efficient and eco-friendly. The story on homes built by Michelle Kaufmann Designs caught the eye of woman I know who lives with her husband in a suburban community in the San Francisco Bay area.
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Great view, great energy savings Sliding glass windows a plus for environmentally conscious modular home
Before I went on my recent road trip I received a painting by Washington, DC. artist Matt Sesow called “A Guide to North American Birds.” I have a thing for birds and a thing for quirkiness so I really like the painting. I also buy art that I couldn’t or wouldn’t paint myself, so I end up buying bright, bold and colorful paintings which are in contrast to my own paintings that are almost colorless.
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A Guide to North American Birds by Matt Sesow
Friday // BunnyNu Does Dos + Blue Jaz Deja Vu + Apple Shisha + Bunny Tries His Luck + Sorry Sage Lovers, I’m not a Sage Fan + Haircut Saturday // Kway Chap Brunch! + Popeyes Chicken & Biscuit at Terminal Three + Tattoo Fever Sunday // Tung Lok Dim Sum Brunch + Inked at Johnny Two-Thumb by Jaws Tat + GSS + Watching Federer wins French Open Sage’s Fancy Food… Crab claw salad marinated with avocado havarois, vine ripe tomato gazpacho and green celery nage. Egg coated in Parmigiano Reggiano, served on top of poached green asparagus, purple cress and sauce vierge.
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BunnyNu Does Dos Weekend
On June 4, 1989, Poland held the first (partly) free elections of the so-called Eastern Block. It was the first time since WW2 that opposition parties could legally participate in the political process, and the result – a smashing success of the opposition – was the end of communism and the beginning of a new, free Poland. These elections are generally considered the single event that began the overcoming of the totalitarian regimes in this entire region of the world.
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Aliens in Brussels – Althamer’s "Common Task"
On Monday I wrote about how Matisse and Giacometti absorbed the influence of Cezanne’s still-lifes not by osmosis, but by expunging. The relevant Matisse paintings were from 1916 (one was in the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s ‘Cezanne and Beyond’ show) and the Giacometti was from 1937. Continuing my discussion of the PMA’s show as a narrative that reveals how succeeding generations of artists remove and eliminate more and more of a key influence…
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‘Cezanne and Beyond’ in Philadelphia, part three
Blue Jaz Chillax + Shisha with the Entrepreneurs + Debate on Capital Punishment + Bunny’s Big Smile on a Saturday Morning + Exorcism of Emily Rose + Freshly Made Chee Cheong Fun for Dinner + Power Station Party Night + Whiskey Cannon High *BlechBurp* + Sunday Brunch at Tiffylicious Breakfast Parlour + Eggs & Pancakes & Yogurt & Bacon & Ham & Cookies & Salted Bagel Chips & Garlic Toasts & Sausages & Cherry Tomatoes + OMG SO FULL! + Confessions of a Shopaholic + Krysten Ritter, you’re too cute + Comfy Tees from Uniqlo + Walk About Town with Bunny and his Tan Mei Mei + Crystal Jade Dinner From my phone, so easy to go snap happy with the iPhone. Facebook has extended photos upload to 200 per album, so it’s relatively easier to sort out pictures now. I might be roaming about some abandoned places next weekend, should be fun
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Snap Happy Weekend
The problem with abstraction is that a subjective voyage into the unknown is precisely this: subjective. And, since the exceptional quality of my experience as the creator is something distinct from the experience of the spectator, the abstraction game becomes a hide-and-seek of subjectivities, a challenge which at any moment can be called a bluff , a mere ego trip.
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The Abstraction Game: Myra Mimlitsch-Gray
I Love Restaurant City (Facebook Application) + TIME 100 Most Influential People, my Favorite Category is the Builders and Titans + Thoughtfulness is Underrated + KaSoh for Dinner, Ponggol Nasi Lemak for Supper + Frozen Strawberry Margaritas with Paul & Tiffany + Sunday Brunch at The White Rabbit + Chilling out with the extended family + Old Chang Kee’s Curry Puff, it has been a while… Rest of the Pictures Second row, last picture. That was the top I wore to The White Rabbit, it has rabbits on it! My sister took one glance and decided that I’m beyond lame
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Mother’s Day Weekend
Food for thought from my literary crush: I consider that a man’s brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things, so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it
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An addict’s words of wisdom
There’s an interesting article over at the LA Times on art, manufacturing, brands, and people that seem to enjoy being in court. “They may not have realized it, but the folks who snapped up as much as $4-million worth of limited-edition prints by artist Takashi Murakami two years ago at the special Louis Vuitton boutique inside his exhibition at L.A.’s Museum of Contemporary Art apparently were getting nicely mounted handbags — minus the snaps and straps.” LA Times Basically, a collector didn’t like the fact that his Takashi Murakami Louis Vuitton prints were just left over Louis Vuitton material strapped to canvas stretchers. I can’t see a problem with it
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Takashi Murakami and Louis Vuitton Controversy
Handmade Jewelry-Handmade Bracelets-Copper Bracelets Copper Bracelets have been worn for pain relief for centuries. The benefits of wearing copper next to the skin are reputed to begin working within 2 or 3 weeks of wearing. Studies throughout the world have indicated that a copper deficiency may cause those rheumatic aches and pains
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Copper Handmade Bracelets Health Benefits
Handmade Jewelry-Handmade Bracelets-Wolf Jewelry Copper Reflections is looking for distributors in the UK and other European countries. We can make custom designs that will represent the country, and also designs that people are looking for and will enjoy more.
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Handmade Jewelry by Copper Reflections Looking for European Handmade Jewelry Distributors
My earliest recollections are of an elaborate grate that covered an air shaft in the house where I was raised in Brooklyn. The pattern of swirls-the positive and negative space-the completeness of the Victorian design captivated me. The vent went out into a back yard and because the brass plate so fascinated me, I created elaborate visual images in my mind that incorporated the polished plate, shadowy shaft and the leafy garden beyond
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The Art of Creating Art from Art
This video, and the interview re-published at artnode , seem like more proof that the brilliance of the artist is often quite distant from the brilliance of the onlooker. Surrounded by “modern technology”, he might, in retrospect, appear like a child enjoying his toys. Especially in the interview, it seems like it’s the journalist who has all these great ideas, and Warhol just happily agrees with what he hears…
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Andy Warhol the computer geek
Oh were this the universe! Were it but a combination of lines, a simple picture of perfection, were the universe a set of twigs and seeds with their mathematical omnipotence! Oh were there nothing else, nothing but the point where everything meets, nothing but the shape it all embodies. And the shadow of the reflection of a shadow of the Work, just to outscore its very depth of space, just to give us the distance we need to be closer
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Two works by Christiane Löhr
Smile…..I type it in e-mails, on Twitter, even keep it on my screen saver as a constant reminder to do it~ TO SMILE! I would like to share a few of my favorite sales & customers that make what I do what I LOVE. All my sales are special but every now and then there are a few that touch my heart and stick with me…..these stories that accompany these sales are the Reason I love to craft/create and then share it with all of you.
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Pumpkins, Hippos & SMILES!
My New site Southern Handmade Gifts is full of great handmade treasures and has been a complete process spanning over many years. I will not bore you with all my details of how it came for idea born out of the need to do something and feel useful to being an operating e-commerce site exclusively of handmade treasures made by ME. I am sure I could write a book or several e-books full of tips/advice/& hey DON”T DO THIS hints but I will save that for retirement…lol
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Craft Tips I Find Useful & Important
Handmade Jewelry-Handmade Earrings-Animal Jewelry I personally think that taking good photos is more difficult than making our handmade jewelry ! Everything has to be perfect to do justice to your handcrafted artisan jewelry. A picture is worth a thousand words if you’re a writer; a picture is priceless if you are trying to market your jewelry and unique gifts online! Handmade jewelry photography is too important to leave to chance
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Handmade Jewelry Photography Tips for Success
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For all you people who are wondering , “Ok,so we’ve done healthy cooking , low fat cooking and even no salt cooking! What’s so different about all natural cooking and is it really important?” Yes it is! With the growing number of pesticides and preservatives in food, I sometimes wonder how much chemical’s our bodies actually contain.Is this good in the long run? I worry about the amount of chemicals we could be feeding our children unknowingly. But is organic versus conventional any different?
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A brief introduction