It's always refreshing to see the coolly serious in a more relaxed, casual setting. The first time you saw your straitlaced boss down a drink and crack a few jokes. The bloopers reel for a period epic. A solemn event suddenly pierced by a well-timed comment. These moments serve to bring out another side of those you had previously imagined…
Ted Feighan has a gift. He can blend disparate and unrelated objects, into a seamless work of art. You might wonder if he's used some kind of witchcraft, blending buildings from different eras, and countries, along with a wavy, rainbow sky... Or people of different times and cultures, down a brightly carpeted forest road, into collages that, strangely, despite themselves,…
Great architecture is often looked upon at eye level, while the viewer forgets the hard work put into the floor on which they stand, I Have This Thing With Floors changes that. This wonderfully whimsical account is dedicated to the beauty of the floor beneath your feet. The floors featured on this account are wonderfully expressive. Scrolling through the feed…
Embroidery isn't exactly known for being super hip. Ranging from your grandmother's cross stitching to traditional hand woven rugs, it may be intricate, beautiful, and interesting, but on point, modern, and boundary pushing? Less likely. It seems then that Jenny Hart likes to defy convention. The L.A. based artist is known for her hand-stitched portraits of famous icons and iconography.…
With showers and unseasonably low temperatures that seem to crop up here and there, Mother Nature seems to be having a hard time so far sustaining a week or two of warm, sunny weather. And while we have no right to complainafter all, at least it's not snowingyou might find yourself dreaming of resort life in the tropics, especially if…
Twin Peaks was a strange show. Critically acclaimed, yes. Hypnotic, for sure. Genre-defying? Definitely. And its melancholy intro fit the show perfectly. Three minutes of forests, machinery, and logsit was a lumber town, after allwhile mesmerizing, seems almost alien today. Especially since the opening sequences for many modern shows have pretty much gone the way of the dinosaur. Still, if…
Charleston, South Carolina. Home of the Charleston...and Chambers Austelle, an artist with an offbeat interest in biology and psychology. Her pieces, particularly those she created for Charleston Supported Art, a unique program that supports and showcases the work of local artists, place lifelike female faces on lurid, stylized backgrounds. The hair and hands simplified to outlines, contrast sharply with the…
Album covers used to be funky. Take a look at some of these 60s and 70s record sleeves and you'll see what we mean. No self-indulgent artist portraits and heavily retouched photographs here. Nowadays, with the popularity of buying single songs, you might not even know what its album art looks like. Which is a shame, especially if they're as…
Not only did actress Marilyn Monroe have inspirational wisdom, but she was also a yoga devotee. Marilyn apparently learned yoga with Eugenie V. Peterson, widely known as Indra Devi, and is regarded by many as the "First Lady of Yoga". According to author Stefanie Syman, in The Story of Yoga in America, Marilyn told the press in 1956 that yoga was a permanent part of her workout routine. In any case, Marilyn Monroe was a yogi!