I think perhaps it’s my new home in Boston and the fact that it’s much colder up here than New York was but I can’t get blankets off my mind. Just last night I had to pack a few away into the trunk in my bedroom because there were simply too many blankets on my […]
I feel like I’ll be apologizing for delayed posting for a while now — with moving back to Boston things have been a little hectic but I attended an event last night in Brooklyn that I had to post on. The event was held at the old Invisible Dog factory, which was a popular 70s […]
My mom and I made an impromptu trip to Brooklyn yesterday to visit The Yarn Tree when we came across a store called Catbird in Williamsburg. We went in because we are suckers for cute jewelry and found many amazing things that I just had to post! The above are by Pade Vavra who sort […]
I have been so busy over at The Yurt Alert I’ve been derelict here, however, I also have had a lull in stumbling up on such inspirational and amorphous works as I typically post. One I have been meaning to post I learned about at Make the other day, that of Henrik Menne. His works […]
Today I came across the artist Jason Hackenwerth at Lost at E Minor — the link was just a super cool photo of his epic balloon-based art works but I tracked him down. I love the regularity he’s able to achieve in the pattern of the balloons and the way look threatening but then you […]
Yesterday at the Nest fundraiser for the Kolkata girls I was introduced to Christina DesVaux who runs Textura, which sells handmade knits from Uruguay. She and I bonded, pretty much immediately, over bulk wool issues. I told her about my yurt project and how amazing it was that ideas can take off the way they […]
Yesterday afternoon was the Phillips de Pury theme auction called, Latin America, of all contemporary Latin American inspired or rooted works. One of the artists at auction was Tanya Aguiniga, whose work I missed when I went to the press preview a few weeks ago. Tanya has a MFA in furniture design from RISD, which […]
Just down the block from me in New York is the School of Visual Arts — there are constantly art students out on the street working, talking and putting together shows in their various buildings. One former student there recently caught my eye with her work in buttons, Ran Hwang, who I came across on […]
My brother sent me the work of Johanna Spath and Johannes Tsopanides a while ago but I hadn’t had the time to post it as of yet. Together the two of them have made what they call, “Cloudspeakers.” This project is so awesome because it merges two of my interests, design and music technology. The […]