The Please Touch Museum in Fairmount Park might be, arguably, the best kids museum on earth (museum seems like too small a word, too limiting… a multi-sensory experience is more like it, but too marketing jargon-y… perhaps one of those old -ara words like Sensorama is the most apt….) It also happens to be an [...]
Here ye here ye! The world of design hath a new font resource! A medieval “portfolio”, dubbed “The Macclesfield Alphabet Book”, was recently uncovered from the library of the Earls of Macclesfield in England, where it had sat on the shelves since 1750. This pattern book contains not only 14 decorative alphabet styles, but intricately [...]
Holy cow… these landscape photographs by Kim Keever seem to indicate she is in possession of a pen sized version of the Genesis Device, the terraforming rocket fired off in Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan. The best ones evoke the the grandeur of Hudson River School painter Frederic Edwin Church’s work… Actually, these are [...]
1. Andrew Wyeth and John Updike seemed to have a preternatural communion with the fundamentals of their art. Updike apparently brokered a separate and special understanding with the English language. Wyeth seemingly could will individual bristles to do his bidding in a brutally unforgiving medium awash with chance and accident. 2. Both were, fundamentally, sophisticated [...]
After being canceled twice, the punk rock flea market has finally found a venue and will be taking place this Sunday at the Electric Factory. Copied below is a letter from Sean Agnew, the man behind R5Productions, with all the juicy details. As a short note, the PRFM is an awesome place to go, walk [...]
Want something to do on Tuesday nights, get in on Story Slams, part of the First Person Arts Festival. This Tuesday’s theme is “Bad Idea.” I’ve got a few of those I could share. Anyone interested in going? Even if you don’t tell a story it sounds like a good opportunity to have a laugh. [...]
