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A Blind Man Describes His Favorite Things to Touch
(Video link here.) Tommy Edison, a film critic who has been blind since birth, talks about his favorite things to touch in this surprising video (one of a series about the point of view of a blind...
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A Mindshift for When You’re Feeling Overwhelmed and Lost
Monica Ramos At illustrator Monica Ramos‘ website, we stumbled on a section called “Sometimes I want to fall off the face of the Earth” A solo show about about feeling overwhelmed and lost....
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The Waiting Wall + Public Platforms for Emotion
waiting wall.com Inspired by Alain de Botton’s idea that Jerusalem’s Wailing Wall be adapted in new ways for modern times, digital storytellers Alan Donohoe and Steven Parker created “The Waiting...
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Cloud Therapy
(Video link here.) We found this lovely video at The Cloud Appreciation Society’s website. We’ve long been a fan of Cloudreporter, where people post wondrous sightings of clouds from all over the...
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Life Edited Can Be Just So Much Bullsh*t
Chompoo Baritone Lately we’ve come across two compelling photographers whose images boldly portray an essential message about Instagram and other social media: the pretty picture you see is not the...
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Start the Week Flying…Over a Moon for a Cosmic Perspective
(Video link here.) NASA recently released beautiful enhanced color images of Pluto‘s largest moon Charon taking during the New Horizon mission’s approach to the Pluto system last July. They used the...
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Improvised Life’s Illusory Wealth
? Recently, a reader left us a query in Tinypass, our membership platform, and included this comment: “I paid for a subscription to support the writer and I think she has enough support at this point...
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Music to Help you Chill Out or Sleep
(Video link here.) Open Culture’s The Best Music To Put You To Sleep: Minimalist Composer Max Richter, Pop Phenom Ed Sheeran & Your Favorites put us onto some great resources for relaxing music...
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Improvised Life’s Community IS Gold
I’ve been bowled over by raft of new Friends with Benefits subscriptions and the most astonishing, deeply-heartening praise from readers in response to my writing about Improvised Life’s Illusory...
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How to Neaten Up Stuff via Sachs’ Practice of Knowling
(Video link here.) At Things Organized Neatly, a website about exactly THAT, we found this terrific except from Ten Bullets, artist Tom Sachs‘ essential principles — “his code” — for employees working...
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A Machine that Wakes You Up and Gets You Dressed
(Video link here.) At the consistently wonderful The Kids Should See This, we found kinetic artist Joseph Herscher‘s machine for getting himself out of bed and dressed on a sleepy morning. The...
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Re-envisioned Chairs We Could Make Ourselves
aqqindex.com Over the past months, we’ve been collecting an illuminating array of chair images over at the great site Aqqindex. Each one has made us think, look into its structure, opened our mind to...
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Maira Kalman: Grateful grateful grateful
Maira Kalman The Wall Street Journal has a new series called “My Week” and we can think of no better to way to start off our week than a week in the life of artist Maira Kalman. (more…)
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Yonic is the New Phallic
Blommers & Schumm for Baron We have the word phallic in our repertoire, an appropriate word we can use at museums when pointing out that the artist was clearly obsessed with dick, but what about...
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How the Eiffel Tower Peace Symbol Came to Be
Jean Jullien/Instagram Shortly after the attacks in Paris hit the news, an image of the Eiffel Tower as peace symbol was tweeted and posted on Instagram. It is the creation of French graphic designer...
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Madonna on Why We Go On In Spite of/Because of…Paris
(Video link here.) At her concert in Stockholm yesterday, a visibly-shaken Madonna addressed the very difficult question “…why am I up here dancing and having fun when people are crying at the lost...
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What’s The Best Gift You’ve Ever Received?
http://qz.com In this season of frenzied holiday shopping, Quartz asked 40 leaders in art, business, fashion, science, and social justice the question: What’s the best gift you’ve ever received?...
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Need a Last Minute Gift? Give Improvised Life
Sally Schneider Casting about for an instant gift to give? Give your brilliant someone a subscription to Improvised Life, a month or year of inventive, mind-shifting tools and ideas for creative...
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Happy New Year — Finally!
Sandra Calder Davidson Improvised Life site has been down since December 26th and it's been on a wild ride to get it going. Thanks to the extraordinary generosity of readers and friends, it looks like...
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We LOVE signs so figured why not create a SIGN LABORATORY on Instagram? Check out inspiring/mind-shifiting signs we find and forage and that folks send us…as well the as ones we MAKE: We made this one...
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