Mitt Romney’s prep school classmates recall pranks, but also troubling incidents
Washington Post
I’ve recently taken up knitting as a way to soothe the daily desktop grind and in an attempt to disconnect from my deep technology immersion. I hit the needles in the early evenings, and I find it reconnects me with my love of tactile creation. Knitting is also a strange repetitive form of mediation. I got a bit knitting crazy and recently set off on an online hunt to find all things knitting. I quickly found Yokoo Bigraan, who is simply known as Yokoo.
Her creations are an obsessive compulsive delight. I would describe her as a fine-tuned knit pirate as she pushes the boundaries of her items into wearable art territory. She makes me yearn for a real Winter, so I can snuggle into my soft, textured, colourful knitwear late into the night. But I currently live in Queenlsand and that real Winter will never come. But still I knit and knit and knit.
Kudos to The New York Times for creating the “stop what you’re doing and do this” thing on the internet today! They turned a page on their site into a video game. As you can see, we’re getting good at it.
Now stop what you’re doing and go play!
Irish furniture designer Joseph Walsh has a way with sculpting solid wood into furniture forms so liquid, it looks like they’re in the middle of doing some high-level yoga poses.
Flashing female derrieres to near-exposure and using the double exposure technique common in photography on his oil paintings, Ho Ryon Lee’s Overlapping Images collection takes the idea of exposure to a whole new level.
