laura mcphee (daughter, incidentally, of john) was at the ranch a few weeks back. for her guest lecture, she showed her quite beautiful pho...

i've been trying to get a copy of lawrence weschler's wanderer in a perfect city for at least a year; the san francisco library had...

cloud 1, white ash. approx. 39" x 27" x 30" this is the first of the clouds.

on sunday night, i got called over to the dynamic abstraction dinner table and we decided that the man himself would make a large-ish patte...

tonight, lectures from joshua davis , robert berlind (represented by tibor de nagy ) and christian burchard . berlind's work is generall...

Even my friends began to seem to me marvelous. People's being themselves, year after year, so powerfully and so obliviously -- what was ...

the slide from the grew-sheridan studio late-nite photo session in may with joe schopplein finally arrived, so new photos are up on my slowl...

the combination of time, space, and image has been occupying me of late. noon on the kamogawa (2004), newly improved with fresh geometry (...

having all-hours access to a fully-equipped studio and machine shop is the closest thing to perfect. in between working on stuff, i'm wo...

i went to a presentation of work a few days ago by rob amesbury , who's at the ranch teaching a workshop on fine detail gouache painting...

aspen has a remarkable circulating library for a town of 6,000 permanent residents. i took out madeleine l'engle's a circle of quiet...

i bought the tummy trilogy in 1999 and calvin trillin almost immediately became my most favoured writer about food. like the best, he is as...

maps, annotations, and wearable . do we want one? yes. yes, we do.

the last four days have been distinctly surreal. leaving a totalizing job is a wrenching experience, the more so if you have had, last minut...

i was up near toronto last week at the university of guelph , hanging out with the people from the biodiversity institute of ontario . paul ...

here's an interesting project : ask people what comes to mind when they see a brand, then show the results as a tag cloud with frequency...

i've been trying to finish this side chair before leaving for aspen and i spent all of last weekend shaping the seat and back, then sand...

bent objects is full of things (many of them strangely orange snacks) doing things to other things. the circus peanut circus is a personal ...

the ground at skaftajokull was hard at 8am on the second day, and the water from brushing my teeth congealed and froze in just a few minutes...

(thank you, julian .)

more stuff from joshua allen harris

the HD video of chad pugh 's science machine , entirely made from scratch in adobe illustrator. christiaan postma 's...

a highly-caffeinated 4 hours in seattle. first stop was the espresso vivace at e denny and broadway to get some of emails out of the way,...

time's photo essays are compelling and strange (they have one about avant garde gardens , another about wool gathering , and a third abo...

stephen fry, the bbc, and typography: an entrancing combination. fry , author of many and various books including moab is my washpot and ma...

on the second floor of the library at the MBL/woods hole oceanographic institute , a letter left behind by a japanese researcher abandoning...

from the new yorker review of richard sennett's the craftsman : The template of craftsmanship ... combines a “material consciousness” w...

i've been in woods hole the last couple days for a meeting of the biodiversity informatics advisory group for the encyclopedia of life. ...

this has been around for some time but i just saw it over the shoulder of another attendee at this meeting i'm at. flight information ov...

north-facing view of jökulsárlón gigapan: jökulsárlón after sundown this is gigapan #2 and the smallest of the iceland gigapans (only 112 ph...