Software developer
Jenn Schiffer left her tech job and opened a handmade candle shop,
Bugs Rock. These charming egg tea lights were a hit in my house.
I had the chance to see artist
Jo Hay’s huge portraits of iconic women in person last week. They are stunning. Looking at any one of them feels like making eye contact with a wise old friend telling you:
you got this. Prints, posters, and pins
are for sale here—the bigger the format, the more striking they are.
Erika Hall painted a truckload of
delightful chicken portraits while she was supposed to be writing a book. They await your appraisal at
Clickens. The work one does while avoiding something else is some of the best work.
My former colleague
Stephen Koch spotted some neat M.C. Escher tile art in a book, and spent a holiday weekend bringing it to the web using SVGs. This fascinating pattern is
made of 4 tiles which repeat, rotated. Set the tile color with the color’s the hex code in the URL, like this
pool blue.
Pay attention to the things that expand your heart. When a person, a work of art, an essay, a film, a song, a photograph intrigues you, makes your chest feel bigger, gives rise to a warm feeling in your body, take note.
I had these feelings earlier this fall, when I got to visit the Guggenheim for Jenny Holzer’s Light Line exhibit. I’ve loved Holzer’s truisms for years now. I barely felt my feet watching them scrolling across the edges of that gorgeous rotunda in person, the way they did in 1989, except at all 6 levels.
