"17 Small Things" by Andrew B. Myers

This delightful video by Andrew B. Myers entitled "17 Small Things" is as advertised. It features 17 fascinating vignettes of small things...and some not so small, like galaxies...

https://www.andrewbmyers.com/

"In The Blank Space" and "Company" by Josin

I just discovered singer-songwriter Josin and I am smitten. Her music is delicate, tender, trembling, plaintive, but with an undercurrent of urgency, of great import...just how I like my music.

"In The Blank Space"

"Company"

http://josinmusic.com/

BEAUTY: Interiors--Phillip Thomas

Regular readers may recall I am an interior designer by day, and I love seeing what wild and wonderful schemes my fellow designers come up with. This apartment in Manhattan by Phillip Thomas is marvelous to see for his use of color alone, let alone the delightful de Gournay Deco Monkey wallpaper in that bathroom!

"When my clients and I started working on their first apartment, they said, 'Oh, I think we should do the living room in gray,'" said Thomas. "And I looked at them and said, 'I adore you guys, but you're not gray people. You're full of life, and you need color in your home. That’s who you are.'"

Four years later, the clients hired him again to decorate their new apartment on Manhattan's Upper East Side. "Every home is a snapshot into those people’s lives at a specific point in time," said Thomas. "This time, they wanted to amp it up."

I love the tiger ottoman, the indigo bar, the gorgeous mirror-lacquered ceiling in the kitchen breakfast nook, of course the red library...and that great trick of painting just the edge of a door a contrasting color! Brilliant!

Photos from House Beautiful
https://www.housebeautiful.com/design-inspiration/a26016222/phillip-thomas-new-york-house-tour/

http://www.phillipthomasinc.com/

"Zinc (Sonantis Remix)" by HVOB

I'm trancing out to this dark, swirling remix of the HVOB (Anna Müller and Paul Wallner, previously here) song "Zinc" from their just-released album "Rocco."

http://hvob-music.com/

The Future of Footwear Is Now

Design studio Ica & Kostika have created amazing 3D printed footwear based on patterns from the natural world. The series of wedges and heels is entitled "Exobiology" and the brand says:

"Fueled by passion, love, beauty, and brought to life by combining art and the highest levels of mathematics, we have forged our heels. disruption is at the core of existence. The Big Bang disrupted time and space, within every one of us there is longing for disruption. This is our way.

Humans have been creators since the dawn of time--it is our very nature--and we want our art to embody our evolutionary story from our past to our future. Fusing the latest in 3D printing and data capturing technologies, we created not just a shoe, but a story of continuity and innovation, and this is our first step."


Coral

Mycelium

Seahorse

https://www.icakostika.com/

Happy Vernal Equinox 2019!

Happy Spring Equinox! The day and night are of equal length today. Perfect symmetry.

BEAUTY: Painting--Andrew Salgado

The beautiful, colorful work of Andrew Salgado (previously here and here) is like looking into a kaleidoscope.

Top to bottom: Contemporary Pleasure Island Time Wasters; Mexico; The Astrology Lesson; The Dandy; Accidental Prayer; Canopy; Lounge

http://andrewsalgado.com/

What's on TV? The Art of Linda Tillman

Artist Linda Tillman delightfully recreates scene from living rooms in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, showing what was on. We only had three channels back then, kids...

Prints are available through her Etsy shop!
https://www.etsy.com/shop/LTillmanArt

"The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" by UNKLE featuring Keaton Henson

This is a special cover of Roberta Flack's 1972 hit "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" by UNKLE featuring vocals by Keaton Henson (previously here).

http://unkle.info/
http://keatonhenson.com/

The Birch Moss Chapel

This has got to be one of the loveliest architectural concepts I have ever seen. Japanese architecture firm Kengo Kuma and Associates built a chapel in the mountain town of Karuizawa, in Japan’s Nagano prefecture out of birch trees, steel, glass, acrylic, and moss. This lyrical, stunning structure is perfectly camouflaged among its surroundings. The architects used the birch trees as pillars and the stone and moss-covered pathway that leads to the chapel continues inside, blurring the line even more. A glass curtain wall and acrylic pews allow only the natural aspects of this special place to be present.

https://kkaa.co.jp/works/architecture/birch-moss-chapel/

"Visions of Gideon" by Sufjan Stevens

"Visions of Gideon" is taken from the soundtrack of the 2017 film "Call Me By Your Name" by Sufjan Stevens. Sometimes I put this song on and it ends up on repeat for a few hours...

It played while we watched Timothée Chalamet cry, in an agonizing, relentless, near-five minute close-up for the final scene of the film. Such tenderness and heartbreak. Truly stunning. Read my review of the film here.

I have loved you for the last time
Is it a video? Is it a video?
I have touched you for the last time
Is it a video? Is it a video?

For the love, for laughter, I flew up to your arms
Is it a video? Is it a video?
For the love, for laughter, I flew up to your arms
Is it a video? Is it a video?
Is it a video?

I have loved you for the last time
Visions of Gideon, visions of Gideon
And I have kissed you for the last time
Visions of Gideon, visions of Gideon

For the love, for laughter, I flew up to your arms
Is it a video? (Is it a video?) Is it a video? (Is it a video?)
For the love, for laughter, I flew up to your arms
Is it a video? (Is it a video?) Is it a video? (Is it a video?)
For the love, for laughter, I flew up to your arms
Visions of Gideon (visions of Gideon), visions of Gideon (visions of Gideon)
For the love, for laughter, I flew up to your arms

Visions of Gideon (visions of Gideon), visions of Gideon (visions of Gideon), visions of Gideon
Visions of Gideon, visions of Gideon, visions of Gideon
Visions of Gideon, visions of Gideon, visions of Gideon
Visions of Gideon (is it a video?), visions of Gideon (is it a video?), visions of Gideon

https://sufjan.com/

"You Are Already Everything You Want To Be"

Inspiration by Jeppe Hein.

http://www.jeppehein.net/