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Can you tell me how to get, how to get to Chandler Lane?
Beth from 1canoe2 sent me a little note about 1canoe2’s latest project and I’m so glad she did….it’s adorable! It’s a fun paperkraft letterpress diorama small town DIY kit, complete with 3 little houses that you cut and fold and paste together. OMG, doesn’t that sound like fun?
Here’s a link to the kit for sale, which includes: one 9×12 sheet for the background; one 12×7 sheet that includes pieces for 3 houses, 7 trees, and 2 corner tabs. All the designs and illustrations are sketched by hand, turned into letterpress plates and then printed on a Chandler & Price Craftsman press (see some pics below of the printing).
One of these is on it’s way to me (thanks Beth & Carrie) and I’m going to put it together and display it on my window sill in my office.
Robots dance the Nutcracker Suite
Jenise sez, "I work for Kiva Systems, a small robotics company in Woburn, MA, and the bots are amazingly fun to watch. A few years ago, one of our interns shot this video of the bots dancing to the Nutcracker Suite, and I thought it would tickle your ample sense of whimsy."
Ample whimsy: tickled.
(Aside: Whenever I hear the Nutcracker Suite, my stupid brain insists on supplying the lyrics from the "Smurfberry Crunch" breakfast cereal ad: "Smurfberry Crunch is fun to eat/A Smurfy fruity breakfast treat/Made with crunchy strawberries/They taste so sweet and [garbled]/Very fresh and very true/And very very Smurfy blue!")
(Bloody Smurfs.)
The Nutcracker performed by Dancing Kiva Order Fulfillment Robots (Thanks, Jenise!) Previously:
- Dancing robot in Spoon video
- Dancing robot has an iPhone 3GS for a face
- TOFU is the best dancing robot
- Robot dance competition
- Pole-dancing robot by Giles Walker Gadgets
- Behind the scenes with Keepon, the dancing robot.
- Power on Self Test: Breakdancing Robot
Wednesday Indie Artist Fixx with Dallas Shaw
I interviewed the talented & fashionable Dallas Shaw for today’s Wednesday Indie Artist Fixx interview. Dallas is an artist whose work includes modern, acrylic canvases, trend-setting fashion illustrations, must-have note cards and her own line of t-shirts. She also works with fashion designers helping them to create branding and clients have included DKNY, Dace, Vaute Couture & American Eagle Outfitters. You can learn more about Dallas & her work on her blog.
1. What’s the name of your business, what do create and sell and how did you get your start?
The name of my business is dallasshaw.com and there you can find everything that I do and links to the blog and shop. I make fashion inspired artwork and canvases, and also have a tee shirt line. I also collaborate with fashion designers. I went to school for art and have been working day and night at this for a long time.
2. Who are 3 of your favorite artists of all time?
Of all time?! Tough question. But right now I just love Stina Persson… I am much more inspired by designers than I am artists, which I know probably seems odd.
3. Share some of your inspirations.
Fashion. I adore max azria, lanvin, perer som.
4. What’s your creative process like?
I usually see a collection I love and then just start drawing. I only have a “method” if I am working with a client, which I am often doing these days. If that happens, I enjoy working with color palettes and making whoever I am working with happy.
5. What blogs and mags do you read and what shops do you shop at?
I have been really enjoy CocoKelley’s blog lately. I love leafing through magazines because I am very visual, and as far as shopping goes, there is hardly anywhere I won’t shop! I love a great little boutique. Just found blink in West Chester, which is great. I also really love design, so I love visiting designers’ showrooms.
6. What’s new or in the works?
Lots and lots, Jen! I am working with dkny doing some great fashion illustrations which I have a feeling you’ll see soon! Just wrapped up a great dace collaboration and one for journelle as well. Also, just did some work with american eagle outfitters and hoping to work with the amazing karen walker next. We’ll see?!
Amy Rigby, "Balls" (Greatest Song of All Time of the Day)
Pair of Bears – Step by Step Tutorial
Click here to check out this great tutorial right here on Craftster!
Check out all of Potter Craft’s other book excerpts on Craftster, too!
Hey you guys! Like my John Wayne Gacy clown painting?
Hey you guys! I was pulling the plastic flamingos out of my front yard to make this headdress…is that two words? Head dress? I don’t know, you guys this ain’t a dress for your head but it sure is pretty! So, anyway, you guys I was pulling the pink plastic flamingos out of my front yard to make this “piece of art” when I realized…This art oughta be photographed in front of MY favorite piece of art. I present to you guys my totally rad headdress, photographed in front of the painting that John Wayne Gacy sent to me as a thank you for the many erotic letters I sent to him about my clown fetish. Etsy made me take down the erotic poem I originally had with this listing, so I had to change it to this:
This piece is a one of a kind. Where do I start. It is a headband with a huge bow on top made of pink, orange, and green florescent tulle, with a doll’s head in the middle. The doll has a sequened crown and there are two flamingos on each side of the bow. The headband is covered in blue tinsel material. It is not heavy though and will not weigh your head down. Anywhere you wear this to, you will be noticed. It is truly a piece of art and this is the only one I have ever made like it.
What I didn’t say is that this piece is meant to be worn with the lingerie that I made with the melted barbie heads on the nips.
Thanks, Cari!
flutter writes on her personal blog byflutter, sometimes.
Not the same, but still fun:leefee photography
when i look at photographs, i want to travel. whether it’s to an actual destination, or to a make-believe world that the image creates or inspires, i’ve always really loved the way pictures can make you go somewhere else in your mind. so when i saw silvana’s photographs from paris on etsy, i was instantly smelling strong (strong!) coffee, hearing the sound of street music and imagining all of the beautiful buildings in the city of lights. silvana has a really beautiful set of parisian images in her ‘leefee’ etsy shop, but she also has some lovely nature and nautical-inspired photos as all, all priced at either $17 or $32, depending on size. click here to check out her full collection and shop online.
Storage Beds
Unless you’re a vampire, chances are you have a bed in your tiny-ass apartment. (Come to think of it, interior design for vampires and their coffins seems like a pretty lucrative area these days.) A bed is arguably the most important piece of furniture in your home. You can go without a couch or coffee table, but you’ve gotta find someplace to spend those 8 hours a night.
Unfortunately, your bed will also likely take up the most space of any of your other pieces of furniture, and in a small home you can’t sacrifice that much room without getting a little something back. Today we’ll explore three ways to reclaim some of your bedspace, with hideaway, loft, and storage beds.
Hideaway beds either hide completely, allowing you to reclaim space when you’re not using them, or just hide in plain sight and perform a second function. The granddaddy of all the “now you see it, now you don’t” beds is the Murphy Bed. Amy Azzarito did an great article on them here at Design*Sponge for her “Past and Present” column. You’ll also want to check out this article on Houzz for some more unique Murphy beds.
A current model from the original Murphy Bed Company
A wall bed from The Closet Factory, ’cause you just know if you have a cabin in the woods, you’re going to need space for all your freeloading friends, too.
The DOC bed from Resource Furniture. Do you think it leads the Autobots against the Decepticons in its spare time?
As cool as these hideaway beds look, there’s some question as to how comfortable they might be. We all remember crashing on friends’ futons in college, right? Not so great for the ol’ lumbar support. Let’s look at some beds that stay beds. Mmm, a real mattress!
Without a doubt, one of my favorite methods for reclaiming space in a tiny-ass apartment is to move UP. Loft beds do exactly that; they move your sleeping area up above eye level, allowing you to use the space underneath. Loft beds can be built into the architecture of your place, or be standalone pieces of furniture. You can chose a variety of ways to get up to the bed area (ladders, stairs, or something more unique like a tansu step chest). And what you do with your new-found floorspace is up to you! Two of the most common uses are as home offices or closets, but if you want your own “bat-cave,” well, that’s up to you.
Here’s a standalone piece with a ladder going up to the top and a home office underneath, from Charlie Brown’s Apartment Therapy house tour
Dornob featured this modern-but-cozy built-in
This one, also from Dornob and made by TumideiSpa, has everything: a closet underneath, stairs to the top, and desk space to boot.
If you’re looking for a bed that won’t cause grievous bodily harm if you fall out of it, consider a bed with built-in storage. Many come with drawers or cubbies for you to tuck away anything from clothes and shoes to those “special magazines” you don’t want your mom to find.
I love this HEMNES daybed from IKEA: small, storage space underneath, and can double as a couch during the day.
The baskets on this Stratton bed from Pottery Barn are cute, and can also be modified or swapped out for different ones for a new look.
You can also convert a regular bed into one with more storage using bed risers (like these below from Target), plus sliding baskets and bins (like the DILLING and DEGERNES below from IKEA).
A few storage bed roundups:
Apartment Therapy: Chicago – Built-In Storage Beds
CasaSugar – 10 Beds With Built-In Storage
Tomorrow we’ll get out from under the comfy, cozy covers and get to work! We’ll discuss mini home offices that’ll keep you productive in your TAA.
rough linen + storage beds
when it comes to bedding, i tend to swing to both extremes: i really love crisp, preppy, tailored bedding, and i also love really undone, natural-feeling bedding. so i was happy to hear from tricia rose about her collection called “rough linen“. tricia based the collection on old linen from her grandmother’s house in scotland and her own home in france, focusing on creating a rough look, with a texture that’s still soft on the skin. each piece is made the old way with french seams (no serging), cut to the thread, and pre-washed for shrinkage and to release the texture. i really love this look and thought some of you might enjoy the natural, raw look to these pieces, too. click here to check out tricia’s collection and shop online (prices range from $35-$400 for pillows and duvets).
ps: speaking of beds- simone has a great post on storage beds over at the d*s guest blog. click here to check out all of her small space living ideas!
Mr X Stitch Presents: The Cutting (& Stitching) Edge – Paddy Hartley
Welcome to the Cutting (& Stitching) Edge! I’m Mr X Stitch and I’ll be your guide to the best in contemporary embroidery. Each week I’ll showcase someone who is rocking the world of embroidery and textiles.
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Paddy Hartley is the Lead Artist of Project Facade.
This project responds to the patient records of The Gillies Archive and later life experiences of First World War Servicemen who underwent facial reconstructive surgery at the hand of New Zealander Sir Harold Delf Gillies and his surgical team. Paddy constructs three dimensional collage uniform sculptures that explore the cases of these soldiers and their stories.
The pieces includes notes, records and diagrams of the cases, which embellish the uniforms, taking the viewer on a extraordinary journey . Each sculpture tells a story of how these facial surgeries, which were pioneering techniques at the time, were executed and the process that the soldiers went through. It’s fascinating stuff.
These works are astonishing. The subject matter is remarkable, and the way that Paddy has interpreted these amplifies the emotion of the narratives. The work does not sensationalise these stories, but it does enforce the lengths that the individuals went to in their pursuit of regaining a “normal” face.
For more information on this amazing project, visit the Project Facade website.
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Mr X Stitch is a manbroiderer, cross stitch designer and runs www.mrxstitch.com,
the number one contemporary embroidery and needlecraft blog on the planet.
He can often be found hanging out on the Craftster needlecraft boards or at the Phat Quarter on Flickr.
Most adulterous professions
1. Teachers
2. Stay-at-home Moms
3. Nurses
4. Administrative Assistants
5. Real Estate Agents
For Men:
1. Physicians
2. Police Officers
3. Lawyers
4. Real Estate Agents
5. Engineers
Who Cheats? Docs and Stay at Home Moms!
(via MeFi)
(Image: The Seventh Commandment, a Creative Commons Attribution photo from pasukaru76's photostream) Previously:
- Woman stoned to death in Afghanistan for adultery
- Scan of Li'l Abner venereal disease comic strip
- Vintage sexist coffee TV commercial
- A year of following all the rules in the Bible
- Conservative California legislator gives pornographic account of ...
- Political sex scandals: the phenomenon of the "centipede" - Boing ...
Future Heirlooms – An Introduction
Hello and welcome to the bi-weekly post Future Heirlooms. I am very excited and honored to be a part of the Mr. X Stitch team and promise some very awesome and exciting features here.
Future Heirlooms will focus on featuring the work and words of some of the most exciting contemporary embroidery artists working today. Usually this will take the form of an interview. As a blogger, whom has been featuring contemporary embroidery artists work for a few years now I am so excited to get the opportunity to ask questions and get some insider info on some of the most inspiring artists working with the needle and thread today. I promise some inspiring stuff!
To start this feature off I figured what is a better way to get to know me the interviewer than through an interview. Coincidentally, I was just interviewed by a lovely fiber student, Tricia Johnson, from the University of Missouri, and decided this was the perfect way to intorduce myself and the fabulous new post Future Heirlooms. So here goes!
Where do you draw inspiration for your work?
My work is autobiographically inspired, I look at my daily life, daily emotions, and my relationships for inspiration. I make work about the beauty, seen in both the good and bad, of everyday life. Specifically, I focus on the moments that occur within the intimate walls of the home, domestic space, bedroom, and the arms of family relationships. Recently, I have been focusing on the role of the lover and partner. I am about to embark on the adventure of being a mother and will be curious to see how this affects the focus and subject of my work.
Is there a reason you are drawn to a kind of art making that is considered ‘women’s work’ i.e., textiles and embroidery?
I have always been interested in the feminist movement and making work that resides in the realm of the feminine. I enjoy making work that is obviously from the feminist viewpoint. When I began to to work in embroidery it felt very natural to the already present voice of my work. It simply made sense within the conceptual aspects of my work to utilize a process that is historically women’s work, specifically a decorative form of women’s work as opposed to utilitarian. As I continued to make work with text that focused on autobiographical language and free expression- I began to become more attached to the use of found linens. I feel that the found decorative linen can represent the female that did not have the societal right to express her opinions freely and by collaborating with her through my work I give both myself and her a voice.
How do you choose which kinds of textiles to work on?
I choose my textiles very intuitively. Sometimes I go looking for a specific textile for a piece that I have in mind. So I might be looking for a specific type of textile like a table cloth or pillow case, or I may be looking more for a specific size of linen. I always have my eyes open and am looking for special linens that might tell me what they want to say once they come into the studio. If I find an especially beautiful linen I will hang it on my studio wall for days, weeks, or even moths until the linen communicates to me what it should say and be. I really enjoy having the nature of the linen work perfectly with the expression or image that I create.
Where do you find your vintage textiles?
Almost all of my textiles come from antique stores and flea markets. When I lived in Massachusetts I was surrounded by a plethora of affordable linens but now that I live in NYC there are much less available and they are significantly more expensive. So whenever I travel to visit family in North Carolina or Ohio I do some linen shopping to stock up and always have my mom on the lookout in her community to add to my linen stash. I particularly prefer linens that are older and have some evidence of wear and tear to them. A stain or hole makes them all the better.
What is your process when starting a new piece?
For my image based work I am usually inspired by a photograph to make the work. I then search out to find the correct linen, blow the image up- currently I am projecting the image directly onto the linen- and then I trace the photograph. I make a lot of editing choices at this point as I like the drawing to stay simple and focus more on the necessary contours of the figure and space as opposed to getting overly detailed. I then start working. I do not start on any specific area I mainly am just responding to the drawing and image and just sit down and get to work. I do not plan out the colors or techniques very much ahead of time. I respond to the thread that I have available, the colors of the original photo, and the general feeling and sentiment of the work that I want to create.
I generally do not know when I will fill in or leave areas blank until I am actually working. Once the embroidery is finished I may choose to add applique, paint, or text or it may be left simply as just an embroidery.
With text work I usually begin with the linen and then through my own personal reflection and the nature of the linen come up with the statement that I want it to express. I freehand write the work out with water soluble marker- I never trace or use stencils with the text. I want the text to not seem overworked or over thought about. I then choose a color and work on the piece. I usually use either split stitch or satin stitch with my text works. Recently I have been working in a lot of neutral colors allowing the work to have subtly to it.
Do you focus on a single piece or work on several at a time?
I am always working on a few pieces at once. Generally, I have a larger scale more complicated work going on in my studio- recently this has been the large scale image based works.
But I always have small works that I can carry around with me in my bag and work on while riding the subway, in the coffee shop, or at the park and also have a work that I can work at at home.
The image based works are much slower and in process demand a lot more attention and thought so I like to balance this work out with a more straightforward text based work to give my brain and hands a break occasionally.
I saw in some of your work in progress shots that you draw the image out before you start stitching, do you work primarily freehand or from photographs?
All of my image based works originally begin as a photograph, my background and training is as a photographer and this is essential to my thinking and creative process. The act of taking the photograph is important. It helps me to frame the image and work with the quality of light. As a result the final work is a documentation of an actual moment as opposed to one that I imagined or remembered. I also like how by starting with a photograph I am often dealing with a lot of foreground and background and in and out focus.
All of my text based work is freehand.
How do you color your painted figural pieces?
The works that are painted are either painted with water colors or water downed acrylic paint. I decide after the embroidery and applique is finished if I feel that paint is needed. As I have started to work bigger I have started to paint more of my works. I prefer the airiness that the painted fabric maintains as opposed to the heaviness of areas of color filled in with thread. The actual act of painting is very intuitive and often feels a bit like jumping off a cliff. As soon as the paint brush touches the linen I cannot erase it so after the many, many hours of needlework it can be a tense moment in my studio practice. But I am always happy in the end that took the risk.
Any advice for young artists on how to become a full time studio artist?
Hard work, perseverance, and dedication. To be an artist, as your career, you have to approach it like a career you have to show up and make your work everyday. And the work of an artist is not just making the work anymore but also promoting it, finding ways to exhibit, and reaching out to people for exhibition support. I go to my studio everyday and work both on my art but also on my “career” through pr, gallery and curatorial correspondence, archiving of images, website, applying for show, etc., etc. Sadly, I think that the life of an artist has been over-romanticized in the media and a lot of young artists fall into a trap of thinking this is the only way to be an artist. In reality this is a very rare and unusual circumstance. Most successful artists careers have been made through a ton of hard work, a massive amount of dedication both in time and thought, and a true belief and commitment to what one is doing.
When you get started make sure that even if you have a full time job that you have a space and time reserved for your art practice. Even if you just sit in your work space and think or journal. Keeping the mentality that you are an active artist making work is essential to your studio practice. And apply for shows. Let your work get out there and be seen!
Most important – Be authentic to who you are as an artist!!
Thanks so much for Tricia for asking such great questions! I cannot wait to share many more insightful interviews with you. Next time look forward to a fabulous interview with the very exciting artist Lou Trigg.
Until next time keep stitching!
Joetta Maue is a full time artist primarily using photography and fibers. Her most recent work is a series of embroideries and images exploring intimacy. Joetta exhibits her work throughout the United States and internationally, and authors the art and craft blog Little Yellowbird as well as regularly contributing to the online journal Hello Craft. Joetta lives in Brooklyn, NY, with her husband, two cats, a goldfish and a soon-to-be baby.
Christopher Barazak and Karen Joy Fowler readings in Seattle
Looking back at the dotcom boom, ten years later
Wired claims that this is the tenth anniversary of the dotcom boom, and in honor of that auspicious overheated bubble, they've put together a long, Web 0.96b layout depicting the most hubristicly hubristic predictions and hype of that golden age.
I moved to San Francisco in 1999, and remember the feverish absurdity of it all -- and how hard it was not to feel like all these people must know something if they were pouring all this money and energy into all the odd and improbable ideas (a recurring theme I remember was people explaining how they were going to build shopping malls for the web, which, I guess, is basically what Amazon's Z-shops are).
10 Years After: A Look Back at the Dotcom Boom and Bust Previously:
- Monkey Calls! Finally a dotcom
- FIXED Dotcom downturn be damned.
- Poignant story of a dotcom's
- First-person account of a dotcom
- How to avoid the dotcom shakeout: buy a better domain ...
- A quasi-defunct dotcom is doing
Cast-art depicting broken-bone X-rays
Casttoo makes decorative decals for your orthopedic casts -- including these ones, depicting the broken bones within.
(via JWZ)
Previously:
Movie funded by asking for pocket change on Twitter: "At Home By Myself... With You"
Raj Panikkar sez, "We're screening a film called 'At Home By Myself... With You' (directed by Kris Booth, starring Kristin Booth - no relation) at The Royal in Toronto this week. The unique thing about the film is how we raised the financing to shoot. Quite literally, we campaigned for people to contribute their loose pocket change. The strategy took off, partly through an active Facebook and Twitter presence and also frequent video blogs detailing the contributions. By the time we shot the film, we had raised $42,000 (admittedly, one person's pocket change is occasionally another's small fortune - but it did really begin with 15 cents, 43 cents, a dollar 12, etc.) One might be led to assume that with a limited budget, there'd be a matching limitation on production quality. But the film looks gorgeous (Telefilm Canada came on board at the very end to help fund a pro finish), and reviews and comments have been great. We were reviewed by all the major papers in Toronto: The Sun, NOW, The Star, The Post, etc. The film plays at The Royal for the rest of the week, and then gets its TV debut right away on TMN and Movie Central, plus a DVD release on April 6th."
Pocket Change Film (Thanks, Raj!)
(Disclosure: Raj's mother, Bev, taught me to read) Previously:
- Get involved in production of community-made SF movie: Artemis ...
- Loony evangelical claims credit for Canadian film tax-credit ...
- Check out the sunglasses in this curious Danish sci-fi B-movie ...
Movie funded by asking for pocket change on Twitter: "At Home By Myself... With You"
Cory Doctorow
Best jobs in America infographic
Paul sez, "We have been putting this together for a week or so and thought you might like it. Looks like I am going back to school to be a systems engineer, haha."
I like that they've color-coded for "low-stress," "benefit to society" and "satisfaction." However, on these three counts, I'm unsurprised to see that "science fiction writer" didn't make the cut. When I was 17, the school guidance counsellor got in some software that would help you figure out what career to set your sights on. I completed its questionnaire and hit return, and an instant later was advised to become a "geriatric nutritionist" (that is, someone who prepares meals in an old folks' home). Even today, I sometimes feel like I missed my calling. ("Science fiction writer" wasn't on that list either).
Best Jobs in America (Thanks, Paul!) Previously:
- Hotmail users deemed too dumb for employment at firm
- California Supreme Court: Non-compete clauses are not enforceable ...
- Federal temporary jobs in disaster recovery, a HOWTO
- Restaurant lays off waitress who shaved head for cancer charity ...
- Cal State U forced to re-hire Quaker math teacher who inserted ...
- City in Montana requires job applicants to hand over all social ...
- Lose your job, lose your life: trauma of being laid off can ...
- Best Job in the World
- Scary-ass job-loss chart comparing previous and current recession ...
- Grateful Dead Archivist wanted at UC Santa Cruz
- Prison guard: better job than journalist, according to "worst US ...
Best jobs in America infographic
Cory Doctorow
Turn a quarter of Detroit into "semi-rural" farms?
And yes, this entire thing was predicted by David Byrne in 1988 in the song "(Nothing But) Flowers" on the final Talking Heads album Naked. Operating on a scale never before attempted in this country, the city would demolish houses in some of the most desolate sections of Detroit and move residents into stronger neighborhoods. Roughly a quarter of the 139-square-mile city could go from urban to semi-rural.
Near downtown, fruit trees and vegetable farms would replace neighborhoods that are an eerie landscape of empty buildings and vacant lots. Suburban commuters heading into the city center might pass through what looks like the countryside to get there. Surviving neighborhoods in the birthplace of the auto industry would become pockets in expanses of green.
Detroit looks at downsizing to save city (Thanks, Rigel!)
(Image: Garden grows, a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike image from Payton Chung's photostream) Previously:
- Prelinger's Lost Landscapes of Detroit now available for download ...
- Lost Landscapes of Detroit from the Prelinger Archives
- Buy an inch of land in Detroit
- Stop robot poverty: i3 Detroit hackerspace fundraiser
- Pictory's Neighborhood Treasures: Detroit Smile
- Artists buying cheap houses in Detroit
- Haunting photo-essay on rotting buildings in Detroit
- Rotting textbook warehouse in Detroit
latest items from blogs i like
- Can you tell me how to get, how to get to Chandler Lane?
- Robots dance the Nutcracker Suite
- Wednesday Indie Artist Fixx with Dallas Shaw
- Amy Rigby, "Balls" (Greatest Song of All Time of the Day)
- Pair of Bears – Step by Step Tutorial
- Hey you guys! Like my John Wayne Gacy clown painting?
- leefee photography
- Storage Beds
- rough linen + storage beds
- Mr X Stitch Presents: The Cutting (& Stitching) Edge – Paddy Hartley
- Most adulterous professions
- Future Heirlooms – An Introduction
- Christopher Barazak and Karen Joy Fowler readings in Seattle
- Looking back at the dotcom boom, ten years later
- Cast-art depicting broken-bone X-rays
- Movie funded by asking for pocket change on Twitter: "At Home By Myself... With You"
- Movie funded by asking for pocket change on Twitter: "At Home By Myself... With You"
- Best jobs in America infographic
- Best jobs in America infographic
- Turn a quarter of Detroit into "semi-rural" farms?
