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Miscellany: Special Arts Edition!

Franco Zeffirelli is one of Leonardo da Vinci’s descendants. (Well…sort of.) Dame Carol Ann Duffy (no, you’re thinking of Carol Anne—I’m + more

Friday Afternoon Reading

It’s the classic David-and-Goliath story: The widow Yolanda Signorelli von Braunhut, “isolated, cash-starved, often without electricity or running water on a palatial + more

Color Me Intrigued

Though I have mixed feelings about the colorization of black and white photographs, I have to admit that this time lapse + more

French Connection

Envelope? Or ahnvelope? Pretty sure I’m the only one at helveticka world headquarters who pronounces it without the nasal French + more

Nature, Perfected

“New York’s least likely media mogul was the mastermind behind Environments, a series of records he swore were ‘The Future + more

Miscellany

Tired of all that “obligatory mutual admiration,” Sadie Stein has a proposition: that we “proceed under the assumption that we all look + more

Book Report

Finally got around to reading David Browne’s magisterial So Many Roads: The Life and Times of the Grateful Dead. Granted, + more

Final Four Fever: CK Anderson, circa 1978

Sure he lowered the rim and partially deflated a child-sized ball in order to appear as if he could dunk. + more

Poetry Break

THE VISIBLE AND THE IN- Marge Piercy Some people move through your life like the perfume of peonies, heavy and + more

Timelessness

Thanks to Lars Müller Publishers, the principles that shaped the career of the late Massimo Vignelli (1931–2014) into one of the 20th century’s great design + more

Spokane Scene no. 17

I’m not sure how I feel about this. I mean, of all places, a cemetery ought to offer some respite from the inexorable onslaught + more

Poetry Break

HYPERBOLICSYLLABICSESQUEDALYMISTIC Isaac Hayes I wanna come back Cause I like it like that Your modus operandi Is really all right, + more

Miscellany

Though we’ve been busier than a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs around here, I can no + more

My Weekly Awesome

Throughout the week it’s easy to find cool things on the internet. Typically I share them with my coworkers, but busy days have + more

Jmup Aournd

I am not dyslexic, and until this morning, I could only imagine what it would be like. Thanks to this amazing link, everyone + more

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