Monthly Archives: June 2010

This is What’s Inspiring Me Today #2: Poet Linh Dinh, his camera, and the sidewalks of America.

This is What’s Inspiring me Today (Part 2).

Linh Dinh is obsessed with the things that everyone else turns away from. Which also happen to be the things that we stare at, hard, when we think no one else is watching. Linh Dinh is obsessed with porn and poop and fat and homelessness. With disheveled bodies and the boundaries that define what’s “unseemly” and “appropriate.” He seeks discomfort, and finds it all too easily.

In other words, he keeps his eyes open and looks. Continue reading

It’s like a handshake. Now give me your hand.

I love seeing the things I create inspire other people to create things too.

Especially when these things come back to me in the form of tastes and smells and stories and music. Suddenly, the world is a conversation. It’s not about me anymore, my thoughts and experiences. It’s about what surrounds me. Which frankly is quite a relief. Humans didn’t make cave paintings to sit and stare at by themselves, after all.

For instance, Continue reading

Found: Dumpster Dollhouse Bookcase

I went back for it. I couldn’t resist. Continue reading

Who Wants to Play House?

I moved for the sixth time in 12 months, last week.

Walking back to my new building, I stumbled upon this lost little house, waiting for someone to come play.

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