[caption id="attachment_21061" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="From Vincent Laforet"][/caption]You know you've seen them. Photographs of crowded plazas taken from a great height that for just...
[caption id="attachment_21090" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="A Friday evening Off the Grid event at Fort Mason in San Francisco."][/caption]Lately there’s been a real zeitgeist of food truc...
[caption id="attachment_21039" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="A great collection of vintage radios from Mark Amsterdam in The Collection Collective Group on Flickr."][/caption] Collecting is...
[caption id="attachment_21020" align="aligncenter" width="525" caption="A nice illustrated cover by Renee Castro."][/caption] One of the great things about living in the Bay Area is the endless variet...
Did you celebrate International Chess Day on July 20? Not to be confused with National Chess Day, which is celebrated on Oct. 9. Who knew National Chess Day was a Libra? But I digress ... The chess b...
With the advent of the Kindle (and the Nook and the Kobo and the iPad, etc.) fewer and fewer people will be toting an armful of books on summer vacation. It already gives me a pang of sadness for the...
[caption id="attachment_20773" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Cafe image from blogger Little Brown Pen's Paris Color Project"][/caption] Bastille Day is today. It celebrates the storming of...
It seems like the proliferation of computers and wide-spread access to digital creation has brought on a backlash against art and design that is easily reproduced and homogenized by the use of univer...
Tuesday, July 12 is Paper Bag Day. I'd like to think of it as shopping bag day. And we can thank Margaret E. Knight, who, while toiling away in a cotton mill, invented a machine to give paper bags fl...