Cook It Raw: Recipes, notes and photos of ultra-exclusive culinary adventures revealed to the rest of the world

Cook It Raw


Invited by consultant Alessandro Porcelli to explore sustainability through food for an event coinciding with the 2009 climate change summit in Copenhagen, the group of innovative chefs behind Cook it Raw—the ultra-exclusive organization that evolved out…

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Link About It: This Week’s Picks: Whole Foods’ rooftop greenhouse, the late Roger Ebert, the cell phone’s 40th birthday and more in our weekly look at the web

Link About It: This Week's Picks


1. AIPAD Photography Show The Park Avenue Armory in NYC is currently playing host to the AIPAD Photography Show, one of the year’s most impressive gatherings of contemporary photography talent. For those unable to make the show, ); return…

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I’m So Wild About Your Strawberry Mouth: Artist Aïda Ruilova talks about themes of desire, exploitation and escape in her first West Coast show

I'm So Wild About Your Strawberry Mouth


by Vivianne Lapointe “I’m So Wild About Your Strawberry Mouth,” a multidisciplinary exhibition by West Virginia-born, New York-based artist Aïda Ruilova, presents…

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I’m So Wild About Your Strawberry Mouth: Artist Aïda Ruilova talks about themes of desire, exploitation and escape in her first West Coast show

I'm So Wild About Your Strawberry Mouth


by Vivianne Lapointe “I’m So Wild About Your Strawberry Mouth,” a multidisciplinary exhibition by West Virginia-born, New York-based artist Aïda Ruilova, presents…

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Sheryl Connelly’s 2013 TED Notes : Conference veteran and Ford futurist Sheryl Connelly shares her brilliantly illustrated synopsis

Sheryl Connelly's 2013 TED Notes


Each year we travel to Long Beach, CA for TED and each year, though armed with inspiration anew, we’d leave with scattered notes—hammered out on an iPad or illegibly scribbled alongside speaker bios in the TED program—that hardly do justice to the…

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Sheryl Connelly’s 2013 TED Notes : Conference veteran and Ford futurist Sheryl Connelly shares her brilliantly illustrated guide

Sheryl Connelly's 2013 TED Notes


Each year we travel to Long Beach, CA for TED and each year, though armed with inspiration anew, we’d leave with scattered notes—hammered out on an iPad or illegibly scribbled alongside speaker bios in the TED program—that hardly do justice to the…

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Interview: Ann Marie Gardner of Modern Farmer: Global agricultural issues, modern farm design, baby animals and more in a new publication

Interview: Ann Marie Gardner of Modern Farmer


Pointing to the movement in recent years to connect with our food sources as we become increasingly aware of our impact on the planet, Modern Farmer—a daily website, print quarterly, event series and online store launched…

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Art Paris Art Fair 2013: Identity obscuring portraits, “Half Drags” and lost-and-found family trees in our look at the contemporary fair

Art Paris Art Fair 2013


Held at the beautifully historic Grand Palais, the 2013 edition of the Art Paris Art Fair seemed fixated on distorting reference points, by playing with illusions and optical tricks. Among the group of 144 international galleries we encountered work featuring blurred, masked and…

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First Container: Collision Works Story Box: Help kickstart a community-driven shipping container center in Detroit’s Eastern Market

First Container: Collision Works Story Box


We’ve seen several creative applications for shipping containers in the past, and the fact remains that these steel structures are unparalleled in terms of durability and availability for a recycled building material. Friend of CH …

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Mark Ryden: The Gay 90’s : The Pop-Surrealist returns with a series of illustrations highlighting turn-of-century problems

Mark Ryden: The Gay 90's


Pop-Surrealist Mark Ryden introduced his creepily precious characters to the contemporary art world in the 1980s to wide acclaim, and in his sixth book, “); return…

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