Hasta La Ideas

Regular readers of Unclutterer and also of my book Unclutter Your Life in One Week know I am a huge fan of Evernote and Instapaper. Both programs allow you to save articles and pages you find on the web and access them later without returning to the original site or needing an active internet connection.

If something is part of an ongoing research project (like Unclutterer post ideas), I tend to save what I find to Evernote. If what I want to read later is interesting to me, but not necessarily related to a specific project, I’ll send it to Instapaper. I have both programs on my smart phone and laptop, so I can access all the documents on any device. When I know I’ll be traveling in the near future, I tend to “Read Later” a lot of documents to Instapaper so I’ll have many options to read on my journey.

This week, Lifehacker tipped me off to another program like Evernote and Instapaper, but “ToRead Sends Article Text Straight to Your [E-mail] Inbox.” I don’t like receiving e-mail, so this isn’t a program for me. However, I thought ToRead might appeal to those of you who are averse to using an unfamiliar third-party viewer.

Are you already a ToRead user? What’s your preference for reading online content when you’re without an internet connection? Tell us about your experiences in the comments.

No Rocking Chair Tonight is a rocking chair and a chair. It’s the use of customers that defines the position of the chair.

Une série de visuels extraites de la galerie street-art, illustrant les qualités des travaux de l’artiste turinois CT. Jonglant judicieusement avec les lettres, les formes et les effets de relief, il utilise des couleurs très variées. Plus d’images dans la suite de l’article.

Visuels extrait de la galerie Ekosystem.

Previously on Fubiz

• Malota Projects
• Jordan Metcalf
• Fine Kohl

DMY Berlin 2010: designer Leoni Werle of Germany combines an enormous lamp shade with a table to make this workspace. (more…)

Singer and musician Devendra Banhart‘s latest project, an art show at Half Gallery in New York’s Lower East Side, could easily be likened to a visual mixtape of sorts, with a tracklist featuring musicians Fabrizio Moretti, Kevin Long, and Banhart himself, among a handful of other artists and designers.

Called “A Ways A Way,” the show features a miscellany of works and various mediums that, despite their randomness, reveal often-surprising glimpses into their maker’s talents. Moretti, for example, best known for being the drummer for the NYC-based band The Strokes, invokes his less-publicized art school education with his pencil and paper diptych “Anonymous Portrait.” (Pictured below.)

Banhart also comes from an art school background; he studied at the San Francisco Art Institute and has exhibited work at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, as well as at the Center for Fine Arts, Brussels. His contribution to the show included a piece from his recent desert-colored series of gouache and pencil eyes. (Pictured bottom left.)

Hot on the heels of his own solo show at Soho’s OhWow gallery, tattoo artist Scott Campbell continues his play on and with money, creating a butterfly-shaped bas relief of laser-cut dollar bills. Other featured artists also tend to the younger fixtures of the NY art scene, like Megan Marrin, who adapted an old French armor-making method known as “cuir-bouilli” to create her leather and glass-fused “Painting Without Paint.”

San Francisco, CA-based artist Keegan McHargue, on the other hand, whose sculpture—fashioned from chocolate, plastic, cloth and Goyard—rounds out Banhart’s motley crew. (Pictured top right.)

“A Ways A Way” runs through 8 July 2010.