ephemeral - August 16, 2008

Warning of the week Ryanair fees take off In response to rising costs – notably the price of fuel – Europe's leading no-frills airline has dramatically increased some of its fees - meaning that a family of four will pay a total of £32 for the privilege

Graphic designers have always developed and designed new fonts for application in individual projects. Playful Type discovers a new and young generation of designers who are applying typography beyond the classical typeset and creating a dynamic range

[july 23, 2008 | sbpc/022] Hear Audio [ mp3 5.1MB ] Musicians from the impromptu Ana-R chamber orchestra, in divers combinations, performed over the course of two separate evenings in june six times a parisian Sound CityScape, signed by the Korean

WASHINGTON — More than a decade and a half ago, despairing that her poems would ever find an audience, Kay Ryan found herself writing one about a turtle. It was about as personal as a Kay Ryan poem ever gets. Ryan's appointment as the nation's new poet

WORCESTER If only Puck, Oberon and their fellow fairies had the power to provide the sort of beatific weather that finally enveloped the Memorial Grove Amphitheater in Green Hill Park on Friday. After three days of inclement frustration, Redfeather

Real gardeners always find new things to enjoy, says Mary Keen Helen Dillon, Very Famous Irish Gardener, came to see the garden here recently. Having seen hers (immaculate, rarefied, glamorous, the best) I was a bit nervous. We don't do immaculate,

SAN FRANCISCO, CA - From August 1 through November 1, 2008, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) features the exhibition New Work: Zilvinas Kempinas, Alyson Shotz, Mary Temple. This focused presentation, part of the museum’s ongoing New

Driftglass (deity) has posted an update to the "seven obscene things you can't say on television" and each one of them, in my opinion, should be stitched to a sampler and mailed to Wolf Blitzer's mother. But the big news is that some Netroots

To the degree that light is described in ephemeral ways —mood, soft, warm—Brooklyn-based glass blower John Pomp knows how to control the untouchable. This former student of master Venetian glass designers has just begun to use light—in addition to

Didier used modest materials throughout -- preserving the original floors but streamlining the lines of the apartment, removing door frames and replacing them with pivoting doors screwed into the ceiling that can be opened or closed at will, building

“I pass six Starbucks every morning on my walk to work. Just to clarify, that's counting only the Starbucks that are actually on the west side of Eighth Avenue in midtown Manhattan. I think there are some branches on the east side, but that side