Hello readers! I’m back in California, and back in the swing, after two weeks of work travel. First I had my annual week of teaching at
’s Arts Week. The second week I was in Woodstock, socializing some, working some. I return to you now with a dose of beauty and creative spark which I hope will, at the very least, distract you from the woes of the world. Enjoy!I feel we don’t talk enough about Yma Sumac. I’ll start. Here’s a clip of her performing a song called Virgin of the Sun God from the Mexican movie Las Canciones Unidas from 1960.
Bastian Allfrey is an Australia-based artist who makes really wonderful large-scale murals.
There have been periods in my life when I’ve been obsessed with paper. Coming across the website for Cambridge Imprint made me long for it again. Oh, and they recently started making paper hats!
The facade of the new Cult Gaia store in Miami is made of 1800 pieces of ceramics.
I want to do this! DIY Orient Express train trip. Less luxury, more adventure…
Gulya is a free-style dancer, choreographer. She has a great Instagram feed with tons of live performance. I like this one with the very special hat.
From a pre code short, Nertsery Rhymes, featuring the Three Stooges, comes this dream sequence, with a fabulous fan dance starring the Dodge Sisters. Filmed using a two-color Technicolor process, MGM, 1933.
London’s Sabah Foster makes dynamic collages that bring vibrant, audacious color back to the world of design.
This house in Big Sur is like a dream, or like a portal to heaven.
At a school in North Carolina, they hold an annual maypole festival combining traditional British folk traditions and Appalachian culture. The fabulous puppets made by Paperhand Puppet Intervention.
Cheon-Shik Yang is an “Aggressively Korean” designer and tailor of traditional Korean wardrobe, exploring the intersection of tradition and queerness.
I want to live in the world of this young percussionist.
That’s it for now, kids. I’m wishing you a wonderful weekend. May it include chilled melon. — Chris
P.S. — one of the participants from my Omega workshop wrote a lovely post about our time together. Take a look — and thanks, dear
, for taking the time and care. xx
Thank you Chris for sharing my writing about the writing about the writing. Hope you wrote the post while looking into a mirror, looking into a mirror, and on and on to infinity = ) ...That Cult Gaia facade is STUNNING. You are such a gift to this world. Thank you for shining and sharing your Light!
Thanks Chris dear. My eyes and ears are popping, nourished with all that you've unearthed and shared.