Blogs about: Banally Useful
Et Cetera
Errant Aesthete wrote 2 weeks ago: Former House and Garden editor-in-chief Dominique Browning goes greener, starts writing monthly colu … more →
Civilized Disobedience
Errant Aesthete wrote 1 month ago: For the chronically world weary who wonder why the point of it all, a little glimpse of that elusive … more →
It's All in the Lighting
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Errant Aesthete wrote 2 months ago: Fred Astaire—Top Hat in Funny Face, 1927. Photo: Edward Steichen (MOMA) The celebrity portraitures o … more →
Vegetables of the World, Unite!
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Errant Aesthete wrote 2 months ago: A wonderfully earthy, warm and delicious start on the occasion of World Vegetarian Day. Granted, it … more →
The Fine Art of Feathering
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Errant Aesthete wrote 3 months ago: In a world of digital darting to and fro and analysis on the fly, I don’t pretend to be a guid … more →
Overheard
Errant Aesthete wrote 3 months ago: What are the warning signs indicating clients you don’t want to work with? Bad shoes. Polyest … more →
Lemons to Lemonade
Errant Aesthete wrote 3 months ago: More than 70,000 advertising professionals have lost their jobs in the “Great Recession.” The aptly … more →
Et Cetera
Errant Aesthete wrote 3 months ago: International cancer experts have moved tanning beds and other sources of ultraviolet radiation into … more →
Overheard
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Errant Aesthete wrote 4 months ago: Bathing suits– let’s not kid ourselves– are underwear, but worse. For, unli … more →
Afterword
Errant Aesthete wrote 4 months ago: LET’S say you have what you believe to be a healthy marriage. You’re still friends and lovers after … more →
L'esprit de l'escalier
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Errant Aesthete wrote 4 months ago: Stairway, the Louvre, Paris, 2007 L’esprit de l’escalier or esprit d’escalier (stairway wit) i … more →
A Sobering Look at FOOD
Errant Aesthete wrote 5 months ago: With a constituency limited to anyone who eats, “Food, Inc.” is a civilized horror movie … more →
Summer Solstice
Errant Aesthete wrote 5 months ago: Iridescence Sea, Mark Yankus Today is the summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere, the first offi … more →
Talk Me Into It
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Errant Aesthete wrote 5 months ago: With a primer on each of the “three basic tools of argument” (logos, ethos and pathos), Jay Heinrich … more →
The Genius of Democracy
Errant Aesthete wrote 6 months ago: The Deep Dive: IDEO on Nightline, 1999. Redesigning the shopping cart in one week. A real find attri … more →
Overheard
Errant Aesthete wrote 6 months ago: Perfectionism, as a way of life, tends to be self-defeating. New research suggests it may als … more →
Overheard
Errant Aesthete wrote 6 months ago: Back in 1971, when the web was still twenty years off and the smallest computers were the siz … more →
Tweeting the New Yorker
Errant Aesthete wrote 6 months ago: The Following Account of My Short Career at The New Yorker Ran as a Series of Tweets on May 8, 11, a … more →
In Search of Color
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Errant Aesthete wrote 7 months ago: “The more ugly, older, more cantankerous, more ill and poorer I become, the more I try to make amend … more →
