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Number-One Fantasy
“My last name my whole life was Graboff, which is just a terrible thing” for a kid—even worse, one imagines, for a lover of things other kids often ridicule, like...
Number-One Fantasy
“My last name my whole life was Graboff, which is just a terrible thing” for a kid—even worse, one imagines, for a lover of things other kids often ridicule, like...
Formative Experiences
At the end of a short passageway in the New Haven Museum, a school of origami boats hangs by thin strings at varying heights, as if suspended in animation. Each...
Formative Experiences
At the end of a short passageway in the New Haven Museum, a school of origami boats hangs by thin strings at varying heights, as if suspended in animation. Each...
Pencil Puller/Pusher
Four years. 300 square feet. 2,496 pencils. They’re what artist and architect Krikko Obbott poured into Super Big Apple, a mammoth 20’x15’ aerial rendering of New York City. The highest...
Pencil Puller/Pusher
Four years. 300 square feet. 2,496 pencils. They’re what artist and architect Krikko Obbott poured into Super Big Apple, a mammoth 20’x15’ aerial rendering of New York City. The highest...
Flight over Water
Near the middle of the 19th century, ships would sail from America to Britain, carrying raw materials like timber. But when these same vessels returned, they’d become “coffin ships,” packed...
Flight over Water
Near the middle of the 19th century, ships would sail from America to Britain, carrying raw materials like timber. But when these same vessels returned, they’d become “coffin ships,” packed...
Chalk-Full
What do a snowman with a wine bottle, a baker flying on a measuring cup and a creepy, hollow-eyed businessman all have in common? Michael Micinilio. For the past decade...
Chalk-Full
What do a snowman with a wine bottle, a baker flying on a measuring cup and a creepy, hollow-eyed businessman all have in common? Michael Micinilio. For the past decade...
Beat Fighters
Kevin “Guerreiro” DeShields is a fighter. For years he practiced Western boxing and, later, Chinese martial arts. Of African descent, DeShields became curious about whether there were any martial arts...
Beat Fighters
Kevin “Guerreiro” DeShields is a fighter. For years he practiced Western boxing and, later, Chinese martial arts. Of African descent, DeShields became curious about whether there were any martial arts...