Author: kaddevconsult

“It is amazing how much finesse you can get with something as brutal as a chainsaw,” says Shintaro Okamoto, watching his employee Thomas Brown jab away at a 300-pund cube of solid ice. We are on the floor of Mr. Okamoto’s eponymous studio in Astoria,...

Materials for the Arts (MFTA), New York City’s radical experiment in creative reuse, is part orphanage, part archive, and always inspiring. Conceived in 1978 by New Yorker Angela Fremont, this simple idea, to offer castoff and excess art materials to NYC’s artists, educators, and non-profits...

The Jumping Flea, better known by its Hawaiian name of “Ukulele,” is above all an amateur’s paradise.  Much of this is down to simple mechanics: with just four strings and a compact fretboard, the ukulele makes for easy playing. Like a pidgin language, the instrument...