L’Ego au Frigo

IMAGE: Marie – Paris – France, from the In Your Fridge series by Stéphanie de Rougé. Photographer Stéphanie de Rougé wanted to shoot a series of intimate portraits of New Yorkers framed by their most personal context. She started by taking photographs of...

Redesigning the Wine Bottle: An Interview with Luke Jerram

IMAGE: Bordeaux-style wine bottles, available from Silver Spur Corporation. A couple of weeks ago, one of my favourite artists, Luke Jerram, tweeted: “Just commissioned to design a new red wine bottle. Fun and challenging. Any ideas?” Well, yes. My idea...

The Shape of Cheese and Chicken McNuggets

IMAGE: McDonald’s Chicken McNuggets; photograph by Kim Bhasin for Business Insider. On a sponsored media trip to McDonald’s US headquarters in Oak Brook, Illinois, Barbara J. Booth, the company’s director of sensory science, told Kim Bhasin of...

Five-Cent Redemption

Among the five documentary shorts nominated for an Oscar this year is Redemption, a thirty-five minute film about New York City’s “canners”: the men, women, and children who collect bottles and cans from the city’s streets for their five-cent...

Of Sisters and Clones: An Interview with Jessica Rath

The story below is cross-posted from Venue, where you can also read about performing horses and saloon cats in the Denver Public Library archives and pop-up opera at Whole Foods in Miami. Venue — a pop-up interview studio and multimedia rig traveling around North...