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New York City never fails to deliver when it comes to street art — even when it’s unintentional. Case in point: this week’s Pink Thing of the Day, spotted on Avenue B between East 3rd and 4th Streets. Here we find a once-loved, now forsaken Fuzzy Pink Teddy Bear, perched dramatically atop a pile of black garbage bags like a plush monarch surveying its trash kingdom. Continue reading Pink Thing of The Day: Abandoned Pink Teddy Bear
You want to have a special wedding, a meaningful day that’s a true celebration of your relationship, but it can feel like all of the traditions and rules in place are a major constraint on things. If planning a traditional wedding is becoming too stressful, then it can be important to acknowledge that, yes, you can buck those trends. In fact, here are some that you might want to reconsider entirely.
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This bronze figure of Le Petit Prince (The Little Prince) appeared in 2023 on New York City’s 5th Avenue, near Central Park on a low wall in the garden of the Payne Whitney Mansion, which houses the Villa Albertine, the cultural center of the French Embassy. This statue is based on the beloved character from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s 1943 novella, which is one of the most translated and best-selling books in the world, though I have never read it.
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When summer shows up, you get all excited: the sun’s out, and it feels like the perfect time to get the garden sorted. Maybe you have an idea in mind for a modern garden that you want to plant. The seeds go in, the beds look tidy, the hose makes its big seasonal comeback, and then the weeds arrive like they own the place: uninvited, unstoppable, and somehow growing five times faster than anything you planted.
Continue reading How to Stop Weeds from Taking Over Your Garden this Summer
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Tony Stark, as Iron Man, sacrifices himself to save the universe from the super villain Thanos in Avengers: Endgame (USA, 2019), directed by Anthony Russo and Joe Russo. The gems encased in the exterior of this gauntlet represent the Infinity Stones, formidable weapons with the ability to manipulate mind, power, reality, soul, space and time.
Continue reading Eye On Design: Gauntlet from Tony Stark’s Iron Man Suit