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Eye On Design: Parabolic Light By Fred Eversley in Central Park

parabolic light sculpture photo by gail worley
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Twice annually — in the spring and then again in late summer — New York’s  Public Art  Fund  installs a new site-specific artwork in Central Park’s Doris C. Freedman Plaza, and it’s always fun and exciting to see that the next sculpture will be. However, with the recently- installed Parabolic Light, a translucent magenta obelisk by artist Fred Eversley, New Yorkers will get to enjoy its reflective glow  for an entire year!
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Yes, It Exists: Dumpster Fire Soft Vinyl Toy

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OMG. The folks at 100% Soft are at it again. The vinyl collectible that perfectly and succinctly summarizes so many of our feelings over the past couple of years is back with an all new, limited-edition color: the Cough Syrup Purple! Arriving just in time to cheer you up for the flu season, be sure to add this fun toy to your ever-growing collection of rainbow colored Dumpster Fire collectibles. Available now at Spoke-Art.com for just  $25 each!

Eye On Design: Dino The Dinosaur Kiddie Ride

dino dinosaur kiddie ride photo by gail worley
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Wouldn’t it be fun to be the person who designs the coin-operated Kiddie Rides that you sometimes still see out front of suburban grocery stores and strip malls? They aren’t as easy to find now as they were when I was a kid back in the stone age, but I still enjoy documenting them whenever see one. Because, nostalgia.

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Eye On Design: Wendell Castle, Nirvana Armchair

nirvana armchair photo by gail worley
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Wendell Castle  (19322018) was one of America’s most important contemporary furniture makers,  with several distinct stylistic phases in his career. At first he employed both exotic and native American woods to produce furniture characterized by biomorphic forms and attenuated surrealism.

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Eye On Design: Christian Francis Roth, Crayon Dress

crayon dress photo by gail worley
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Humor: That quality in an expression of ideas which appeals to a sense of the ludicrous or absurdly incongruous; a comic or amusing quality.

Christian Francis Roth brings both wit and flawless workmanship to his designs; as  Roth himself noted, without quality the humor of his fashions would fall flat.

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