A biking event in Portland, Oregon. Image courtesy of Carfree Portland.

What if the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway had never been built? What would the sections of New York it bisects look like now? Clarence Eckerson, Jr. poses these questions in his short film, The Mt. Hood Freeway Defeat. Read more…

The Edible Schoolyard Tool Barn. Photo by Richard Barnes

Let me start with a couple confessions. First, I don’t care about furniture. Or, more accurately, I can’t afford to care about furniture. Secondly, I don’t like to do things with my hands. I tried knitting and hated it. In middle school, I came dangerously close to failing Home Ec. And yet, I remain drawn to the work of Scott Constable. Read more…