by Carlyn Yandle | Sep 17, 2024 | Architecture, Building, City Planning, Community, Composition, Connection, Crafts, Critique, Culture, Form, Gentrification, Green Space, Handmaking, Housing, Ideas, Images, Industrial Design, Innovation, Inspiration, Invention, Joyful Making In Perilous Times, Landscape, Marketing, Martha Stewart, Media, Process, Project, Social Engagement, Urban Design, Vancouver
New modular building blocks create a visual for more humane density​I blame my dream-home fantasies on that OG influencer Martha Stewart.​When the thick, slick Martha Stewart Living was queen of the magazine racks I was there for the Crafts: the rustic doorstop...
by Carlyn Yandle | Mar 27, 2015 | Assemblage, Clay Yandle, Collaboration, Creative Process, Design, Display, Eggbeater Creative, Experimentation, Form, Found Objects, Ideas, Inspiration, Marketing, Martha Rosler, Painting, Recycle, Sculpture, Semiotics, Surrealism, Typography, Unfixtures, Upcycling
“Unfixtures”: Found lamp bases, utensils, gesso. I liked the idea of messing with the overlooked and the banal to open up possible new understandings about preconceived notions.There was something delicious about a collection of attractive objects —...
by Carlyn Yandle | Dec 19, 2014 | Aesthetics, Art, Art School, Artist, Climate Change, Collaboration, Craftsmanship, Design, Form, Handwork, Industrial Design, Maker, Marketing, Production, Sculpture, Technology, Use Object
Dear Santa,I know I haven’t written since I was a kid, and when it comes to wants, I’m pretty much good. Unlike a lot of my neighbours who rent homes that are slated for demolition in the coming year or who have to hit the food bank at the end of every...
by Carlyn Yandle | Nov 14, 2014 | Art, Art Discourse, Artist, Big Data, Critique, Culture, Distraction, Instagram, Marketing, Media, Research, Social Engagement, Social Media, Vancouver
I’ve been giving Instagram a lot of thought. And I’ve concluded that I’m exhausted. (Photo by Carlyn Yandle) I realize that Instagam can turn a small-town lady with a crafty idea into an international business success story, but that’s quickly...
by Carlyn Yandle | Aug 1, 2014 | Art Discourse, Blogs, Critique, Cultural Studies, Culture, Culture Jamming, Dafen Village, Environmental Art, Expression, Found Objects, Inspiration, Kyoto, Marketing, Meditative, Motivation, Photography, Process, Social Engagement, Social Media, Vancouver, Wood
Zen Garden, Buddhist Temple, Japan The first time I saw a “dry landscape” Zen garden in one of the hundreds of temples in Kyoto, my brain sort of short-circuited.This was the mid-’80s, and here was a Zen Buddhist priest meticulously raking the gravel...
by Carlyn Yandle | Jun 20, 2014 | Art, Business, Cultural Hub, Display, Exhibit, Gallery-row, Gentrification, Marketing, South-granville, Vancouver
The neighbourhood as it was when I lived there. I have a bit of a love-hate relationship with South Granville, the shopping strip between 6th and 16th Avenues.This was the neighbourhood of my first apartment, a $350-per-month studio in the old Greenwood Lodge, in the...
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