Can You Really Interest Your Son in Painting the Kitchen?
Listen, any chance I get to hang out with my boys, Remy and Sky, I jump for. Painting our kitchen doesn’t seem like the most obvious place to do this but I thought it would be a kind of quirky place to have a little fun.
Feed Your Talent
This is the secret to my success. I can get Remy and Sky to do almost anything if I feed them first. Yes, the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach. I made them both a Manly Man Breakfast this morning and when they were finally full and happy I asked them to help me pick out colors for the kitchen. They never saw it coming!
Do Dramatic Readings
Ask your son to pick out colors? Are you insane? Of course you’re not nor would you ever think of such a thing! How do you tackle that tactfully?
Get Pumped About It
Facebook it! Mikki, my daughter, loved seeing Remy get into this project and shared it with her friends. The fate of my kitchen is now in the hands of my kids and we are having a great time together figuring it out.
Here’s a video for you to enjoy!
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If you have a really old house like me, you probably live in a constant state of home improvement. Once you fix one thing, you end up fixing five other things. And don’t you hate having to pay more for stuff because you have to maintain the look and character of the house?
David, our friend and contractor who is working on our kitchen, is trying to teach us how a house is built. For Seth and me, this is like learning Norwegian.
It is just starting to snow and I thought the best way to keep warm would be to look at some of my Flip video footage, especially of warm weather, and make a couple of one minute Wow! videos for your viewing pleasure.
This one was taken in Chicago on the short stretch of sand by the lake and features words of wisdom about looking fabulous and chic – in other words, not fat, according to the Son of Mildred, Seth Krakauer.
Here’s to your svelteness!
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Hoong Yee
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Thanks so much! I really appreciate your help.
Word of mouth is the best way to share, don’t you agree?
Last Thursday, Seth and I went over to the Dean Project for the opening of a Long Island City artist, Carol Peligian. How we got there was a typical New York City story of traffic and crazybusy schedules. How Carol got there was a much more interesting story.
Let me just say that in this world of art and artful living, you must always be open to the universe of possibilities. And desire.
Here’s a little video of my chat with her.
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Getting to Wow! to feel good, do good and look good
Nonprofit Knitwear for all things knit and nonprofit
Style Notes from me, your artspy
Hoong Yee
– Subscribe and get a little Wow! every day
– Forward the link to someone you think would be interested
– Link to a post on Twitter (follow me @hylkrakauer)
– Put a link to the blog in your Facebook status update
Thanks so much! I really appreciate your help.
Word of mouth is the best way to share, don’t you agree?
Technology tripped all over itself to perfect the search function, web developers created all kinds of platforms like Wikipedia to collect information that would surface at the touch of a keyword. We were dazzled by all of the stuff we could get to, we were drowning in facts and figures. Now we are dazed by the endless stream of data that surrounds us. We don’t know where to begin.
Think about it. You don’t want to wade through pages upon pages of sites about the Chopin Ballades for piano. You would probably pay for a site to deliver a select sampling of recordings by ArturoRubinstein, Vladimir Horowitz and Yundi Li with an analysis focusing on the period of history in which they were composed and a critique of each performer’s style.
Or something like that. I know I would.
I want something unique, well researched and unexpected.
And I am not alone. Everyone wants something special.
This is what art is. This is what artists do. The experience of art has the power to provoke, startle, transcend and yes, transform you. This is what I want.
I am excited to see what what our world will become when technology lays in the hands of artists. When knowledge is learned through the senses and not the intellect.
What do you look for when you are searching for something? How do you know decide what is important to keep and what isn’t?
Here are three videos of my favorite pianists performing Chopin Ballade No. 4 for you to enjoy while thinking about -
What do you really want?
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