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Dan Hamilton’s astounding range of talent is ours for the taking—if we can get him to stay still for a moment. Who does the U.S. Army call when they need a concept artist for their latest top secret...
Are you planning on taking a trip to the Moon? If so, you’ll want to create a commemorative photo album. The moon is a pretty desolate place and the truth is, you just don’t have a whole lot...
From a very young age, the illusion of motion fascinated me. I would spend hours and hours destroying the books in my parents’ library by creating crude, hand-drawn flipbooks in the margins. Pictured below is a rare 1890s...
My favorite professor — the one who influenced me the most, was Michigan-born artist David Barr. He created iconic public sculptures and conceptual art that can be found throughout the world. If you’ve ever been to Detroit, you’ve...
Growing up, I used to fill my shelves with things I collected in my travels. As my radius of movement was only about 5 miles, what I amassed was pretty lame. Nowadays, thanks to Internet retail, I never...
Inventors have been pushing the idea of immersion in theater for hundreds of years. In 1770, a man named Henry Dircks projected imagery onto billows of smoke that hovered over stage and audience. What he created was a...
The format for Scot Nery’s weekly BoobieTrap show is the wackiest I’ve ever seen. It’s vaudeville on steroids with Nery as the amped up and kooky ringmaster. The performers range from jugglers to contortionists, magicians and poets – but the...
Recently, my talented magician friend Jordan Gold summed up the idea of magic in the following way — Magic is simply the feeling you get when experiencing something wonderful. It doesn’t have to involve decks of cards, shiny...
Remember those bygone days when certain stores would decorate their walls with movie titles for us to pick through? Well, just imagine a magical place that cuts out the celluloid chaff and delivers only what we really want...
In & Of Itself is a personal gift to us from the most honest man alive. This is not a review of the finest theater visit I’ve ever had, but more of a recap of my emotional journey...