Rogue Habits

What Tonight's Black Moon Means

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Tonight, we will have our second unique moon event this month in the Western Hemisphere. We had our full, Harvest Moon just a couple weeks ago, but tonight, on the last day of September, we will experience a Black Moon, making a long-awaited appearance since March 2014. The rare sight happens only every 32 months, and after this one, we won't see another bla[...]

The Ferrolic Display: A Clock Where Time Changes Shapes

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Ever wondered what would it be like if the inanimate objects around you came to life? What if the numbers on the clock in front of you suddenly started moving around or changed shapes to grow arms and legs or form little squiggles? Before you laugh away the idea, take a look at the Ferrolic Display. Creator Zelf Koelman has trapped and harnessed the magical [...]

How Bare Wood Metamorphoses into Colorful Panels

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Wooden Aquarelle is a coloring method for wood that has been around for quite some time. In a nutshell, it is a technique in which pigmented water is poured over bare wood and allowed to seep in, dry out, and evaporate to create a myriad of patterns—swirls, twirls, flowing lines, gradients, and smudges. Sounds simple, right? It is not a complex technique to [...]

Bohemian Dream: Justina Blakeney

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Crafting and curating imaginative spaces stimulating enough even for the most creative souls, bohemian queen Justina Blakeney bears a keen eye for unique compilations. Her style carries viewers on a voyage as galloping camel traders riding through desert sands, bearing aromatic spices and fine silk. Art and design oriented since she was a child, Blake[...]

The Realities of a Full-Time Blogger: SF Girl By Bay

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We all strive to turn our aspirations and creative goals into what we can sustainably do every day. The dream is to have full intention, working on what most inspires us. San Francisco-based Victoria Smith, “blogger, photographer, stylist, design junkie and flea market queen,” has grasped the reins on her passion, feverishly burning the midnight oil until he[...]

Life With a Purpose Improves Mental and Physical Wellbeing

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“You can do anything you want.” A push towards happiness; a struggle for passion; an all or nothing endeavor; a disconnect from reality? This mentality—living in the moment and doing what one feels is right for them as opposed to socially accepted norms—seems to have spurred a collective distrust—or disgust rather—in the individuals that have embraced it; in[...]

DIY Rope Bowls for Your Odds and Ends!

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How many times have you reached for your keys, only to find you had misplaced them elsewhere? How about when you find a button, but are not sure what exactly it goes to? You don't want to toss it, because you know the second you do, the shirt it belongs with with show up. Sound familiar? Of course it does! For all those lost and found knick-knacks, here is a[...]

Spirituality through creativity: trusting in the flow of life

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From a small child, Cristina Kalyani Paes has sustained an immense curiosity regarding the mysteries of the world, dreaming of being a hermit and a pilgrim. With a particularly strong interest in life on other planets, she believed that she must have been from another world, or even galaxy due to the destruction she saw on Earth. However, coming from a tradi[...]

Open Mike Eagle: rap in satire

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Bringing Chicago flair to LA’s underground hip-hop scene, Open Mike Eagle oozes old school cool, with skater-street grunge. His latest release Dark Comedy, consists of 13 tracks of meticulously crafted comedic sketches, presenting rap that is refreshingly inspired from films and books rather than ego. With varied concepts, he leans towards introspection and [...]

People Who Live In Glass Houses Are The New Urban Cave-Dwellers

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If a cave is a dwelling with no doors or windows, then this is the opposite of a cave, the cave concept turned inside-out. French architect Stephane Malka has designed a kind of public-domain shelter made entirely out of up-cycled doors and windows. The whole structure is supported on scaffolding for that penthouse-apartment feel - it even has a rooftop loun[...]

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