Wes Phillips

As Jeff Wong and I took our daily constitutional along Brooklyn's Greenbelt this morning, we spotted these colorful boulders along the shore. You never know who you're going to run across in this borough.

Melvin Jules Bukiet thinks NY's biggest borough has a soft gooey center. Oh yeah? I got yer soft gooey center right heah!

No, not Bachman Turner Overdrive, but the Boston Typewriter Orchestra. Leroy Anderson eat your heart out.

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Here's another example of how Guy.HF combines hand processes with modern technology. The finish room is state-of-the-art, combining heat with super-sophisticated polymer finish formulations. "Yet," Jean-Paul Guy told me, "there is always some orange peel. Machines can't detect it and they can't correct what they can't sense, so a human being carefully checks each piece and makes it perfect."

Hey kids, don't do this at home unless you know what you're doing. But have fun!

Getcher Mobius strips, Klein bottles, and Costa surfaces here!

We all have our obsessions, I suppose. This one seems pretty benign.