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In this week's interview from our sister site Yogamates.com, we drop in on Robert Sturman at his Santa Monica, CA gallery and studio, where he gives us an inside look at the techniques and philosophy behind his unique photography.

Funny video showing how frustrating it can be to wait in reception areas, hotel lobbies, doctor offices, dentist, resorts, etc...very creative!

Seen on our nightly neighborhoood walk.

Danny Seo shows how to make personalized artwork using photographs and other objects in shadow boxes.

This fall artists have turned Times Square into an urban jungle with 185 tree-themed banners designed with political, environmental, and social issues in mind. The Urban Forest Project will flap in New York City's skyline through October 31st. The beautiful banners speak in pictures and words. One reads, "Trees can't afford to live here." Another simply states the word "mother" under an image of a pinecone. After the exhibit, the banners will be recycled into hip tote bags and auctioned off with proceeds going to students and scholarships of the visual arts. Mark Randall, principal of WorldStudio, and Tim Tompkins, president of the Times Square Alliance, planted the seeds for the exhibit.

Attention Chicagoans. (Chicagoites? Chicagoistes?) The Hyde Park Art Center, all aglow in a new location, is offering the chance to feel your city's roots. Or to feel some kind of roots, anyway: Among the reopening exhibition's new works is a modular green roof installed by Chicago artist Stuart Keeler, who says he was inspired by the many green roofs he saw from his studio window while working in Germany. The exhibition, called Takeover, features art seeking to "utilize, incorporate, correspond or disrupt a particular space" of the new building, according to the Center. (Hey, they can disrupt my asphalt-shingled roof anytime.) Takeover runs until June 11.

A sad loss permeates the excitement behind the recent news (here + here) of N55’s revolutionary, low cost, high design, sci-fi, geodesic Micro Dwellings—namely that artist Ingvil Aarbakke, a key member of N55, died late last month.