Posts by Eva Avenue

Catching Up with Sam Miller
Now Sam’s living in NYC in a basement with housemates, a head full of new songs, and not much else.
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Want To Be A Mindful Ninja Genius? Try Engaged Presence Practice This workshop will grow your mind AND help me unlock my college transcripts
Engaged Presence Practice grows your ability to interact in helpful, authentic, playful and expressive ways AND to gracefully respond to social overload.
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Adventures in Screenprinting: Baboon Fiesta T-Shirts
Using a printer, paper, scissors and tape, I designed a shirt for Balloon Fiesta but called it Baboon Fiesta. Here’s a video of how we screenprinted them.
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A Letter to People Living in America Who Are Not Americans on the 4th of July
What are we thinking about when we watch things explode in the night sky? Do we dream that night about the beauty of War?
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Burning Questions for Sam Miller Unpacking the making of his latest album "You Need To Hear It"
The last time I saw Sam Miller, we were on a long, long walk across town having a bitch-fest like two ladies knitting at the gin table.
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I Hired An Artist Consultant
“I know that’s crazy, ” I said. And he said I must go for crazy. Keep crazy ideas at the top because that is a force that will carry me along in my career.
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What Can Artists Do About Out-of-Control Cops? My creative response to the Albuquerque police problem
In 2011 I curated a group show called I ♥ Cops in response to APD abuses of power, and similar abuses by out-of-control cops around the nation.
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Burning Questions for New Orleans Gallery Owner Taylor Lyon
I’ve known plenty of very talented artists who just couldn’t get their careers going cause they weren’t willing to go down to the mines and dig it up.
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Burning Questions for Duct Tape Joe, New Orleans Sideshow Clown
I first met him before all the face tattoos, back in Florida when he was 15, painting his eyelashes white and sewing other people’s hair into his own hair.
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Highlights from One Year of Pyragraph: 10 Must-Read Posts
For those of you still staring out the window and in need of another distraction, I present to you 10 exceptional posts from our first year of publishing.
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Burning Questions for Fashion Designer Cameron Levin How she weaves business savvy and fashion sense, and serves her community to boot
As far as best practices, nothing is more important than building personal, meaningful and sincere relationships with people in the industry. It really takes a village to make a designer successful.
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Traveling Photo Studio Explores the Heart of the City Burning Questions for Jerry Wellman and Matthew Chase-Daniel of Axle Contemporary
Matthew Chase-Daniel and Jerry Wellman have been operating Axle Contemporary, a mobile gallery on wheels, since 2010.
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Gift From a Stranger How a woman outside a coffee shop gifted me a journey through France
I gave her my email address but thought nothing would come from it. A few days later, I got an email which proved how wrong I was. I couldn’t believe it.
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Want To Be Creative? Loosen Up Your Frontal Lobe Burning Questions for neuropsychology researcher Rex Jung
Neuropsychologist and professor of neurosurgery Rex Jung explains how creative people tend to have frontal lobes with lowered integrity. In a good way.
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Fears I Overcame While Learning to Write Don't be afraid of messing up all the time!
Today, most people know me for my professional demeanor and cool charm (yeah right). But I wasn’t always this way. When I started training as a professional journalist at the Daily Lobo, one of my big fears of sounding stupid would rear up when I’d call someone. The phone would ring ring ring, they’d say, Read more ›
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Get Into A Gallery With A Great First Impression (And Read Andy Warhol's Party Book)
If your clothes are all stained and torn, your posture sucks and your attitude isn’t authentically charming, you’re an easy write-off.
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