Author: Jennifer Hartnett-Henderson
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Scenes from Padova Italy Part 1
Orto Botanico or the Botanic Garden of Padova is just off busy plaza Prato Della Valle. Tucked away from busy roads even in 27C heat, here it is cool in the shade. It’s perfect for a jet-lag nod-off on one of the benches. Focused on rare plants in the Veneto region of Italy, the garden dates…
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Dinner at Castagna
After visiting Portland for over 15 years and driving by this vaunted restaurant on Hawthorne, we finally ate at Castagna. Chef Kevin Gibson put Castagna on the map and went on to create amazing restaurants Evoe and Davenport. Justin Woodward, who received the James Beard Foundation’s Rising Star Chef Award in 2013, is the executive chef at Castagna now. At…
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How to Process Feedback
How to process feedback on our work, families, passions or ourselves is such an important topic. Often we cut ourselves off from feedback because it is often a painful experience. At the recent PBWC conference, Sheila Heen, co-author of Difficult Conversations and author of Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well (even when it is off-base,…
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12,000 Photos on My iPhone
Friday night during dinner with my husband marked my 12,000th photo on my iPhone! That total covers about 3 years and a ton of practice. Here’s to 13,000!
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Scanning Negatives to Your iPhone
If you want images now on a negative to be available on your iPhone there are a few ways to get there for low volume efforts. I tried an iPics2Go portable scanner for the iPhone 4 and 4S recommended by Dan Burkholder in a recent workshop I attended (and will soon right about). The gizmo is on…
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Dutch Designer Marcel Wanders Part 3
As promised in Dutch Designer Marcel Wanders Part 1 and Part 2, here are pictures I would not have taken before I saw the Marcel Wanders Pinned Up exhibit at the Stedelijk and a bit about what’s different. Wanders emphasized stories in his work usually by adding the human form. That got me to thinking about…
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Dutch Designer Marcel Wanders Part 2
In my previous post, I shared my introduction to Marcel Wanders and his products and ideas. In this post, I want to test how his ideas show up in his products on exhibit at the Stedelijk Museum and in his store, Moooi. These 2 faces were almost one story tall and slowly rotated around: The second face on the back…
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Dutch Designer Marcel Wanders Part 1
On our recent trip to Amsterdam, I had the opportunity to go to the Stedelijk Museum, a design museum, where I was introduced to the copious work of distinguished Dutch designer Marcel Wanders. I had never heard of him by name but was familiar with his knotted chair and his Zeppelin light. His products have…
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Thinkering at Hôtel Droog
While you can find the unexpected there, Hôtel Droog also has an exhibition space with some pretty smart art. “Reframing Ambition” by Thomas Lommée & Christiane Högner was the current show. I loved this ever so clear part of their statement: The exhibit was composed of a number of installations. One called Thinkering was an installation of shelves like…
