Google Doodle Pony Express Game

With the immediacy of the internet and email, it’s hard to imagine that one day mail was delivered by horses. Google’s Gmail service is one of the most popular in the world, so it’s not without irony that the web behemoth is celebrating the 155th anniversary of the Pony Express with a Doodle Game. Slalom through cacti, bandits and other obstacles of the old west …

Cacti Made from Plastic Bottles

Czech artist Veronica Richterová is repurposing plastic bottles into dreamy works of sculptural art in what she calls PET-ART. The crinkly green, blue, brown and clear bottles are distorted, punctured and popped to form small cacti or are stacked on top of each other to create larger works like transparent trees or jellyfish. Since 2004, Richterová has been dedicated to using the recyclable bottles as …

Patti Smith’s New Memoir

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Following up the beautifully written “Just Kids,” Patti Smith—singer, songwriter, poet, artist and icon—has announced her new memoir, “M Train,” will be released later this year. Described as a trip “through prose that shifts fluidly between dreams and reality, past and present, across a landscape of creative aspirations and inspirations,” the book is said to explore Smith’s feelings about her craft and creative origins, as …