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Julie Greicius

Julie Greicius was Art Editor for The Rumpus when it launched in January 2009. One year later, she became Senior Literary Editor, and later, Senior Features Editor. Julie also co-edited the first book published by The Rumpus, Rumpus Women, Vol. 1, featuring personal essays and illustration from twenty kick-ass contributors. Her writing been featured on The Rumpus, Midnight Breakfast, Stanford Medicine Magazine, and BuzzFeed, as well as in the anthology The 27th Mile. She lives in California and is a member of The Rumpus Advisory Board.
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    And Now, A Year of Recognition

    After a lifetime of extreme, little-known performances, 58-year-old Tehching Hsieh is suddenly in the spotlight.

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    But What Do We Really Want?

    If you haven’t read Daniel Bergner’s recent article in The New York Times Magazine, “What Do Women Want?” or better yet, his book, The Other Side of Desire,  you should, if only to prepare for The Rumpus’s imminent interview with…

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    Maywa Denki

    In 1993, brothers Nobumichi and Masamichi Tosa reopened their father’s failed company, Maywa Denki, as an “art unit.” They acted as “parallel-world electricians” and built a following as artists and musicians using extraordinary instruments of their own design. In 2001,…

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    IKEA Ninjas

    The art of hiding in plain sight, a ninja skill and military staple, was tailored for average pedestrians a little over a year ago by Japanese clothing designer Aya Tsukioka as a way to avoid urban crime. It was a…

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    Grapes of Skullz by Ludo

    (via Juxtapoz)

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    The Best Word Book Ever, Then and Then

    In 1991, the editors of Richard Scarry’s Best Word Book Ever made some key editorial changes in an effort to level the race, gender and religious biases of the original 1963 edition. The side-by-side comparison offers a composite look at…

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    …Is Another Man’s Fertility Fetish

    The main character in Karan Mahajan’s novel, Family Planning, is a man who is only attracted to his wife when she is pregnant. “He liked the smooth, alien bulge of her stomach or the tripled heartbeat when they made love,…

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    Ten People’s Favorite Blog

    Flavorwire interviews online curator and blogger Leslie Miles about his visual curation site. “The concept was simple enough: No words. Just images. Each post is a theme. The beauty is in the simplicity of the visual inspiration. … I was…

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    Arthur Ganson’s Poetic Kinetics

    Yesterday my heart went out to the image of a small, walking wishbone that seemed to pull, like a frail ox, a complex contraption behind it. It was the most melancholy wishbone I’ve ever seen. Like most of Arthur Ganson’s…

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    Cory’s Yellow Chair

    “I constructed this machine when, in my mind’s eye I saw my son’s little yellow chair explode with infinite speed, travel to the far reaches of the universe and slowly come to complete stillness. Then, beginning to collapse slowly at…

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    Thinking Chair

    “One day I found a loose rock with a flat face and the idea for ‘Thinking Chair’, a self-portrait of this experience, came into being.” —Arthur Ganson

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    Machine with Wishbone

    “Caught in a symbiotic relationship, both the wishbone and the machine are unable to manifest fully without the other. We drag our pasts with us and move according to unseen forces. More and more, we interface with the world through…