Eric Smillie | Writer

I'm Eric Smillie, a freelance culture journalist covering art, travel, food, lifestyle, and music for GOOD, Wired, Wired News, Make, Craft, VIA, XLR8R, Signal to Noise, and other publications.

Contact

eric at ericsmillie.com

Articles

GOOD
Wired
Make & Craft
XLR8R
VIA

Posts from September 2008

Posted
21 September 2008 @ 10pm

Category
GOOD

Why do teachers quit public schools?

One of the secrets of journalism is that other people do your work for you. All the raw material that gets crunched up into an article comes from somewhere else—it’s the good characters, dynamite quotes, and unreal stories that make the final piece good. Oh sure, putting sentences together with style is an art, and [...]


Posted
1 September 2008 @ 11pm

Category
Make

Kitchen saw mates with watermellon + Full-size tools soldered from pennies

Why shouldn’t art be funny? If you like this still photo of In Natura (Coitus Bizzarus) by Krištof Kintera, see the odd coupling caught on video.
Kintera’s a real do-it-yourselfer’s artist; he builds sculptures out of appliances, bicycles, electricity-producing potatoes, and other stuff found out in the land of instructables and science projects. He’s also the [...]