Eric Smillie | Writer

About

Eric Smillie is a freelance journalist covering art, travel, food, and culture for GOOD, Make, VIA, Wired, and other publications.

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eric at ericsmillie.com

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Articles


Winter 2010

In Defense of Time Off
A manifesto for The GOOD (and ReadyMade) Guide to Slowing Down

Watched Pots
Meals for the back burner from The GOOD (and ReadyMade) Guide to Slowing Down

Step Away from the Smartphone
Easy ways to unplug your gadgets and your life from The GOOD (and ReadyMade) Guide to Slowing Down

Fall 2009

Crap Caper
In Chicago, Humble Pile’s illegal cache of human waste is tomorrow’s gardening gold

Spring 2009

Sorry, Portland
A primer on the best burgeoning bike scenes in North America

September / October 2008

Class Action
More and more teachers are quitting public schools. In their own words, seven of them explain why

July / August 2008

Beautiful Messes
A travel guide to man-made disasters

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January 2009

Art from the Sole
Susan Danis says yes to the universe. Even when it makes her a bed from a rusty frame, a stained sheet, and a blanket of shoes

November 2008

Avian Spacecraft
After traveling all the way from Wisconsin to Pennsylvania, Gail Simpson and Aristotle Georgiades’s giant sculpture Others got stuck in a tree

August 2008

Shock and Awesome (Subscriber access only)
Whether it’s with saws running in the floor or cement sacks tumbling from the sky, Kristof Kintera likes to make the patrons of his art a little nervous

August 2008

Stylish Change
When sculptor Stacey Lee Webber decided to pay tribute to hard work, she invested many long hours of painstaking, repetitive labor. They paid off… by being long, painstaking, and repetitive. And by producing a life-size set of tools out of pennies

May 2008

Auto Erotic
After five ratchet-welding years, Liz Cohen has created a lawnmower that becomes an El Camino

April 2008

Fin Art (Subscriber access only)
Fish fanatic Anne-Catherine Becker-Echivard is hooked on the drama of the diorama

February 2008

Beautiful Beans (Subscriber access only)
Gooey and good for you, the easiest way to score the Japanese trend-food natto is to make it yourself

November 2007

Killer Crochet (Subscriber access only)
The monstrously ironic sculptures of Patricia Waller

July 2007

Get a Rise Out of Sourdough (Subscriber access only)
Get a Rise Out of Sourdough (Now reposted online)
The yeasty way to a truly good loaf

January 2007

Power Flower (Subscriber access only)
Towering, 80-foot art cranes make for big, bicycle-eating burningman toys

November 2006

The Secret Life of Death Clouds
Artist Matt Jones steers a giant, inflatable orca through a stand of cacti and survives

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July / August 2009

The Awe in Utah
The largest man-made excavation on Earth has a visitors center. And explosions!

March / April 2009

Man of the Rush Hour
Author Tom Vanderbilt explains what makes “safe” roads especially dangerous

January / February 2009

Pacfic Beaches Perfect for Combing
Story by Michael McRae. Sidebar by yours truly

January / February 2008

The Big Easy Made Easy
Where to eat and what to do in New Orleans. (Story by Roy Blount Jr. Sidebar by yours truly)

November / December 2007

The East Bay’s Pinball Palace
The game is still king in Alameda, California

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June 27, 2008

Wired News: Summer Test — Tents

Wired News: Summer Test — Expedition Packs

June 2008

Pump Up the Ham
Pressure cookers reviewed

May 17, 2008

Wired News: Vintage Japanese Robots Storm Sci-Fi Museum
A designer’s collection of ass-kicking toys

April 2008

Acid Trip
Vitriolic artists use a vat of the sulfuric stuff to harness sonoluminescence

March 2008

Home Improvements
Online art galleries peddle original works at the right price

February 2008

How to Brew Ginger Beer

February 2008

Found: Tattoo of the Future

January 2007

Space Oddity
Disenchanted artist Scott Listfield lands an astronaut in every painting

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November 2007

Nôze: Jazz-Loving Technoids
Is pure fun a genre?

September 2007

Quio: Missunderstood
Ina Rotter likes to be taken “unseriously”

April 2007

Tigrics: Hungarian Heart
Problem child Róbert Bereznyei loves music’s ridiculousness factor

October 2006

Jan Jelinek: Sowing Wild Oats
A master of the sequencer finds a new passion in improvisation

June / July 2006

Black Dice: Blood & Guts
Eric Copeland talks about 130 pages of the most psychedelic noise you’ve ever seen

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