“Home desk. Brooklyn apartment. Building 10 years, this apartment 1 year. Hanging on the wall to the right of the window is my Chinese paintbrush made of coral. My girl Athena brought this to me from Bejing. On desk: to the right of my beloved Imac, is an original Sandra Magsamen vase she threw herself [...]
“My desk is a quarter sawn oak drafting table from the 1920′s. My friend Ekene Okobi took this right after I got it. I was so happy. I fell in love with it at Architectural Salvage and went on Facebook asking people to be my table fairygodpeople. I was half kidding but people came out of the woodwork and [...]
“As you can see, Kate, I cleaned and straightened just about nothing before shooting this photo. Didn’t even put cool images on the computer screens…” No tricks, no manipulation, no styling. FROM YOUR DESKS: What a stellar photograph; how did you shoot it (camera, lens, time of day?) DON HAMERMAN: A Canon 5DMkII 15mm fisheye [...]
“When I finish xxxx, I’m going to clean up this mess and send a picture to Kate. But, I never really cleaned up the mess. So, finally, I came to terms with reality and took a picture of messy desk, and that is what you have here. I spend a lot of time at my [...]
“Here are a few pics of my vacation desk. The desk away from my desk. It’s where I go to work on creative endeavors.” Stephanie Ellison lives in Saint Louis, Missouri and authors a most excellent (well-written) blog entitled The Mind Body Moderate. Ah, a vacation desk! I like the sound of those two words. Kate [...]
“I travel about 50 percent for work so my desk is always a mess. I cover 11 states in the Northwest including Hawaii, Alaska, California, Washington, Oregon and so on and I try to pick up something cool in each state. We also travel internationally quite a bit and I love knickknacks which kind of [...]
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