Other Publications
100 Women We Love: Class of 2019 / GO Magazine
From GO Magazine, June 30, 2019 S.E. Jackson, JD Glass, Robin Kish, Alicia Eler, Che Landon, and Dayna Troisi We are thrilled to present this year’s 100 Women We Love—a diverse group of out entertainers, athletes, artists, activists, business leaders, and elected...
‘The Bachelor’ and ‘The Bachelorette’ Could Break Down Ideas About Monogamy / MEL Magazine
Could reality TV open up a real conversation about relationships? During the last season of The Bachelorette, 25-year-old bachelorette JoJo Fletcher was overwhelmed. The physical intimacy she experienced in the Fantasy Suite — the only private moment offered to...
Funny Feelings / Real Life Magazine
“The stage presents things that are make-believe; presumably life presents things that are real and sometimes not well rehearsed.” — Erving Goffman,The Performance of Self in Everyday Life In putting us behind screens, social media can seem as though they put us in...
8 Free Apps That Help You Save Without Thinking / DailyWorth
Save, Save, Save Raise your hand if you want to save more. Okay, keep it raised if you feel like there just isn’t enough time to figure out your budget or calculate how much you should be putting away. Well, all that is about to change. There are tons of ways to save...
7 Top Money Management Apps — Updated / DailyWorth
Understand Your Spending Keeping a balanced budget can help you stay on track and sleep better at night. But if your money-management system requires sifting through piles of receipts and retrieving cash from various pockets and purses, it’s time to reconsider your...
9 Productivity Apps You Need Now / DailyWorth
Go From Dreading to Done Staying attuned to your workflow and on top of multiple tasks is key to making the most of your workday. While the classic to-do list can be efficient, some days easily trample traditional pen and paper, leaving it a scribbled mess with extra...
7 top money management apps / Wall Street Journal
My story on money management apps is featured in the Wall Street Journal. It originally ran on DailyWorth. http://www.marketwatch.com/story/7-top-money-management-apps-2014-08-14?reflink=zacks http://www.dailyworth.com/posts/2815-7-of-the-best-money-management-apps...
6 Ways to Beat the Afternoon Slump / DailyWorth
Lunch is over and you’re heading into that last stretch of the workday. But you’re having trouble focusing on your long, seemingly insurmountable to-do list for the afternoon. We’ve all been there. You might even be there right now. When the slump strikes, you may be...
The Paradox of 3D Printing Japanese Fake Food Replicas / The New Stack
It began with an overwhelming desire for Japanese food. Not to eat it, but to see if those delectable, hyper-real plastic Japanese fake food dinner replicas could be perfectly replicated. If it’s possible to 3D print KFC’s Colonel’s Original Recipe chicken, edible...
3D Printing Is Creating a New Arts Economy / The New Stack
It’s not just glue gun art for nerds anymore As additive manufacturing, or 3D printing, is becoming more affordable and accessible, it is similarly seeping into design worlds such as jewelry and miniature furniture and theater set building. Rather than just printing...
Do the eyes have it? How corneal reflections could help solve crimes / CNET
Investigators already use images from security cameras and photographs snapped by bystanders to solve crimes, but a new study suggests criminal evidence could actually be found in photos that capture the reflections in bystanders' eyes. Researchers from the University...
Managing Editor: The OPP ART CRITICS SERIES for the OtherPeoplesPixels Blog
We are pleased to announce The OPP ART CRITICS SERIES, a new collaboration with OtherPeoplesPixels. In the spirit of continuing to explore/explode Mr. Walter Benjamin's idea of the "aura," artist-run website portfolio service OtherPeoplesPixels is tackling the idea of...
The Child is (Un)dead: Taxidermy Art as Resurrected Victorian Post-Mortem Photography / Essay for the OPP Art Critics Series
Slipping the fur skin of a dead animal over a perfectly crafted taxidermy form produces a visual illusion of life, much in the tradition of a trompe l’oeil painting. In traditional taxidermy terms, the relationship between man and animal is that of a hunter conquering...
Portrait of a Gallery: Sofa King / Newcity Newspaper
The phrase “sofa king” calls to mind that ubiquitous image of Homer Simpson, splayed out on his poop-brown living-room couch. It’s a Sunday afternoon in Springfield, of any state and town in the USA, and the pear-shaped Homer is clad only in white briefs; he balances...
Experimental Cultural Center Mess Hall Closes March 2013 / Chicago Artists’ Resource
Collective, Communal Production Project Ends After 10 Years By Alicia Eler, CAR Visual Art Researcher After ten years the artist-run, experimental cultural center Mess Hall, located at 6932 N. Glenwood in Chicago's Rogers Park neighborhood, closes up shop. Initially a...
CAR Arts Professional Story: Elizabeth Burke Dain – Public Relations for the Arts / Chicago Artists’ Resource
On How Arts PR Shapes an Organization's Message Elizabeth Burke Dain is no stranger to the Chicago art world. Since 1985, she has been crafting the messages of arts organizations around the city. She started her professional career at the Art Institute of Chicago in...
OtherPeoplesPixels Artists & Social Media Series: Reverend Lainie Love Dalby Preaches Spirituality via Social Networks
Reverend Lainie Love Dalby is not a pop culture goddess by any means. In a time of heightened economic, spiritual and emotional insecurity exacerbated by media-saturation, the Reverend is here to help people “live their best life”—but not in theOprah sense of the...
Meg Onli and Daniel Quiles Win Andy Warhol Arts Writers Grant / Chicago Artists’ Resource
Two Chicagoans Win the 2012 Andy Warhol Arts Writers Grant By Alicia Eler, CAR Visual Arts Researcher It's almost Christmas in Chicago, and for members of the visual art community this means only two things: More-hipster-than-thou ugly Christmas sweater parties, and...
OtherPeoplesPixels Artists & Social Media Series: Julia Barbee’s Social Scents
Portland-based artist Julia Barbee wants to know what you smell like. Or, at least what type of scent you would select based on your ecommerce profile or a Craigslist ad that you post. Barbee wanders into that strange strip of creative space between fine art and high...
OtherPeoplesPixels Artists & Social Media Series: Jake Myers on the Importance of Facebook Etiquette
Jake Myers is visible on and offline as an artist and in the artist-run project space scene through The Octagon Gallery, a space that he runs out of his home. It's not a stretch to say that Jake Myers is everywhere. In his artwork, Myers seeks to deconstruct the myth...