Seth Rogen and the Secret to Happiness
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Seth Rogen and the Secret to Happiness
How the comedian (and director, writer, ceramist and weed entrepreneur) has made a career out of mining the pitfalls and possibilities of adolescence.
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Seth Rogen’s home sits on several wooded acres in the hills above Los Angeles, under a canopy of live oak and eucalyptus trees strung with outdoor pendants that light up around dusk, when the frogs on the grounds start croaking. I pulled up at the front gate on a recent afternoon, and Rogen’s voice rumbled through the intercom. “Hellooo!” He met me at the bottom of his driveway, which is long and steep enough that he keeps a golf cart up top “for schlepping big things up the driv
Ceramics Are in Fashion
Jonathan Anderson and Kris Van Assche are among the designers inspired by contemporary creations.
A dress from the JW Anderson fall 2021 collection and presentation, which explored volume and shape, and a ceramic piece by Shawanda Corbett.Credit.Juergen Teller, via JW Anderson
By Jessica Bumpus
The fashion designer Jonathan Anderson has always valued the relationship between ceramic forms and fashion.
In December, he curated an exhibition of ceramics and porcelain by Akiko Hirai, titled “Setting a Hare in the China Shop,” at the JW Anderson shop in London and, in February, collaborated with the ceramic artists Magdalene Odundo and Shawanda Corbett for the label’s fall 2021 collection and presentation.
The Black Potters Giving New Life to British Ceramics
The ceramists (from left) Phoebe Collings-James, Bisila Noha and Ronaldo Wiltshire with a selection of their works, including one of Collings-James’s glazed stoneware tiles (bottom left), a pair of Noha’s two-legged vessels in black stoneware and terra cotta (far left) and one of Wiltshire’s stoneware face sculptures (top right).Credit.Photo by Ollie Adegboye. Set design by Alice Andrews.
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The Black Potters Giving New Life to British Ceramics
A growing community of makers are creating work that reflects their identities and challenges the history of their art form in the U.K.
Seth Rogen is well aware of the fact that he looks like seemingly one-quarter of the white men in Los Angeles between the ages of 25 and 50.
The 6 p.m. bed head. The weeks-past-the-last-trim beard. The could-be-anyone glasses. The ironic T-shirts straining to contain an unapologetic dad bod. It’s a relatable Everydude persona that has won him nearly 100 film and television roles, small and large, over the past two decades.
In his breakout 2007 comedy, “Knocked Up,” Mr. Rogen played the directionless stoner who somehow got the girl, and neither could understand why. In “Steve Jobs,” from 2015, he fully inhabited the role of Steve Wozniak, the amiable Apple co-founder who seemed all too content to cede the magazine covers, the billions and, basically, history itself to his swashbuckling partner in the black turtleneck.
Subtle Ceramics, Modeled After the Simplest of Forms
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In Danny Kaplan’s Brooklyn studio, works in progress include lamps, small tables and a pendant light.Credit.Emiliano Granado
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Subtle Ceramics, Modeled After the Simplest of Forms
Inside a former bottling factory in Brooklyn, the artist Danny Kaplan creates hand-thrown lamps and objects that feel at once ancient and modern.
In Danny Kaplan’s Brooklyn studio, works in progress include lamps, small tables and a pendant light.Credit.Emiliano Granado
Feb. 10, 2021
“With clay, you are always trying to achieve perfection,” says the ceramist Danny Kaplan, seated in his 700-square-foot studio, a serene space with 12-foot-high wood-beamed ceilings inside a building that was once a bottling factory in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn. Indeed, behind him, packed closely together on broad steel-frame shelves, are dozens of only slightly