Category Archives: JACK ATKINSON – EDITOR’S HELLO!

THE FALL ARTS SEASON BEGINS As the air turns crisp and the days grow shorter, there’s an unmistakable shift in the atmosphere, a quiet signal that Fall has arrived. It’s a season that carries with it a certain magic, a reminder of nature’s ability to dazzle and inspire. In New York City, Fall is not […]

Here is a summary of the “Introduction” chapter to my latest book: “HOW TO BE MORE CREATIVE – The #1 Skill for Success Today” Enjoy, and I hope you purchase the book available on Amazon books soon.   Creativity is our Human Superpower! The early 21st century has ushered in a technological revolution, with artificial […]

Today we must accept… ROBOTICS & ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE… BLOCKCHAIN & CRYPTOCURRENCY… ALTERNATIVE ENERGY & STORAGE (solar, wind, geothermal, gravity, atmospheric)… GENETIC MEDICINE & DNA SEQUENCING… 3-D DIGITAL PRINTED HUMAN PARTS & PRINT ON DEMAND HOUSES / PRODUCTS… SPACE TOURISM & EVEN A COLONY ON MARS (is not just planned but fervently being worked on)… there […]

SAVE THE WORLD? One day we are going to wake up and there won’t be any more time to do the things we have always wanted to do. SO DO IT NOW! My greatest wish for the world has always been to eliminate addiction… especially drugs and alcohol! It may be the world’s oldest problem, […]

(Pictured above is a Vin Diagram. A graph used by researchers to help people find a more clear direction in their life.) Our job at ARTS&FOOD® is to curate the GOOD LIFE for you, because Art, Design, Food, Entertaining, and Self-Improvement Options are forever changing, and life should never be boring. EDITOR’S HELLO During a […]

I created the above image of flowers. It started with me taking a picture of flowers on the street with my cell phone camera, then digitally changing it with a graphics filter, and finally using photo correction tools to add more color and contrast–resulting in the art print you see. I never actually touched this […]

WINTER 2023 TABLE OF CONTENTS: Editor’s Letter FEATURES: Art, Food DEPARTMENTS: Health, Wealth, Love, Happiness MUSIC: Listen to your music CONVERSATIONS – GALLERY – CATALOGS   EDITOR’S HELLO I am leaning toward winter as being my favorite season, because of snow! How I wonder at the delicate shapes of snowflakes — they look as if […]

(Photograph of “Fall Leaf” by Sharon Duffield) Why is autumn called FALL in the United States and Canada? The answer is so simple and logical… but amazingly most of us don’t know the answer. Fall, of course, is the time of year when leaves naturally detach from the branches of deciduous trees–during the transition from […]

SUMMER 2022 – What a crazy 2 1/2 years this has been, the Covid-19 Pandemic kept everyone cooped up and masked up… then came the craziest real estate buying frenzy in American history… then came the supply-chain crisis, Russia invading Ukraine taking a hit on oil prices–gasoline prices started soaring… China decided to lock down […]

(An ancient mosaic depicting Odysseus’ epic travels in Homer’s “Odyssey”.) Napkin Notes and Dreams are only Ideas… until we make them a reality! – Jack Atkinson, Editor How many great ideas have been jotted down, imperfectly, on a cocktail napkin? These diagrams, words, and sketches are often the seeds of big things to come. My […]