{"id":5220,"date":"2012-07-18T07:58:16","date_gmt":"2012-07-18T11:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/?p=5220"},"modified":"2015-12-26T23:40:34","modified_gmt":"2015-12-27T04:40:34","slug":"traveling-to-the-unknown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/2012\/07\/traveling-to-the-unknown\/","title":{"rendered":"Traveling to the Unknown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This will be new for me. Rarely do I do decorative painting projects where I need to travel but this one is different. I&#8217;m traveling this week to paint two pieces of large furniture for an interior designer&#8217;s client at their vacation home. I&#8217;ll post an update, but for now, know I&#8217;ll be here this week&#8230;.Can you guess where in the world this small town, USA might be?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/travel-spot-for-work.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5224\" title=\"travel spot for work\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/travel-spot-for-work.jpg\" alt=\"travel spot for work, as seen on Art Is Everywhere\" width=\"300\" height=\"266\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And I may be needing this&#8230;As it is always discomforting not sleeping in your own house and bed. This is an <a title=\"MetroNaps\" href=\"http:\/\/www.metronaps.com\/energypod.html\" target=\"_blank\">EnergyPod<\/a> &#8212; not a Sleep-pod by <a title=\"MetroNaps\" href=\"http:\/\/www.metronaps.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">MetroNaps<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/sleepod-prototype_NYTimes_AIE.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5222\" title=\"sleep-pod-prototype_NYTimes_AIE\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/sleepod-prototype_NYTimes_AIE.jpg\" alt=\"sleep-pod-prototype_NYTimes_as seen on Art Is Everywhere\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Google and other companies acknowledge the power of <a title=\"NYTimes\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/09\/28\/technology\/28proto.html?_r=1&amp;ref=technology\" target=\"_blank\">giving the brain a mental rest to recharge during the day<\/a>. I might just need it for the night. Here are some good pull quotes to express the importance of sleep &#8212; but some of us, like me &#8212; just do not get enough ;):<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Most people, Dr. Ellenbogen says, think of the sleeping brain as similar to a computer that has \u201cgone to sleep\u201d \u2014 it does nothing productive. Wrong. Sleep enhances performance, learning and <a title=\"In-depth reference and news articles about Mental status tests.\" href=\"http:\/\/health.nytimes.com\/health\/guides\/test\/mental-status-tests\/overview.html?inline=nyt-classifier\">memory<\/a>. Most unappreciated of all, sleep improves creative ability to generate aha! moments and to uncover novel connections among seemingly unrelated ideas.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><a title=\"More articles about Steven P. Jobs.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/j\/steven_p_jobs\/index.html?inline=nyt-per\">Steven P. Jobs<\/a>, the chief executive of <a title=\"More information about Apple Inc.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/news\/business\/companies\/apple_computer_inc\/index.html?inline=nyt-org\">Apple<\/a>, once defined creativity as \u201cjust connecting things.\u201d Sleep assists the brain in flagging unrelated ideas and memories, forging connections among them that increase the odds that a creative idea or insight will surface.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This will be new for me. Rarely do I do decorative painting projects where I need to travel but this one is different. I&#8217;m traveling this week to paint two pieces of large furniture for an interior designer&#8217;s client at their vacation home. I&#8217;ll post an update, but for now, know I&#8217;ll be here this week&#8230;.Can you guess where in the world this small town, USA might be? And I may be needing this&#8230;As it is always discomforting not sleeping in your own house and bed. 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My oldest son was working at the Chart House restaurant in Alexandria, VA and saw the Expoship's Seafair Grand Luxe, a new\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Architecture&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Architecture","link":"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/category\/architecture\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2008\/08\/228-feet-of-art-the-30-million-grande-luxe-was-commissioned-specifically-for-seafair.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2312,"url":"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/2010\/08\/interactive-meetings\/","url_meta":{"origin":5220,"position":5},"title":"Interactive Meetings","author":"casart","date":"August 20, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"As I mentioned Trend Hunter earlier this week, I'll end this week with them as well. 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