January 2011
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Filed Under: Dream Outfits
If you ever wondered (and there must be at least one of you has) what my ultimate style goals were, well here they are laid out on a platter…or rather blog. Tomboy Style has me loving men’s shirts, strong jaws, and wanting to get lost in rivers.
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Filed Under: Notes on Paper
Those who know me are aware of my slight obsession with all things paper. Stationary, notebooks, note cards, planners, journals, oh my! Armed for a keen eye for paper goods, you can imagine the delight I experienced when I stumbled into Paperhaus last night in the Belltown neighborhood of Seattle.
While the store had a well curated collection of icon paper brands, like Pantone, Moleskine and...
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Filed Under: Sunday Paper
There is nothing like waking up on a Sunday morning, walking over to your complimentary hotel breakfast, pouring yourself a bowl of granola and a mug of Stumptown coffee to find that some kind soul has left behind their barely read Sunday New York Times. Of course, my little piece of heaven was slightly perturbed by a mother clad in sweats allowing her supremely loud cell phone to ring endlessly...
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Filed Under: Man Repeller
One of my favorite fashion bloggers, The Man Repeller, has teamed up with Rachel Roy to do a series of videos on some serious man repelling looks. Her amazing blog is based on the very true idea that many boys just don’t get the fashion forward looks we love, or as she defines it:
MAN·RE·PELL·ER1 [MAHN-REE-PELLER]
–nounoutfitting oneself in a sartorially offensive way that will result...
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Filed Under: Ambient Heat
This ambient ad from Minneapolis chain Caribou Coffee is so, so smart. I want this outside my apartment, and then inside every subway station that somehow manages to be colder than the actual sidewalk. The roof of these mini-oven bus stops actually work as a heater to warm up winter-beaten travelers. I don’t think I could wait for a bus surrounded by pictures of those sandwiches and not...
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Filed: Food Truck Night in Santa Monica
I have been so delayed in writing about my yummy experience at the Santa Monica food truck night on Tuesday, because I’ve been brainstorming by the pool, navigating LA as a New Yorker who has no driving abilities, stuffing my face with raw fish, and taking unnecessary photos of cactus that I’m 90 percent sure I’ll never look at again once I upload them to my computer. That...
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Filed Under: Designer to Watch
One of my favorite design blogs, 2 Modern Blog, profiled a Brooklyn-based furniture designer, April Hannah, who was recently awarded a residency at the Museum of Arts and Design in NYC. The simple beauty and functionality of her furniture design is not only inspired by nature, but good for Mother Earth as well—it incorporates sustainable materials and non-toxic coatings into her art. Her...
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Filed Under: Design Finds
It’s about to snow in the northeast again, so this glacial pillow by Tusk & Coral is feeling just about right. Such awesome modern takes on embroidery in their shop- cute and clever at the same time.
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Filed Under: Ring Toss
So beautiful, and probably the least cheesy potentially romantic ring I’ve ever seen! Wood and wood grain have been designer favorites for a while now, but this is a great take.
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Filed Under: April Fools?
Here is how I will be spending my April Fools day this year. (Yes, I like to celebrate April fools like it’s a holiday. I wear fake glasses, eat cakes shaped like poop, and put up balloons that spell out “GOTCHA” around the house.) No, but for real, doesn’t this film seem wonderfully odd? Seriously watch up.
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Filed Under: Record (Low) Sales
In a feat that never could have happened in the bygone days of Sam Goody, Taylor Swift’s Speak Now is currently the lowest-selling number one record in SoundScan’s history. Though it has been number one on the Billboard Top 200 for six weeks, the album has currently sold only 52,000 copies. Pretty amazing! Of course, this does nothing to change the fact that country is taking over the...
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Filed Under: Mapmakers
Those who know me, know that I have a minor obsession with maps. This is why the minute I saw them I started scheming of ways to get my hands on the Axis hand-printed typographic maps. (Picture elaborate miniature hotels built in my tiny Brooklyn courtyard out of snowballs and PBR cans.) Using nothing but print type, the maps accurately depict the cities—-meaning they work as art pieces...
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Filed Under: Numbers, numbers, and more numbers!
Dear New York Times,
I love when you break it down for me by the numbers. It fills me with some many percentages that make cocktail chatter pass by seamlessly. And while no trend can be fully understood or realized by the numbers, here are a few stats that get my heart pattering in today’s times:
Those of us who call the internet our home sent more than 107 trillion messages in 2010.
It...