Laser cutouts are fun. Dutch design seems to always get it right by doing less. Tord Boontje does very cool work with installations and other home products. I’ve even blogged about wanting a Tord Boontje lamp fairly recently and I own one of the Puddles mirrors. But enough of this Midnight Summer’s Dream flower pattern, it’s from 2004 and every indie home design store is still carrying it. It was the pattern for the Target holiday marketing materials in 2006, and even that didn’t kill it. Enough.
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I am tired of these flowers, Tord Boontje
Thursday, August 6th, 2009Want: Hand spun aluminum succulent planters
Thursday, August 6th, 2009
Made in L.A. and available in other gorgeous colors including teal and red, from store-after-my-heart A+R. $158ish
How do you spin aluminum, anyway?
Dress of the Month Club’s August Brianna Dress: Rrrrrruffles!
Sunday, August 2nd, 2009
Want! Brianna is also my hair stylist, and an awesome one at that. Her salon in NW is called Wallflower, and she’s so cute you’ll go in for a trim just to talk to her. Wallflower’s phone number is 503-753-5710.
Order this dress and others customized to your measurements at dressofthemonthclub.com. Most dresses are $100, this is $125, and that’s a steal for a custom made dress. Support local, support women owned businesses, and support cute at DotMC and Wallflower!
I’ve got a new blog for tacky things, Green Light That Shit
Friday, July 31st, 2009
This was born at Fiona’s birthday months ago, but it took me until now to get help and find a tacky, tacky theme. She and I will be looking at professionally produced crap that someone gave the green light over at greenlightthatshit.com.
A creative creative brief on a beer coaster
Thursday, July 30th, 2009
Based on my potentially shaky and totally subjective Google translations:
Left top: intention Left bottom: message
Right top: idea Right bottom: essence
Think there’s a cockatil napkin brief? I’ve seen business cards like this too.
Found on The Planning Lab, which has oodles of other examples.
A giant aquarium with whale sharks. A moment of floating peace.
Thursday, July 30th, 2009Put this on full screen and sit back for a moment.
Perhaps I will pursue my master PADI diver certification and get underwater again. I miss the way it feels to be surrounded by water. This music is what scuba diving feels like to your body.
WHALE SHARKS. They’re so awesome, and the holy grail of diving experiences.
Time to write a book
Monday, July 27th, 2009Here I go, drafting a pitch. Perhaps this will give me something original to blog about.
Biking in large boxes, the Bicycle Film Festival comes back around
Monday, July 27th, 2009Pretty adorable video, right? The Bicycle Film Festival has come a long, long way in just a few years. I remember getting their press releases like, 2 years ago when it seemed to be just the press contact Jill and the founder Brendt pushing the idea out there and waiting to see what would happen. They were coming from New York, looking for contacts in the Portland bike scene and venues for the films. Now the festival is international, with bands like Blonde Redhead performing and press from the likes of Paper, MTV, Vogue, and Vanity Fair. Well done, guys!
I’d be a B, if I could pick a letter to bike in. It’s happening in Portland July 31-August 1.
Hoopnoxious on light-up and fire hula hoops
Friday, July 24th, 2009This is my friend’s alter ego. Professional by day, fire hoola hooper by night. Pretty great, right? She taught herself, but after giving me several lessons I still can’t keep the darn things up.
Going to buy an iPhone, here I go
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009
Flickr/oskay
It looks a little clunkier than in the ads, but oh well, if this is what all the hip people are doing, I suppose I’ve held out long enough.
Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland trailer is leaked, and that Cheshire Cat is freaky
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009
I love, love, love Tim Burton, but this looks a little too heavy on the shiny computer graphics, not as comic book-y as I expected. Look at Depp’s eyes in that last photo, for example, it just looks too weird. There’s no reason to digitally screw with a face like Depp’s, know what I’m sayin’? Rrrawww. The video will probably be pulled off the hosting site soon, Disney had it removed from everywhere else I saw, but it’s out officially tomorrow. The movie will come out March 5th, 2010.
Video after the jump, too big for my homepage. (more…)
Persepolis 2.0 responds to the Iran election in graphic novel form
Sunday, July 19th, 2009Remember Persepolis, the graphic novel about growing up in Iran in the 70s and 80s? (I just re-read it in my FourLoko fueled book club.) Two Iranians appropriated artist Marjane Satrapi’s style for an online graphic novel about the recent Iran elections at spreadpersepolis.com.
(I nabbed the source code off their site to embed this below, you can also view it in full screen on Flickr here)
I’m not sure how I feel about this fan art. On the one hand, her stark, black ink dominated panels are associated with Iran for many people after the success of her novels (Persepolis, Persepolis 2, Embroderies) and film (called Persepolis and covering the content of 1 and 2). And it worked for attention, getting Boing Boing coverage.
But they used her characters, which are her family and herself as a child, to portray a modern story that is directly related to her own work. She’s still living in Paris and producing, so it seems a bit like beating her to the punch. My searches didn’t turn up any response from her.
A guide for people new to using Twitter
Friday, July 17th, 2009I’ve been asked to introduce our company, all 6 markets, to how to use Twitter. A few people have signed up on their own, but for everyone it’s got to start at square one. This is my outline, which I plan to fill in with slides. What do you think?
1hr total w/slides tbd
Why social media is important and useful
- Why numbers are not important, involvement is
Who’s on twitter? A few examples per city.
Terminology and functions
- Using @
- @ to your account to see who is talking about/with you
- Direct messages
- # (in general and per market popular ones to note)
- RT
- Topic trending
- Favorites
- Each tweet is a url, forever, and searchable (more…)
Oh, my friends you are so excellent
Wednesday, July 15th, 2009I was knocking around YouTube looking at the WK Platform applications and checked in on Andrea to see what she’s been up to lately (no app video, eh? Whahappend?).
How adorable is this video for her mom? Wait till the end, it’s worth it. Having creative friends is so nice. For me. And my blog.
Dave Chappelle: “Don’t tell a secret in Portland”
Wednesday, July 15th, 2009
Image: Flickr/Jmcar
All this afternoon, rumors were flying about comedian Dave Chappelle being in Portland. On Twitter, people claimed to see him in the same spot hours apart. He ate at Masu last night, he’s staying at the Heathman, he’s near Zach’s Shack, still there…and then the doozy, from the clothing boutique Local 35: A Twitter announcement that Chappelle would host a secret midnight show…in Portland’s living room Pioneer Square Plaza, at midnight.
Up until 11:30pm, I didn’t believe it enough to go, even after the Portland Mercury called Local 35 owner Justin and confirmed that Chappelle had been in the store. The language was a little fishy, no one said “Chappelle said there will be a secret show” at any time, so primary sources were obscured. But then @Local35Store posted this picture of thousands of people in the square on Twitter, and I just had to go. (more…)
Say aye-ight! C-Span goes hip hop on Auto-Tune the News
Tuesday, July 14th, 2009Yes. Yes yes yes. Their YouTube page, and on Twitter, too.
(Get it, aye + aight=aye-ight! ha. ha ha ha.)
Via ecorazzi
Heavy metal themed salads and an indie rock sing-a-long
Monday, July 13th, 2009On Friday Audrey and I went on a whirlwind bike tour that ended up being 22 miles roundtrip for me, from SE to N to St Johns. First, a heavy metal salad competition. What is a heavy metal salad? Audrey called our friend Simms, of the band Metal Shakespeare Company, to ask. His response: something with maggots. I happened to have fancy-schmancy food magazine Donna Hay right in front of me with a recipe for white bean salad. For presentation, I hollowed out a red cabbage head, and voila, Maggoty Head Bean Salad.
Aaaaand I’m back. With cat weight lifting.
Monday, July 13th, 2009Where have I been? Making my writing portfolio site.
And then watching things like this, to revive my brain.
(1kg=2.2lbs. Those big cats are ~ 18lbs and jaws of STEEL)
Thanks for the video, Brandy.
Masking masks for Blitzen Trapper’s new video Black River Killer
Wednesday, July 8th, 2009This is one gorgeous video!
Back when my little sister was in town, I wanted to show her what Portland is like. My friend Audrey called with the perfect offer—paper maiche-ing (how do you spell that?) masks for this video.
Amazing interviews with Brooklynites: What do you think you need to do in order to get yourself together?
Monday, July 6th, 2009
The New York Times local online section for Fort Greene/Clinton Hill has a feature called Local Locals, in which Myryah Irby stops people on the street and asks them a few questions. Her husband takes a photo. The questions are superb. She jumps from “why are you raising money for cancer at a sidewalk sale” to “how many times have you been in love” and people go with it, they answer her. And she rolls into another question. I couldn’t stop reading these. (more…)