9 days in the life of
All I can say is, this summer has been non-stop. Bring it ON.
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1 comment August 3rd, 2010
Posts filed under 'Stuff'
who wants to go swimming?!?!
ME!!!!!!!!!!!!
My new summer romance, the Sol Goldman Pool in Red Hook.
2 comments July 17th, 2010
investigation of form, aka congrats andrew & sheila!!!
Investigation of form is a phrase that my graphic design teacher throws around when discussing out of the ordinary design for fairly standard objects — and this spinning wheel wedding invitation fits that bill to a T. I love the idea of this, and see so many possibilities inherent in this particular incarnation.
ANNNND, seeing as my brother-in-law just got engaged to his kick-ass girlfriend last night (woop woop!), I see a lot of opportunity for design brainstorming and harassment of the happy, wedding-planning couple in the future.
(via Unstitched)
1 comment March 26th, 2010
past present
There is an amazing Flickr group out there called Looking Into the Past that contains hundreds of photos like these, in various forms, comparing a present photo of a location with a past photo of the exact same spot. I am a total sucker for these types of pictures, as living in NYC has made me realize that I am a super nostalgic person.
I love seeing the history of places, and love it even more when the integrity of things are kept roughly intact, with modern changes applied, sort of like the tenement buildings in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Walking the streets there you can feel the history of the immigrants of New York, and that is worth more than any new blue-glass crappy condo with $1 million units they can ever build.
(found via sub-studio design blog)
1 comment March 3rd, 2010
brooklyn snow livin’
Dave fortifies with a cup of Bustelo brew
and then proceeds to clear the 1 foot of snow off the car with a plastic dustpan and an old frying pan
and after 1.5 hours, we have success!
3 comments February 26th, 2010
gimme sun sand water
I really, really want a tropical, sunshine-y, beach-y, swim-filled vacation. Now, please.
(restaurant off the coast of Zanzibar, found via gimme gimme)
1 comment February 18th, 2010
dreamlining
Fine, I’ll admit it. I am reading The 4-Hour Workweek. I like the idea of automating income and taking mini-retirements throughout my life, what can I say? Doesn’t sound too sucky at all.
One of main things the book teaches you (well, so far–just started reading it yesterday) is to think big–outlandishly, even–in terms of your goals and the things you want to experience in life. Like how there is less competition for the big stuff, because people assume they can’t do it/have it, and lower their expectations to the same level as everyone else–leaving fewer to battle it out at the high end. Anyhow, it suggests you make a 6 month timeline and include as many far reaching experiential goals you can, then narrow it down to about 4, then actually price out those 4, and then write down the 1st steps to accomplishing each one of those 4, and do it TODAY.
I got to brain-storming and I realized that I have been talking about going to Greece for the past, oh, 10 years and still haven’t managed to do it. I have been LOTS of other places in the world, but have avoided this one for some particular reason. I can’t tell if my expectations are too high for it, or I have some weird anxiety surrounding my heritage background, and my complete lack of speaking the language at all, or SOMETHING. Who knows? All I know is that I want this to happen, and I want it to happen soon. Now I just need to figure out how.
What would you do if you felt you had no restrictions on your life? Where would you go?
4 comments January 28th, 2010
appreciate
As I was doing the morning rounds of the internets, I wasn’t really finding a lot to inspire me today, until I came across this sort of old clip from Conan with the comedian Louis CK. This clip is FUNNY. So, so funny. And reminds us to maybe appreciate the world we’re living in a little bit more. Maybe. Or maybe it just reminds us to laugh? Either way, it wins.
1 comment January 15th, 2010
bsc rules
I’m not quite sure why I am so excited about Scholastic reissuing the Baby Sitter’s Club book franchise (I’m not actually going to go buy any of them), but I SO AM! This was for sure my favorite series when I was in the 2nd-6th grades, and I eagerly awaited each new one in the series–which, thinking back, came out like one every 2 months or something.
I always fancied myself a Kristy, kinda tomboy-ish with an entrepreneurial and bossy streak. In good ways, of course.
I wonder where all 80 BSC books I owned ended up…? I’m sadly voting on Annie’s Book Stop, in exchange for some fuel for my mother’s True Crime novel obsession of the late 90′s.
1 comment January 8th, 2010
check it, seattle
Mailed out the last holiday push of Storyboard Books, scrubbed down the apartment in anticipation of our guests for the week, did a teensy bit of shopping, passed off the car keys, actually got my nails done, and ate a delicious dinner at one of my favorite spots in the city, Otto. Now, we call the car service for 5:45am pick up and pack up the goods for 10 days in Seattle. The weather looks like it’s going to be killer–45 and sunny pretty much every day.
See you then!
2 comments December 23rd, 2009
natalia’s d30
I know it’s still the 17th in NYC, but it’s 12:37am in Madrid, so…!
2 comments December 17th, 2009
dream element
I always enjoy reading HDYGTFAJ from ReadyMade, and even more so now that I’ve been redefining my career this past year. It’s always so cool to be reminded that there are tons of different jobs and careers out there that you don’t even know exist, and that a lot of them are pretty fricking amazing.
One of my dreams is to someday open up a small hotel–we’ve even been toying with the idea of something along the lines of a British-style Inn, with a pub on the ground floor and guest rooms above. That would be incredible–beer, food, a fireplace and sleeping. Does anyone need more than that?
Read about how Greg Henderson got his FAJ opening up the Roxbury Motel in the Catskills here on the ReadyMade Blog. I’ll be day-dreaming up my Inn in the meantime…
2 comments December 15th, 2009
it’s certainly not my two front teeth, pt 2
1. Stumptown Hair Bender Coffee Beans
2. Sixpoint Bark Red Ale, Growler
December 2nd, 2009
