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Ask Emily: Get Well Gifts for Geeks

Posted 04 March 2007 | By | Categories: ask emily, consumerism, culture, design, emily approved, funny, health, love, science, shopping | No Comments

flowers are cliched, and sometimes not allowedfood’s tricky — they’re on a special diet.heal with humor — try giant microbes.here are a few i’ve been intimate with over the years:GiardiaE.

Yurt in Moonlight, Kyrgyzstan

Posted 22 February 2007 | By | Categories: ask emily | 2 Comments

Yurt in Moonlight, Kyrgyzstan Originally uploaded by dwrawlinson. So we’re thinking about next big adventure — perhaps Mongolia? Mom wants to know if there are any 5-star yurts. Five stars? You get them ALL! What could be more majestic or luxurious than this? Magnificent. These fine round homes known as yurts in Kyrgyzstan are called [...]

james deavin – photography in the real world and second life

Posted 06 November 2006 | By | Categories: art, ask emily, culture, nyc, people, technology, webstuff | No Comments

according to Harper’s Magazine…Human BeingsSubcategories1…. Political Leaders7.

Editions Artists’ Books Fair Favorites

Posted 04 November 2006 | By | Categories: art, ask emily, design, emily approved, flowers, nyc | No Comments

Nicola LopezExcerpts from the Flood II, 2005sixteen-color lithograph30 by 22 1/4 inchesEdition 10Collaborating printer, Leshoka Joseph Legate$1,500.00(05-327)————–Exit Art’s 2006 Benefit Portfolio is quite exquisite “trance border” theme. Orders must be received by November 15.Marina AbramovicSue DeBeerWilliam VillalongoGeorge CondoAdam HelmsJohn Newsom$5,000 pre-publicationLove Cecily Brown’s print for the 2005 Tantra series.Lower East Side Printshop featured exquisite new prints byEdward del RosarioSebastian BremerAmy ChanPaul Chan, prints from the Alternumerics suite, his brilliant experiments with font sets, rendered as truetype fonts and screensets.”Alternumerics (Sexual Healing/Shift for Harassment)” 2001 30″ x 40″Want to learn how to make prints, editions and artists books?

happy eggs

Posted 06 October 2006 | By | Categories: ask emily, books, culture, emily approved, food, happiness, health, love, nyc, observations, passions, taste | 1 Comment

You can tell how much youlove someone by the amount of time you spend making their scrambledeggs.

movie night with terry gilliam: toto le heros

Posted 05 October 2006 | By | Categories: ask emily, culture, emily approved, interconnected, love, movies, mythology, nyc, people, video | No Comments

Terry Gilliam screened “Toto le Heros” (or “Toto the Hero”) for a sold out audience of fans at IFC Center last night.

(better than) good magazine launch

Posted 24 September 2006 | By | Categories: art, ask emily, design, emily approved, nyc, observations, passions | No Comments

for an investor, maybe not so much, unless you’re going on the Google Story lessons): give $20 to the organization of your choice (within a well selected array including some of my favorites Oceana, Witness, Ashoka and Creative Commons), get 6 issues and an invitation to the launch parties in LA and NY. With refreshing transparency, they reveal how far along they are on their goal, and how many subscribers choose each organization so you can direct your dollars accordingly if you’re torn between worthy causes.

Ask Emily: Editing Pictures Online

Posted 23 May 2006 | By | Categories: ask emily, technology | No Comments

You can rotate photos within Flickr, so if that’s the only change you need to make, go ahead and upload then adjust it on the site…. You select an image from your hard drive or anywhere on the web (including Flickr) and then crop, scale and/or rotate it and save it to your hard drive or back to flickr.

on the love that dare not print its name in helvetica (or god forbid, arial)

Posted 01 January 2006 | By | Categories: ask emily, consumerism, creativity, culture, design, emily approved, gardening, happiness, health, movies, passions, typography | No Comments

Hilarious little article in the NYT today on type anachronisms in film, “Good Film, Shame About the Helvetica,” featuring link to Mark Simonson’s Typecasting article. (Note also the ongoing notebook of sightings.*) As one who can’t help recognizing and calling out the name of the typefaces in the world around me, I’m not ashamed to [...]