Archive for 'observations'
NY Design Week Highlights: Haute Green & ICFF

NY Design Week Highlights: Haute Green & ICFF

Posted 21 May 2007 | By | Categories: consumerism, culture, design, emily approved, fashion, furniture, love, nyc, observations, senses, shopping, taste | No Comments

corona solar lighta solar powered outdoor LED lighting system that can be staked to the ground, attached to a wall or placed on a tabletop. uses no glues or fasteners and is easy to diassemble for recycling.

Malignant Mole Bikini

Malignant Mole Bikini

Posted 20 May 2007 | By | Categories: art, culture, design, emily approved, fashion, health, observations, people, science, senses, technology | No Comments

As part of her Contemporary Memento Mori thesis series, Fiona Carswell creates interactive wearables that reference time and our relationships to our own body…. When exposed to UV light, dark moles appear in various places on the bikini.

my brother, my great spiritual teacher

Posted 03 March 2007 | By | Categories: art, books, funny, happiness, interconnected, love, observations, people, retail | 3 Comments

One of my passions is to collect and sell indigenous religious antique artifacts. I once received a call from a New York City dealer telling me about a rare Ming Dynasty Buddha available at a very good price. He said he would send it to me with no obligations. When the package arrived, I opened [...]

Adopting a New Rabbit

Posted 19 February 2007 | By | Categories: animals, better world, consumerism, culture, design, emily approved, happiness, health, love, observations, passions, retail, senses, shopping, technology, webstuff | No Comments

I can’t remember the last time I was so excited about a rabbit gadget…. so that’s a total lie.)In any case, the announcement email that they’re finally available is brilliant in that instead of telling me to purchase one, they point out that I can now Adopt A Rabbit and welcome me to the Rabbit Community..Should I be concerned about Sherry Turkle concerned about attachment to cuteness.

links for 2006-11-28

Posted 28 November 2006 | By | Categories: art, consumerism, culture, design, funny, links, observations, technology, webstuff | No Comments

Transmaterial: Pileus, the Flickr Umbrella The Flickr Umbrella, also known as Pileus (which refers both to the head of a mushroom and a cloud formation), can download and project still image and video content in real-time from Flickr or other websites using the umbrella fabric as the projection surface. Images are advanced with a simple [...]

Sexy Beijing – Lost in Translation

Posted 23 November 2006 | By | Categories: culture, interconnected, observations, people, video | 1 Comment

So I finally cut loose my Time Warner cable account in favor of high speed internet access from RCN. So far, not so impressed, but I don’t miss cable TV at all.

vote and take pictures november 7

Posted 06 November 2006 | By | Categories: culture, emily approved, observations | No Comments

The Polling Place Photo Project is a nationwide experiment in citizen journalism that seeks to empower citizens to capture, post and share photographs of democracy in action.

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.

(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.

3 happy-making ice cream discoveries

Posted 14 August 2006 | By | Categories: art, culture, emily approved, food, happiness, health, nyc, observations, shopping, taste, technology | No Comments

Especially the chocolate cabernet and molasses tipsycake…. Sundaes & Cones in the East Village offers ginger, red bean, green tea, lychee, ginger, taro, wasabi, honeydew ice cream cones, cups and cakes and ito-en teas.

xeni’s tibet tech trek

Posted 08 August 2006 | By | Categories: culture, happiness, interconnected, observations, passions, people, technology, travel, video | No Comments

Xeni Jardin of Boing Boing, trekked across India, Tibet and China to explore how technology is changing the lives of Tibetans inside and outside their homeland.Her blog links to each of the radio, print, video and online reports she’s filed from the trip along with all the how-tos of life on the road and reviews of the production hardware and software she tested. Fabulous project!

snow day

Posted 12 February 2006 | By | Categories: nyc, observations | No Comments

26.9″ of snow in NYC!