Archive for 'passions'

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!

the sublime pleasure of chocolate and peanut butter

Posted 07 August 2006 | By | Categories: consumerism, emily approved, food, happiness, health, nyc, passions, senses, taste | No Comments

for making chocolate covered peanut butter cups simply impossible to resist…. so delicious, covering creamy peanutty butter in petite 6o calorie size cups.

kiss me! high-tech+touch secret message silk wedding costumes

Posted 26 July 2006 | By | Categories: culture, design, emily approved, environment, fashion, love, nyc, passions, technology | No Comments

I’m no fan of the wedding industrial complex, but i’ve falling in love with this complex industrial-design wedding costume.

TEDTalks podcast

Posted 26 June 2006 | By | Categories: culture, design, emily approved, environment, passions, people, science, technology, video | No Comments

I have attended and spoken at many conferences — few have stayed with me like TED.

links for 2006-06-13

Posted 13 June 2006 | By | Categories: branding, consumerism, culture, furniture, links, nyc, passions, shopping | No Comments

Turning Rivers Into Playgrounds – New York Times Fun along the NYC waterfront, including kayaking! (Picture at right is from my own kayaking on the Hudson adventures.) (tags: nyc kayak hudsonriver hudsonriverpark pier63) New American Dream – Conscious Consumer information to make informed choices in the marketplace to protect the environment, enhance quality of life [...]

kayak season begins april 1! (no foolin’)

Posted 29 March 2006 | By | Categories: emily approved, passions | No Comments

soon that will be me Originally uploaded by this is emily. Want to come play? Manhattan Kayak Downtown Boathouse New York Kayak Here are some pix from last season.

for the eyes are the scouts of the heart…

Posted 22 March 2006 | By | Categories: love, mythology, passions, video | No Comments

…and the heart is the organ of opening up to someone else. from Joseph Campbell on love in mythology, art and life (from the Power of Myth w/ Bill Moyers):

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 [...]

conjuring up e.e. cummings

Posted 11 December 2005 | By | Categories: culture, passions | No Comments

Oh, rapturous joy! It’s seems to be e.e. cummings week. For the past few days, lines from e.e. cummings poems i hardly knew i remembered have been bubbling up through me. here’s to opening and upward, to leaf and to sap and to your (in my arms flowering so new) self whose eyes smell of [...]