This site's a compendium of people, places, ideas and things I love (at least noticed) and want to share. About Emily
links for 2006-05-08
TheBroth – The Global Mosaic massively multiplayer real time collaborative art application that connects people around the world to interact in a shared global mosaic. beautiful! wondrous! fun! (look at snapshots in the gallery too.) (tags: art multiplayer internet application mosaic tiles play wonder collaborative)
Read more →meatpacking district/west village weekend update
The wraps are off Banchet Jaigla’s beautiful flower bar, right next to Banchet Flowers at 809 washington st. Can’t wait to sip champagne among the vanda and cattleya.Have you ever smelled a shepherd’s basket?
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PAPERMAG: Kalifornia Dreaming Were we not just dreaming about seeing “The Namesake” in film? Immediately after, Papermag’s vip newsletter delivered this fine feature on its star, Kal Penn, and the passion behind the project. Dude, we’re so high right now. (tags: movies namesake kalpenn filmmaking miranair jhumpalahiri culture)
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U H M japanese underground house music mixes for download (tags: mixes music streaming mp3 house culture) Maira Kalman – The Principles of Uncertainty – The New York Times – Times Select Oh happy day — Maira Kalman launches an illustrated monthly column in the NYT online! Life, love, loss, Russia, Nabokov and Pavlov’s dog. [...]
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Sunlight Foundation The Sunlight Foundation aims at bring transparency and accountability to Congress. Name from Brandeis quote: “Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.” (tags: politics congress technology government transparency accountability)
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danish ministry of culture brilliant multi-hued office designed by louise campbell (tags: design color interior) Landscape Design- Environmental Art- Fire Features-Elena Colombo beautiful elemental metal, water and fire features for landscapes (tags: landscape design water fire art)
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Grazr, you know for feeds… “Grazr is a project that aims to make navigating, organzing, and discovering relevant information easier and more intuitive.” (tags: opml rss blogs ajax web2.0 feeds news syndication tools)
Read more →kayak season begins april 1! (no foolin’)
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.
Read more →links for 2006-03-27
Dabble (launches beta today, yay!) Video remix community that makes it easy for people to collect, create, browse and find video online. (tags: video remix mashup web2.0 tools movies) Things Are Going Through You All the Time: the Art of Kiki Smith – by David Byrne “It takes years of work to become human on [...]
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Quimble – quick, easy web poll building tool lunchtime poll anyone? (tags: poll web2.0 polls tools social research tool useful) SEEJANE.ORG – improving gender portrayals in children’s media “By making it common for our youngest children to see everywhere a balance of active and complex male and female characters, girls and boys will grow up [...]
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XigiDiscovery What’s the best way to invest in world changing? That depends on how you think of yourself and your money. XigiDiscovery lays out the options based on how you imagine yourself. (tags: investment financial capital sustainability worldchanging markets microfinance housing socialenterprise) The Institute for the Future of the Book (tags: books publishing digital technolgy [...]
Read more →links for 2006-03-22
www.myspace.com/karshkale great new tracks from karsh kale are making me dance at my desk this morning. (tags: music streaming hiphop global pop electronica dance rock) The Interactive Institute – Home interesting art and technology projects to explore (tags: art technology interactive sweden stockholm) World Water Day: Home thank you thank you and love to water. [...]
Read more →marilyn minter: what it feels like to look
more photos from a Creative Time studio visit with Marilyn Minter Marilyn Minter describes herself as a photo-replacer, not a photorealist. Realism dissolves as you get up close to her paintings. Yet somehow, the paintings feel more real than the gorgeous photographs that inspire them. Illuminating the moments when things fall apart, the paintings get [...]
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