You can bet that sales won’t be flying through the roof this holiday weekend. Consumer spending is feeling its largest drop since post September 11th. If you’re looking for more ways to do your part to help out the economy, come check out my friends Don and Nhung’s store in the Lower East Side. It’s [...]
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My new favorite toy: the Yashica T-4, favored by skateboard and hipster photographers alike. Not to say that I’m either. I’ve been really interested in photography lately, and wanted to experiment with film. After doing a lot of research and some help from my friend Jason, the Yashica T-4 was the obvious choice. Widely considered [...]
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Piers invited me to come check out a new breakfast discussion series that PSFK is putting on. The panelists were Jill Fehrenbacher (Inhabitat), Craig Dubitsky (The Kind Group), John Fiorelli (Cut & Paste), and Peter Semmelhack (Bug Labs). Those who know me know that I am not a morning person, at all. In this case, [...]
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I just discovered Jelly Helm’s blog, where he writes about how he came up with the idea of w+k’s 12 school and pitched it to Dan Wieden. 12 is just one of many interesting things that one of the most awarded agencies in the world does besides advertising. In a nutshell, it’s an experimental school [...]
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A bunch of us crammed into a friend’s apartment to watch history being made last night.
My friend Rok summed up the mood in NYC last night pretty well in this email:
“Not too shabby America! I’m pretty sure that I’m not the only one
who’s excited at the prospect of never having to hear about Sarah
Palin or [...]
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My ears can’t thank me enough for picking up these Aiaiai Y-com earphones a couple weeks ago. At $65 a pop, they’re a steal compared to some of the higher priced offerings from the Apple store. These earphones are the result of the collaboration between Aiaiai and Kilo design in Denmark The Netherlands. They feel [...]
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It’s annoying to have to google keyboard shortcuts or html code for special characters. This simple site geniusly solves that problem. It’s basically a list of special characters that you can copy as text or html. I’ve been using it a lot lately. Like Umbrella Today, Copypaste Character underscores a desire for simple, functional websites [...]
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