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Product Placement – One big honking ad. ”To say that this is a film deeply engaged with the act of buying things is something of an understatement. There are prominent product placements, with logos all clearly displayed, every few minutes. The baldness of this hard sell might almost be funny, except that after a while, it’s [...]
Nele Azevedo An artist comes up with a cool idea to raise awareness of global warming. Brazilian artist Nele Azevedo, carved 1,000 figures out of ice and placed them on the steps of the concert hall in Berlin’s gendarmenmarkt square. With temperatures of 73 degrees fahreneheit, (23 degress celsius), the ice figures began melting within half [...]
CHILI THOM November 18th – 25th, 2009 Pescadero, Baja, Mexico “WAVES + WATER” Join CHILI THOM for 7 days of adventure, culture and education in PESCADERO, BAJA, MEXICO. Chili will lead the group to understanding the process of painting water. We will look at the patterns and colour groupings commonly seen in water and go through a series of [...]
October 24th – November 2nd, 2009 As of October 6, 2009 – there are a few spots left! Registration still open. ACE CAMPS are for ALL ages. Art, learning and adventure is for everyone… (The new and specific website for the Ace Camps should be up and ready in a few weeks – in the meantime I’m using this [...]
Ha. Ha. You have to check it out. Name: Justin Bio: I’m 29. I live with my 73-year-old dad. He is awesome. I just write down shit that he says Hilarious Here – @shitmydadsays
Paper Plane From the Monster Children creators Chris Searl and Campbell Milligan comes Paperplane, a unique travel digest with a refreshingly heartfelt perspective. Paperplane takes us on a cultural journey into a location, often in the company of a local , exploring cafes and restaurants, bars and clubs , music, literature and art ,sights ,sounds and [...]
The Yellow Treehouse Restaurant by New Zealand based Pacific Environments Architects Ltd. (PEL) is a stunning architectural feat perched high above a redwood first. Appearing for all the world like an enormous chrysalis grafted onto a 40-meter-high redwood tree, the project is constructed of plantation poplar slats, redwood balustrading milled at the site, and makes [...]
These happy dudes are super colorful in spirit and in the way they live. A new section on my blog called: “The Way They Live” features Mr. Anado McLaughlin + Mr. Richard Shultz in their house in San Miguel de Allende. “Everything is impermanent — you’re going to lose everything anyway,” his partner says, [...]
ABC3D by Marion Bataille A Neal Porter Book, October 2008Age Range: 1 to 4 ISBN: 978-1-59643-425-7, ISBN10: 1-59643-425-2Novelty, 5 3/4 x 7 inches, 36 pages Awards: Bank Street Best Children’s Book of the Year; Capitol Choices Noteworthy Titles for Children and Teens “Easily the most innovative alpabet book of the year, if not the decade… Beyond clever.”—The Washington Post Prepare to [...]
The Buried Life is four regular (young) guys on a mission to complete a list of ‘100 things to do before you die’ and to help and encourage others to go after their own lists. Sort or, no just like a bucket list. From their website – www.theburiedlife.com “Why are you doing this? It’s complicated. Life moves fast [...]
Sydney artist Phillip George poses among his surfboard exhibition at Casula Powerhouse Art Gallery on December 15, 2008 in Sydney, Australia. George designed the range of 30 ‘Inshallah’ or ‘God Willing’ boards in response to his trips to the Middle East, and to the Cronulla Race Riots in 2005, in an effort to create a [...]
Dick and Rick Hoyt are a father-and-son team from Massachusetts who together compete just about continuously in marathon races. And if they’re not in a marathon they are in a triathlon — that daunting, almost superhuman, combination of 26.2 miles of running, 112 miles of bicycling, and 2.4 miles of swimming. Together they have climbed [...]
There’s something about Flip and Tumble shopping bags. The colors, the way they fit into a small ball and the simplicity. You can order them online here. $9.00
Design in the 1960s represented energy and fun: it was dynamic, cheap and cheerful and it prompted a consumer ‘youthquake’ revolution. Op Art fabrics, plastic chairs, inflatable houses, mini skirts, paper furniture, pop glass and psychedelic posters were all part of the design phenomenon. When Mary Quant launched ‘the look’ with her range of ready-to-wear [...]
Bryan Nash Gill displays and sells his work on the website Ashes & Milk - so do a whole slew of artists. (I also love the work of Helen Beard – but that’s for another post.) “Ashes & Milk is an online gallery space founded on the principle that a lot can be created from very little. We [...]
The 2010 Pirelli calendar was shot by Terry Richardson on location in Trancoso Brazil at the all-new UXUA Casa hotel. With male model Jesus Luz showing what Brazil has to offer – it’s time for Brazil’s moment in the sun. The calendar will debut on Nov. 19th in London – just make sure you have [...]
Yoga instructor Bette Calman may be 83, but she’s still bending over backwards to spread the benefits of the ancient Indian discipline. With 40 years of teaching under her belt, the Australian wonder is living proof that a lifetime’s dedication to yoga will keep you flexible as a rubber band. So when will she give it up? ‘You’re [...]
I love when The Sartorialist- Scott Schuman photographs anyone but especially when he finds beautiful and stylish men and women who are over 50. It’s awesome to look at photos of older people. We don’t see them enough as we’re used to looking at young people model all our fashions. Can’t figure out why fashion [...]
“Every child should have mud pies, grasshoppers, water-bugs, tadpoles, frogs, mud-turtles, elderberries, wild strawberries, acorns, chestnuts, trees to climb, brooks to wade in, water-lilies, woodchucks, bats, bees, butterflies, various animals to pet, hay-fields, pine-cones, rocks to roll, sand, snakes, huckleberries and hornets; and any child who has been deprived of these has been deprived of [...]
The Lowdown - “The David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education and World Peace was founded in July 2005 to provide scholarships for school-wide Transcendental Meditation programs in public, charter, and private schools throughout the United States and around the world, and to provide funds for universities and research institutions to assess the effects of the program [...]
Sisters on the Fly They are a group of women who challenge themselves in all that they set their minds to do. A perfect fit for grace is over 50. They have no age or color or represent no religion or political group. “We welcome all women who want to share the adventures of “sisterhood”". In the summer [...]
Set yourself free, Baby Boomers, and opt for an adventurous and engaging life – it’s yours to plan and starting right now is a good time. Jeffrey Johnson and Paula Forman offer some valuable information on how and why and have written The Hourglass Solution: A Boomer’s Guide to the Rest of Your Life. “Many boomers [...]
I’m a huge fan of glamping. Glamping vacations are where you stay in luxury tents. This beautiful location is in the old Portuguese colony of Goa on the west coast of India. Four Colonial Beach Houses and three candy-colored tents sit at the waters edge; for the most affordable option book one of the latter, [...]
In theatres: August 14, 2009 Taking Woodstock is an upcoming 2009 comedy-drama film about the Woodstock Festival of 1969. It is directed by Ang Lee and written by James Schamus based on the autobiography Taking Woodstock: A True Story of a Riot, a Concert, and a Life by Elliot Tiber and Tom Monte.
