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Nice idea kids!
Check it out today; i like this ; not overly-curated like (well) many of them…
My faves are the D Clips, the TOTE (which they brought back—massive drum roll) and Love and Victory Decanter Set.
This is great ; via Carto Graphic and the idea to post this came from none other than This Isn’t Happiness. The illustrator, London based Anna Simmons also rocks out other cities. Check check.
There’s nothing left to talk about; but now there is. Only a matter of time.
I TUNES baby; spin it out. SAMPLE IT NOW!
He (Jimmy McMillian) only 39,000 votes but it’s all over now; to a bunch of serious $$ douja.
Pre election = McMillian is Post election= McMillion!
Props, Jimmy. Props.
The Wall Street Journal put together a great piece Diving Into Downtown Culture where a nice line up of artists will present various murals.
A welcome piece of history still making it in gentrified neighborhood, perhaps the last legitimate dive bar left on the East Side scene.
“You look at it now, and it’s just amazing that it’s even hanging on,” said David Allen, a downtown resident since the mid 80′s. Mr. Allen, an influential illustrator with several paradigmatic punk album covers to his credit, will participate in this month’s Mars Bar show. He noted that a tiny and scrappy corner bar dwarfed by luxury housing is itself a combination of poetic irony and economic reality. “It does, I suppose, speak to the kind of twilight period that the economy’s in right now,” he said.
“If you have this idea about moving to New York and hanging out in the East Village in the 70′s,” Mr. Spivak said, “that is sort of how you would picture it. Mars Bar is probably the last relic of that scene.”
As Avi Spivak says in his blog: “Come celebrate the Lower East Side as it once was…”
Hot off the mocoloco press is news of From Quebec;
A three-week long showcase of trend-setting products designed in Quebec, including home furnishings, tableware and wine accessories, fashion, children’s toys and even pet products. FROM QUEBEC – In New York City brings together the most talented Quebec designers for this one-time only gallery-boutique.
Cool that. I’m there.
From Québec runs through to October 22, 2010
at Relative Space, 2 Bond Street.
K8′s Choice has entered into the Blog World. Why not prop out others doing a bang up job?
I sort and sift through many different blogs during the day. I must say, my new crush is The Casual Optimist. Not only is the title great (and the font) but the site, dedicated to Books, Design and Culture is imfortative without bogging one down with esoteric information. His sidebar of sites is highly addicting. Treat yourself. It doesn’t weigh you down and keeps you in the loop without having to make the heavy rounds on the various sites out there. And, they are out there.
While it’s true I never traveled above 14th Street (without a badge) I’m happy to report my favorite little store that could is opening on Lexington…MZ Wallace. If you don’t know about them, you should.
The Japanese have long been onto them and pay a pricey penny for their bags.
Just bring back my totes, and all will be good in the world.
Don’t be shy downtowners. Although now the uptown Barney’s crowd can dig in.
Hmmmm…Don’t overexpliot, please.
Don’t wanna see these bags on the Midwest lunch crowd a la Tory Burch!
Through November 6, 2010; Pratt Manhattan is showcasing You Are Here → Mapping the Psychogeography of New York City with a great assortment of artists which From Your Desks will certainly be stalking later today.
(A few) works created specifically for “You Are Here” include:
· a three-dimensional map of the lower Manhattan skyline made of a Jell-O-like material by Liz Hickok
· an anxiety map of the five boroughs lit by sweat-powered batteries by Daniela Kostova and Olivia Robinson
· a “Loneliness Map” from Craigslist’s Missed Connections by Ingrid Burrington
· a scratch-and-sniff map of New Yorkers’ smell preferences by Nicola Twilley
· a cemetery map of Polish ancestors’ graves by Kim Baranowski
· an installation constructed from city ephemera by Pratt faculty member Robbin Ami Silverberg
“Contributing artists—some New Yorkers, others not—were invited to use inventive cartographic concepts to reflect the city’s abundant, colliding moods. The resulting projects reveal a range of reactions to the city’s heightened levels of stimulus, some energizing (discovery, delight, amusement, ambition, solidarity) and others melancholic (longing, loss, vulnerability, anxiety, isolation).”
I’m a big fan of Ingrid Burrington‘s “Loneliness Map” and Rick Meyerowitz “Sub Culinary Map”
I count myself in to see this exhibit in October and will report back.
No.6 Daily boasts their new collaborative tee line with Kim Gordon. Tres chic, they won’t be kicking around forever, so line yours up now.
Let’s all be honest, this isn’t your Urban Outfitters fare.
Some thought + quality went into this one.
No. 6, 6 Centre Market Place (between Grand and Broome streets); 212-226-5759
Because my Sunday paper did not arrive this morning, I’m on the computer. One of my favorite blogs for ideas, inspiration and education is Still Life. Her post this morning was ironic in my world but helped me stumble upon a really cool new Kenton Sorenson’s laptop case or loose papers (heavy in my world) storage place.
Plus, in a few years, it will look great.
I’m certain this has been propped a fair amount (actually not as much as I’d like to see), but this is to call to attention the Pratt Institute Design Series for Barnes and Noble. Super reasonable, great gifts and for thyself too (I picked up the pencil bag; reminds me of my old indestructible Visitation bag).
Designed by students for students, the collaboration began in 2007 with Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) students and this year, 2010, the bookseller invited Pratt Institute students to participate as well. Choice items are still available at Barnes and Noble.
On another (political note) you should purchase (not only if you have a membership) but because it’s supporting books.
Books.
Yes, Books.
Not your I-Pad. Not your Kindle.
Stick with the books, kids. And what the stores offer.
It’s good, great design and completely reasonable. Think Muji (and the price tag) with some humour and a bit of colour..
