It’s never the changes we want that change everything.
Junot Díaz, from The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
This is some seriously creative thinking from Jason Edmiston.
Jason says, “I wanted to do a surreal piece, and was thinking about what lies below the tip of an iceberg… the photos I’ve seen on the subject are amazing. But what if what lies below is even more surprising? I also wanted to incorporate some pop culture reference, and Star Wars is my favorite.
Check out some of his other work on deviantART, it’s really well done.
via matthewb
There are so many things I love about this living room, it’s hard to pin-point exactly which part I like best.
I think the colors, furniture and arrangement are top-notch. I could sit in here for hours with a fine scotch, dreaming of far away lands and African safaris. Who’s with me?
(via srk1941)
An elegant person is a gentleman, one who knows how to handle himself. He cares for his life, and intends to live it in association with others who care and with things that are beautiful and fine.
This really hit home today for some reason. Mid-century novelist David Loovis, quoted by Ivy Style, from The New Yorker (via viafrank)
A new app called Hybrowse just launched and aims to make the art of searching some of your favorite sites a little more intuitive.
The service (available for Netflix and Etsy now) was built by Jake Lodwick and designed by Peter Vidani and has an ambitious (read crazy) goal of having 1,000 active APIs wrapped in to the Hybrowse framework by May 1st.
I hope they reach their goal of 1,000, but even if they don’t, they’ve certainly made it easier to navigate Netflix for new movies. And oh yeah, I made my first purchase on Etsy today in months because of Hybrowse.
Hoefler & Frere-Jones are launching their 29th font family this Thursday called Vitesse. It looks incredible.
According to this New York Times article, Vitesse will be one of three fonts released by H&FJ in 2010.
The article also mentions a “secret formula they can’t talk about yet” involving technology that delivers fonts to your computer and browser. It looks like this year is already shaping up to be one of great typography.
And now here we are. Right here in your own backyard, an American company creates a brilliant phone, and that company hands it to you, and gives you an exclusive deal to carry it — and all you guys can do is complain about how much people want to use it. You, Randall Stephenson, and your lazy stupid company — you are the problem. You are what’s wrong with this country.
Fake Steve Jobs to Randall Stephenson of AT&T (via davidkaneda)
Virgin Galactic unveils SpaceShipTwo, the world’s first manned commercial spaceship.
For those of us who thought that we’d be cruising around in flying cars by now, this will come as a welcome sight. Virgin Galactic has just unveiled the incredible SS2, a technical and creative marvel, that aims to take a few lucky “astronauts” in to space for a cool $200,000 USD.
There are tons of photos and multimedia on the Virgin Galactic site so be sure to check it our for more information.
We will not compromise who we are to be accepted by the crowd. We want substance in the place of popularity. We want to think our own thoughts. We want love, not lies. We want knowledge, understanding and peace. We will not lose, because we are not losers. We are lasers.
Lupe Fiasco, from the song Lasers off of his latest mixtape Enemy of the State. I highly recommend you give it a listen, it’s available for free download .
Designed in 1947 by E. Stewart Williams for Frank Sinatra and his first wife, Nancy Barbato, Twin Palms is a spectacular example of mid-century architecture in the heart of Palm Springs’ Movie Colony community.
Not only is this stunning home an architectural wonder, it’s also available to rent for the cool price of $1,950.00 per night. I’m saving up to go, who’s with me?
Oh, and don’t forget to take a close look at the pool. It’s shaped like a piano—such a fitting design for Ol’ Blue Eyes.
