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Kevin Rosenberg’s new venture, Gear to Go Outfitters, offers high-quality outdoor gear (clothing for men, women and children; – for sale or rental. And if you’re local – free delivery: Backpacks Camp kitchen equipment Clothing (for men, women, and children) Food Hydration gear Tents, shelter and sleeping bags That’s not all – they’ve also got [...]
It’s hard to write headlines without fawning. But here’s a blog written by and about a very cool couple in San Francisco – Lifetinker. Thoughtful, funny, out-of- the-box posts; from which I’ve tentatively concocted the following hypotheses: We’ve already determined that we need high-speed rail and pneumatic tube package and mail delivery across the country, [...]
Local Deanna Zandt is conducting some research for her upcoming book, Share This!: For Share This!, I’m trying to cover and answer some of the most common hesitant feelings when it comes to people getting fully on board with the social networking movement. If you’re not active already, what are the questions you need answered, [...]
Multiple reasons to check out David Friedman’s various web nodes: The very funny and very clever Ironic Sans: e.g. his proposal for a motion-sensor alert-signal-adjusted mobile phone; the absolutely brilliant fiber-optic streetlights ((When the Administration launched its broadband stimulus bill, this may be the single application of fiber that wasn’t foreseen)); Thsrs, “the on-line thesaurus [...]
Khoi Vinh, the outstanding web designer (Subtraction, The Times, Mister President), and neighborhood resident and Liz Danzico, whose work is new to us (Happy Cog Studios, Bobulate.com) have created A Brief Message, A Brief Message features design opinions expressed in short form. Somewhere between critiques and manifestos, between wordy and skimpy, Brief Messages are viewpoints [...]
Jill Conner has an interview in WhiteHot with Jeff and Alana Bliumis about their current installation, “Cultural Conversations.” Here’s an excerpt from the interview: Jill Conner: What was your motivation behind the installation at Black and White Project Space? It’s not just a static installation but one that grows over time and involves the community, [...]
We’ve learned of Site NY, a prop-and-set design house located, of course, in our home borough/county, Brooklyn/Kings. They make cool stuff for movies and tv and probably geeky people like us – but with more money. And there’s more – here are mysterious white cubes either taking hallucinogens – or giving birth, I’m not sure [...]
World-reknowned local actor Adam Grupper has opened Act Professional,a consultancy providing training and coaching services to improve public speaking, presentation, and other skills. While we wish him well in this endeavor, we don’t want to see him stop portraying, among other things, vile white-collar corporate villains. Adam’s bad guys often start as innocuous and warm [...]
It’s beginning to dawn on me that Brooklyn has more than its fair share of outstanding designers – just stumbled on the site for Kind Company, based in Williamsburg. Amazing work – not least of which is a site dedicated to the work of the designer Alvin Lustig. As a non-design person, I know a [...]
Just came across Jonah Zuckerman‘s cityjoinery.com. His studio is in DUMBO, and here’s a sample: Jonah Zuckerman’s City Joinery.
We’ve just learned that local resident and international tech-hack-celebrity Bre Pettis (http://brepettis.com/blog/) has a new show – “History Hacker” – on the History Channel. (As WordPress suddenly makes half of my editing buttons disappear – we’ll be back later with a re-edited version of this post).
Our neighbor Megan Elias has produced at least two wonderful things this year: first, her new book:Stir it Up: Home Economics in American Culture. Second, with her collaborator, the urban planner Preston Johnson, their project Petra. Photo and more reporting to follow.
Bottlemania – How Water Went On Sale and How We Bought It – Elizabeth Royte ventures to Fryeburg, Maine, to look deep into the source—of Poland Spring water. In this tiny town, and in others like it across the country, she finds the people, machines, economies, and cultural trends that have made bottled water a [...]
An excerpt from Marcelle Manhattan’s lovely piece this week, There’s No Place Like Home: I move at least once a year. Since 2003, I’ve subjected myself to six rounds of searches on Craig’s List, six tedious packing rituals, and six tales of mishap with sundry scurrilous moving companies. You might think me a carefree, irreverent [...]
All the air knocked out of air Rinsing Feeling — not so bad what you knew would happen has only happened later than you expected the delay: a blip. By Todd Colby – at Todd Colby’s GleeFarm.
Baylajo, a member of the ETSY collective – one piece from her collection It’s really a steal, I think (although given my professional background, I know more about the price of stolen and counterfeit goods than the real thing. (For the cynical among you: law-abiding, now a wiseguy, no veiled references here, former prosecutor, etc. [...]
Journalist Ashton Applewhite is working on her latest book, about people in their 80′s who are still working, called “So When Are You Going to Retire?” Applewhite has a history of deflating social tuisms, most recently demonstrating that, in fact, women often do better emotionally and financially after divorce – rather than the commonplace (but [...]
By Todd Colby, poet, “Here’s The Rub:” Here’s the Rub Trees don’t look heavy but they are heavy and here’s the rub: you have to cut them down in order to weigh them I envision you interpreting this as a call to arms the axe is ready it is very shiny and there is special [...]
Joel Johnson, the gadget czar at BoingBoing parallel Gadgets site – we’d assumed he was ine Bay area. But he lives up the hill – (in the lowest flood-risk zone – we’ll leave it at that), where he also has his own blog. His most recent post announces that his sister Rachel has opened Lemons [...]