♥ SILKSCREENING GOD GETS A BOOK
Todd Oldham revives Charley Harper’s work in flat form.
♥ MY DUTCH TEACHER MAKES BEAUTIFUL MUSIC WITHOUT US
Let’s just say we swapped URLs and we’re both probably in a state of shock right about now.
♥ LOINT’S OF HOLLAND MAKES AWESOME SHIT, REFUSES TO SELL IT ANYWHERE
Apparently the Japanese are the only ones to have any of these Dutch shoe-maker’s products while the rest of try have to hunt down an importer in the form of a back of a truck.
♥ TOOK LONG ENOUGH MUCH?
Flickr has opened up video hosting on Flickr. Just go to upload, and you’ll see it.
Take that YouTube!
Tags: charley-harper, design, flickr, illustration, loints, mischa, petits-pierres, shoes, shopping, video, woot
April 9th, 2008 | Leave a comment »
Let’s just say that at the tender age of fourteen:
1) I didn’t like my picture taken
2) I didn’t enjoy participating in “family” vacations
I have gone on to curse other vacations, but chilled out over time. We’ll have to see what this year’s vacation to Singapore has in store for us.
WHAT’S THIS?!
I’ll be taking my pictures with my Canon SD 400 which happens to be one of the more popular cameras on Flickr. How do I know? Because they finally made a camera page complete with lots of great information and stats of each product. There’s even some colorful graphs for people who don’t like to read.
P.S.
The new ramen stall in Mitsuwa is FINALLY OPEN! It looks delicious, but I don’t know from experience.
Tags: cameras, flickr, hack, thegrudge, travel
December 18th, 2006 | Leave a comment »
I started my very own Flickr blog dedicated to my old, new swatch watch that I’ve been wearing to work. Anyone who has a classic 80s Swatch can post them at http://www.flickr.com/groups/yellowedplastic/.
Tags: flickr, swatchwatch
July 28th, 2006 | Leave a comment »
Somehow la familie de Pierre thought it would be a good investment for him to buy a Chateau of his own in Merida. It makes perfect sense. We know so many people in Merida, and god knows Pierre does so much business in Mexico. The humor is kind of lost on that sentence, but it was also lost on the family as we went from house to house with the real estate agent giving a firm “no” at every stop (which was quickly followed with, “please drop us off at the taco stand at the second house”). Pierre had the good sense to take some pictures of some of the houses on the market which you can see here. You will notice a very slumpy and wilted keempoo in one of them. Promise.
Tags: flickr, househounting, merida, mexico, travel
June 24th, 2006 | Leave a comment »
Puppet theater turned Melrose Place style bed and breakfast became my Barbie Dream House™ for five full days. A bed and breakfast about 8 blocks away from the main square and 4 blocks away in the other direction to supposedly the best tacos in town. I personally could marry and divorce time and again the tacos at the truck in front of Pasadena’s Nishikawa Auto Service for both the love I have for them and the hate I have for what they do to my butt.
Four nights at Hotel Marionettas ran us $340, plus an extra $12 for beers, coffees, teas, and internet. That’s about how much I paid just to spend one night in a modern shoebox at the Hudson Hotel in NYC.
Instead we got a room with a king sized bed that had enough room for two people to open their luggage and walk around and even sit in a chair or two without bumping knees. The room itself was very large and airy with two-toned colored walls (cyan/sky blue) and vertical wooden windows that opened completely to let the breeze in. We only used the air conditioning at night, going for a dip in the pool whenever the humidty felt too unbearable. The bathroom like all bathrooms in Merida, had a room with a toilet separated by a the third shower wall, (the shower being a huge tiled box). I have preference for these kinds of bathrooms that are continuously tiled as they remind me of the bathrooms I grew up in Singapore.
This was the first hotel I have ever been where I have stayed on the grounds for over half of the vacation. Most hotels would commonly define “comfort” as a bed in a room with some free soap, but these people actually understand what the concept of that word actually to feels like in the environmental form.
I was in paradise up until the last night when a pair of white deviled children arrived with their father, who had decided to accent his Mexico look of a wife beater, cargo shorts, and gold chain necklace with only the tattoo on his left bicep (the Chinese character for Douchebag). My Chinese is rough at best, but I’ve learned how to recognize some symbols. Thankfully it was our last night, so Raoul (our trusty man of the night) fed us cervasas until it was time to siesta.
Sophie and Daniel Bosco (and Raoul) are at your service at Hotel Marionettas, Calle 29, Merida, Mexico. More pics of the hotel here.
Tags: flickr, hotel, merida, mexico, travel
June 23rd, 2006 | Leave a comment »
It took about 3 days of convincing for me to believe that Merida was indeed part of Mexico. My mind’s stereotype started ok from the airport: Hut, Hut, Hut, Palm Tree, Hut. Then as we got to town it started becoming more surreal: Hut, Hut, Mcdonald’s, Hut, Taco Stand, Costco, Sam’s Club, Bennigan’s, Palm Tree, HSBC, Churro Cart, Mercedes-Benz. It was a kind of culture shock I hadn’t prepared for.
Pierre and I had the shittiest car in town (Dodge Attitude with Hyundai guts) and the locals laughed in their land rovers laughed, “Americanos stupidos! Uno Dodge!”
When we dined at a traditional Mexican Hacienda, I ordered my asada with a side of failure. “Madame, is this not what you ordered?” I apparently had that confused grimace look on my face that I get when I’m too drunk to calculate tip. It was what I had ordered. Served with habenero and tortillas, I couldn’t complain that they hadn’t given me the option of making a taco, but I wasn’t sure where I was supposed to put the mashed potatoes or the au jus that my porterhouse had come with, nevermind the broccoli (“What do I do, do I shred that?”). I am, of course, all about solutions, so it was magarita after magarita until everything looked delicious again.
Some endearing pictures of the central part of the city here. Also includes some great pictures of Hello Kitties missing chromosomes.
Tags: flickr, merida, mexico, travel
June 23rd, 2006 | Leave a comment »
Gary and his favorite octopus toy got invited to a group on Flickr.
Oh, and if you don’t have a Flickr account, you’re lame.
Tags: flickr, gary
June 11th, 2006 | Leave a comment »
