Hipster Bike Messengers on Judge Judy

"Flannel, tattoos, a friend's band, Velo Brooklyn, Lower Eastside"

"After Fifteen Years, Café Colonial Has Quietly Closed" NY Magazine

This is too sad....

NY Mag article

Daily Stack

I am always fascinated by the idea of actualizing the digital world though physical objects. This is an interesting time management tool designed by Sebastion Rønde Thielke and Anders Højmose. I think this design demonstrates a great possibility in personalizing interface design.

Daily Stack from Anders Højmose on Vimeo.

Daily Stack (Designboom)

Tourists/New Yorker Sidewalk Lanes

Triennale di Milano New York Opening this Fall

Triennale di Milano, the top-ranking museum of architecture, design, and arts announced last week their plans for opening Triennale di Milano New York in September. During my visit in Milan last month, Triennale was definitely one of the highlights of the trip. They curated a thought provoking show for the Salone del Mobile. On top of that, they are truly dedicated to preserving the traditional Italian design by sponsoring institutions like the Achille Castiglioni Studio. For the New York location, the museum will open with an exhibition of Gio Poti's works. I think it will make quite an entrance into the New York museum/design scene. I am very excited about having another place to spend a casual afternoon of good design and delicious coffee.

looks like the former space of the MAD

“Triennale New York will bring the essence of Italian identity to New York City,” said Davide Rampello, President, La Triennale di Milano “We will try to represent the extraordinary qualities that are the hallmark of Italian ingenuity, industry and culture.”

“La Triennale has, for many years, been a place at the center of international, Italian and Milanese debates and culture. Triennale New York will allow us to bring this dialogue—through examples of Italian culture in all its many forms—to New York, as well as into contact with wider global trends and discourse.

YES!

"Triennale New York will obviously attentively curate all its “cultural” offer, considering the restaurant not as a side service, but as an opportunity to get in touch with the extraordinary variety that Italian cuisine is able to express through the culture of its territory."

"The restaurant will be guest-curated on an ongoing basis by well-known chefs from Italy and will use products from allover Italy, trying to get out of the stereotypes that sometimes mark the Italian food abroad."

Hungry for Culinary Stimulation

Being a spoiled, restaurant-going New Yorker, life in Europe is not as amazing. Being in a small German town like Weimar doesn't help either. Going out for dinner is expensive and not as usual. I am dying of hunger for some interesting flavor combinations. Don't get me wrong! It is great to be in Europe, and try all different types of local food. However, the culinary creative energy is so much more happening on the small island of ours. Reading all the New York food blogs, such as Grub Street, makes me realize how fabulous life is in NYC.

Eyjafjallajökull - the volcano that no one can pronounce

Iceland, Eyjafjallajökull - May 1st and 2nd, 2010 from Sean Stiegemeier on Vimeo.

The Museum of Natural History NY

A beautiful series of photographs documenting the making of Museum of Natural History.

American Museum of Natural History Photo Archive

Innovation+Intuition

A 2.5 year old can learn how to use an iPad in 5 minutes. I think that says something about Apple's interface design.

kitsunenoir - the iPad a 2.5-year-old and me

A special edition of Rolex Submariner by Bamford & Sons. Too bad that Rolex doesn't make all black version.

SWATCH Color Codes Collection