Fantastic Family Portrait by Bri, Joel & Indy, originally uploaded by Kevin N. Murphy.
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How To Make A Decision
A humorous guide to “How To Make A Decision” by KnockKnock
Hi, I am the Sleeping Bag Man!
Ok, first of all, I am right there with Tim, I think these Selk Sleeping Bags are fantastic and I’d want one for myself. But, more importantly, I need this in a toddler size! Our little Ella refuses to stay under the covers at night and I can only imagine how cold she must be at times. This would solve all our problems…
Sam Messenger
Collage by Sam Messenger. Made me smile. Sounds like my clients when they want to get started on a new project!
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Pelican Bedside Table
The Pelican bedside table by Marc Venot has a hollow undercarriage that unscrews downward to reveal storage space. I agree with Joe, most apropos product name ever.
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Hello there, Coat Tree!
Paradise Coat Tree designed by Oiva Toikka. Spotted over at MinorDetails.
MoMA Site Redesign
The new MoMA.org site went live today. (Congratulations to Allegra Burnette and her team!) They have set a new standard, once again. The term WWMD (what would MoMA do?) is well deserved. And, having spoken to Allegra, I know this is just the beginning. There is much more to come, the site as it is right now is just the starting point.
I have already spent way too much time on the Multimedia Page this morning. Oh, what a wonderful time sucker. One of my favorite new glance into the prestigious organization is MoMA/Voices. Of course, I am biased as these 30second movies of MoMA employees have been done by my fab cousin Thilo Hoffmann. This one is my current favorite:
One comment on the new design: I am surprised at this new trend of having the navigation at the bottom with the content scrolling behind it. I have seen it a few times and to be honest, I am not a big fan of it. But maybe it will just some getting used to. Time will tell.
swissmiss studio: Lydia Denworth
We just launched a web presence for Brooklyn writer Lydia Denworth. The site launch coincided with the launch of Toxic Truth, her first book, which has already received raving reviews. Toxic Truth is the first book to tell the story of two men behind the bitter thirty-year fight to protect children from lead.
One in 8 Million
One in 8 Million, a NY Times weekly web series about the different characters in New York. (I love New York and The New York Times for publishing stuff like this.)
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GE Augments Reality
Watch and the give it ago at plugintotheSmartGrid.com from GE. Wowsers.
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‘Super Dozen’ Print by William Edmonds
‘Super Dozen‘ Print by William Edmonds. I would *love* to see this on a swissmiss-casa wall.
My Cousin in the New York Times
And I am *thrilled* to see one of my cousin Thilo Hoffmann’s MoMA 30second movies featured in today’s New York Time’s Article, covering the redesign of the MoMA website, which is to launch today tomorrow. I’ll be hitting that refresh button on moma.org all day long!
The Cult of Done Manifesto
1. There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion.
2. Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done.
3. There is no editing stage.
4. Pretending you know what you’re doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so just accept that you know what you’re doing even if you don’t and do it.
5. Banish procrastination. If you wait more than a week to get an idea done, abandon it.
6.The point of being done is not to finish but to get other things done.
7. Once you’re done you can throw it away.
8. Laugh at perfection. It’s boring and keeps you from being done.
9. People without dirty hands are wrong. Doing something makes you right.
10. Failure counts as done. So do mistakes.
11. Destruction is a variant of done.
12. If you have an idea and publish it on the internet, that counts as a ghost of done.
13. Done is the engine of more.
The Cult of Done Manifesto by Bre Pettis and Kio Stark
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Kindle iPhone App
I’ve just entered e-book reading nirvana with the Amazon’s Kindle iPhone App. Yes, please!
A Giant Construction Set (that folds flat)
Wonderful find by my fabulous studio mate Jennifer: A giant construction set that can be a hut, a screen, a headboard, a cube, a theatre… (Habitadule by Marie Compagnon)
Yo Gabba Gabba DJ Lance Hat
Yo Gabba Gabba – DJ Lance – Motion Activated Dance Hat. I wish it came in adult sizes, I would get one for G. You don’t know what Yo Gabba Gabba is?
What companies are using Twitter effectively?
The Electric Artists Twitter Tracker is a real-time listing of the top media, entertainment, and consumer product feeds they are currently following on Twitter. Learn more about Electric Artists.
Copper Mountain Style
The Copper Mountain PR Peeps made me laugh with the contents of a package I just opened! They sent me a note that started with “Dear attractive male or female blogger” and ended with “ps: I hope you enjoy the goods I sent along with this letter. Straight up bribe style. Just like the 70′s.” It made me laugh and the glasses are just fab. Oh, and yeah and check out the nationalsnowday movies and learn more about the movement. I’ll go and show off these fab glasses to my studio mates now.
playlist.io | add audio, listen from the ‘cloud’
Drop.io just launched a new applet called ‘playlist.io‘ – it is a dead simple way to post your music to the cloud in 3 clicks, and then stream it basically anywhere you want to play it (home, work, etc) — there is a demo video explaining how to use it.
Using the newly release API base iPhone application ‘droppler‘ you can even stream your playlist right to your iphone… there is a bit more at the drop.io blog if you are interested.
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99% | A Behance Conference April NYC
The line up of speakers for the 99% Behance Conference is promising! Michael Bierut, Seth Godin, Ji Lee, just to name a few. 99% will be happening in NYC April 16, – April 17, 2009! See you there?
