Wanderlust

this is the amazing LXD crew that performed on So You Think You...

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:12:11 -0500

this is the amazing LXD crew that performed on So You Think You Can Dance last week. If nothing else you have to watch the amazing bboy flip sequence at 1:42.

beautifully done. i could watch this over and over.

CANNOT wait for this online dance series. The LXD thank you,...

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:56:41 -0500

CANNOT wait for this online dance series. The LXD

thank you, online video, for giving me this niche content.

if you’re a fan of glee, you can see harry shum in this (the asian football player who happens to be skinny). he used to come teach class when i was dancing with culture shock LA.

the one thing that has made me stop working long enough to...

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:21:02 -0500

the one thing that has made me stop working long enough to post.

best waves and wipeouts from the eddie aikau surf competitions at waimea.

SICK!

really thinking hard about how i can save enough money to take a...

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:52:05 -0500

really thinking hard about how i can save enough money to take a 1 year sabbatical every seven years…brilliant model.

Morning light in the LES

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 06:47:31 -0500

Morning light in the LES

Garbage

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:29:19 -0500

Just read in the NY Times that there is a garbage pile in the Pacific Ocean twice the size of Texas. Insanity!!!

Scones with clotted cream and jam at Tea & Symps in West...

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 13:36:59 -0500

Scones with clotted cream and jam at Tea & Symps in West Village. Great way to start a beautiful Sunday.

Homemade African curry last night for jillian’s last home...

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:25:48 -0500

Homemade African curry last night for jillian’s last home cooked meal in out apartment! Made from spices I trekked back from Tanzania…almost out! =(

Aaannd the tree is up

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:37:15 -0500

Aaannd the tree is up

very excited for the tim burton moma exhibit coming at the end...

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:06:11 -0500

very excited for the tim burton moma exhibit coming at the end of this month!

the tree is getting ready to go up at rockefeller...

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:01:57 -0500

the tree is getting ready to go up at rockefeller center…christmas season in nyc!

The snowflakes are up on Sak’s—officially winter....

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:30:06 -0500

The snowflakes are up on Sak’s—officially winter. And the starbucks red cups are out too!

Radio Reaches More People Than The Web

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:40:29 -0500

bwahahahhahahahahahah!

the radio agencies are overjoyed.

can i have my own halfpipe that i can only get to by helicopter...

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:32:17 -0500

can i have my own halfpipe that i can only get to by helicopter also??

love the shot of the halfpipe in the middle of a mtn in the middle of nowhere. awesome. can’t wait for snowboarding season! although…very apprehensive of my first snowboarding adventure on the east coast mtns…

himmelsblog: dbreunig: VW stamped the map on Euros with a...

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:20:26 -0400

himmelsblog:

dbreunig:

VW stamped the map on Euros with a route, showing how far you’ll go on the fuel bought with the given denomination.

They enlisted their dealers to help distribute the media, by stamping their daily cash deposits. Folks, it doesn’t get any cheaper or smarter than this. (Via Directdaily)

Amazing. Another example of how “social media” isn’t digital only.

I guess how the heck do you measure impressions on this? Think probably the buzz is worth it. Great idea.

Burger King augmented reality uses a dollar bill so you...

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:18:11 -0400

Burger King augmented reality uses a dollar bill so you don’t have to print the gliph. Great way to remove a big barrier. And within a banner nonetheless.

prototype of a flexible laptop made of a flexible LED...

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:29:18 -0400

prototype of a flexible laptop made of a flexible LED screen.

pretty sweet, wish they were lighter to lug around in my purse!

now one for everything going on in mobile-dynamic data on things...

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:24:16 -0400

now one for everything going on in mobile-dynamic data on things happening now.

mobile data sources:

TechCrunchies – Mobile Video Viewers Statistics
AdMob June 2009 Mobile Metrics Report
PortioDirect Mobile Factbook 2009
Mashable – CITA report – 4.1 Billion SMS Messages Are Sent Daily USA
iPolicy UK – SMS messaging has a bright future
Research and Markets Global Mobile Broadband – Statistics and Trends
Smartbrief Sharp Increase in Mobile Internet Adspend…
ABI Research In 2014 Monthly Mobile Data Traffic Will Exceed 2008 Total
HotHardware Huge Growth in Daily Mobile Web Access
Ecoustics
Cio GPS Enabled Mobile Phone Shipments to More than Double Over Next Five Years
Nielsen Americans Watching More TV Than Ever: Web and Mobile Video Up too

Via Tribal DDB Italy

dynamic social media counter gives you a sense of just how fast...

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:21:38 -0400

dynamic social media counter gives you a sense of just how fast everything is moving in the space.

here’s where all the stats are sourced from:

20 hours of video uploaded every minute onto YouTube (source YouTube blog Aug 09)
Facebook 600k new members per day, and photos, videos per month, 700mill & 4 mill respectively (source Inside Facebook Feb 09)
Twitter 18 million new users per year & 4 million tweets sent daily (source TechCrunch Apr 09)
iPolicy UK – SMS messaging has a bright future (Aug 09)
900 000 blogs posts put up every day (source Technorati State of the Blogosphere 2008)
YouTube daily, 96 million videos watched, $1mill bandwidth costs (source Comscore Jul 06 !)
UPDATE: YouTube 1Billion watched per day SMH (2009)- counter updated!
Second Life 250k virtual goods made daily, text messages 1250 per second (source Linden Lab release Sep 09)
Money – $5.5 billion on virtual goods (casual & game worlds) even Facebooks gifts make $70 million annually (source Viximo Aug 09)
Flickr has 73 million visitors a month who upload 700 million photos (source Yahoo Mar 09)
Mobile social network subscribers – 92.5 million at the end of 2008, by end of 2013 rising to between 641.6-873.1 million or 132 mill annually (source Informa PDF)
SMS – Over 2.3 trillion messages will be sent across major markets worldwide in 2008 (source Everysingleoneofus sms statistics)

via tribal ddb italy

Tips from your Parents

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:06:45 -0400

From the Huffington Post

Parents really do know best, don’t they?

Balanced Life: Excellent Tips For Living That My Parents Gave Me

Sometimes you don’t have to go very far or do much research to get advice on how to be happier. Here are eight excellent tips for living my parents gave me.

My mother:
- “Stay calm.” My mother probably reminds of this three or four times each time I see her. I really need this advice. Every day.
- “The things that go wrong often make the best memories.” My mother told me this when we were getting ready for my wedding. It’s a very good thing to keep in mind, because it’s absolutely true, and it can also help you laugh at a bad situation while it’s happening.
- “You like to have a few things that you really like, instead of lots of choices.” Okay, this advice might not be widely applicable, but it was a huge revelation to me about my own nature. My mother made this comment in the context of clothes, but it’s true in many areas of my life.
- “That’s so wonderful! Be grateful, because you worked hard for what you got, and you deserved it, but others also worked hard, and people don’t always get what they deserve.” My mother made this observation when I called home to report that I’d been elected the editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal. I repeated her remark to a friend, who thought it sounded a little unenthusiastic, but in fact, it was reassuring, especially in the long run. Because it’s TRUE. You don’t always get what you deserve, even when you work hard, and my mother’s observation has been very comforting to me in other circumstances, when things didn’t go my way.

My father:
- “If you’re willing to take the blame, people will give you the responsibility.” This was perhaps the best advice for the workplace I ever got.
- “Energy.” Very true. The first chapter of The Happiness Project is devoted to energy. (Here are nine tips for giving yourself an energy boost in the next ten minutes .)
- “Enjoy the process.” If you can enjoy the process, you are less concerned about outcomes. That’s a big help in the world.
- “All you have to do is put on your running shoes and let the front door shut behind you.” Good advice for all those couch potatoes trying to pick up an exercise habit. Just do that much! That counts!

My parents never gave me relationship advice or weighed in on my boyfriends (true, I only had two real boyfriends, one of whom I married, but I’m sure it was hard to resist nevertheless).

However, once when I was home for vacation, both of my parents remarked on the requirements of a happy relationship. Maybe they’d had a conversation between themselves, which was why it was on their minds. Anyway, it was so unusual for them to make this kind of remark that both statements made a big impression on me:
- My mother said: “In a relationship, it’s important that a person is kind, because eventually, if he’s not kind to other people, he won’t be kind to you.”
- My father said: “In a relationship, it’s important that a person be able to have fun, because you’re not going to have a happy life with someone who can’t have fun.”

Have you received any great advice from your parents?