Saha. Period.

An amazing, touching, scary, personal story of how a brilliant...

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:00:11 -0400

An amazing, touching, scary, personal story of how a brilliant photographer finds himself in the life of a young, half American, half Korean girl.

Rick Smolan tells the story of a girl

Shauna is a 23 year old art student who runs a badass custom...

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 01:42:00 -0400

Shauna is a 23 year old art student who runs a badass custom shoe store online. Each pair of shoes is unique (and really expensive) but the illos and shop branding are beautiful. These shoes are the reason wishlists were invented.
Slipoffs | Custom Designed Shoes

Hey folks, my friend Khoi at the NY Times nominated Rumplo in...

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:20:00 -0400

Hey folks, my friend Khoi at the NY Times nominated Rumplo in this year’s BusinessWeek “Best and Worst of the Web”. Yeah, I’m surprised too! We’re in there with some big guns (including personal fave Vimeo), so we could definitely use your vote on the ‘Best Of’ side!!! I promise to give you a giant hug if you do. Or bake you some cookies. Or something.

Vote Here.

A minute ago we were tied with NetFlix, the geniuses! You can read the accompanying article and notes about Rumplo here (we’re number 13, using the nav at the top right). If you haven’t checked out Rumplo please do and let me know what you think.

My little brother sends me pictures like this every once in a...

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:04:00 -0400

My little brother sends me pictures like this every once in a great while. He’s the best, and always manages to surprise me. He wants to be a movie star.

ten things in tokyo

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:43:31 -0400

Here’s my 10 Things:

Stay with a real Japanese Family if at all possible. It will open your eyes to parts of Japanese culture you’d never otherwise see.
Stay in a Capsul Hotel.
Life is too short to take the Futsu trains. Take the Shinkanzen
Find the tiny Taco shop in the Harajuku — trying to find it is a great time
Nara is sort of magical
Go to a good hot spring, preferably one with monkeys
Buy a bunch of crazy Japanese stuff for your friends back home
If you’re into it stay out all night at the clubs in Toyko
If you’re a skater hang with some Japanese skaters. If you’re an artist hang out with some japanese artists. etc. (I didn’t do this, but I think I should have)
Get yourself on Japanese TV (hehe, sorry, had to throw that in there).
tlvx:
my friend patrick ewing is visiting tokyo right now + i promised him a list of ten things i wouldn’t miss. it’s not in order, and is amazingly incomplete. i figured i would share it.
- stay in a capsule hotel + ryokan
- walk takeshta-dori in harajuku
- see everything in shibuya
- take the shinkansen or whatever’s faster
- eat fugu, sashimi, street crepes, tonkatsu, shabu-shabu, golden curry
- buy hot and cold beverages (and whatever else) from vending machines
- play pachinko
- visit several temples
- explore the electronics shops in akihabara
- best tokyo view: bar at roppongi hills

Reminded for anyone who likes Art and People: Lower East Side...

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 12:38:07 -0400

Reminded for anyone who likes Art and People: Lower East Side Art Crawl is tonight. We’re meeting up at 7 at Woodward Gallery to pick up tickets, and will be venture out together soon thereafter. Come one, come all. Hope to see you there!

Note: It looks as though there may be different pickup locals for online ordering, but everything is within a few blocks radius.

Art crawl through the Lower East Side’s burgeoning art...

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:16:48 -0400

Art crawl through the Lower East Side’s burgeoning art community. 7pm tomorrow (Friday) + cruise galleries in the LES, drink free drinks, and peruse some great looking art with friends. Tickets are $6 if you use the promo code “Mashable”. Feel like going?

"An assessment director at Hunter College, she said her work with Excel spreadsheets brought out her..."

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 10:37:09 -0400

“An assessment director at Hunter College, she said her work with Excel spreadsheets brought out her nerd side”

- Nerd Night in the East Village - NYTimes.com @ Angels and Kings bar.

"Finding the spine of a story like “Out of Africa” was important to Sydney for many reasons, the most..."

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:35:07 -0400

“Finding the spine of a story like “Out of Africa” was important to Sydney for many reasons, the most important of which was that it led to what he called “the ache.” The ache is self-explanatory if you’ve seen Sydney’s films. It is the ache of having one chance at deep love in a lifetime of shallow loves, and losing it too early. It is the ache of perfect, private union destroyed by terrible, worldly circumstance. For Sydney, the ache was about the way that the things we hold most dear always elude us.”

- I was going to tumbl this too, but Luke is too fast for me: Goings On, Remembering Sydney Pollack, The New Yorker (via tlvx)

Summer Firsts for July First:1. Had to turn on the fan to fall...

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 18:40:00 -0400

Summer Firsts for July First:
1. Had to turn on the fan to fall asleep during the hot muggy night.
2. Strolled the Brooklyn Flea (after chomping on a crumbly currant scone and Tropicana tasting OJ).
3. Skated over to Dumbo to peer into the TELECTROSCOPE! (above). A few Londoners and I communicated by giving each other thumbs up. When I realized that it was real, with only a second or so lag and tremendous clarity, I got really excited and laughed and waved frantically, like everyone else. It felt like I was looking into a giant crystal ball, or a space-time port-hole, and got me thinking that one day we’ll have giant projection screens for our iChat video chats and we will once again be living in the future.
4. I might be getting a sunburn, and it feels nice.

photo by Mina

cassette from my ex

Thu, 29 May 2008 11:15:34 -0400

cassette from my ex:

therealjanelle:

a jason bitner project

Been waiting for this a long time: Apple address book now syncs...

Wed, 28 May 2008 16:42:00 -0400

Been waiting for this a long time: Apple address book now syncs directly with your Google (Gmail) contacts, along with yahoo and Exchange. Hooray! (must download the OS update 10.5.3).Official Google Mac Blog: Mac OS X 10.5.3: sync Google Contacts

Mmmmm, some seriously awesome advice. Madea. Via Meghan,...

Sat, 24 May 2008 12:51:33 -0400

Mmmmm, some seriously awesome advice.

Madea. Via Meghan, “oh, it gets lame when they start singing, at about 6 mins”

mmmm, keyboard skins at photojojo. so pretty. superamit:We...

Thu, 22 May 2008 20:52:50 -0400

mmmm, keyboard skins at photojojo. so pretty.

superamit:

We just started selling these awesome keyboard shortcut skins for Apple keyboards and laptops.
If you use Photoshop (or Aperture, Final Cut Pro, Pro Tools, etc.) and always wanted to learn all those shortcuts that make you super fast, you will like these a whole lot! Plus they look freaking sweet.
p.s. Tumblr folks rock, so you get $10 off. Just email me after you put in your order and I’ll hook you up.
p.p.s. Please reblog them if you like it!

“Hardly anyone knows that a secret tunnel runs deep...

Thu, 22 May 2008 12:29:00 -0400

“Hardly anyone knows that a secret tunnel runs deep beneath the Atlantic Ocean. In May 2008, more than a century after it was begun, the tunnel will finally be completed. Immediately afterwards, an extraordinary optical device called a Telectroscope will be installed at both ends which will miraculously allow people to see right through the Earth from London to New York and vice versa.” - HOLY SHIT! On view in Brooklyn starting May 22 — link

Really awesome poster for the film My Winnipeg.

Thu, 22 May 2008 12:12:00 -0400

Really awesome poster for the film My Winnipeg.

QR code for sahadeva.com. You can also make one for your url,...

Tue, 13 May 2008 20:15:00 -0400

QR code for sahadeva.com. You can also make one for your url, phone number, SMS (don’t really know how that works), or just some text at http://qrcode.kaywa.com/.

No, I don’t know why I like QR codes so much.

L.A. based musician Meiko on Morning Becomes Eclectic. Fresh....

Sat, 10 May 2008 21:54:00 -0400

L.A. based musician Meiko on Morning Becomes Eclectic. Fresh. She jumps in at about 1min 30seconds.

I adore these black & white drawings by Klas Ernflo.

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 23:40:02 -0400

I adore these black & white drawings by Klas Ernflo.

Today I imagined the center of gravity changing in skyscrapers around manhattan as people moved...

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:30:00 -0400

Today I imagined the center of gravity changing in skyscrapers around manhattan as people moved closer to eastern facing windows to get a bit of sun. As a result buildings begin to lean toward the sun, too, and follow it throughout the day, like big sunflowers.

Delivery men and tourist walking through the streets will also start to slowly lean toward the sun in order to be parallel to these buildings, unconsciously, as they guide our sense of what is straight and vertical. In this manner people’s shoes begin to ware at their edges, due to their now uneven stride, and we can explain why there are so many old shoe repair shops in midtown Manhattan.

In the late afternoons, during the exodus of the office dwellers from Manhattan buildings sway violently back and forth as people empty out. People in New Jersey (whoever they are) jealously think all New York is partying. They hum to themselves “raise your hands in the air, raise em like you really don’t care.” The sound from this massive unconscious hymn heats the air as it blows toward Manhattan, pulling in moisture from the Hudson on it’s way over, and gives rise to the famously humid New York summers.