Shambra

Posted on August 1, 2007 Under Life

I have bad airport karma. Take this past week for instance: I went back to Ohio to see my folks and my flight both ways was delayed four hours, despite the fact that the skies were nothing but sunshine. If…

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Behance: 100 Tips To Improve Your Life

Posted on July 31, 2007 Under Life

Our making-ideas happen brothers over at Behance just posted an interesting and intriguing list of One Hundred Tips To Improve Your Life. They collaborated with a group of fourteen seperate blogs, all with a shared interest in helping people increase…

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FizTV

Posted on July 30, 2007 Under Life

Tonight at 7:15 pm (Sao Paulo time), Brazil's -- maybe even the world's? -- first Internet user-generated content program airs on television channel TVA, bringing to fruition a project that's been patiently marinating in Web form for a couple of…

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Street Peeper

Posted on July 27, 2007 Under Life

One of my favorite things about living in New York is seeing the way people get dressed up just to leave their apartment. Okay maybe not dressed up, but put together. Time is being spent on outfits in New York,…

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Talk Shop Fridays: Convergence vs. Divergence

Posted on July 27, 2007 Under Life

This morning, on the way to the coffee shop where I write, I passed a young lady with headphones in her ears. A normal enough occurrence for a rainy Friday morning, but the feeling that something was terribly out of…

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The Handlebar Club

Posted on July 26, 2007 Under Life

It's the 60th Anniversary of The Handlebar Club, a London-based (but world-proliferated) tribute to "hirstute appendages of the upper lip, with graspable extremities," and the JS team has unanimously voted in favor of a stateside celebration. Rest assured we will…

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NOTVIDEO + Take Zer0

Posted on July 26, 2007 Under Life

Our friends over at NOTCOT have just posted the first episode of NOTVIDEO, the pilot entry in what could become a series featuring some of the more interesting products to be found on NOTCOT, NOTCOUTURE, and TasteSpotting. From cupcakes to…

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Esquire TV Launches

Posted on July 25, 2007 Under Life

I've said for the longest time that the four things I look for in a guy are nice teeth, the ability to tie a double windsor, tolerable music sensibilities and a subscription to Esquire. As far as the latter goes…

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New S+ark for Fossil

Posted on July 24, 2007 Under Life

Via Moco Loco, I just fell in love with the latest offerings in the Fossil/Phillippe Stark Collaborative series: Veiled has specially electroplated crystal to mimic the bracelet design continuously across its face; Snake, whose closure is hidden on at the…

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Ludus Luderia: Sao Paulo

Posted on July 23, 2007 Under Life

When I was a kid, our family had a Nintendo that we played so much it started acting up early on its life, eventually refusing to accept cartridges unless we performed a special trick involving making ourselves dizzy to make…

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