unsolicited opinions on random things
“This book includes over three hundred examples of elegant and eccentric scripts from pre-Modern to Modern—from France, Italy, Germany, and England as well as the United States. Featuring type specimens, book covers, sheet music, children’s books, handwriting manuals, labels, advertisements and packages, this is a veritable festival of rare and unknown scripts between flexi-covers.”
Want.
[wow, am I a type nerd or what?]
The Museum of Modern Art in New York asked its visitors for some feedback. Check out this great page on the MoMA website with some of the replies (I posted a bunch above, but there are so many more). The best one has got to be this though:
[via Handmade Charlotte]
Last weekend, someone asked me why I love New York so much. I had to think about it for a minute – I mean, isn’t it obvious? Then I realized that this person was from the West Coast, and didn’t get the urban, cosmopolitan thing. So I stumbled and blabbed trying to explain the appeal of NYC, but I don’t think they really got it.
Later on, I told Kinnon about that conversation and she took something I said and turned it into letter art (above). I like it. (but of course I do, I said it)
Whoa, I just realized that I haven’t done a “women I admire” post in a loooooong time. And I have no excuse – it’s not like there’s a lack of amazing women in my life. Anyway, this one’s all about Jenna.
Jenna is my pal who is super rad. She’s trendy like a hipster, but not annoying like hipsters can be. She’s way fashionable and has impeccable taste – check out her blog for proof of that. Jenna is always polished, gracious, and knows her manners, which I really like. She spends her free time studying French, because she and her husband Dan are taking a year off and moving to Lyon, France next January. How cool is that?
[photo above of Jenna at Bouchon, on our girls’ trip to Vegas]
Would you (or someone you know) like to rent my house? We’ve put it up on the vacation rental website AirBnB for anytime in August, September, or October (minimum one week rental). We’d like to do some traveling ourselves during those months, and don’t want our house to sit empty (and of course, we’d like to make some money).
Check out our listing on AirBnB here.
The cherry blossoms are in full bloom in the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens (according to their “CherryWatch Blossom Status Map”, complete with its own Twitter feed – hilarious). See photos here… beautiful, huh?
Do you subscribe to any daily deal emails (like Groupon, Living Social, Wagjag, FabFind, etc)? If you subscribe to more than one, do you feel like you’re inundated with emails every day?
A couple of months ago, I was receiving around 10 daily deal emails every morning, and I got sick of how they were clogging my inbox. So I unsubscribed from all of them, and signed up for JUST ONE daily email from OneSpout. OneSpout indexes all of the daily deals in your area, and sends one (sometimes long) email with all the deals. Then you can read them all at once, or just delete it. Love it.
Warning though – once you get all those deals every day, you might become addicted to them like I am. I’ve purchased deals for spas, restaurants, interior room painting, duct cleaning, landscaping… it goes on and on. I guess I’m a real sucker for a good deal.
The Selby took some photos of Chef Eric Ripert at work in his NYC restaurant, Le Bernadin. I don’t know which I like more – the photos of the kitchen, or the photos of the food! Click here to see all the images.
Hope you have a delicious weekend.
Oh wow, this is hilarious. I was reading one of my favourite baby websites, Babble, and saw this post about a new children’s book, Go The F To Sleep. Don’t worry, the book comes with a disclaimer:
Go the F To Sleep is a bedtime book for parents who live in the real world, where a few snoozing kitties and cutesy rhymes don’t always send a toddler sailing off to dreamland. Honest, profane, and affectionate, Adam Mansbach’s verses and Ricardo Cortés’ illustrations perfectly capture the familiar—and unspoken—tribulations of putting your little angel down for the night, and open up a conversation about parenting in the process. Beautiful, subversive, and pants-wettingly funny, Go the Fuck to Sleep is a perfect gift for parents new, old, or expectant. You probably should not read it to actual children, and if you do, he cannot be held legally responsible.
Sounds like a delightful read to me!
Lately I’ve been a little obsessed with looking up vacation rental properties. It’s partially because I like to dream of cool holidays, and partially because we hope to do some traveling in a few months, when Ian and I are both on parental leave. As much as we’d love to go to Scotland (or anywhere else overseas for that matter), we think a vacation within driving distance is a little more practical (and affordable).
Check out this beach house available for rent in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina (on the Outer Banks, where I still want to visit). Wouldn’t you love to hang out in that living room, cook in that kitchen, swim in the private pool, walk to the beach, and soak in that bathtub? Dreamy.
