The Goods

Monday, November 22, 2010

I'm Moving. Please Follow Me.

Hate to break it to you, but I've recently discovered that Tumblr is about a floppitygillion times better than Blogger (no offense). So...you can find my new posts here. It's so easy that it's addicting. Plus I think it looks nicer.

Monday, November 15, 2010

Knock Me Out

As a result of annotated bibliographies, I would like to be knocked unconscious right now. And if someone were to hit me in the brain while wearing any of these beauties, that would probably do the trick. And as long as they left the rings for me when I come-to, I wouldn't even be mad.

By Erica Anenberg

Erica Anenberg

Why yes, that IS a door knocker
By Pat Kim Designs

Saturday, November 13, 2010

Blog Fever

Sometimes you're just in the blogging mood, I guess. I personally believe this is brought on by having an English assignment that I do NOT care to do (annotated bibliography, anyone?), and therefore wasting my time by creeping around the internet, which leads me to finding awesome things which I am then basically obligated to post here.

1/ More Infographics

Ever since I was forced to flex my math-brain muscles with an infographic assignment, I've been ever-so-slightly obsessed with them.

This one, a look at discrepancies in the Bible, is pretty neat. Commissioned by Project Reason, via The Fast Company and I Love Charts

This lead me to look further into I Love Charts, where I found this lil gem, a chart of human sexuality/activity.

In related news, you may have noticed that this blog is run on Google's Blogspot. I Love Charts, however, is run on Tumblr (as are many other blogs I'm a fan of) and I wanted to follow them so I decided to just go ahead and create a Tumblr account...so there may be a change coming in the future. This might have to wait until I can take the time to code it myself (to impress any future employers who may be reading it) which really could take years.

Going forward...

2/ Harry Potter Weekend

Because I'm a giant weirdo, I watch Harry Potter whenever it's on TV (also almost any time it's gloomy, aka harry potter weather, and sometimes I listen to the books on CD for no reason at all) and this weekend happens to be one of ABC Families frequent "Harry Potter Weekends." So obviously I'm watching some HP this morning, and Neville Longbottom comes on my tv screen to introduce a clip and turns out lil Neville (real name Matt Lewis) is a smokin hottie. See bellow.

via the New York Post

I would NOT kick that out of my bed. Call me!

3/ Things I found awhile ago and forgot to post (oops)

3.1/ Scarf-y collar things

by Symmetry

3.2/ Adorable Dishware

by Lenneke Wispelwey of The Netherlands

still Lenneke Wispelwey

3.3/ Le Petit Petit

Just Look

Since my last post was pretty word-intensive, I've decided to try to balance it out with one full of pictures of things I've liked recently.

Enjoy!

Boots and (well-dressed) Babies

on The Sartorialist

Fur-Collar Coats

at Urban Outfitters

Plaid Shoulder Bag

also at Urban Outfitters

Canadian Animals

by Lawrie McIntosh

Beer and Hotdogs

on The Dieline

Something Swedish

on this blog

I think it's safe to say I have little to no idea what's going on here (all I can really make out is design, trend, and Swedish Ninja). But as you can tell from the close-up, an adorable Swedish man is involved (feel free to learn fluent English and call me up!)

Monday, November 8, 2010

Look What I'm Doing With My Life

So, I usually like to at least TRY to have some semblance of a theme for my posts, but as it was pointed out to me today (AHEM, Sydney Steininger and Christine Tabb) that I haven't posted since the beginning of October, I'm just going to have to forfeit a coherent theme and go with one that will make little to no sense...What I'm Doing with My Life or Things I Consider 'Work'.

Confused? Deal with it, keep reading.

Maybe some of you don't know (because you are random people reading this for only-God-knows-why and not people I have actually met. Not that you should stop reading. Please, I need all the followers I can get.) but I'm taking a class in relief printmaking class this semester and well, it's basically awesome. Here are some of my projects

Project 1: Spoon Printing

This beast was hand printed. With my delicate lady hands and a wooden spoon of all things. This was tough, and I sucked at it. Here's the best I could come up with.

What is that? A girl. A girl with hair.

Why? Who knows. Don't worry though, I sucked less the next time around.

Project 2: Color Reduction

Inspired by my father, Tommy Hilfiger, and reindeer sweaters:

Top left, my finished print; top right, reindeer sweater for your reference; and bottom, The Hilfigers

Project 3 did not go so well, so I'm not going to embarrass myself all over the internet by showing you. Going forward...

Project 4: More Color Reduction

Still in the development phase, but these are some of my inspiration/reference images. Sketches and final print, coming soon to a screen near you! (I mean, unless it turns out to be a real junker)

This dashing, mustachioed man is Charles Rennie Mackintosh, the architect who designed the Glasgow School of Art (which I visited when I used to be an awesome international student). On the bottom right is a wall at CBS designed by Lou Dorfsman, it's called Gastrotypographicalassemblage and I like it

What's that? Shut up and post some pretty images?

Well fine, look at this junk:

Infographic for oil spills.

I'm not going to lie to you fine folk, this project was pretty terrible to work on and I'm oh-so-glad it is over.

If you're interested, the map shows the location and magnitude of the 20 worst oil spills since 1989 when the Exxon Valdez crashed (into an iceberg or something, I've heard the driver was drunk but who really knows). Those nice little triangles point out the location and are sized to represent the number of gallons of oil spilled. They are also color-coded by the cause of the accident. Those numbers are also represented to the right of the map in a bar graph, which then compares the total amount spilled in twenty-one years to the amount the world consumes IN ONE SINGLE DAY. Also, that circle below the bars compares the amount of oil spilled in the Deepwater Horizon incident with how much one supertanker can hold. And FINALLY, on the far right is a diagram of a car and some numbers indicating how much oil it takes to make commonly found things on/in cars (gasoline or diesel fuel, tires, the polystyrene cups you might drink soda or coffee out of, and asphalt)

SEE, wouldn't you rather just LOOK at that chart than read that whole paragraph explaining it?! Infographics are dead useful, but I am probably not the one who should be making them.

Unless you are an employer looking to hire me to make an infographic. Then, I'M THE GIRL FOR YOU!

I didn't make these, but I thought maybe you would want to look at some quality infographics, so here are some that I especially like:

Saturday, October 16, 2010

Halloween!

All I really wanted out of this Halloween was to wear a jumpsuit. A onesie. Really, I just wanted my shirt to be the same garment as my pants. And I thought Kigu was the answer.

Awesome, right?

One piece, check. Hood with eyes and teeth, check. Tail, check.
Everything a girl could ask for, right?
WRONG! I would also ask that it not cost over 90 USD (with shipping), which it does, and that is because it has to come from the UK.
COME ON, AMERICA. GET WITH THE PROGRAM
and start making adult-size, one-piece animal costumes for "for fancy dress parties and festivals...and they make great pyjamas too"

Hopes and dreams dashed, I had to move onto Plan B. And then I also had to think of a new Halloween costume. (Get it? PLAN B? Birth control!?)
Here are my thoughts:

Lumberjack
Going as a Lumberjack has many upsides:

- I would get to wear plaid. Plaid on plaid on plaid.

- I can later wear that plaid in my daily life. Dual purpose.

- I'm looking to attract a male lumberjack. What better way to catch one than with a decoy?

How would I pull this off?

1. PLAID

Both at the same time? Probably.