ELLE News Blog: Street Chic: New York.
Posted in cycling, style.
Pop Art Portraits, Priced for the People
Kristine Baerlin takes your photos and creates gorgeous, original works of art. These are actual paintings on actual canvas, and they’re as fresh, bright, vibrant, and saturated as pop art should be. Wouldn’t they be perfect to give to parents as a wedding thank-you gift, or as an anniversary or birthday gift?
Kristine is a professional painter living and working in New York. Her work has been featured on HGTV, as well as in magazines, galleries and design blogs.
DNA Portraits
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Posted in design, weddings.
Tagged with Add new tag, gifts, parents, zero anniversary.
Canditto is a computer-based kiosk that collects the digital photos guests have taken at a wedding, party, or reception. It produces a CD collection of all the guests’ pictures by the end of the night.
How it works: as guests leave, they are invited to insert their cameras’ memory cards into the device. The kiosk stores the photos on a thumb drive that the bride and groom can take home. It’s built to be simple and fast: no buttons to push and near-instant file transfer.
The inventors (above) are two MBA students from the college where I work–Babson College in Wellesley, MA. The New York Times did a nice write-up about it here.
Posted in parties, technology, weddings.
Tagged with photobooths, photography.
Posted in design.
Tagged with tabletop.
First, I would like to take a moment to kvetch about my commute this morning. I dropped my bike off for a tune-up yesterday (more on that below), so I had to find an alternate way to get to work. There was too much snow on the ground to bike, anyway. I took the T out to Riverside, only to discover that the campus shuttle had stopped running for the holiday break. None of my car-commuting coworkers were in the office; there was no one who could come get me. I even called a cab company but they said they didn’t have any cabs in the area, so I turned around and went home.
Back to my bike! First of all, when I went into International Bicycle, the guy who had originally sold me my bike came over and said he remembered me. He asked all about my bike, how I like it, and how the commuting is going. I was duly impressed that he remembered a customer from six months ago.
There were about four guys in the shop and it seemed like none of them had much to do so we all swapped stories and advice. The employees at International are so fun and nice! It reminded me a bit of the camaraderie you see in a ski shop. Just a bunch of people who are genuinely interested in the products they sell.
One guy was a fellow winter biker, and he explained to me that he likes to use the smallest tires possible to try to cut through the snow, rather than huge knobby tires. I got a flat a couple of months ago and the shop I went to didn’t have the most knowledgeable staff. They sold me a big huge mountain biking tire, probably relying completely on guesswork.
Long story short, I was sold on the slick new ones, so I got two and replaced both the front and rear. The best part about the new tires is that they are appropriate for year-round use; I thought I would have to switch out my tires every spring and fall. Hmm, I wonder if these babies will make me faster?
Bontrager Satellite Elite Hardcase
The conversation then turned to parts and wear, and I calculated the mileage I’ve done since June–nearly 2000 miles! Wow. If I can only make it through January, February is a short month, and then it’s March and spring. Right?
Posted in reviews.
Tagged with Bontrager, cycling, snow, tires, winter.
Dave has a coat from J. Crew he bought when he was in grad school. It’s missing a button. Which drives me batty every time he wears it. We don’t have a car, so visiting sewing stores and searching for a matching button would be a royal PITA. On a whim, I called J. Crew and asked if they had any spare buttons for a coat bought more than five years ago. The nice lady on the phone told me she would “research” it for me. Yeah, right. About a month later, after I had forgotten about the button issue, I got the following email:
Dear Ms. Sullivan:
The buttons for the University Jacket were located and they were mailed on the 20th of December. If you have any further questions, please feel free to call us at 1-800-562-0258. We appreciate your patience in obtaining this accessory. Happy Holidays and thank you for shopping with J.Crew.
Whoa. Customer service on steroids. Schweet!
Posted in life, reviews, style.
Tagged with reviews.
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