Domino Mourners, Rejoice!

Say hello to Lonny- the new magazine that has the hopes and dreams of Domino mourners everywhere on it's shoulders- no pressure or anything. Former Domino editor Michelle Adams rounded up some alums of the well-loved shelter mag to re-create the magic in an online-only format. While it might seem like a bummer to not have a glossy book to flip through, the consolation is that the features will be way longer- and zoomable details! 20 pages of former Domino ed-in-chief Deborah Needleman's upstate New York home? Ill take it! (Though I'll never forget that she didn't have a hamper for used hand towels in the bathroom at the launch of Domino's design book, held at her Tribeca loft. Even the perfect miss some details every once in a while. whew! )

Hyperlinks will also make shopping from the pages a snap- just click and shop!

Lonny launches this Thursday, Oct 1. Oh happy day.

this is north dakota.

I'm gearing up for a big two week trip out to the midwest with my boyfriend who hails from the great state of North Dakota, and I'm also getting ready to revive thisisnorthdakota.blogspot.com, a blog and photo journal that I started on our first trip out there two years ago.

As a city girl who had never been to the Great Plains, nearly everything we saw was new and exciting and slightly weird in a charming country way. I revived it on a second trip last summer for a 125th anniversary celebration of the town of New Rockford (pop. 1400), and I'm excited to revv it up again. It's a great way to keep the trip organized, and to keep everyone back home involved in our pastoral endeavors. This upcoming trip includes a leg that will take us farther west into Montana and Wyoming, including a stay in West Yellowstone to take in the park views. I know that my posts haven't always been personal in nature, it's something I've been resisting for some reason, but I'm giving in now. I'll be linking to the blog here with teaser pictures and videos, but I hope you'll check it out and follow us on our trip. One of the first things I'll be posting about is the grand opening of a shop in town that is advertising 'Live Bait and Gourmet Pocket Pies' in the hometown paper, which we have delivered to our Park Slope home so we can keep ourselves up-to-date on town gossip. Gourmet pocket pies sound pretty good, no? I don't know if they're sweet or savory, or what constitutes 'gourmet' in the middle of North Dakota, but you can bet I'll find out and report back.

PS- that's a pic of yours truly at the wheel of a Ford F1 pickup from the '30's, getting ready to drive down a dusty gravel farm road. No power brakes or steering-- a full body workout.

It Won't Work. There's No Basket.

Honda has just unveiled what it thinks is the future of commuting- an electric unicycle. They're calling it a 'personal mobility device' intended to target commuters and the elderly. It's basically a Segway scooter that you can sit on, which forges ahead or side-to-side based on your upper body movement. Seems a little too freaky to be practical, and since the battery can only run for an hour before needing to be re-charged, it eliminates some pretty large markets of commuters. Plus- there's no place to hold your stuff! I don't know why that's a sticking point to me, but it is. If the Segway didn't take off like wildfire (though god bless the 'Segs in the City' tour of Washington D.C. best. use. ever.) why would this thing strike gold? It's a freaking Honda for chrissake! Maybe if Daewoo had developed it, I'd feel differently. But I will not commute on a motorized unicycle. Would you?

Your Ad Here

I spent Labor Day weekend in Montreal, where I encountered this woman on the street in the old part of the city, wearing a white spandex unitard with the brand 'Gynad.com' all over her. Attention-grabbing, yes. But effective? I'm not sure. The name seems unfortunate- but maybe because I don't speak French. Their website claims that while they understand they are not the inventors of 'human advertising' as they call it (creepy) they ARE protecting their claim as the first human fashion advertising in Montreal, with this language:

"The contents of this page and web site are recorded at archive.org waybackmachine. So, if someone claims that he or she is the very first to introduce human fashion advertising in Montreal in a busy public area at a commercial level, he or she will need to provide time-stamped proof of such a claim."

Time-stamped proof. Get it?

If you care to, check out their 'links' page. Proves how innovative they are. Yikes.

Holy Sheep

This video proves that no matter what city folk say, people in the country know how to live it up. Perhaps they get their kicks slightly differently than we do-- but this video proves that there may be no such thing as a 'country bumpkin' any longer. LED lights and sheep- watch the magic unfold.

Our Very Own Man on the Street!

Weather updates, graphic design, videos of cabs on fire- he does it all. Our very own Brian Durniak hit the jackpot today with video of a a cab exploding on 7th avenue at 53rd street here in NYC. It pays to have your camera with you at all times! Video courtesy of Mostly Weather.

CAB BURNING, not sure how it caught fire. Luckily nobody inside.