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  • October 18, 02:28 AM
     On the top of Corona Heights



  • October 18, 02:02 AM
    Amazing dinner at Bouchon

    Cirque du Soleil Love

    Cool lights when entering

    The ending setup,  what a great show!




  • August 24, 11:38 AM


    The flatness and subtle groove of the keys is just right. It makes technology a little more organic.

  • August 12, 06:23 PM
    What a great idea!


    Move-It: the stick-on recyclable cardboard trolley (video)

    If you're rockin' the suburbs, chances are your Suburban comes in handy when making those weekend jaunts to Home Depot. But if you're a city dweller, particularly one who has to make his / her way up and down subway stairs, things are just a tad more difficult when it comes to transporting purchases. Enter Move-It, a bloody brilliant concept that has currently been entered into the running for the James Dyson Award in the UK. Put simply, this recyclable, disposal and potential reusable device is crafted from cardboard and fully capable of strapping to any size or shape box. Simply peel and stick the handle to the box's top, and slap a pair of rollers on the bottom -- in about three minutes, you've got your very own trolley. Prayers, answered. Hop on past the break for a video demonstration, and hopefully the collective crossing of fingers will enable this thing to actually hit the market someday soon.
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  • June 19, 02:42 PM
    I come across a lot of articles about nice interior design, but this one really caught my eye as a style and atmosphere I'd actually want in my abode. I love the mix of warm wood, white light furniture and the fancy chandelier. From Design Sponge.





  • May 12, 06:32 PM
    Awesome cylindrical wood case and wood glasses by HERRLICHT.  From Buzz Beast
  • April 20, 10:37 PM
    Paddle boats at Stow Lake
    Spring means... ducklings!
    Daisies in bloom

    Birthday cake
  • April 09, 06:08 PM
    This cat is way evolved. Next he'll be doing this in a waistcoat and pants... scary.
  • April 09, 05:42 PM
    And magically fade out afterwards.
  • April 09, 03:13 PM
    Seriously cool short film Pixels By Patrick Jean
  • April 15, 06:44 PM

    Saw these on Design Milk. Stemless tumblers from Riedel, I love the shape, spring colors, and how they'll help you know which glass is yours.
  • April 06, 02:20 PM
    I finally went to Yosemite for the first time after being in the Bay Area for many years. It was beautiful with lots of good trails even though it is still early Spring.

    Yosemite valley on day one: warm and sunny
    Yosemite valley on day four: fresh snow
    Looking for wildlife
    Small stream in Mariposa Grove
    Yay giant sequoias!
    Hetch Hetchy Dam: huge spray of water coming out of a pipe near the top
  • April 06, 02:30 PM
    Gorgeous prints by Pancake and Franks. Their letter pressed cards are beautiful too.

    love the shapes and colors



  • April 06, 02:34 PM
    From Polka Dot Cookies. Too bad they're all the way in Australia. Their piping skills are amazing.




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  • November 01, 11:35 AM
    Trying out Photoforge, a photo editing iPhone app. So far it's pretty entertaining.





    - Posted from my iphone
  • April 06, 02:41 PM

    Etsy store
    "This item is cast from real vintage lace in Sterling Silver. Then molded into cuff form."
  • October 27, 01:25 PM
  • September 18, 02:27 PM
    Create a font from your handwriting. It's surprisingly painless (took me about 10 mins to print, write and scan). Looks better than I thought, though the ! is kinky. http://www.fontcapture.com/






  • September 16, 01:58 AM
     

    Facing southeast from Twin Peaks on a warm summer night.

      

    Golden Gate Bridge and the Richmond. 

     

     Market Street, downtown and the Bay Bridge.
  • August 15, 05:32 PM
    Threadcakes are cakes based on Threadless t-shirt designs. And some of them are mind-blowingly awesome. Here are some of my favorites from the winners this year.

     Noah's express - 3 days, entirely edible (pound cake, buttercream, fondant and gumpaste).

    The Red - like the addition of the chainsawed cake.

     
     
     Byebi -Devil's food with fresh stawberries and cream! So much better when the cake is a delicious as it is beautiful.
  • August 14, 03:04 PM
    It's different than the wontons my family makes - comes in a soup and smaller than dumplings with thinner skins. But looks tasty and not too hard.
  • June 19, 03:10 PM
    It's a beautiful, almost hot, day in San Francisco. I'm headed off to Canada tomorrow for the beginning of my long vacation. A full two weeks, longest I've taken off since starting work.

    Yesterday I read School for Adventurers yesterday, written and published by my friends KL and JLY. Also beautifully illustrated by KMRicker. It's quite the page-turner with interesting characters and a fairly well fleshed-out world. I'm looking forward to the sequel.


    Also had Japanese tapas for the first time with some coworkers. We went to Gochi in Cupertino and it was absolutely delicious. Some highlights were the clay pot with rice and eel, pizza with crab, shittake mushrooms, various deep fried treats and a salad with sliced beef and a particularly tasty sesame dressing. :)

I'm a designer living in San Francisco. I work on Blogger at Google.