Posted in Sights on Feb 22nd, 2010
When marrying the love of your life, you want to encapsulate your relationship, express your two personalities; and you have one photograph to do it. Mango Red, takes a unique engagement photo. You’ll have to fly them out from the Philippines, but it’ll be worth it.
Have you ever seen engagement photos so elaborate and uniquely conceptualized?
Engagement/wedding [...]
Callithea davisi
Native Origin: Peru
The Lycaenidae family has approximately 4,700 species unevenly distributed worldwide. Coppers are common in northern temperate regions, blues numerous in Old World tropics, and hairstreaks particularly abundant in the New World tropics. Adults are small to tiny and often brilliantly colored–iridescent blues, bright reds, and oranges. Both sexes have three pairs of walking legs, and visit flowers for nectar or [...]
Posted in Sights on Dec 31st, 2009
Charles Phoenix, the “King of Kodachrome,” knows his kitsch. From tree flocking to Pall Malls, Phoenix’s slideshows will educate you on the foibles and follies of the 1950s and 1960s. His delightful narration of found slides highlight the most precious details of vintage American life. From his holiday show, for example, observe this slide and [...]
Posted in Sights on Dec 23rd, 2009
Its as though Mom deck to deck copied every Christmas special, seasonal commercial and holiday episode we ever taped onto one VHS cassette. Betamax Xmas has collected December programing from every year in the 1980’s for us to watch online. You might lose some time on this one.
Hall & Oates (looking like Lionel Ritche) sing [...]
Posted in Sights on Dec 22nd, 2009
A new bike is one of the the best gifts you get for Christmas.
Just down the street from Launderette headquarters, we found Linus Bikes building some of the cleanest, most beautiful bikes we’ve seen for people who need to get about town. In their own words:
“simple, affordable, elegant bikes for riding around and doing stuff.”
It [...]
Posted in Sights on Dec 14th, 2009
An unexpected smell can trigger our strongest memories of a time and place. A waft that unlocks a complete experience.
Perfume can be distracting, often overbearing, and only useful as a reminder of the person who once wore it. The girl wearing Curve in geology class, my brother in his Drakkar Noir period. But what if [...]
Posted in Sights on Dec 8th, 2009
This time of year chocolate gets hotter; it finds itself in socks; it occasionally barks. Perhaps you take your sugar gummy, or prefer your confections in cookie form. Regardless, we’re about to show you something you may very well regret knowing about. You may feel yourself compelled to order a five pound bag of Swedish [...]
