POP UP POLAROID

As I have mentioned before, Photojojo rocks. They always have something in their shop that has my mouse hovering over the checkout button (right now, it's this brilliant thing). But did you know that they also have a great newsletter that is chock full of fun photo-related projects? My current favorite is this awesome polaroid pop up card, which allows you to personalize the snapshot to include your friends, family or best portfolio pic.

Check out the whole DIY here and the goodies in their shop here.

COLORFUL ARCHITECTURE

Do you have any fun plans for the weekend? I am going to be laying low since it is supposed to be a steamy one here in NYC (hovering near 100 degrees!) and thereby will limit my travels and adventures to the virtual realm. With that in mind, I thought I would do a quick round up of some stunning, colorful and creative architecture that I will be drooling over this weekend in the blissfully cool air conditioning of my apartment. Do you have any dreamy chroma-filled constructions you would add to this list?





The General Offices of Caja de Compensacion Los Heroes in Santiago, Chile







Olafur Eliasson's Your Rainbow Panorama in Arhus, Denmark






Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y Leon in Leon, Mexico (last photo via here)







Ecole Maternelle Pajol in Paris, France

PLAYING HOOKY

You may have noticed I have been MIA this week. Whoops! Seems I forgot to tell you that I was taking a long weekend to catch up on wedding planning. Hard to believe but we are now only 59 days away from the big day!

Anyway, I am back to work today and thought it would be fun to share this t-shirt (on sale now!) and this button with you. Because we all need to play hooky sometimes, right?

Hope you had a great Fourth of July!

FOLLOWING THE BOUNCING BALL

This little animation, created by Sebas and Clim, is beautiful and clever. Simple words, simple animation and fantastic results.

Here's to making your own stories this weekend! Have a great one; I will see you next week.

(thanks to swissmiss for the tip)

THE ARTIST SPEAKS

Amy Poehler may not be an artist in a traditional sense (aka a visual artist) but I will be damned if she isn't an artist of comedy. I mean, have you seen Parks and Recreation?! Genius!


Learn more about Poehler here.

(thanks to A Cup of Jo for the tip.)

HERMAN MILLER WALLPAPERS

To celebrate NeoCon 2012—a cool design-focused conference held in Chicago earlier this month—Herman Miller is offering some beautiful (and free!) desktop, iPhone, and iPad wallpapers for your downloading pleasure. My personal favorite is the green and blue venn diagram; what's yours?

Download your own here.

THE WEDDING FILES: HAPPY HONEYMOON NEWS, PART TWO

Remember last week when I told you how I had been swooning over photos of Iceland for a while? Well I wasn't kidding when I said they were everywhere. Just this morning I stumbled across this great post on the NYTimes' blog, Lens, about a new documentary being filmed in the country. Artists Lindsay Blatt and Paul Taggart have decided to film the beautiful age-old autumnal custom of rounding up Iceland's wild horses--a breed found only on the island country that has a unique and fiercely protected genetic makeup. 


The film looks beautiful and (if possible) makes me even more excited to embark on this adventure with my fiance. If you would like to learn more about the project you can read the article here and contribute to their Kickstarter project here.