(via The Sartorialist)

dietrich labs pen

A designer from Braun has teamed up with Düller and IDEA to create these sleek pens and pencils made of aluminum. Link: $35

Thank you, Iain Claridge

moleskine folio

Moleskine is my favorite journal company, and they just released a new collection called Folio that focuses less on artsy types as their consumer base. Link

this isn't happiness?

Thank you, FFFFOUND!

10 creepy abandoned places

A really cool feature at COOLIST

loggerheads

Jillian Tamaki

the world wide web

all occasion cards

The minimal all occasion cards simply read thank you, sorry, and fuck you. What more could you need? Link: $36

roa grafitti from east london

helvetica pen

Amazing!

zen humidifier

This humidifier by Masuza is made of Japanese cypress and uses no electricity. When you pour water into the base, it is naturally pulled up into the wood and evaporates into the air. The water is also infused with a faint lemony scent from the wood itself. Unfortunately there isn't much information available.

while you weren't listening

I could think of someone that this relates to.

Thank you, FFFFOUND!

thirty-nine longboard

Ah, the skateboard; a symbol of obnoxious adolescents everywhere. This longboard however, will not be seen with those who wear ripped jeans. This is for the young, design savvy, hip-to-the-jive west coasters. And it's easy to see why. The design is minimal, and practical, a perfect colaboration between Buddy Carr and Antonio Carusone. Link: $170

Thank you, Iain Claridge

writing exercise #1

My ultimate question with life is, “Is life written in pen or pencil”?

One would say life is written in pen, because what is done will always have been.  It’s not erasable.  I mean you can cover it with white-out, but anyone who cares enough will notice.  You can write over it, but thats just brutish and messy.  And keep in mind you can’t just throw the page away and start on another one.  The reason is that in this thought the page is you.  The page is the person and to destroy the page is to destroy yourself.

So if you can not destroy the paper and start from scratch, but people change, then life must be written in pencil you might think.  You can erase the past.  Though it always remains faintly visible.  The indentations in the page where you wrote, erased, brushed away, and wrote over.  They will live on.

Or perhaps my thinking is too shallow.  Perhaps we are not a sheet of paper.  Perhaps we are a book constantly being written.  We are authors equipped with no erasers nor whiteout.  Unable to change what is being written, just turning the page and writing.  Only able to point people to different pages, or talk about a different way to view what was written.  And when we die the editors will scramble to our pages and write the story of “who we were”.

So pen or pencil, it really doesn’t matter when you control what the editors say.  Plus they use neither pen, nor pencil.

They use computers.

Its time for a book burning.

-Philip D

Via PhillyD

it snowed in florida

WOW! It snowed today! What's the big deal you ask? Well... I live in Central Florida, and it usually doesn't even get below forty in the winter, let alone snow. This, my friends, is a perfect example of global warming.

coca-cola can concept

Dimitri Samal developed this awesome concept to make that good ol' Coke can interesting.

le chandelier

   If you have ever been to London then you know what I mean when I say that there are tea shops on every corner like there are Starbucks' in New York City. This one isn't like that though; this one is classified among the sit-down tea rooms that Europe is famous for. Don't expect to find any tassels or silk here though, it's not like the Ritz~Carlton.

this year i will...

You still can't decide what your New Year's resolution is? Well check out this cool (and well designed) New Year's resolution generator. 

king robbo

my new desktop!

This is what my new desktop look like! Isn't it so clean and purrty? I set the dock to hide when I'm not using it. I'm unnecessarily excited.