Poolga, a spot for great free iPhone wallpaper. Via Chance Co discoveries.

This might have to be the font of my business card. I love Mexican party banners! They are soo pretty and festive (if you have an excuse, you can get these guys to make you custom ones.)  Jessica Hische’s new font is designed to mimic either the “papel picado” banners or snowflakes.

The Guggenheim & Youtube  are picking videos to show at the Gugg. for their first ever Biennal of Creative Video. You can watch all the shortlisted ones here. I liked these two.

This glowstick animated  one might be my favorite.

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This one is fascinating because the particularities of our cravings are astonishing if you think about it.

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(and this rough-hewn animation about a bear. Not safe for kids.)

What a lovely photo for a product line! I spotted it in this past Sunday’s NY Times. It’s the new tabletop line by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec. If you saw Objectified, you’ll remember they were those adorable brothers with messy hair and gray & blue clothes.

see? Adorable.

For the first time in 4 1/2 months we don’t have to open the market, but we made it to our restaurant of choice too late for brunch. What? We clicked the dust off our heels from that restaurant and went somewhere else. This summer I learned about rimming the glass with Old Bay (wow!) and the Bloody Maria–replacing the vodka with tequila. Partners & Spade picks a cucumber for their recipe, what’s your bloody mary garnish of choice?

It is always a nice surprise to see a company using Facebook to give the inside scoop. Chance, the new clothing company that has the best online touch, shared a lovely photo album of a recent photo shoot. A friend and I were just talking about how Facebook photo albums can be lifestyle art. Some people make them so lovely to click through. I thought maybe, for an artist, it would make perfect sense to have a Facebook album aspect added to your online resumé.

My last post about Chance, is right here.

This store, their packaging, their perfect fixtures, looks amazing. Business envy.

You can see more pictures at the Haystack Needle.

(of course they are in Brooklyn, which as we all know was set up by the government as a testing ground to examine the outer limits of perfectly independent businesses. As soon as they’ve figured out how far is too far, and how much humanity and glee we can all handle without abandoning our office complexes, they’ll allow the rest of the country in on the action.)