oh, larissa

Strawberries + peaches + vanilla icecream + lychee liquor + blender

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:15:00 -0500

= delectable bliss!

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Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:32:00 -0500

NYT: This Just in From the 1890s

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:18:00 -0500

NYT: This Just in From the 1890s:

“IT’S usually easy to distinguish between clothes and costumes: either you’re Spider-Man, or you’re not.

Drawing the line between polish and pretension is trickier, especially when last year’s costume can be this year’s classic, and next year’s yawn. Just consider the steady infiltration of 19th-century haberdashery into the 21st-century wardrobe. Garment after garment has arrived on the scene that one might think more Gilbert and Sullivan than Bergdorf and Goodman, only to be taken up by the young beards.

Not long ago, big brass-buttoned military coats looked a bit extreme. So did high-button, high-lapel vests and slim tweed trousers. And so did guys who tucked said trousers into high, old-fashioned hunting boots. Now these clothes (along with those ever-present beards and mustaches) look like downtown defaults compared with fall runway looks like cardinal-red tailcoats at Ralph Lauren, capes and bowlers at Alexander McQueen and knee breeches at Robert Geller.

As with home design, where curio cases, taxidermy and other stylish clutter of the Victorian era have been taken up by young hipsters, many of today’s popular men’s styles have their roots in the late 19th century. There are the three-piece suits once favored by mustachioed Gilded Age bankers; the military greatcoats and boots of Union officers; and the henley undershirts, suspenders, plaid flannel shirts and stout drill trousers worn by plain, honest farmers…

“We’ve already seen the comeback of the butcher and the baker,” he said. “Next thing is going to be a hipster candlestick maker.””

“Peaty wetlands emit about 1.3 billion tonnes of CO2 a...

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:52:17 -0500

“Peaty wetlands emit about 1.3 billion tonnes of CO2 a year as a result of human activity that drains them and thus exposes them to the oxidative effect of the atmosphere. This figure does not include the effect of fire on dried-up bogs, which can double the amount. That, at least, is the conclusion of a report published by Wetlands International, a lobby group, this week. Drained peat occupies 0.3% of the world’s land surface, but is responsible for 6% of man-made CO2 emissions. Indonesia is the biggest emitter, but richer countries are guilty too. However, the report’s findings contrast with the conclusions of a paper on deforestation also published this week in Nature Geoscience. The conventional figure is that tree-felling causes 20% of man-made CO2 emissions, but the new paper puts that figure at closer to 12%. Together, both studies suggest a change of emphasis may be needed, and that efforts should be made to preserve not just forests, but also bogs. (source)”

I love the asymmetrical Rick Owens men’s leather jacket....

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:52:27 -0500

I love the asymmetrical Rick Owens men’s leather jacket. (via)

Whenever Norway’s extensive social welfare system and high...

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 18:37:49 -0400

Whenever Norway’s extensive social welfare system and high standard of living is discussed, conservatives like to say that they can only afford it because they are sitting on so much oil.

If that’s the case, then why does Sweden have a nearly identical system and standard of living, without much oil at all?

(click to enlarge; via axinomancy)

Why Cutting Carbon Emissions is not Enough

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:38:22 -0400

Why Cutting Carbon Emissions is not Enough:

Achim Steiner, UN Under-Secretary General and UN Environment Program Executive Director, on lessons from the Montreal Protocol on chlorofluorocarbons in relation to COP15’s focus on carbon emissions and climate mitigation.

I really like the contrast here.

Sun, 20 Sep 2009 16:35:00 -0400

I really like the contrast here.

brocatus: jakelodwick: This song is from the new Muse album. I...

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:52:00 -0400

brocatus:

jakelodwick:

This song is from the new Muse album. I like the album so far because it makes me feel like I’m standing up to an overwhelming authority.

I am a fan of some of MUSE but this is so completely unexpected and makes me want to buy the new album NOW.

Lines, lines, lines! Eric Rasmussen’s home in Sag Harbor...

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:53:00 -0400

Lines, lines, lines! Eric Rasmussen’s home in Sag Harbor as designed by Paul Masi. Skatelite, a pressed paper-and-resin material made for skateboard parks, covers the floor and counters.

“In its annual “World Development Report” published on...

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:52:02 -0400

“In its annual “World Development Report” published on Tuesday September 15th, the World Bank notes that they accounted for 64% of global CO2 emissions from fossil fuels between 1850 and 2005. In 2005 itself, however, this share had fallen to 50%, and middle-income countries such as India and China (now the world’s biggest emitter) accounted for almost half of CO2 emissions and more than half of wider greenhouse-gas emissions. But rich countries’ 1 billion people emit far more on a per person basis compared with the 4.2 billion people who live in middle-income countries.”

"Our business in life is not to get ahead of others but to get ahead of ourselves, to break our own..."

Sat, 12 Sep 2009 11:34:01 -0400

“Our business in life is not to get ahead of others but to get ahead of ourselves, to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterdays by our today.”

- Stewart B. Johnson (via awakenedbysunrise)

Agnes Thor

Sun, 06 Sep 2009 20:09:50 -0400

Agnes Thor

Douglas Coupland: the writer who sees into the future

Sun, 06 Sep 2009 20:06:47 -0400

Douglas Coupland: the writer who sees into the future:

“In the end I never really understand what Coupland feels about the future, but he doesn’t seem to mind…

A friend asked him recently, if he had the choice would he go back to the 90s? He might as well have suggested returning to the middle ages; Coupland was horrified.

“No! Because I would miss the sense of frontier that we have right now. Soon it won’t be the internet any more, it’ll just be like air, like somehow they’ll integrate the internet into the air. And God’s name will have ended up being Google, because that’s the way it worked out.

“It could have worked out that God’s name ended up being Yahoo, of course,” he adds. “But they lost out.”“

“The loss has fired a debate over whether the future of...

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:04:05 -0400

“The loss has fired a debate over whether the future of Dresden, in what was once East Germany, should lie more in research and design, rather than manufacturing…

“We need to put money in places that create knowledge, not things,” said Wolfram Drescher, one of two co-chief executives at the company. “If all we had were production and not knowledge, I’d be standing on the street, unemployed.”

The thought that traditional manufacturing should not necessarily be the indispensable foundation of the economy is heresy in Germany. But as China moves to supplant Germany as the world’s largest exporter of goods, the questions here over where to invest for the future go to the heart of an issue that Americans have faced for decades but that Germans are just beginning to confront.”

- Carter Dougherty, “A Nascent Debate in Germany - Research or Manufacturing (NYT)”

onepointofview:(via creatively-challenged)

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 10:37:51 -0400

onepointofview:(via creatively-challenged)

Tap it

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:29:54 -0400

Bundanoon. It was here it all started. In a little rural community in New South Wales, Australia, with approximately 2,500 inhabitants. Bundanoon. Today they will all gather and by show of hands decide to ban bottled water from the town. All shop owners has agreed, despite the fact that they lose over a thousand bucks a years, each. They say it’s a moral question. I say it’s fucking brilliant.

It all started when a big bottled water company wanted to buy land from the town for drilling wells. Visitors and tourists will be encuraged to use tap water by being provided with empty bottles and public water fountains along the main street. Bottled water is a $500 million business in Australia and the townspeople are hoping that their initiative will catch on and spread. Lets all hope so. (via onepointofview)

Despite appearances regarding Canada’s 1st place spot, it...

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 23:17:00 -0400

Despite appearances regarding Canada’s 1st place spot, it is interesting to note that:

“Canada’s net taxation was 33.4% of GDP in the last year there is data for, while the US’s was 28.2%, both significantly lower than the mid 40%’s to 50%’s common in Europe.
Government spending in Canada was 39.3% of GDP in Canada and 36.7% of GDP in the US. This smaller difference than revenues indicates that the US government operates further in the red, which is true. Canada has had a federal surplus every year since the 1990s, while the US has had a surplus in 2 years (1999 and 2000) since 1968. (sources: 1, 2)”

I don’t have data on hand, but it would be interesting to compare with Germany — which is sitting just below the OECD average, and also with Sweden and Australia against Canadian or American figures and factors.

Look at where RBC sits. No surprise there (at my own expense).

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 23:11:00 -0400

Look at where RBC sits. No surprise there (at my own expense).

"If people were as captivated by public affairs as they are by erotic ones, the economy would be very..."

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 23:06:00 -0400

“If people were as captivated by public affairs as they are by erotic ones, the economy would be very strong.”

- magdalena; reader’s comment left at the NYT