jeff found this fun program to visually display delicious tags.  can you guess whose is whose?

we live very different internet lives.

% income spent on gas

another fantastic NY Times visualization

my room is finally finished! I did a quick crop and mend of these mobile pics to get the panoramic view.

a better way to digest statistics

Statistics can feel abstract and anesthetizing, making it difficult to connect with and make meaning of 3.6 million SUV sales in one year, for example, or 2.3 million Americans in prison, or 410,000 paper cups used every fifteen minutes.
Artist Chris Jordan is known for his enormous photographs which visually examine consumerism and social issues in [...]

how did we end up in suburbs?

“Suburbia may be paved with good intentions, but mainly it is paved”
-architect Douglas Kelbaugh
Continuing on my previous curiosity about the decline of suburbs, I just finished architect professor Dolores Hayden’s book Building Suburbia. Did you ever wonder how we got this way in the first place? How big box stores and parking [...]

gem sweaterologist, leslie hall

“line these pants with crisco, when i dance the disco” -leslie hall
I love gem sweaters as much as the next girl.  In fact, every holiday I scour the thrift store isles for that so-kitschy-it’s-fabulous sweater to put over leggings and rock to the ugly-sweater holiday party.  But by late December, the ‘good ones’ have already [...]

new furniture!

I’m practicing for my next life, when I will be an interior decorator.

table, paroba collection
chairs, crate + barrel
candles, target

sofa, Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams
coffee table, paroba collection
rug, Crate + Barrel
bookshelf, random SOMA furniture store

open architecture challenge

This challenge is a partnership of architecture for humanity (an incredible organization that focuses on sustainable developments in communities) and 50by15 (another cool org with the mission to provide 50% of the world with affordable internet access by 2015).  The challenge gives architects, designers, and students the opportunity to design sustainable technology facilities in three [...]