Barn Living

Check out this beautiful home converted from an old barn by window display artist Corey Gash. Open space with lots of lighting, re-purposed found items, earthy colors, wooden texture, and an outdoor shower! Such creative and comfortable living space.
found through Los Angeles Times: A family of four, a 700-square-foot barn, and a bowling lane table

Road Trip 2009 - LA to NY

Been back since the 18th..
I knew I was back as soon as I stepped out of the plane into the warm air of the early evening in Long Beach Airport. My boots felt a tad too warm, jacket a bit too heavy. And when I slept, I slept straight into a beautiful 87 degree sunny Southern California day. I squinted looking up to the blue skies, the sun made me a little dizzy .. I couldn't remember whether I had really been gone for three weeks and driven cross the country. The memories of the road trip seemed to be blurry little pieces that had faded in distance, had those grey rainy days of the east coast really happened or it was all just a dream?

Day 1 - Palm Springs, CA

Sept 30, 2009 (Wednesday) 400pm - Sunny
Our road trip from Los Angeles to New York had officially started a few hrs prior to this. The plan was to go out to Joshua Tree and try to camp for the night, but we got a little lost on the way in Palm Springs.

Santa Monica

I'm such a dork for doing this, but I went to Santa Monica to take a picture of the Pacific Ocean just so I can say that my road trip starts here and ends at the Atlantic.

Pismo Beach Message

Made me laugh

found here

Sacatomato?!!

Design*Sponge has Lisa Thibodeau to talk about Sacramento, the state capitol of California, in today's city guide. So far the only places I've been to in Sac is Amtrak station and IKEA. Now I feel much guided to do more exploring once I move up there!

Pretty People

Kate Winslet in Los Angeles Times: Photography - Celebrities by The Times at #52, photographed by Jay L. Clendenin. Scarlett Johansson & Pete Yorn in New York Magazine: Entertainment - The Muse, photographed by Jim Wright.

Snowboard design: Pomona

Designed by Victor Schuft, available at Humanity Snowboards

Russian Gurl

Photographed by Oleg Videnin, found through The New York Times: Lens - Showcase: Unblinking, Yet Distant

Mark Twain

"It's easy to quit smoking, I've done it hundreds of times."
- Mark Twain

The visuals of this package design is not the point, the point is that Mark Twain is brilliant, and the humor of placing this quote on the inside of a match book is pretty good too.

found @ffffound!

Central Park

found these images of Central Park at TIME Photos: 150 Years of Central Park

Recession Jokes

"I’m not saying the price of gas is getting ridiculous … but today went to my Chevron and asked the clerk to give me $3 dollars worth of gas — he farted and handed me a receipt." — ANT, host of Celebrity Fit Club

Joke stolen from How to Tell a Recession Joke - 10 Comedians share insights and jokes, pretty funny, check them out. Cartoon stolen from About.com: Political Humor.

Perspective

Amy Bennett puts you in a distance to all of her stories, you feel slightly uneasy as if you were spying, peeking into the neighbors' most personal most private moments, yet you can't look away, you hear your curious thoughts echo in the quiet dark night: 'What's going on? How goes the story?' ..

via ffffound.com

Toyota IQ Font

Watch the video - iQ font - When driving becomes writing / Full making of, and/or download the font.

Side by Side

Split Screen: Remarkable Women and the actresses who played them - Set of very interesting photos found at Yahoo! Movies today.

painting

found here

Awww...

found here

mouse!

This is my first step towards getting over my fear for mice and rats, or guinea pigs, or any small mammals with short hair and starring eyes (errrrgggggg~!!). I was over at my friends' on Saturday, felt bad that I disappointed the couple by not being able to bring myself closer than 3 feet away from the cage, let alone petting the 'handsome pig'. I'll do better.

Only in San Francisco

Saved By The Bell - Zack Morris

California at #48

In Yahoo! news today. California has the 4th to the worst group of drivers in the nation. As a female asian driver i feel i'm partially responsible for this..

look at those blue eyes!

today @formfiftyfive

2nd post

yay!

(.. and this time by 'yay' I mean I probably will try to post something from time to time, =)