Louise Fili

Louise Fili has designed some of the most beautiful food packaging and restaurant identities. I can't imagine a more amazing career than one that combines food and design!  Check out her web site to see her portfolio gallery. 

Sex Advice Column

Savage love is more of a column, but the writing is fantastic so I had to share. Dan Savage writes this weekly column in response to letters and calls from his readers. The letters are usually hilarious. He tells tells them how it is, with a lot of sarcasm and humor, and his advice is usually spot on. 

101 Cookbooks

101 Cookbooks is one of my favorite blogs. Not surprisingly, it is about food:) Heidi Swanson started the blog when she realized that she had accrued over 100 cookbooks and had better start trying some recipes before she bought any more. 

She is also an amazing photographer so the images are always beautiful. I love her recipes as well. They are mostly, if not all vegetarian, and she experiments with a lot of whole grains, natural sugars, and seasonal vegetables. I also have her book: Super Natural Cooking, and every recipe has been delicious. 

I think I might make this dish ravioli dish for dinner tonight. yum. 

Designer Toys

Kidrobot produces and sells limited edition, collectible toys for adults. The toys range from smoking bunnies to crazy alien creatures. They have a huge following and have developed some great marketing strategies to keep demand for Kidrobot toys at a maximum. They will do thing like send people on their listserve an email saying that they have something like 10 minutes to get to a certain spot in New York for a chance to purchase one of the newly released toys. 

Check out this web site for news on other designer toys.

how to survival guide

These books will either make you laugh or make you paranoid. They give you step by step instructions on how to survive in disastrous situations like "how to survive if you are stranded on an iceberg" and "how to survive a two way hold down".  

Stimudent

I found this old packet of stimudents in my linen closet. They have explicit instructions detailing that you need to place them between your teeth and how to move them back and forth gently. As if you would ever want to jam those wooden skewers in there. yikes. The image of the mustache man is there just because i thought it was yucky:)

Stop Motion movies by Pes

My coworker showed me this web site the other day. The movies are all done in stop motion. I am thinking of making my movie in the same style, although they won't be quite as sophisticated as these are:)