"Eat Drink or Die": From the Makers of "Funny or Die"

From the makers of "Funny or Die," comes a video site about eating a drinking: "Eat Drink or Die".

The site features short-form video content from food and wine experts, some with a little humor thrown in for the hell of it.

Plus, there are tons of blogs and channels for vegetarians, chicken, drinks, etc.

Via Threeminds.

Local Shopping Made Easy

Today I discovered a wonderful way to find locally grown/produced food. It's as simple as typing in your zip code (or city and state) on the Local Harvest search engine.

The site helps you find sustainably grown food close to you. Plus they have a catalog for anything you can't find in your area.

Via D Home.

Shopgoodwill.com Gets an Awesome Overhaul

My favorite online charity shop recently got a major face-lift. I just cruised over to shopgoodwill.com to look for some inexpensive art and found an entirely new, easier-to-use home page.

If you shopped the site in the past, you know that items were listed text-only. You had to click each link to see the product. But now, the listings include thumbnail photos of the items, just like eBay.

Hooray Goodwill.

Passionately Pink for the Cure

Now through October 31st, Yahoo will donate $1 for every pink photo uploaded to the Passionately Pink for the Cure Flickr pool.

Right now there are almost 34,000 images uploaded. Yahoo will keep donating up to $50,000.

Via Joshua Blankenship.

Thank You to the Frugal Duchess

I wanted to thank the Frugal Duchess for quoting me in her fabulous post about ShopGoodwill.com. I mentioned the site several months ago while posting about buying art online.

You can read the Duchess's article about the Goodwill's eBay-style online thrift store here. She's got some great tips for buying on the site.

Worth Watching: Welcome to the Parker

I did a lot of channel surfing this weekend. And something that caught my eye as I flipped through the stations is Bravo's series, Welcome to the Parker.

The show follows the staff of the Parker, a gorgeous Palm Springs resort hotel, as they bend over backwards to cater to their demanding guests. But what makes it so worth watching is that the whole place was designed by Jonathan Adler in a style that he calls "Happy Chic."

I loved the second episode, in which Adler himself heads to the Parker to check in on the decor and offer advice on how to keep it up to his exacting standards. It was a great peak into what Adler was thinking when he created the design and the drive that makes him so successful. Plus, he plays the property manager at ping pong. Bravo is streaming the episode online now.

I love this "Periodicals" sign!

Evil Rock Quilts

QuiltsRyche is a site selling amazing, heirloom quality quilts by Boo Davis. These quilts just happen to be a little bit evil and a little bit rock 'n' roll.

I ended up liking these way more than I thought I would, even though they're pricey. They're beautiful and hard-edged and crafty all at once. Plus, they're one of a kind and they'd look as great hung up on a large wall as they would on a bed.

Thanks to my friend Jeff H. for the tip.

Album Art via RSS

Don't let digital downloads prevent you from appreciating the full glory of album art. Check out Sleevage, a new blog about the greatness that is cover art, from the 60s to today.

The site is currently in Beta, but is looking pretty good. Today's post was about one of my personal favorite's, the cover of Keane's Under the Iron Sea. I love those horses.

Via Joshua Blankenship's Weblog.

Dallas Shaw

Art from the Dirty Pop collection by Dallas Shaw. The big signature is very cool.

See more of her work here.

Via Turquoise.

Tiny Houses

The craze to build ever-larger new homes is dwindling. Maybe it's the new media focus on green living. Maybe we're all just sick of cleaning. Whatever the case, the tiny home is hip. You don't even have to live in a studio in the city to live small. Tiny houses are popping up all over the country.

When I was a kid, I used to go out to the backyard and pretend I had to survive there. I figured out which weeds I could eat. I would build a lean-to out of the scrap wood my dad kept behind the garden. I even made a bow and arrow with some small branches, fishing line, and a few feathers.

In the same way that "surviving" the backyard offered adventurous appeal in the safety of my suburban yard, there's a romantic appeal in the thought of a tiny house. The stature lends a story-book quality to a necessity. You're making the choice to accept the inherent challenge of in living in a small space and making it beautiful.

If you also wax poetic about tiny homes, dwelling on memories of dollhouses and tree-forts, check out Tinyhouses.net. The site offers a gallery of tiny houses straight out of our childhood play-house dreams.

Via Black. White. Bliss.

Oh So Inspiring: The Satorialist

A few weeks ago, thanks to my friend Pablo, I discovered the Satorialist. It's a blog about fashion on the street. The blog is simply photos of fashionable folks going about their day in the city. This particular photo is from Milan, though most of the pictures are from New York.

As a Dallas resident, the opportunity to see fashion on the street is one I don't run across in everyday life. Here we drive to our offices in the morning and back into our garages at night. You can go an entire day with out walking more than a few hundred consecutive steps.

Plus, people here are very casual. We wear jeans, t-shirts and flip-flops 50% of the time and shorts, t-shirts and flip-flops the other half. Basically, most of us have no real sense of style.

Considering the link between fashion and interior design, I consider The Sartorialist a wonderful resource for decorating inspiration. It's only a matter of time before the colors and styles on the streets make the leap into our living rooms.

The site has been around since 2005, which makes me a late adopter. But just in case you missed it as well, here's the link.

All About Shopping: Racked.com

Racked.com is a new site all about shopping in NYC, brought to you by the folks behind Curbed (NY neighborhoods and real estate) and Eater (NY restaurants, bars, and clubs).

Racked just launched a few days ago, but already has great content, including store reviews, sales, and opinions about Saks' new window display of bloated gloves. Yuck!

Whether you're lucky enough to live in New York or not, all three sites are worth a peek. These are great resources for those moving to the city or planning a trip as well.

I can only hope the trifecta makes its way to Dallas someday. Fingers crossed.

Guest Posting at Shakadoo

Kristen at Shakadoo has very kindly asked me to guest post on their new site for the week. I am very flattered and very excited. I will be posting to their decor blog, Shak in Style. I'll still be posting here, of course. I promise I've got enough to say this week to go around, so please come and visit me on both blogs.

Best of the Blogs this Morning

Mini-Trend: Chain. Great catch by Design*Sponge.

Made-to-order turned wood tables by Robert Austin Gonzalez. His studio in Dumbo open by appointment: 718-596-7960. Via Apartment Therapy.

eSommelier: a self-contained digital sommelier for your home cellar. Via Product Dose.

Collect sites, bookmarks, images, videos, emails, and documents with Plum. A great way to hoard with out creating a fire-hazard. Via JoshSpear.com.

A recycled teak table via Crib Candy. I love the casters. I'm starting to wish that all of my tables were more portable.

ShopGoodwill.com

I really wanted to run out to my local Salvation Army at lunch. There is one in Dallas with a huge storefront full of furniture, paintings, pottery, books, old records, and vintage clothing. Sure, you can go 99 times and find nothing, but on the 100th visit, you'll find something extraordinary.

Unfortunately, I didn't have time to leave, but I did have time to surf by my favorite online alternative: Shop Goodwill. Shop Goodwill is an auction site on which Goodwill locations around the country sell their coolest stuff.

My favorite thing to search for there is art. You can really find some amazing stuff. I have to admit, it's a little bit of a crap-shoot. Luckily, for me, that's what makes thrift shopping fun. The competition for the goods is every bit as fierce as on eBay, but all of the proceeds go to a very worthy cause.

A few years ago, I bought an amazing piece of outsider art called Sunday in Tahiti. The painting features an impressionist church in a jungle with a tiny Satan standing out front as passers-by scream in terror (not nearly as dark as it sounds). I mention this because Shop Goodwill is a great place to look for the kinds of vintage portraits and quirky landscapes we see on all of those fabulous walls of art in the magazines.

Stop by the site when you have 30 minutes or so to peruse their extensive listings.

Above, detail from a nude currently listed at $31.02.

The Shakadoo Site is Up!

The Shakadoo site is up and running. What is it? It's a site about everything to do with your home, apartment, condo, domicile, etc. The site is divided into channels to cater to whatever home-related passion you harbor, each with a handy-dandy RSS feed.

ShakinStyle (my favorite of the Shak feeds) is currently featuring a great interview with Decor8 founder, Holly Becker.

The Sleeper: Your Connoisseur of Sleep

Those of you who find sleeping in a few extra hours on Saturday morning to be among life's greatest luxuries will appreciate The Sleeper, a meditative blog covering all things sleep. In recent posts, the Sleeper has pondered the perfect sleep and reported on the joys of an old fashioned feather bed. I had no idea how much there would be to learn and ponder about sleep and all its accoutrements, but I've been enjoying learning.

Domino Mag's Green List is Online

Domino Magazine and Treehugger.com have compiled a great list of 125 companies who are making a name for themselves as eco-pioneers. Links below:

furniture
fabric
walls
rugs
renovating
tile
clothing
transportation
traveling
beauty products
bedding and towels
cleaning products
foods

Table-topped Beasties

I'm checking out new-to-me blogs today. It's been a while since I've had time to read much online (winter is the busy season at my office).

I just found a post about these amazing animal tables from Mobilier de Compagnie on the Home Rejuvenation Blog. I will definitely be checking back regularly. What a great find.

31 Crazy Hotel Rooms

A very interesting post about a hotel with 31 oddly-themed rooms. This site has a ridiculous number of ads, so you'll have to scroll down quite a lot to see the photos.

Via Apartment Therapy.