[FOR A GOOD CAUSE] Lomography Loves Japan

This week, Lomography launched a trio of Lomography Loves Japan special edition cameras to help with earthquake assistance.

The idea for these cameras was originally conceived to commemorate Japan's Golden Week, but now the cameras have taken on a whole new meaning. 

Unfamiliar with Lomography?  It's how you get hipster-esque photos like you do in Instagram, but on film instead of on your iPhone.

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[COOL SHIT] Canoe Home Accessories

There are many reasons why I subscribe only to men's magazines (GQ and Details, to be specific).  But the main umbrella reason is because where women's magazines are condescending to their readers, men's magazines just provide you with useful information to lead a better, more well-rounded life.  

Women's magazines give you beauty tips, sex tips, and the occasional terrifying story about ovarian cancer.  "745 ways to please your man?"  I could obviously care less about that shit.  

So, in this month's issue of Details, I came across Canoe, a home furnishing store based out of Portland, Oregon. 

And man, do they have some cool shit.

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[I'M OBSESSED] Environment Furniture

True confessions: I always thought that when I got my own apartment that I would have super-modern decor.  

Sharp angles!

Glass everything! 

Black everything!  Back like my heart!

Unfortunately, when it comes to design, I am finding that I have an inner hippie just begging to get out (probably because she wants some weed. Just kidding, I did that once and it was STUPID). 

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[COOL SHIT] Dot Coffee Table from West Elm

If your life is like mine, there is no other piece of furniture in your home than your coffee table. 

It's where you eat your meals, it's where you do your power hours, it's where you map out your ridiculous work schedule, it's where you put your feet up when you're watching yet another true crime documentary on Netflix Instant View.

So here's a gem from West Elm's Spring 2011 catalog, the Dot Coffee Table ($399). 

I'm more partial to dark wood, but it's not bad, huh?

More pictures after the jump.

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[ROUND-UP] The Knocked-Up Edition

Guiliana Rancic summed it up perfectly (YES, I WATCH GUILIANA & BILL, SHUT UP) when she said, "We spend our whole lives trying not to get pregnant, and then when we want to, it's a big ordeal."

Well, not for those ladies that get knocked up accidentally! HA! They were just trying to eat a basket of curly fries and drink a million beers, and guess what happened?  PREGNANT. 

But whether you were wishing and hoping and praying for your own bouncy bundle or joy or whether Saturday night's mixed signals turned out in the worst way possible, most people are clueless when it comes to babies.

But guess who's even more clueless: The friends of pregnant ladies who are still free and single and show up to baby showers two hours late and smelling of mango vodka. 

They're the ones who need the help.  What the hell should they buy as a gift for this shower?  Where do babies come from?  Jesus, did I take my pill today?

And so, I present you with some gentle gift suggestions for what you should buy for someone who is either begrudgingly or estatically pregnant.

Be forewarned: 90% of what I know about pregnancy and babies is what I learned from watching Three Men & a Baby.  That Steve Guttenberg—what an actor!

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