[STEAL THIS IDEA] Talking Books

One time in college, I got drunk and went to the library's Biology section and pulled out creepy and inappropriate titles and left them on tables so everyone could see them.  I thought that prominently displaying titles such as The Breathless Orgasm (HOW??!) and What's Going on Down There? was totally hi-larious, and knew that it would piss of that bitch librarian who was my mortal enemy at the time (how does a librarian become your mortal enemy?  Try not paying to use the copy machine about 700 times and see what happens).

But artist Nina Katchadourian elevates this douchey thomfoolery to an art form, with her Sorted Books Project.  Essentially, she takes books and arranges them so that the titles on their spines make for a conversation or commentary.  

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[9 BY DESIGN RECAP] Episode 7: Down At The Jersey Shore

Ok, I keep forgetting to check the credits of the show: is Dave Barry an exec producer or something? Cause quite frankly, I'm getting a little sick of the dude. I mean, have the Novos EVER worked with anyone else?

So yeaaaah: DB was front and center again last night, when he dropped a boutique hotel right in Bob-n-Cort's lap.

Yippeeee! A hotel!

Ok, that was pretty rad, and I was super excited for them, even if the hotel *was* in NJ...everyone has gotta start somewhere.

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[COOL OR NOT COOL] Baby Proofing For Guests?

Even a smartass BALLER like myself was pretty shocked to come across the following information on one of our fave blogs STFU Parents: there are actually BREEDERS out there who expect people to go through all the necessary steps of "child proofing" their home, before they will come over and grace it with the presence of their bebes.

!!??

Yes, this *is* real life, people.

Behold: "X wishes everyone had a kidproof house. I'm really tired of being on [my kid's] case about "don't touch, don't touch," versus [pick] the fragile stuff up already!" Someone else responded with: "No joke! It really isn't that hard to move some breakables and some wires...sheesh people!"

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[A GIRL CAN DREAM] Everything in Lee J. Rowland's Collection

Lee J. Rowland, a London designer who creates all kinds of crazy tables that cost more than my parents' house, has captured my heart by creating two tables that 1.) allow you to store your hooch and keep in cold INSIDE the table and 2.) display profanity for everyone to see and get upset about.

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ICFF: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly

I journeyed to the ICFF a rainy New York Tuesday morning. I don't know if you've ever heard about something cool and felt cheated because aforementioned cool thing was not happening in your city, but that is how I've always felt when I trolled my regular interior design blogs and read about their visits to this show, because I lived in Los Angeles before this year, and I felt I was being punished and left out.

Perhaps I built the whole thing up too much in my head, and indeed, it was better than a sharp stick in the eye, but it wasn't the buzzing hive of creativity that I anticipated.

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