In the heat of the New York summer, Gothamist associate editor Rebecca Fishbein and videographer Jessica Leibowitz spent a day in Coney Island, Brooklyn visiting the World of Swimming‘s Mermaid School. The skilled instructors at the school teach the students how to swim like a mermaid, a feat that requires a great deal of core strength, and in doing so, encourage self-confidence and pride. Ummm ok, sure…it’s all fun and games until someone drowns. Merman…Merman! 😉
In advance of their new line for 2017, IKEA are set to release teasers announcing their new collaborative ‘YPPERLIG’ collection with Danish furniture company HAY. This first video is as cleverly cryptic as it is surreal and follows the path of a glass ball through an empty apartment – a great way of staying creative without showing any of the new products. The video itself was a collaboration between three different agencies, Kühl & Solvstrom, Nikextension, and Barkas. Can’t wait to see what they come out with next – watch this space 🙂
The Clever Cutter is an aptly named gadget that conveniently combines a sharp kitchen knife with a handy cutting board on the opposite side and cuts food like scissors cut paper. It’s a fast, easy way to chop vegetables, fruits, meats, cheese, maybe a finger and can slice perfectly thin pieces for simple yet elegant serving. As lazy people who loathe food preparation, we need, want, LOVE it! Gimme gimme gimme 🙂
You’re gonna LOVE this one – The FoldiMate Family is an awesome new handy home robot appliance that folds, steams, and even perfumes your clean washing in a matter of seconds. Users simply clip their clothes on the machine’s conveyor belt, which feeds into the folding chamber where a variety of garment types can be folded by robotic arms. The company will begin pre-orders in 2017 and potential buyers can sign up to be notified through the FoldiMate website. If you hate washing and folding clothes as much as we do, then this is the best thing ever – simply genius! 🙂
Things Organized Neatly is a mesmerising series of photographs dedicated to the art of arranging and all the artists who enjoy creating perfect arrangements with everyday objects, true sources of visual satisfaction. Created by Austin Radcliffe as a Tumblr project before becoming a book, Things Organized Neatly: The Art of Arranging the Everyday is currently available for purchase from Amazon. These images feed into the hint of OCD within us all – a need to create order and simplicity from an otherwise complicated and messy world.
It’s Sunday morning so lets drool over baking bread & pastries as they gently rise and slowly brown in the oven, thanks to this mouth-watering time-lapse video created by the Korean website OMDG Food. Delicious! 🙂
Mygdal Plant Lamp: A project from designers We Love Eames, the Mygdal Plant Lamp is an awesome hanging light for growing indoor plants. Not only do these innovative lamps combine daylight LEDs with a sleek contemporary design but power to the lamp is cleverly provided via an electrically conductive glass coating meaning there is no visible cable. A beautiful addition to any well designed space and an amazing way to highlight your plants as the grow – Happy Friday, everyone! 🙂
Kelly Slater: Surfer Kelly Slater has introduced what he is calling the longest rideable man-made wave, a project by the Kelly Slater Wave Company with the company producing an awesome video that shows Slater riding the impressive and seemingly interminable wave – this is very cool! 🙂
CNN: Transporting us back to the golden age of aviation, CNN have compiled a selection of vintage photographs from a time when airlines were selling globetrotting dreams and high-end luxury. The exact opposite of today’s low cost carriers, these photographs from the 50s and 60s remind us that air travel was once synonymous with fashion, cocktails, luxury, glamour, gastronomy, and social status although it did come at a price – a Sydney to London round trip cost the equivalent of thirty weeks wages! Happy Flashback Friday 🙂
Squatty Potty: A magical unicorn squeezes out rainbow ice cream from its bum while an uppity prince explains proper pooping technique in a new commercial for the Squatty Potty, a bathroom stool designed to help promote better colon health. While I suppose this overall is a good thing, there’s so many things about the Squatty Potty ad that are just TMI wrong…we still love it though lol! Happy Friday 🙂
