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If Ivanka loves it...

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 19:17:07 -0400

Attention foodies: check out this new & improved version of one of my favorite apps: vimeo.com/63201436 #Ness #Foodie
— Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) April 19, 2013

Pulpo, A Venetian Cookbook. Beautiful cover. (at Ferry Plaza...

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 17:36:52 -0400

Pulpo, A Venetian Cookbook. Beautiful cover. (at Ferry Plaza Farmers Market)

You should get this. Prinstantreplays. The best sports plays in...

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 15:06:30 -0400

You should get this.

Prinstantreplays. The best sports plays in history. On your wall.

Celebrate March Madness every day.

via Uncrate.

What Do Artists Say About Nudity & Food?

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 17:33:57 -0400

plumfare:

Say Hi to Lauren and Jacob. They’re the two incredibly talented designers behind Plumfare’s gorgeous new greeting cards. We called up each to do some digging into the inspiration and artistic process behind their respective designs. One thing these two New Yorkers agree on? Moleskine is king, good music feeds the brain.

Find out who’s created a design around X-rated “bits”—and who tells lies on a regular basis!

Get It in the App Store!

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The App is a New Art Form

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 01:08:24 -0500

The App is a New Art Form:

arielseidman:

“But apps are a phenomenon that will result in something bigger than we can imagine. The way to think about apps is as a new medium, similar to the emergence of radio, television, cinema and even books. The app is a new art form as well as something that provides functional value… But the value of having an app for everything is plainly evident. The economics, creative energy and dynamism of apps cannot be overestimated. I will write more about this subject as I think it’s one of the most important consequences of the post-PC era”

This is the most exciting time to be an entrepreneur, designer, or engineer. A new art form that will reach 4 billion people from New York to New Delhi. If you love building things and that doesn’t get you jazzed you need to have yourself checked.

You should watch this. Autumn in New York. I miss it. Courtesy...

Thu, 29 Nov 2012 18:07:36 -0500

You should watch this.

Autumn in New York. I miss it.

Courtesy of KPop via The Atlantic.

Video: Joey Bada$$ - Waves (With The Roots Band Live On Jimmy Fallon)

Mon, 05 Nov 2012 16:52:21 -0500

musikal:

Londoner’s can still get tickets for his XOYO show on Wednesday 14th November, here. See you there.

You should get this. No place like home GPS shoes.

Sat, 20 Oct 2012 01:16:00 -0400

You should get this.

No place like home GPS shoes.

Dinner

Thu, 27 Sep 2012 15:00:21 -0400

Goodbye to Brooklyn (Part 1) with dinner at Blanca:

Caviar
Glass shrimp with celery and poppyseed
Fairy tail eggplant with yogurt and sesame seeds
Geoduck w tuscan melon and sea lettuce
Pike mackerel; sardine w yuzu; tuna belly w bonito
Veal sweetbread w kafir lime
Sea perch with corn melon
Sartoose (?) w goat kafir, almond, tuna flake and clementine
Sea urchin w polenta, remoulade and garden flower
Grilled oyster w fresh coriander
Pen shell clam w sea bean
Soy skin w matsutake and maitake mushrooms, mushroom gelee and pine nuts
Squid w nectarine and spring onion
Beef carpaccio w lions mane mushroom, duck egg yolk and watercress
Corn ravioli w sungold tomato and savory
Garganelli w braised goat and nasturtium
Nduja ravioli and anise hyssop
New potato w sweet potato leaf, watercress and watercress jus
Snow crab w crab innards sauce, sake lee
Grape, almond milk, pumpernickel
Lamb w rat tail radish, mint gelee, ground cherry
Homemade bread: whole wheat, baguette, butter
Duck w picked chanterelle mushroom, blackberries
Peach and tri-berry popsicle
Beef w hearts of palm, raw and grilled sungold tomatoes, vin cotto
Blue Cheese w radish, winesap apple, lovage, honeycomb
Husk cherry gelato w coconut
Celery and sorel soup w pear
Genmaicha green tea
Hidden rose apple granita w sunchoke cream and sunflower seed brittle
Carrot gum (w the check)
Pumpkin brioche for breakfast

Snow peas, roasted nectarine, bacon, parmesan #lunch (Taken with...

Fri, 24 Aug 2012 13:31:42 -0400

Snow peas, roasted nectarine, bacon, parmesan #lunch (Taken with Instagram)

You should get this. Hard Graft. Austrian + English designers....

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 23:57:12 -0400

You should get this.

Hard Graft. Austrian + English designers. Leather + wool. Luggage + laptops cases. All handmade in Italy. Damn fine.

Thanks Uncrate.

You should watch this. Marea’s signature fusilli with...

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:29:29 -0500

You should watch this.

Marea’s signature fusilli with octopus and bone marrow. Part of Eater’s Untouchables series, see the inspiration behind, and preparation of, this cult favorite dish. Then book your table.

You should get this. Timehop, a daily email telling you what you...

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 11:00:05 -0500

You should get this.

Timehop, a daily email telling you what you were doing one year ago. Simple integration with facebook, foursquare, instagram and Twitter so you can be reminded where you were, what you were doing and what you were talking about 365 days ago.

For the nostalgics out there, a great thing to wake up to every morning.

You should see this. Eric Fischer’s tweets-as-map project...

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 14:16:53 -0500

You should see this.

Eric Fischer’s tweets-as-map project showing the motions of New Yorkers. 10,000 geo-tagged tweets and 30,000 point-to-point trips show the projected flow of people moving up and down major thoroughfares like Broadway, and across the cities subway system.

You should watch this. “A Year in New York” by...

Sun, 06 Nov 2011 19:22:05 -0500

You should watch this.

“A Year in New York” by Andrew Clancy. Great footage of NYC set to a great soundtrack. Sufficient reminder of why I deal with things like hauling 32 lbs of laundry down and back up 6 flights of stairs while paying too much money to live in an apartment smaller than the first one I lived in after college.

You should follow this. French Cuisse. A 19-year old culinary...

Fri, 09 Sep 2011 22:18:36 -0400

You should follow this.

French Cuisse. A 19-year old culinary school graduate posts beautifully spare pre/post photos of the ingredients he uses and the dishes he creates. I haven’t come across a Tumblr that is more perfectly focused or consistently smile-inducing.

Someone will write a case study on this kid some day; great use of Tumblr as marketing vehicle.

…Genius! amyblogschow: First encounter with WaitAway. You...

Fri, 09 Sep 2011 21:52:17 -0400

…Genius!

amyblogschow:

First encounter with WaitAway. You give the host(ess) your phone number which she types into the app. It then texts you a link to track the wait time for meatballs and mint ice cream. Impressive.

You should watch this. Go Blue.

Sat, 03 Sep 2011 11:37:04 -0400

You should watch this.

Go Blue.

You should watch this. Fifty-nine seconds of beautiful pasta...

Sun, 28 Aug 2011 18:45:38 -0400

You should watch this.

Fifty-nine seconds of beautiful pasta making at the San Fran restaurant Flour + Water, set to some Italian-feeling classical music neither my ear nor Shazam’s could identify. Already two years old, the place is still essentially booked 8 weeks out; I have an 11:30pm I just made for a month from now.

If you like the video and enjoy high quality foodporn, check out more work by Eric Wolfinger on his website.

You should get this (or a couple of these). This is not a...

Sat, 27 Aug 2011 16:17:29 -0400

You should get this (or a couple of these).

This is not a typical post for me as the topic - restaurant recommendations - is what I’m most passionate about. Now, five years after my ES 615 project (the Pandora/Netflix for restaurant recommendations, duh) that I left on the shelf, we finally have some applications that are attacking this in the right way: Ness and Forkly, both of which launched this week, as well as Alfred, Nosh, Chewsy and Recco. Damn!

Although I’d eagerly anticipated Forkly for months, Ness looks like the frontrunner, at least for me. You rate places, it learns your preferences, then scores future search results with the likelihood you’ll love each to help you pick - simple. Alfred is very similar, but less attractive and with a very dated pseudo-personality that I don’t get.

Forkly talks about developing a taste graph (sounds like Pandora’s music genome…or, uh, Hunch), but it seems to lean more towards the social aspect of sharing places and foods you love with your friends, and seeing what they like. There is more emphasis on photos (Instagram-like, and less interesting) as well as on individual dishes (multiplies the complexity, but could be quite interesting). Nosh and Chewsy also are focused on individual dishes, and it seems Nosh has a leg up having some menus already loaded in their app so they aren’t as reliant on users adding dishes - somewhat heavy lifting to ask of a customer, especially on a mobile device.

It is kind of mind boggling that I believe all of these guys have launched this summer. It makes for a crowded field, especially with features from big players like Foursquare’s Explore and Lists, Yelp’s relatively effective search and bookmark tools, and Tips that they both offer (often helping you pick what to order). There are also smaller start-ups like Dinevore, and expert curation from the likes of Immaculate Infatuation - they are even doing their own (likely manual) take on collaborative filtering with a quite effective “You might also like” for most of their reviews.

It is interesting to note that there are essentially two models emerging: 1. learn my preferences and tell me what I’d like (more trust required), or 2. let me build lists, either my own bookmarks, or those curated by media/chefs/brands, etc. to reference (more control, but more work). Both have value, the latter more so in your home city, especially if you are plugged in to the dining scene, but the former could be awesome when traveling. I like that Ness does a good job of making both quite easy. And of course Netflix has been doing both; there are different but closely related customer needs here.

While all of these competitors are interesting, there’s one simple social product enhancement that could quickly magnify the network effect - it kills me everyone is missing it. I’m happy to dust off my March 2009 PPT deck and take someone through it. In the meantime, let me get back to Code Academy.