Known as the greatest restaurant in the world, Adam emailed for 5 years to get a reservation. His perseverance was rewarded when he checked his email and found a reply, “Table for 2, July 30, 2009. 8P.M.”
The evening is told through comics, images, text, and video.
They enjoyed 30 Courses like the one pictured above. Their next drink was a gin fizz topped with whipped meringue. You have to see it to believe it!
The Water Conservation Garden at Cuyamaca College spans a few acres and features an expanse of Native Plants as well as drought tolerant plants from around the world.
Living in an arid climate the advantages of these types of plants are many-
-They only need light water once a month or so
-Native plants have a natural resistance to bugs. No need for pesticides or fertilizers that eventually end up in the ocean.
-Natural resistance to weeds. Once established they don’t need much effort to keep looking great.
Jeremy used a pencil to take notes for us.
I had no idea that the average size lawn uses 26,000 gallons of water every year. Still need to have grass? That’s OK. This exhibit shows what you can do with 6,ooo gallons per year.
One small example from the Native Plant Exhibit
Just looking to do something with your patio or deck? They have you covered with a Container Garden-
In summertime, be sure to go early. It can get hot in East County San Diego.
Cost of admission is a voluntary donation. Or as Homer Simpson likes to say, “That’s just a fancy way of saying it’s free.”
This is clever.
Andrea Cheng’s blog, Andrea Inspired, has a new design. Ms. Cheng curates indie music and photography with a dose of fashion and eclectica. Think Kottkesque quality with Waxy-like variety. It’s one of my favorite jumping off points to great things on the internet.
When I look at images such as these, 10 stories pop into my head.
A sample of some bands you might find there-
Although she writes only a few sentences per posting, her blog has a remarkably clear and distinct voice. Its minimal approach of ‘here it is and let it do its own thing’ puts me in the mindset of a Wes Anderson Movie.
Bar Tender | San Antonio, TX | 1-Person Household | Goes to sleep at 8AM and wakes up at 4PM daily. | 2008
Photographer Mark Menjivar chronicles different people through photos of their refrigerators. Neat project! More profiles here. Look for the rattlesnake in the freezer of the short order cook.
That’s quite a carbon footprint. From David Byrne’s Website-
Those stadium shows may possibly be the most extravagant and expensive (production-wise) ever: $40 million to build the stage and, having done the math, we estimate 200 semi trucks crisscrossing Europe for the duration. It could be professional envy speaking here, but it sure looks like, well, overkill, and just a wee bit out of balance given all the starving people in Africa and all. Or maybe it’s the fact that we were booted off our Letterman spot so U2 could keep their exclusive week-long run that’s making me less than charitable? Take your pick — but thanks, guys!
Contrast that with Radiohead’s policy on touring and reducing their carbon footprint-
According the goals of the business, we strive to afford the ticket buying public the same high standard of show around the world. For this to happen, the band and their technicians require the tools of their trade, from a specific guitar and drum kit, the chef’s knives to the correct microphone, audio desk and speaker selection.
Standardisation in speaker technology allows us to rent PA systems in each country, but the uniqueness of the band’s sound and the groundbreaking application of LED lighting dictates that we have a lot of our own specific equipment. Traditionally, we would have air freighted 20,000kg gear around the world. For this tour, we set ourselves a challenge of a “no air freight policy”.
This is trickier that you may think. Agreeing that we need to have our own equipment with us for all the shows, we started planning the tour around shipping lines and road routes, with the schedule having suitable gaps for the gear to be transferred by boat between continents. The business model was not working. Allowing around 3 weeks sailing time between the UK and USA, and USA and Japan, the wage bill and rental of hired equipment soon mounted up. Alternative plans were required.
Did we need to take our equipment with us at all? Could we have a European system and an American system? This proved more cost effective, eliminating the need to wait for equipment to arrive. The team set about locating and building two identical backline and lighting systems. Audio equipment has been rented locally. Some items were already owned by the band, some easy to source. A rareness of certain items required the touring set up to be modified. Although compromise was acceptable, 12 guitars could not be duplicated but the result of the project was the equipment that we need to air freight is now less than 1,000kg!
To date this Public Service Announcement (PSA) is widely considered to be one of the most effective ever. It is the gold standard of PSAs.
The AD first aired on Earth Day 1971.
By the end of the campaign, Keep America Beautiful local teams had helped to reduce litter by as much as 88% in 300 communities, 38 states, and several countries. The success of the Keep America Beautiful anti-litter campaign led to hundreds of other environmental messages through the years, from many different sources, including the Ad Council.
These kids have a real enthusiasm for the music. Most of their parents weren’t even alive when Stevie Nicks wrote this song in 1974. When Stevie saw this video, her manager told the chorus that she played it twice and cried each time.
The elementary school chorus is from PS22 in Staten Island, NY. Many of these 5th graders come from disadvantaged, special education, and ESL backgrounds. They cover artists such as Tory Amos, Bob Marley, and Crowded House to name a few.
You can view more of their videos here
Via Urlesque.Com
It’s really fun to watch one man have an immediate influence on such a large audience. After watching it I hustled over to iTunes and bought the track. Other tracks I like from her are: L.E.S. Artists, Lights Out, I’m a lady.