chumby.

I got a chumby recently, it is a really cool thing. I am getting obsessed with it.

It is basicallly a cool rss reader that is an alarm clock that can tell the weather, that is on the internet, that shows photos, that plays music, etc. whew. It is a "whatsit".

I am still trying to figure all it out, I think it can do more than I realize.

They have this cool DUNNY gallery widget available, and a bunch of other ones like this flip clock one.

glassy.

Kidrobot was invited by Cooper-Hewitt to participate in their GlassLab a project of Corning Museum of Glass.

It was a really amazing experience, we opted to start at base one, by recreating a Munny and Dunny to learn what the material limitations are. Having any future chance, I would love to push some boundaries on this in the future, with a vinyl glass mash-up.

Joanna and Alex of Kidrobot were also on hand, and were (of course!) excellent companions for the trip. I think we all really learned a lot from the experience. The weird similarities between glass and vinyl are interesting to note as well.

There is an excellent write up on the whole event in the NY Times today.

Friends of mine, Tobias Wong, Patrick Li (Work In Progress), The Boyms, and Harry Allen (who also designed our newest NYC store) are all involved, and have contributed crazy sick items so far. One of the craziest things was a book on typography, enclosed in a glass envelope (which then caught on fire due to the heat, fahrenheit 451˚ anyone?), unfortunately the glass guys couldn't remember who did it. (mb Tom Scott?)
Here are some pics.

back from tulum.

We slept a whole week in the sun, we had amazing, albeit windy, weather. Basically just laid on the beach the whole time.

We stayed at casa de miel, it was a great place, a bit under-managed, but in a good way. The best place to eat is posada margherita, we wound up eating there more than once, most places are overpriced and are not good, it was at least good, actually it was excellent, hand-made, pasta.

The beach was wonderfully empty, and of course, of the few people there most were from NYC.

All in all, a great vacation, and one that didn't need a follow-up vacation to recover from.

Here are a few pics.