Pretty! Shiny! Sparkly!

Just wanted to sahre some eye candy that Ive enjoyed recently.

I'm not that into fashion, but living in South Beach you're bound get into it a little bit, even if you're a blind nudist. Flipping through channels, I stumbled upon the Fashion Channel and saw this company called Yamamay. At first I just thought they were cool b/c the company name is a palindrome. But I checked out the site and it's got some beautiful Flash animation and their latest Summer 2009 collection was shot in Africa.






I've also always like M.A.C.'s Viva Glam ads. They recently launched the sixth lipstick in the line, which is being promoted by Fergie.







And if you're ever in Japan, check out the 100% Chocolate Cafe which uses chocolate in all the food and drinks on the menu in addition to 56 pre-packaged varieties. The design is equally as delicious and features one of my favorite fonts, Avant Garde!

Modern Princess

Since my new favorite fragrance right now is Princess by Vera Wang, I decided to check out the website. I fell in love with the art direction. I like the hand-made, organic feel of it. Camilla Belle was chosen to be the official spokes-starlet for the product and got to do a beautiful photoshoot.


And who doesn't love a good quiz? At the website, click on begin your reign to find out what kind of princess you are. I love the illustrations! They remind me of fashion sketches painted over with watercolors.






The only thing I don't love about this site is the fact that a lot of the 'goodies' don't work, i.e. the wallpapers and myspace templates. Which reminds me, I should probably just delete my myspace account since I never use it. I've always preferred facebook.

we feel fine

here's a cool website i recently discovered. it's hard to describe, so i'll just copy and paste part of their mission:
"Since August 2005, We Feel Fine has been harvesting human feelings from a large number of weblogs. Every few minutes, the system searches the world's newly posted blog entries for occurrences of the phrases "I feel" and "I am feeling". When it finds such a phrase, it records the full sentence, up to the period, and identifies the "feeling" expressed in that sentence (e.g. sad, happy, depressed, etc.)."
find out how many people are feeling the same way you are right now. it's super fun to explore!

all hail hydrogen

the bmw hydrogen 7, the first hydrogen/gas hybrid in the clean energy series.

the fantasy:



the facts:



the hydrogen 7 is "the world's first hydrogen-powered luxury sedan." bmw has been developing this technology for a while according to their clean energy milestones. the first prototype was introduced in 1984. the first public liquid hydrogen refueling station was opened in munich in 1999.

seems like a great solution for global warming and pollution, considering the only by-product is water. but there's a catch, a catch-22 actually. the cars are still pretty expensive (current owners are mostly celebrities) and there are hardly any places where you can fill up your hydrogen tank. but, the industry isn't going to invest a bunch of money in hydrogen refueling stations until the demand for hydrogen cars increases.

it will be interesting to see how this dilemma develops over the next few years.



oh yea, the website is pretty cool too. if you navigate away from the page for too long, the website goes into 'energy-saving mode:'

dear design

i am really a big fan of amanda bynes' new clothing line called dear. the clothes are comfy, colorful and the best part is everything is under $20 b/c the line is sold exclusively at steve & barry's. i love the website design, simple and my favorite color combo of black, pink and white. there is even a fun closet where you can browse all the clothes and put together outfits. check out the videos, they're cool too.