J.Crew Spring in a Modernist Neutra Setting

J.Crew has taken a strong visual turn with the spring March 2008 catalog:

It’s distinct for its use of landscape architecture and architecture to contrast just a hint of what the model is wearing.  There are no happy, jumpy groups of people (at least on the cover) with white linen jackets in stupid little row boats.  [...]

Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For

Fortune has spiced up this year’s "The 100 Best Companies to Work For" with lots of escape and scuba.  Even the start of the article on page 61 of the February 4, 2008, issue opens with a profile of, well, not the number one company (Google) but instead with number 88!  Woo hoo!!  Number 88, [...]

LapDome? Get off your computer and enjoy your freaking vacation instead

Product ads with paradise settings come along every day. Often times, I’m left wondering if the image is a statement about where the product or service can take you or if the people doing the advertising are hoping that your purchasing the product or service will afford them the lifestyle they depict. The [...]

The world’s largest swimming pool ~ or half of it

Stories of the world’s largest swimming pool in Algarrobo, Chile have been floating around the Internet for months now, but the Daily Mail has published an article with several enlarged pictures that are worth a look.  To give you a preview of just how large it is, well, here’s a picture from Reuters:

This is literally [...]

My neighbor just threw her washing machine into her pool from the diving platform ~ in her heels

I was sitting outside on the balcony yesterday overlooking our pool, when suddenly my incredibly strong and bronze neighbor appeared in my peripheral vision. It was hard to miss her because she was wearing a striking yellow dress, heels, and those freaking blindingly reflective super hero bracelets.
Imagine my surprise when I also just [...]

US officials being investigated for $730m US Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq ~ $138m overrun

The biggest escape resort in the world currently under construction is the US Embassy in Iraq.  Perhaps nowhere in the world is an American safe zone with a few happy moments more desired.  They call the area "The Green Zone" for a reason.  According to the AP and MSNBC, the embassy itself will sit on [...]

A must see ~ paradise can destroy your liver and maybe even kill you

Halloween has past, but the fright continues.  The scariest website on the Internet might just be TravelSafely.com, which is a site advertising Hepatitis A and B vaccines by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK).  Just swimming in that pool can lead to disease according to this weird doctor-like, lab-coating-wearing public informant.
The most shocking part of the site is certainly [...]

CNN: Pool saves couple from California fires

A couple in Southern California sat in the deep end of their pool for three hours as their lives burned around them.  Watch the video here.  This survival method is a last resort; this couple had no prior warning that the fires were coming.  Don’t try it at home if you can avoid it.

President George H.W. Bush’s pool boy speaks out

San Francisco Gate has the story here.  Nice quote from the article:
He’s paid $9 an hour — "pennies thrown at my feet," relative to the wealth all around him, he says.

The wages in Maine are so cheap compared to what the wealthy pack in their wallets.  It’s a shame too because Mainers are really amazing [...]

East Coast to L.A. flight ~ no, not the red eye

This post is about urban flight 2.0, where yuppies move from one city to another and seek out pieces of luxury at a low cost in incredibly dense places — hopefully with strip malls. A ton of people that I know have been making the life trek from the East Coast to Los Angeles [...]

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