Not surprisingly, the snow was too much fun. I’m hardly ashamed to say that  when it comes to trawling the intermesh and sifting out the good bits, I’d rather glide knee-deep through champagne powder, surrounded by a swift-moving miasma of snowflake-shaped snowflakes.

That said, the intermesh did spawn some pretty neat stuff while I was otherwise occupied with colder things. Which just means that I’ve come home to a fresh backlog of intricate online oddments. And lacking the time or inclination to blog at length about all of them, here is a condensed version. Condensed as in milk: sweeter and denser, and thusly suitable only for direct ingestion (NOT as a coffee additive).

• Kumi Yamashita via Fubiz
  
  
  Profile, 1994. the number and alphabet blocks, lit from the left, cast a silhouette of a man’s profile.

  
  Exclamation Point, 1995. (A shadowy interrobang).

  
  

• Yes We Kern.

  
  { by Stefano Joker Lionetti on Behance Network }
  
  And yes, I spent January 20 in a frenzy of Inauguration Watching. That is to say, a frenzy of lying on the sofa watching CNN (falling in love with Anderson Cooper and laughing at the doom-and-gloom on FOX), eating Reece’s Pieces, drinking Krug champagne, cooing over the new first family, and generally celebrating the momentousness of the occasion, the American-ness of the day, and the luck of my being in such (relatively) close proximity to it all.




• The Cardboard Kitchen on The Trendy Girl:
  
  

  As if I needed another reason to crave stationery supplies.
  
  

• Alphabird by Marcus Fisher, the dust breeder.

  
  
  (It’s a black capped chickadee)
  
  

• To Do: Post-it notes left to their fate in public places.

  
  
  (This one was affixed to the window of a DVD store).

  I really enjoy post-it notes. And I wish someone would litter my daily path with meaningfully-placed memos.

  
  
  

• PANTONE® T-Shirts from Gap { via lintcoat and notcot }.

  

  And we all know how much I like PANTONE® stuff.

  
  
  

• We also know how much I like paperclips:
  
  { Destination Seoul: Fairytale Bookmark Set by Jin Sun Suh at the MoMA store }




• I confess, I really like this Christoph Niemann manifesto:
  (Click thru for less squinting/more detail).

  … but nowhere near as much as I love (and identify with) Mr Niemann’s observations on coffee…

  
  (click thru for more, including a very astute graph on coffee preference/bagel fancying).

  …and his incredibly witty retelling of New York, in lego:

  

  You don’t need to have been to NY to love (lego) this. I haven’t, and I do. Thanks ultimately to FFFFOUND! for directing me towards this. I suggest you immediately RSS Niemann’s Abstract City blog for the NY Times. It’s awesome.

  
  

• Save your page.
  
  

  Print your own ‘Save’ bookmark by icoeye { via Inspire me, now! }. Go ahead, it’s free! And look, it’s being demonstrated in a book of Magritte prints! Doubly wonderful.
  
  

• And… February 6 was Semicolon Day in Sweden.

  
  { via Below The Clouds }

  Pause for celebration?