Essential Listening

I just love Sparklehorse. Not much else to elaborate on, but hope this song makes your Friday even better!

Anticipated Encounters

So, Happy Cinco de Mayo for you Mexicans out there and for those who just LOVE the Mexicans in their lives (aka me). Apart from looking forward to celebrations tonight, I've got some projects I'm looking forward to checking out in NYC. There's an array of projects I want to see, but as of now, The High Line takes the cake. It's always nice to see an abandoned aspect of any city renovated into something beautiful and timeless. It reflects on the fact that any infrastructure can be made into something worthwhile and useful for any age in time. I would love to be involved in a project like this sometime soon. I will definitely upload my own photo documentation once I see it next week (!!!). To learn more about this project check out the site, http://www.thehighline.org. Here's a fly-through animation that shows the design process that is entailed in this project. Enjoy!

Essential Listening

So when I used to be subscribed to Fabric Live, which I want to reinstate a.s.a.p., I discovered the Filthy Dukes. They seem to me like superstar local London DJs. Apparently, they have a successful, weekly night at Fabric called Kill Em All, which I hope to check out one day. I absolutely LOVED their Fabric CD and wondered why they never became a huge sensation. I just came across their new album called Nonsense In the Dark and heard their first single "This Rhythm" and I can already say it's going to be on repeat 'til I'm sick of it. I'm excited about this and hope more of my secret wishes come true. I have a feeling these guys will get far. I hope for their sake they blow up. Here's the single, Enjoy!


Filthy Dukes - This Rhythm from Filthy Dukes on Vimeo.

Fun Times Ahead

I'm glad to say that all my friends are going in a good direction and blossoming daily into successful artists/designers/writers/etc. The best part about it is when any of my friends have an upcoming event, all our friends & family come out to show support and love for their hard work. Here are some upcoming events in Miami and NYC of some good friends of mine! I will be present at both, so if you are in either city at either time get ready to see my Miami/NYC family and I celebrating and flaunting our talented buddies. If you wanna to learn more about Friends With You, go here, and Jen Stark, click here. COME OUT AND SHOW THE LOVE! We can hold hands and sing to baby Jesus (which depends on the amount of alcohol in my system).

P.S.: If you like the Luckies (why not, right?) there's much, much more merchandise available via the Friends With You Official Website.

Oh, Weekend

Sometimes it's hard to find a decent movie in the theaters nowadays considering that they are still milking off of film ideas and concepts that have been recycled time and time again. Well, I've managed to see two films, Examined Life and Tokyo!, that were absolutely spectacular in their own rights and I highly recommend everyone to check them out.

Lady Luck, where are you?

Well, I wouldn't say its tragic, but at least from my perspective: The majority of my music from my external harddrive has dissapeared except for 2 GB worth. God, I don't know what I did to deserve this, but I'm going to pretend this is a fluke and it will all go back to normal by the end of the day. For now, I'm going to shed a tear for my long-lost music library. In the meantime, I'll listen to Last.fm (my saviour) and look at pieces from the Milan Furniture Fair 2009 (Salon Internazionale del Mobile: Milan) that started yesterday and think about how in the future I will be able to own some pieces like these or maybe even submit work of my own (oh lala). So far, here are a few of my faves:

Veuve Cliquot Chandeliers made of Eco-Friendly Boxes in collaboration with Tom Dixon

Bookshelves made out of shipping crates by Studio Elmo Vermijs

Interactive LED wall from Skjelvik Design

Green Love

Iguazu Falls

Happy Earth Day everyone! Not that it shouldn't be a daily effort to celebrate what mother nature has given us, the holiday makes it so the entire world realizes what we have at stake.
For an individual willing to offer a helping hand who's not associated with green conservation, one can easily use less water, take public transportation, carpool, or just save energy by turning off certain unnecessary appliances. If any Miamians would like to make the extra effort in understanding what green energy can offer us, make sure to check out the Miami Goin' Green at Bayfront Park on April 25th between 10 A.M. & 7 P.M. For more info go to http://miamigoingreen.com/. As for me, I'm going to go back to studying for my LEED NC exam. If you want to know about the latest rage in architecture, feel free to take a look at what the buildings of the future will come to be here. If you're having trouble feeling the green love, here's some John Denver to put you in the tree hugger mode.