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Your Favorite Restaurant:
The Winery
Your Favorite Artist:
Artists: Audrey Kawasaki, Pomme Chan, Sylvia Ji, Brian Viveros, Stefan May, and Eugenio Recuenco.
Your Favorite Hotel or Club:
THEhotel at Mandalay Bay
Title:
Specification Sales (outside sales)
Company:
Total Lighting Concepts

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Some things just shouldn't be touched: 2009 Gullwing-America 300 SL Panamericana



Another iconic vehicle is about to be reborn and brought into the 21st century. This time it is the Mercedes-Benz 300SL that is getting the make-over treatment (that’s the car with the batman-esque doors to you and me, or Gull-wings as they are known in the car business).





This beautiful badboy, first introduced to the roads in 1954, is to be modified by Arturo Alonso and his company,… Continue

Posted on May 29, 2009 at 4:48pm — 2 Comments

Wanna Buy a House? Bueller? Bueller?

The infamous house where Cameron Frye was savagely beaten by his father in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" (they cut that part out of the movie) is now being unloaded to the highest bidder.

The sweet house -- which is in Highland Park, Illinois -- has 4 bedrooms, 4 bath, 5,300 sq. ft. and is up for grabs for $2.3 million, according to realtor.com.



Smashed up Ferrari in the woods not… Continue

Posted on May 26, 2009 at 10:16am — 4 Comments

Summer Hide-aways

Stockholm-based Sommarnöjen (Summer Enjoyment – or Entertainment - in English) has just unveiled the designs for five new beautiful 15-square-meter second houses. Sommarnöjen houses are designed by Sweden’s top-tier architectural offices Kjellander + Sjöberg Arkitektkontor, Sandellsandberg Arkitekter and Tham & Videgård Hansson Arkitekter.

Sommarnöjen provides the houses ready-built on site. Some are… Continue

Posted on May 26, 2009 at 9:43am — 3 Comments

RIP: Pontiac Gone by End of 2010; Saturn, Hummer by Later This Year



GM today has made it official: The Pontiac brand will cease to exist by the end of 2010. The automaker announced its plans for Pontiac today during a press conference outlining dramatic updates to its restructuring efforts.



In addition to its Pontiac announcement, GM has also announced that it will cease building Saturn and Hummer brand vehicles after the 2009 model year. The previous viability plan had indicated that… Continue

Posted on April 27, 2009 at 10:42am — 1 Comment

Another cool house that I'd LOVE to live in: Panama House, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Marcio Kogan’s Panama House is a residence designed for art. Located in São Paulo, Brazil, the house makes a powerful but subdued statement in its low, open, elongated elegance — a hallmark of Kogan’s architecture.

In the past few years, the award-winning, Brazilian-born architect’s Studio MK27 has produced a steady stream of low-rise, boxy work – all with an uncanny intimacy, yet without any of the usual… Continue

Posted on April 24, 2009 at 9:42am — 4 Comments

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At 2:02pm on February 5, 2009, alice said…
got it. you're great taste!
At 1:50pm on February 5, 2009, alice said…
Love the FFFound RSS on your page. Also loving We Heart It! Thanks for the tip. :)
At 12:35pm on February 1, 2009, Will said…
Hey, what's up? I liked your 25 random facts. I like to write but never have any good ideas. Share please.
At 11:56am on February 1, 2009, jenni said…
whats cookin good lookin?

how was your weekend?
At 10:39am on January 13, 2009, jenni said…
hi lovely! i have the worst cold... shoot me

how was vanguard?
At 11:32am on January 12, 2009, Derning said…
I dunno. Apparently, we're both crackheads.
At 3:43pm on January 7, 2009, jenni said…
just saw your polyvore creation - 7,500 views! nice!

btw i dunno what you put in the 5 min chocolate cake... but i tried to make it and it was craaappy
At 10:10am on December 5, 2008, jenni said…
karkar!

we gotta find a reason to get you in the red costume again! you looked super sexy! ;)
At 9:59am on December 5, 2008, alice said…
how rad! thanks for staying around. had a ton of fun...post is going up this afternoon with pics. stay tuned...
At 9:32am on December 5, 2008, alice said…
hey there! how long did you stay at the party? did we win anything? :)

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