Showing posts with label travel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label travel. Show all posts

February 10, 2016

Van Gogh's Bedroom - Available on Airbnb (Soon)

Created in conjunction with The Art Institute's new Van Gogh exhibit. I want to go to there. 

From Airbnb:
This room will make you feel like you're living in a painting. It's decorated in a Post-Impressionist style, reminiscent of Southern France and times gone by. Its furniture, bright colors, and artwork will give you the experience of a lifetime.

Photo: This Is Colossal


Van Gogh's Bedroom - Apartments for Rent in Chicago

(via This Is Colassal)

February 05, 2016

New Airplane Design with Detachable Cabin for Safely Landing in Emergencies | Infinite Legroom

Whoa. Mind blown.





 Fashioned by Ukrainian aviation engineer Tatarenko Vladimir Nikolaevich, the new plane features a detachable cabin that ejects during emergencies, then uses specialized parachutes to softly saunter down to the earth’s surface with shock absorbent pads that keep the landing smooth on ground and allow the cabin to float on water. Even your luggage will be unharmed, as it’ll be stored in the same detachable cabin, under the floor of the passengers. 
New Airplane Design with Detachable Cabin for Safely Landing in Emergencies | Infinite Legroom


January 30, 2015

Carry On Cocktail Kit

What a lovely way to bring civility back to cattle class flying – the Carry On Cocktail Kit. Tiny, cute, useful and TSA friendly.



The Carry On Cocktail Kit provides everything you need to mix two proper Old Fashioned cocktails at 30,000 feet. Simply carry on your kit (don't worry, it will make it through security just fine), order a mini-bottle of bourbon, and use the custom combination bar spoon / muddler to mix in the included cane sugar and small-batch bitters.

January 29, 2013

Live abroad in your own home.

These murals by PIXERS are breathtaking. Select one of their designs (FYI - they're not all travel-related) or create your own. Daaaamn. So cool.




Not long ago, in a country where the average temperature is more suited to a polar bear, where the food is washed down with melting icicles and sarcastic smiles never disappear off people’s faces, there were two guys who had a different perception of the reality.

During one, particularly heavy, December night spent in the company of Mr. Jack Daniel’s, they realised just how sad and ugly were the walls surrounding them. They later noticed that it wasn’t just their walls that were mutilated by miserable copies of famous paintings, the atrocity happened all over the country!

“F*ck! I can’t look at yet another Mona Lisa!!” exclaimed one to the other, this time accompanied by Mr. Johnnie Walker. The following day PIXERS was born and the world became a different place.

 PIXERSIZE.com - the most pixersized shop on Earth
 (via the always-brilliant Inhabitat)

November 09, 2012

Longman & Eagle.

I'm so excited that I'm going to have a birthday dinner and stay at Chicago's Longman & Eagle in December.

Reader peeps - has anyone been? What's the verdict? As good as it looks?


Longman & Eagle

February 01, 2012

Paris vs New York.

Lot of fun graphic prints for Francophiles and Yankophiles. (I think I just made that last word up.)





Art Prints by Paris Vs New York | Society6

(Thanks for the tip, Anna!)

August 30, 2011

The Unseen Sea.

Lovely time-lapse video by Simon Christen – the San Francisco Bay area, shot over a period of one year. Watch the original in HD on Vimeo for full effect.

The Unseen Sea from Simon Christen on Vimeo.



(via trendcentral)

June 21, 2011

How To Not Die In A Plane Crash.

One of the funniest things I've read in awhile – handy tips for people afraid of flying.

My fave is:

8. Board the plane. Trace a bunch of religious symbolism on the outside of the plane with your finger as you walk through the door. Instant God-force-shield. Draw a little Yoda too, just to be safe. If you have time, a Dumbledore.


How To Not Die In A Plane Crash | The Awl

May 06, 2011

World's Largest Miniature Airport Goes On Display In Germany.

My obsession with tiny things would probably kill me if I saw this in person.




The world's largest miniature airport has gone on display at Miniatur Wunderland in Hamburg, Germany. Miniatur Wunderland is also home to the world's largest model railroad landscape.

The model airport is based off of Hamburg's Fuhlsbüttel International airport, according to news.com. The display took 7 years and roughly $4.8 million to build.

The model includes a whopping list of accessories, including 40 planes, 40,000 lights, 15,000 figurines, 500 cars, 10,000 trees, 50 trains, 1000 wagons, 100 signals, 200 switches and 300 buildings. The figurines move autonomously via computer.

The roughly 494-square feet display opened on Wednesday.


Knuffingen Airport, World's Largest Miniature Airport, Goes On Display In Germany (PHOTOS) - AOL Travel News

September 20, 2010

Land Carpet.

Being in full-on, jump-on-an-airplane-and-fly-away mode, I'm loving these rugs.




Florian Pucher

(hat tip to the fabulous function key)

July 08, 2010

The Wish Tree (Washington D.C.)


Every autumn, sometime in November, the leaves fall off and the tree becomes a whispering tree. Rather than hang their wishes from the tree on small strips of paper, as they do during the warmer months, visitors are encouraged to snuggle up to the tree and whisper their wishes to it.

But, come June, the tree buds again and the Hirshhorn provides pencils and little tags to write with and to hang on the tree.

Each day exhibit staff and intern volunteers pluck the tags from the tree.

“We harvest the wishes and send them to the Yoko Ono Peace Tower in Iceland where they become part of a larger collection of wishes that the artist has amassed,” Hirshhorn communications director Gabriel Riera told me in an e-mail.


When You Wish Upon a Tree at the Hirshhorn | Around The Mall

May 11, 2010