We're taking an extra few days to recover from the holidays. Don't worry, we're not dead. We'll be back with you sometime next week in February.
In the meantime, we are humbled and honored to have been included in Fimoculous' list of 30 Best Blogs of 2009. Resounding "woo" all around. So there are 29 other blogs over there you probably should be reading.
This Christmas is the 22nd anniversary of the Peter Norton Christmas Project, a series of limited-edition artworks once only available to those on the software pioneer's personal Nice list (see a 2005 NYT writeup for more info). Commissioned to make contemporary art more accessible, the artists' creations were unavailable to the general public until this year when Norton donated the remainder of his ungifted presents to MoMA's Design Store, with proceeds benefiting PS1. Works over the years have taken on the form of everything from condoms to music boxes, with three editions focusing on food and drink.
From the artist/songwriter/musician Robyn Hitchcock comes "The Day Before Boxing Day," the nativity scene reimagined using vegetables and stop-motion video, featuring a droning soundtrack presumably penned by Hitchcock himself.
The Still Life Fruit Bowl allows you to create your own constantly-changing masterpiece and can be set up in either landscape or portrait format. Designed by Barnaby Barford and Andre Klauser, manufactured by Thorsten Van Elten. It's available at Van Elten's online shop for £59 or at Matter for $100.
In this video for Nestlé Crunch, Olympian Shawn Johnson does a backflip over a speeding bobsled. (This is one way to mash up the Summer Olympics and the Winter Olympics.) As to what this has to do with Nestlé Crunch, there's something about her being on Team Crispies and Speedskater Apolo Ohno being on Team Chocolate, and they're challenging each other to do dangerous things? It seems a bit inequitable since all Ohno does is skate down the luge. Anyway, apparently people are saying the backflip video is faked, because really, who risks their life for a candy bar commercial?
2009 seems to be the year the dead-tree guys finally started paying serious attention to the smart writers, great photographers, and charming home cooks who happily toiled online.
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