- Frightening but awesome photos of surfers swimming underwater by Mark Tipple.

- The importance of cultivating creativity in kids: “In essence, if we help unlock our kids’ creativity, and free them to construct meaningful problems of their own to solve, it will serve as valuable practice for a future that neither we or they can even dream of yet.”

- Beyonce and Andre 3000′s remake of Amy Winehouse’s Back to Black is SEXY. Also Lana Del Ray’s track for the same Gatsby soundtrack. I’m looking forward to the soundtrack more than the movie!

- Hate sleeping alone? Knit your own boyfriend body pillow.

- A snazzy publication called Four & Sons is dedicated to the man and his best friend.

- Best yoga retreats to OM your stress away in the US.

- Art stars Cory Arcangel and Ryan Gander start their own clothing lines. I told you art and fashion are inseparable!

- Pokemon characters minimalized and with mustaches!

- An insightful interview with Michael Pollan for his new book Cooked: “What we cook has an enormous bearing on the kind of agriculture we have. And on the other end the best predictor of a healthy diet is not a nutrient or a particular food, but an activity–cooking–and specifically, who is cooking your food, is it a corporation or a human being? That is a key predictor of the healthfulness of your diet and the likelihood of whether you are struggling with obesity or chronic disease.”

- I want a new Apple-ized punchbuggy.

- Psy is nominated for 6 Billboard music awards. Hurrah Korea!

- Lianne La Havas, I love you, you are amazing.

- Fab is raising a new round of funding at $1 BILLION valuation. Put that money to good use and hire me already!!!

- IO Echo’s interactive music video born out of the concept of Orwellian surveillance.

- A compendium of design wisdom by Sara Bader.

- Icky: ramen flavored chocolate bars.

- I am fascinated by this boy.

- I just signed up for a Honda EV. No down payment $389/month for 36 months includes maintenance. YES.

- More background story behind the Dove viral video.

- Conjuring up beauty both ancient and modern.

- Interview with Dwell Studio founder Christiane Lemieux.

- Men, you are not as beautiful as you think.

- Local retail shop Dalaga brought out a new lookbook.

- Interview with Andrew Carmellini and his new restaurant Lafayette.

- Kenneth Cole does it again with an inappropriate tweet.

- How to be Beyonce.

- Oh Adam Driver, how do you stay so hot and so ugly at the SAME TIME?

- Sure, let’s celebritize and consumerize our daily living some more and wear clothes by pseudo local celebrities. I only rant because I envy SuChin Pak’s cool factor.

- Reaction to Dove’s “Real Beauty” campaign: “Just as ads of yore leveraged the attitudes that made women feel bad about their looks in order to sell products, the Dove campaign for Real Beauty leverages the response to those attitudes in order to sell products. It allows for exactly one way that women can feel about our looks – bad – and creates a template for women’s relationship with their looks that’s just as rigid as the beauty standard it’s challenging.”

- The female gaze in the digital age: “But visuals are a quicker fix, an immediate surge of pleasure. Looking at faces made up in the latest lip innovation, and photos of regular people wearing beautiful clothes, is a kind of gallery-going, a form of art patronage…The Internet is the great democratizer, and over the past decade and a half, it has trained my brain to want things presented reasonably, fairly, accessibly.”

- Creepy pictures of animals morphed on Photoshop.

- Eyebeam thrives after damages incurred by Hurricane Sandy.

- Poor conan needs some love.

- Some information you should know about ricin: “For people, ricin is very deadly – especially if injected or inhaled. A 2009 analysis, for instance, on “Ricin as a weapon of mass terror,” pointed out that it’s slightly less dangerous when swallowed, where it tends to cause damage to the mucusol lining of the stomach but is not absorbed as effectively.”

- My iPhone hasn’t cured my panic attacks. Alas, I am hopeless.

- Nipple tattooing is a trend in the UK. Crazy brits.

- How to deal with creative millennials who are a disaster to work with: “The key to attracting and retaining them, though, is providing an empathetic culture that places equal importance on empathy and accountability.”

- Someone please host a screening with these old school stop animation films.

- A book on closed-loop manufacturing processes aka sustainable design and production.

- Just when I was thinking I should memorize some poems I learn there’s an app for that.

- The Kama Sutra Alphabet.

- Pack your mindfulness when traveling.

- I’m going to buy this electric Fiat. Done.

- Q & A with a major airline pilot.

- Share why you do what you with /purpose.

- Kool-Aid man is 59 years old!

- DIY alcoholic Dippin’ Dots!

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- Zebros are the shit, straight out of Greenpoint and performing this Friday!

- Message of hope for Boston go viral.

- Sadly, someone thought of it before I did: fuckyeahdachshunds.tumblr.com

- LED lights for your bikes!

- The exhausting quirks of subway riders.

- I want to buy this pink suit for Angel.

- I sympathize with this: “Suddenly, I was muscling my way onto a bus to Manhattan, sweating through the tunnel, trudging up flights of stairs to avoid elevators, dizzily gripping the handrails of escalators. On airplanes, I popped tranquilizers and dug my nails into my husband’s arm. I woke in the night with my heart thumping in my ears, the sound like hoofed beasts running from predators.”

- I too, “rely on information discovery to push my own thinking.”

- You’d never expect flight attendants to wear Louboutins now wouldya?

- Dissecting the latest episode of Mad Men.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASO_zypdnsQ

- 110 Mil and counting…

- Gnomes fighting people. Think Chucky but creepier.

- Claustrophobic on elevators? Maybe quirky ones would help.

- A wealth of information from a short article on cloud computing.

- Interview with artist Peter Halley.

- Beautiful photographs of two dogs by photographer Jessica Trinh.

- Intervention for those suffering INFORMATION OVERLOAD DISORDER.

- YES: How you know you are addicted to Korean Dramas.

- OOOOOOOO How I miss my PLANTS!!!!

- I’ve never coveted sunglasses nor ever knew the potential for awesomeness in sunglasses design til Sheriff & Cherry came along.

- Interpreting Jeffrey Eugenides advice to “write like you’re dead.” This can be quickly applied to fine artists as well. Make first, without distraction and temptation, sell later.

- Wonderful tips on encouraging creativity thru spontaneity, facing your fears and insecurities, and being inspired thru problems and finding solutions.

- 10 safest airlines in the world. Note: none of them are US carriers.

- A designer creates one numerical logo a day. What a great creative exercise!

- Hyper-focus your daily tasks by not only creating lists, but creating SUB-LISTS.

- Lena Dunham simply ruined it for all the bad bitches oversharing on Tumblr.

- David Stark is my idol of event production & design. Here he talks with Design Sponge.

- On Korea’s obsession with plastic surgery.

- More reasons to love and admire Julianne Moore.

- An insightful interview with artist Fleurette West reminds me it’s OK to change my mind every so often.

- I was never sorry to miss Coachella, until now.

- Minecraft cookies = The New Aesthetic.

- I wish I was at MOCA to make clay sculptures with Urs Fischer.

- On the perils of being Korean-American.

- These drawings by Daehyun Kim remind me of Spirited Away in their creepy vibe.

- Upgrade your boring Ikea furniture with accessory add-ons by Superfront.

- If Bill Murray were my neighbor I’d take his portrait too.

- A brief history of women in comedy.

- Mad Men, illustrated.

- An illustrated story about cute gay penguins.

- New music to lookout for. My current obsession? All the playlists Kitsune puts out on Spotify.

- The 100 Best Lists of All Time. This is epic y’all.

- Hot and naked alphabet.

- Jane McGonigal on how we should play more games to save the world.

- TED talks on how to work smarter.

- Reverse the formulas for happiness and success. 

- A startup company is designed to grow fast. “To grow rapidly, you need to make something you can sell to a big market…Nine times out of ten, sitting around strategizing is just a form of procrastination.”

- Beautiful photos from travels in Sassi, Italy.

- Must. Buy. This. Flask. Immediately.

- Lovely photos from Amy’s birthday. Thanks for the invite.

- Swiss Miss’ readers have accumulated an impressive list of women entrepreneurs.

- Interview with artist Duke Riley.

- Oooohhhh I wanna play Ridiculous Fishing!

- Openframe is “a simple, flexible way to hang posters, prints, and photos of various sizes and configurations.” They have pretty much hacked and undone the framing industry. This is gold, y’all. Support their Kickstarter and pre-order yours.

- Oh Jesus PLEASE pay me to live closer to the office.

- Miley Cyrus twerkin’ in a unicorn suit? Why not. Also, her haircut makes her instantaneously badass.

- I’m looking forward to reading Middle Men by Jim Gavin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=REq8qpVtjqc

- Men with hair too beautiful is not really a good thing.

- My new favorite band? Chvrches.

- Wedding Do’s and Dont’s. Repeat: DON’T be a bridezilla.

- Why cooking is wonderful.

- Massive photographic archive salvaged from Beijing’s trash.

- A 61 year old porn editor lady on the history of porn mags.

- How to make bacon jam.

- Inhalable whiskey tornado. Like that episode in Parks & Recreations.

- Sexy vegetables.

- How printing ink is made.

- Interview with T Magazine’s creative director Patrick Li.

- Crowd Supply, the new crowdfunding platform for product designers.

- Tilda Swinton as a performance artist sleeping inside a box at MoMA? I’ll take it.

- Harmony Korine AMA on reddit.

- The best photogenic dog award goes to: Maddie.

- Jash and the new Hollywood.

- Disney princesses get the Spring Breakers treatment.

- “Koreans have the reputation for being nose-to-the-grindstone, study-smarties. But looking around Seoul today, one can only conclude they’re ready to enjoy themselves.” Hell, yeah.

- A German artist based in Korea paints houses with a keen and minimal eye towards architecture.

- Solange interviews artist Mickalene Thomas.

- Ryan Gosling, in GIF form. And then, more GIFs.

- In other news, South Korea may make mini skirts illegal, again.

- Tough guys and thumbs up.

- And behold, the pony mixer.

- Admit it, you’re TOTALLY kegeling right now.

- OH MY GOD I LOVE KALE.

- Where does Velveeta come from?

- Swirly porn paintings.

- The alternative to running away to Vegas to get married? The Pop-Up Wedding.

- Am I in love with Opening Ceremony for launching their own line of Spring Breakers wear? Yes.

- Loveflutter is a new dating site that uses Google’s Knowledge Graph and Foursquare to match your interests and recommend place for dates.

Sorry I’m Late from Tomas Mankovsky on Vimeo.

- I wonder how long it took to make this stop motion video.

- 23 more days to fund the Arrested Development documentary. Also, 2 more months til Arrested Development.

- “So monogamy appears to be a cultural phenomenon that has its origins in economics of all places.”