Posted in -Chauncey Zalkin, Contributors, tagged -girl on the street, -Peter Crosby, aesthetics, america, americans, anxiety, art, Artists, barcelona, brand worship, business, chain stores, chauncey, couples, crafts, design, dreams, elections, entrepreneurship, europe, expatriot, expats, fairs, female, France, frieze, galleries, girlonthestreet, girls, high street, hype, london, london design week, moving, new york, Obama, Paris, petercrosby, publishing, Spain, stores, travel, trend, trend reports, trends, woman, women, women in business, womeninbusiness, www.friezeartfair.com, www.girlonthestreet.com, www.londondesignfestival.com, zalkin on October 31, 2008 | 1 Comment »
By December 1st, my boyfriend and I will have transplanted ourselves from Paris (me) and London (he) to a cozy 45 square meter flat in Barcelona. I’ve had a tendency through the years to disclose my flights of fancy in ill-conceived rushes of enthusiasm only to later regret it. As we all know, sometimes visions [...]
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Posted in -Rebekka Lien, Contributors, tagged asian, backpacking, camping, central park, family, fear, germany, girl, girlonthestreet, hamburg, japan, lien, metropolitan museum of art, myth, new york, rebekka, solo, Tokyo, travel, washington DC, young, youth on May 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Growing up in a non-traditional Asian family, I have always loved travel. My mother lived in Hamburg, Germany for 13 years. During that time she backpacked all over Europe, most of the time solo. When she got married, she and my father often went camping together, packing tents sometimes in sub zero [...]
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Posted in -Alisa Thaloengsakdanuvon, tagged america, bangkok, cable, california, culture, disease, elections, flavor flav, media, morality, new york, rating, sex, sexuality, std, television, thailand, tila tequilla, transmitted on March 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
One thing that has arrived as buzz recently are new statistics regarding US teenagers who have contracted an STD. According to CNN, “At least one in four teenage girls nationwide has a sexually transmitted disease, or more than three million teens, according to the first study of its kind in this age group.”
I actually heard [...]
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Posted in -Chauncey Zalkin, tagged China, City, Createur, design, Ethnography, France, Hilary, Hong Kong, Ideo, India, Innovation, MBA, new york, Obama, Paris, Portland, Recession, Shanghai, Spain, Tokyo, USA on February 9, 2008 | 2 Comments »
My mind goes through so much subject matter with all that’s going on. My more precise thinking disappears before I can get my fingers to march.
Flit flit go the pages..
Flit flit the remarkable sentiment Obama unearthed deep in America’s heartland on Super Tuesday, flit flit Recession panic circling the globe showing how much the [...]
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Posted in -Aja Barber, Contributors, tagged america, international, london, love, music, new york, nina simone, race, relationships, washington DC on January 31, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I’ve been listening to Nina Simone a lot lately. She always helps me through my winter blues. And I see a lot of parallels between the two of us. We’re both from the east coast. We’re both black. We’ve both fled the US on occasions. We both play the piano (she was naturally gifted, [...]
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