Author: Stephanie Spiro
The Art Of The Brick: Nathan Sawaya Dazzles Us With LEGO Art Magic
Ever puzzle over the smile of a LEGO Mona Lisa? Now you can. Only, if you ogle at the exceptional LEGO reproduction for too long, the famous smirk begins to feel a tad more pixelated. If you haven't visited The Art of the Brick exhibit at the Discovery Museum in Times Square, New York City, I highly ...
How To: Boost The Colors In Your Facebook Photos & Make Them Pop
A Facebook page is a place for us to paint our fairy tales. The feed is a personally constructed cyber-memory that runs parallel to the fading images that we have in our heads. We all have the opportunity to build a social media-housed, photo-enhanced personal narrative that we share with the world, ...
Drink Shop & Do At The Fabulously Geeky London Teahouse
Are you longing to drink, shop, do, and make Lego bunnies? A friend took me to the charming and colorful Drink Shop & Do in London this past March, and for me, it was tea-laden love at first sight. I couldn't stop marveling at the lovely tea setup, the fabulous food (gluten-free upon request), a ...
Apostrophe Hotel: Check In To This Paris Paradise For Design-Lovers
Are you looking to sleep under a massive typewriter, dance through clouds on a rainy Paris evening, and step directly into a lush romantic shower, all without leaving your hotel? If so, I would recommend the Apostrophe Hotel. It's the perfect pit stop for the wordsmith-come-design geek, and it's a s ...
Robot Stories: The Film That Will Melt Your Synthetic Heart
Do you prefer robot love.... on film, that is? For the film geek and lover of all things robot, I highly recommend the prescient and heartbreaking 2003 science fiction film, Robot Stories (written and directed by Greg Pak). Robot Stories strings together a series of vignettes about people interactin ...
Street Art: New York Gargoyle Building Sings The Blues
I often wander the streets of New York looking at my feet, headphones sprouting from my ears, lost in thought. But on one sunny day in the city I happened to look up. In front of me, I saw a building that quietly blossomed into something entirely magical when I stepped closer for further inspection. ...
NINJA New York: Smoking Food & Sword-Wielding Ninja Waiters
My father, @CognitiveFlex, visited me this past weekend in New York City, and we unintentionally found ourselves in several surreal situations that felt totally immersive and like back-to-back movie sets. First, we visited the McKittrick Hotel for Sleep No More, Punchdrunk's Macbeth-themed choose yo ...
Film Geeks: Welcome To Nonlinear Time!
"As DNA is to the flesh, the code is to the soul, the blueprint to the psyche, a road map of destiny, concealed in our cellular biological fields. In death, code breaks into little pieces that break down to combine with other little pieces to form new sequences, like reincarnation in a blender." - I ...
The World’s Best Giant Syringe Filled With Chocolate Sauce
On my quest to find bizarre chocolate, I'd been meaning to revisit the choco-chain, Max Brenner in New York, "chocolate by the bald man," so I could sit in a room surrounded by adults and squirt warm chocolate sauce directly into my mouth via a giant syringe. Apparently, "Max's chocolate kingdom" is ...
Clinic: The Bar That Served Cocktails From An IV Drip
While visiting my brother in Singapore a few years back, I remember a bizarrely distasteful bar that I discovered in his neighborhood of Clarke Quay. It was called Clinic, and it was designed like a hospital with festive golden wheelchairs planted around cool, iron surgical tables.
When you enter ...
Temple: The Interactive Cyber Zombie Slayer
I'm a big fan of The Reapers Are the Angels, a book by Alden Bell (pen name of New York author, Joshua Gaylord). It's a soulful southern gothic-style novel that follows a girl slaying zombies with a Gurkha knife in a spare and gorgeously post-apocalyptic world. So imagine how excited I was when I di ...
Happy Hour Nerd Mojitos At The Candy Cocktail Bar
Ever wondered where Wonka goes to get plastered with the wicked witch when Hansel and Gretel are licking the doors and eating the gingerbread ceiling? Well, I think he pulls up a peppermint barstool to get a little tipsy in Candyland.
Over the past year, fabled candy mecca Dylan's Candy Bar intro ...
Mad Men: Shaken With A Motown Twist
Being Draper-less for a year and a half is no fun, so I've been stockpiling martinis to prepare for the hugely anticipated return of Mad Men. Now that it's finally back on the air, we're instantly transported back to a familiar world scrubbed clean, littered with white lacquered desks, well-suited 6 ...
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