Tag: vacation
For Geeks & Workaholics: An Inflatable Window With A View
It is so funny to me that someone even invented this little gag. What a sign of the times! Everyone works so hard these days, and we often wish we could get out of that cubicle (or jail cell) to see the light of day. But with many of us working from sunrise to sunset, unless we make a specific ef ...
Artistic Inspiration: Thousands of Memories Mashed Into One
Wow, this is nuts! It's one of those projects that would take me a decade to finish, no, on second thought, a lifetime. Artist Corinne Vionnet created these pictures of famous monuments below. Well, she sort of created them. What she actually did is mind bending.
She made these from actual to ...
Design Inspiration: The Official Eiffel Tower Blueprints
For as long as I can remember, I've always wanted to go to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris. I've never been to Paris, and if I ever get the opportunity to go, visiting the Eiffel Tower will be at the top of my list.
The Eiffel Tower used to be considered such a classy, sophisticated monumen ...
Portable Cities: Architecture Created From Old Clothes
Chinese artist Yin Xiuzhen loves to travel. She especially loves to check out the architecture in the cities she visits. While she is there, she collects second hand clothes that have been discarded by the residents in that city.
Then, to symbolically recreate traveling to that city, she meticu ...
Check Out These Tuxedos In The Ocean!
This is just bizarre to watch! There is something so perplexing about seeing men in tuxedos swim in the ocean. This latest Improv Everywhere event took place at Coney Island where hundreds of people frolicked on a mile long stretch of beach in their formal wear.
This event, which took months to ...
The Soda Pop Swimming Pool: Would You Swim In It?
I love Diet Dr. Pepper. I drink three or four of them each day. I don't drink any other kind of soda pop. The question is, do I love it enough to submerge my entire body into it? Do I love it enough to swim in it?
It's true; to go swimming in a pool of your favorite soda would mean lots of st ...
A Luxury Hotel… For Your Cat’s Next Vacation!
When I found out about this hotel, I instantly knew I had to write about it. I'm not really a cat person myself, but my best friend on Twitter, @mistygirlph, loves cats. Actually, her whole family does. Her big-hearted sister rescues cats, and they have about 20 of them in their home. So Misty - ...
Losing Lottery Ticket Art – Keep The Dream Alive!
Do you play the lottery? Do you like instant game scratch off tickets? What do you do with your lottery tickets once you find out you didn't win? You throw them in the garbage bin, right? Think again. There might be something much more fun you could create with those!
This is a very interes ...
7 Must Haves For A Traveling Geek!
Do you love to travel? I know I do. I enjoy visiting different countries, and I love tasting their food and experiencing their culture. I like checking out the different hot spots that friends recommend. Yes traveling is fun, but it's the packing for the trip that is the killer, especially if yo ...
A Creative Way To Identify Your Suitcase When Traveling
It seems like when we travel, a lot of us carry black suitcases, right? I have a set of beautiful black leather luggage that is my favorite.
Sometimes it's hard to spot which luggage is ours at baggage claim, right? With so many pieces that look almost identical, we really have to double check ...
Fun Food Inspired Flip Flops – Nom Nom!
Yesterday, Richard wrote an article about Edible Accessories. It got me thinking, if you are going to carry an edible handbag or wear an edible belt, what kind of shoes would complement that? After all, you would want your whole outfit to coordinate, right?
I've got the answer, and it's perfect ...
Legoland Theme Park – A Geek’s Dream Destination
Just the other day I wrote an article about the brand new humongous Lego Store that just opened this week at Rockefeller Center in NYC. I plan on visiting that store very soon, and I'm so excited about it!
In the meantime, since I can't get enough of Lego, I scour the Internet almost everyday to ...
An Enchanting China Girl Collection – Photography Inspiration
We are definitely suckers for stunning photography at Bit Rebels. I think Richard, Misty and I are all very visual and when we see photographs that catch our attention, we are truly inspired.
These photos, by Russian photographer Elena Kholkina, are absolutely incredible to me. Everything from ...
The World’s First Hotel Made From Garbage Opens!
We've all seen it on the beach and cringed, right? There are so many empty beer bottles, lost shoes, plastic bags... garbage! Apparently in Europe it is an even bigger problem than here in the States.
Corona beer partnered with German artist, HA Schult to raise awareness about this increasing p ...
The World’s Tallest File Cabinet – For The Office Geek
My very dear friend @laurawalker86, who lives in Liverpool, is in the States now visiting friends in Vermont. As a tribute to her exploration, I thought I would try to find the most interesting nugget of information I could about that state.
I've only been to Vermont a few times, and I think of ...