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Immaculate Infatuation

Today I was searching in Google Images and accidentally came across this awesome website Immaculate Infatuation. My passion for food, design and technology was all met in one at this site. Immaculate Infatuation provides reviews of restaurants in NYC from non-food critics. This site allows the user to search by cuisine, neighborhood, and for what type of occasion. Immaculate Infatuation gives you the run down of the restaurant, atmosphere and menu and also advises you of what else is near each restaurant.

Eataly

via Phaidon

Eataly one of my new favorite spots  in NYC opened by two of my favorite chefs Lidia Bastianich and Mario Batali. Eataly has everything from gelato to homemade pasta. It is a marketplace and an eating space all in one. Eataly is located in Flatiron on 5th Avenue. Definitely check it out! Phaidon has an excellent picture gallery of the inside of Eataly.

India Cookbook

I was recently at a Borders bookstore and came across this recipe book that truly embraced the culture through the design of the book and the way it was packaged. Another lovely book design published by Phaidon.

IdeasThat Stick

On August 3, Post-it /3M celebrated their 30th anniversary and teamed with Publicolor on creating the National Student Design Contest. This contest challenged students in grades 6 to 12 to think about what will happen in their lives in 30 years and create a work of art. This billboard was made of multi-colored Post-it Super Sticky Notes and is located in  Grand Central Terminal’s Vanderbilt Hall in New York City.

via Art Daily and Examiner

13th DUMBO Art Under the Bridge Festival

September 25—27, 2009
13th DUMBO Art Under the Bridge Festival
—Brooklyn, NY
Art Under the Bridge is a multi-site happening unique to Dumbo since 1997, the historic post-industrial neighborhood spanning the East River waterfront between the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges. The event’s enduring magic is the transformation of an entire neighborhood into a vibrant platform for self-expression over 3 days once a year. New artworks by young visual artists are created on-the-spot everywhere and anywhere: they may be specific to a particular site or they may wander. They may be projected or afloat. They may be performed or make sound, they may glow in the dark or ride an elevator, they may occupy a corporate lobby or beg your interaction, or they may just sit there and demand your attention.

I came across this today and I wish I knew about this! This seems like something really awesome to experience. I may have to check it out!

(via Core77)

PS1

I recently went to PS1 which is owned my MOMA in Long Island City, Queens.
The exhibit “Swimming Pool” by Leandro Erlich is like no other. A full deck was built with an inground swimming pool. Originally when looking down into the pool it looked just like a real inground swimming pool. Then once I went downstairs there was an entrance where one can go “inside” the pool and look up and see the top of  the pool. Hence the reason for the people being in the photograph looking down into the pool.