Peeps! Just in time for right after Easter.

Happy Easter!!

Peeps: So many things you can do with them! Serious eats indeed.

Peepshi

[Photograph: Robyn Lee]

Peeps Krispie Treats 

In the making (accompanied by possibly my favorite caption ever):

Before: Peeps "My Peepbutt is so toasty! Peeps Sauna to the max." 
After: Peeps "gloob bloop." 

[Photographs: Grace Kang]

Completed:

[Photograph: Robyn Lee]

The colors are so vibrant and pretty... I even like just how they look on the page. This looks like it'd be really fun to do with kids :))

"I'm sorry"

From WSJ article "Prince Shows Shame, Rubin Defiance: Former Citigroup Officials Say They, and Regulators, Didn't See Risks; 'I'm Sorry' Three Times", reporting on the "three-hour grilling by a congressional panel scrutinizing the financial crisis":

Mr. Prince departed from his prepared testimony by saying "I'm sorry" three times that the crisis had such a "devastating" impact on the economy, millions of Americans "lost their homes," and "our management team, starting with me," didn't foresee the "unprecedented market collapse."

It's sad, the whole thing, and Mr. Prince recognizes it. This is a good passage. The next one is not as feel-good, but similarly revealing:

Still, Bill Thomas, a Republican former congressman from California who is vice chairman of the panel, which must produce a report on its findings by Dec. 15, compared the former CEO to "a lemming" because of his reluctance to rein in risk-taking as late as mid-2007.

The comment came after Mr. Prince tried to explain his infamous declaration in mid-2007 that "as long as the music is playing, you've got to get up and dance. We're still dancing." Mr. Prince was referring to the dangers of leveraged lending for private-equity buyouts, but Mr. Thomas responded: "You weren't going to be the lemming that stopped and said: 'I don't want to keep walking."'

It's a look into the (difficult?) sentiment of the times. Are financial institutions better today then they were in mid-2007?

P.S. I learned how to make blockquotes again!

Vimeo

Just made an account tonight and am excited to start shooting little things and posting them up there! Much higher quality than YouTube. Lots of great animations on the site that use After Effects. Like this one!

Trichrome Blue from Lois van Baarle on Vimeo.

thanks to someone i'll call "latka" for showing this to me!

If you like Whitney...

...you'll like this boy even more. I do, at least. There's a lot less Bobby Brown and more chubby cuteness.

nowness?

www.nowness.com, formerly eluxury.com, is another one of those art/lifestyle blogs (that comment is only a little bit tongue-in-cheek), except it's owned by LVMH. Do you care if it's owned by a corporation trying to sell you (expensive) stuff? Does that matter to you?

The Notorious XX

I've been going through a Biggie phase lately, and this makes me very happy. Some mashups are just genius, and this combo is one of them. Download/enjoy the XX/Biggie album here.

McQueen in the Times

This is the only article I've liked so far.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/04/fashion/04mcqueen.html?ref=style

WANT: Alexis Bittar Jewelry

So pretty. All available at Saks.

Ralph Lauren Dresses

Here are my fantasy lifestyle dresses for spring/summer from RL:

For a lawn party...

For a tea party...

For when I play tennis...

For when I go shopping/do lunch in town...


Ahhhhhh.

97%

This lady saves 97% on her groceries!

Does anyone clip coupons anymore? I've never seen anyone use a clipped coupon in a store in the past 5 years or so.

Money + Websites = Tools

The 20 best money Web sites by CNN Money

I just bought my plane ticket from JFK to Hong Kong using Kayak.com, one of the 20 websites recommended (I knew about it before though, from reading lots of travel mags... travel porn).