Designers Matt Hornbuckle and Kirk Keel realized that our sizing system is a broken one, and decided to change it up. Using 3-D body scan data from more than 1,000 men, they created Stantt, a line of casual button-down shirts that come in 50 sizes, with three measurement variables: chest size, waist size, and sleeve length.
oh good, someone fixed our broken shirt sizing system!
#progress #realinnovation #betterment #humansareamazing
Lindsaycdavisonwe could probably all use a little liver lovin...
Lindsaycdavisonsorry for all the wait buy why posts, but seriously, this a funny website
MIT’s shapeshifting display lets you reach out and touch someone
MIT has demonstrated a “Dynamic Shape Display” that can physically change shape to render 3D content. As Fast Company reports, the display is called inFORM, and it’s a large surface that sits atop a series of pins, actuators, and linkages. By moving each actuator, inFORM can move the pin it’s attached to up or down, allowing for a wide range of interactions.
perfect for when you only kind of want to play with a little ball.
Sure, I groan when I see a hipster bar opening in my neighborhood, or a Disneyfied version of a French bistro take the place of an authentic French bistro. But I don’t enter a deep funk when a whorehouse closes. And I’m getting weary of expats who do.
Like any city, Paris changes, and new generations make their successive marks. The City of Light that moaners want to preserve in amber is the same one that some older generation railed against. It’s the Woody Allen affliction: things were better before.
An opinion piece in today’s New York Times is a most egregious example. Novelist Thomas Chatterton Williams bemoans the closing of Pigalle brothels to make room for coffee bars and other hipster hangouts. 
His rose-colored glasses filter out the tragedy of human trafficking behind establishments where prostitutes sunbathe between clients, a sight he finds charming. The tranny hookers that he passes en route to buying a bottle of Pouilly Fume make him “uncomfortable.” To Williams, that’s a public service: “We should be grateful to be jolted from our anesthetized routines.” Thank you, come again!
Williams disses a handful of expats opening modern bars such as Glass. I wrote about that same group of people in an article last summer (also in the New York Times). You could call them hipsters, sure. I see them as young people with clear ideas about where they want to hang out and the energy to create those places. So the sourcing of their ingredients is described on menus: That’s a bad thing?
I invite your comments about the changing landscape of Paris.
Here’s a fun group of graphics for different neighborhoods of Paris. These “Cliche Sur Seine” images are by designer Simon Sek (more here).
Do you get all the references?
I’m stymied by Strasbourg St. Denis and Place de Clichy–please explain if you can! (Hat tip to Matthew Rose.)
Lindsaycdavisoni thought they were talking about caesar's
When the cold arrives in the City of Light there’s nothing better than cuddling up with a cup of hot tea and a few delicious pastries in the corner of a Parisian café.
After a summer of short summer dresses and light tank tops, it’s time to put on that knitted sweater, cozy scarf, and those leather boots… Which also means that a few extra pastries won’t really hurt that much… Well, at least that’s what I keep telling myself (yes, that’s my theory and I’m sticking with it).
After surviving cold autumn days and freezing winters in Paris before, I now know where to get my tea and pastry fix in this city. In a city like Paris the possibilities for indulgence are endless, so I’ve tried to narrow it down for you. Don’t forget to bundle up before heading out!
With something sweet
My favorite thing about having a cup of tea is ironically not the tea itself… My favorite thing is what goes with the tea. I mean, who could say no to a heavenly sliver of carrot cake with cream cheese frosting to go with their Darjeeling? So whenever I’m meeting up with friends for a cup of tea, I try to make sure we’ll end up at a place that does excellent desserts as well.
Two excellent places, if you want a little sweetness to go with your tea, are Rose Bakery Tea Room and Café Pouchkine. Even though both of them are located in department stores – Rose Bakery inside the elegant Le Bon Marché and Café Pouchkine inside the luxurious Printemps – they’re far from alike. Stop by Rose Bakery Tea Room on the left bank if you’re craving scones, lemon pound cake, or that sliver of carrot cake to accompany your green tea. But head to Café Pouchkine on the right bank if you’re looking for lavish pastries and some of the yummiest macarons I’ve ever tasted in Paris. The extravagant décor is not to be overlooked either — but be prepared to wait since the seating is limited and fills up quickly.
If Rose Bakery Tea Room or Café Pouchkine don’t sound exciting enough, some of my other favorites when it comes to pairing my tea with a tasty treat are Colorova, Mamie Gateaux and Carette.
Rose Bakery Tea Room, 24 Rue de Sèvres, 75007 Paris, tel: +33 (0)1 42 22 60 00.
Café Pouchkine, 64 Boulevard Haussmann, 75008 Paris, tel: +33 (0)1 42 82 43 31.
Focus on the tea
Despite how hard it is for me to believe, I understand that some people prefer to have their tea without sweet pastries on the side. And of course, that’s possible too. A shop I’ve always been in awe of every time I pass it in Saint-Germain is Jugetsudo. Jugetsudo – which means “the place from where one looks at the moon” – is a Japanese teashop with an amazing variety of teas. Buy their tea to-go or book a time to enjoy their dégustation of Japanese green teas inside the shop (warning, chocolates and Japanese treats might be included).
When I’m in the mood for something a little bit more classic I never hesitate to visit Mariage Frères or Ladurée. Yes, they’re very well known but they still serve some of the most delicious tea, in the coziest of settings, in Paris. I prefer the Mariage Frères tea salon in the Marais where you can choose between 600 types of different teas or Ladurée’s location on Rue Bonaparte in Saint-Germain.
Tea Thé Tcha and L’Autre Thé are two other tea salons in Paris well worth mentioning in this category as well, and don’t miss the newly opened tea shop called Lupicia in Saint-Germain.
Jugetsudo, 95 Rue de Seine, 75006 Paris, tel: +33 (0)1 46 33 94 90.
Mariage Frères, 30 Rue du Bourg Tibourg, 75004 Paris, tel: +33 (0)1 42 72 28 11.
Ladurée, 21 Rue Bonaparte, 75006 Paris, tel: +33 (0)1 44 07 64 87.
High tea
If you have a little extra time – and money – on your hands, nothing beats an afternoon tea session at a luxurious Parisian palace hotel. When the temperatures get lower and the days darker, I sometimes need to spoil myself just a little bit to avoid complete depression, and a fancy afternoon tea always does the trick. This fall, when I need a pick-me-up, La Bauhinia at the Shangri-La or Hotel Daniel are at the top of my list.
Even though €39 for some tea and a couple of treats at the Shangri-La is a little steep, I would consider it well-spent money considering I’d probably get an excellent people-watching session in while enjoying my cup of tea. But if you feel that the price is a little bit too high (even though excellent service and a magnificent space are probably included) Hotel Daniel offers an afternoon tea for €28. I’m already dreaming about their finger sandwiches, scones with clotted cream and pastries from La Pâtisserie des Rêves…
Other classic hotels offering afternoon tea that are worth the detour include The Four Seasons George V and Le Bristol.
Shangri-La, 10 Avenue d’Iéna, 75116 Paris, tel: +33 (0)1 53 67 19 98.
Hotel Daniel, 8 Rue Frédéric Bastiat, 75008 Paris, tel: +33 (0)1 42 56 17 00.
To take home
Then there are always those kinds of days when you just prefer to cozy up on the sofa at home. And honestly, what could be better than a cup of delicious tea under a warm blanket in front of a good movie when it’s raining (or even snowing) outside?
I suggest filling up on your tea supply now before it gets too cold, and gets too hard to find the motivation to brave the icy weather outside. Yes, we all know about Kusmi Tea and their colorful jars by now but why not try something else this fall? I’m going to swing by Dammann Frères, which you’ll find right by Place des Vosges and George Cannon, located next to Jardin du Luxembourg, in the coming weeks.
Dammann Frères, 15 Place des Vosges, 75003 Paris, tel: +33 (0)1 44 54 04 88.
George Cannon, 12 Rue Notre-Dame des Champs, 75006 Paris, tel: +33 (0)1 53 63 05 43.
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Written by Carin Olsson for the HiP Paris Blog. Looking for a fabulous vacation rental in Paris, London, Provence, or Tuscany? Check out Haven in Paris.
Lindsaycdavison@andrew...we should go.
Imagine: it’s 1pm in Paris. It’s lunchtime, you’re hungry, and you really need to take a break to unwind from a stressful day at work. Where do you go?
The answer will soon be, to Le Café des Chats.
The concept of a cat café is nothing new. Wikipedia tells me the first cat café opened in Taiwan in 1998, but Japan has since perfected the business model. The concept dug its claws into Europe with the 2012 opening of Cafe Neko in Vienna.
Earlier this year, similar breeds have spawned in Hungary and the UK. And now the highly anticipated, crowdfunded Café des Chats just opened its doors to the cat-lovers of Paris.
This Parisian haven for cat lovers provides food and shelter for a carefully selected group of adopted cats, and promises to provide them with regular medical care and vaccines. There’s a litter room exclusively for the cats, accessible by a small cat-door and separate from the café to ensure hygiene for both cats and clients.
Mais, bien sur. What could possibly be better than enjoying an organic quiche for lunch, or perhaps savoring a chocolat chaud and a homemade muffin, while in the supervised company of cute, cuddly, playful, loving kitties?
As the proud new owner of two adorable kittens, and someone who normally works from home, I can’t possibly think of a worse idea for anyone actually trying to get work done. In the past 10 minutes alone, I have shooed my sweet little companions off the keyboard at least a dozen times. Since shortly after adopting these two precious felines, I have not dared to eat single bite of food without first locking the sharply clawed howling beasts in the other room.
But then again, could I imagine a day without a comforting snuggle with my two furry friends? Not anymore. The next time I find myself without the loving company of my own two kitties, I sure hope there is a cat café nearby.
Le Café des Chats
16 rue Michel Le Comte, 75003 Paris
Tel: +33 (0)9 73 53 35 81
Métro: Rambuteau
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Written by Elise Marafioti for the HiP Paris Blog. All photos by Didier Gauducheau. Looking for a fabulous vacation rental in Paris, London, Provence, or Tuscany? Check out Haven in Paris.
Lindsaycdavisonamen 2.0
We all know him at work — he’s That Guy. That Guy finds a reason to object to anything that is said. No matter how inconsequential the matter he can’t help but say, “but…” Here’s a typical script:
Normal Colleague: “I think the new guy is really getting up to speed quickly.”
That Guy: “OK, but what do you mean by quickly?”
Normal Colleague: “He just seems to be doing a good job so far.”
That Guy: “But why shouldn’t he? He’s just doing the easy stuff now.”
Normal Colleague: “Fine. I’m just saying his work so far has been quite good.”
That Guy: “Yeah, but what does ‘quite good’ mean exactly’?”
Talking to That Guy is painful. The conversation never seems to move — it’s always stuck. In meetings he’s worse: he objects to the most minor details in presentations, frustrating the presenter and everyone else. His net impact on the meeting is generally negative, and he makes it 15 minutes longer than it needs to be. And I suspect that no right-minded person wants meetings to be longer than necessary.
You might not know it but there’s a special word for That Guy: he’s captious. To be captious is to raise petty objections.
What’s not easy to do is to give a theory of what constitutes “petty.” However, like pornography, I think most of us know it when we see it. Without having really clear criteria for them, we can identify easily petty objections. And very often, petty objections have a clear causal impact on people in meetings: they roll their eyes. Of course, sometimes people roll their eyes to what are in fact smart objections, but I think most of the time most people (not That Guy) know which objections are trivial and which actually matter. Ultimately, we have to rely on our own (fallible) judgment to decide what’s relevant and what’s trivial, on when someone is being captious and when he’s not.
What’s the prescription from this? Introduce the word “captious” into your office’s lexicon. Having a sharper way of describing That Guy can help you more easily spot him, and also hopefully discourage him (because he’ll know you know he’s captious). Some students of mine went a step further and actually had hats made with “captious” printed on them so that if anyone did behave captiously, they could hat the cat in question. But make sure the word is not abused: if any comment or objection is labeled as “captious,” then you run the risk of silencing smart ideas. Use the word, but use it wisely.
In any case, please don’t be captious yourself.
LindsaycdavisonAmen.
The purpose of a business, Peter Drucker famously said, is to create a customer. Yet, rather than creating customers, many innovators create a fantastical piece of what you might call Microsoft fiction.
This hit home for me during a recent client project. I was working with a team that had been tasked by the company’s CEO to develop a new venture in a promising market space. Its three members had been working for about six weeks. They’d conducted detailed research, talking both to prospective customers and numerous industry experts. And then they used Microsoft’s most popular products to produce what they thought was a business plan. But it actually was a kind of fiction built in three chapters: an Excel spreadsheet with sophisticated analyses showing breathtaking financial potential, a PowerPoint document blending facts and figures with compelling videos and pictures, and a Word document summarizing all of it in prose so lucid Malcolm Gladwell would shed a tear.
Still, it isn’t a business until you create a customer. After listening to the team describe its work, I asked a simple question: “Who is your first customer?”
The team turned to page 12 of chapter 2 of their Microsoft fiction, proudly displaying a PowerPoint slide citing detailed demographic figures. The slide said that 60% of the target market would be 18-to-34-year-old males with annual incomes within a certain range.
So I asked the question again. Instead of summary facts and figures, I wanted the team to be very precise. What is the customer’s name? Where does he live? What does he look like? What are his hopes, dreams, and aspirations? What does he love? What drives him crazy? How would the team’s idea fit into his life?
After we had that first customer mapped out, we then turned to thinking about how the very first transaction with the customer would work. This involves answering questions like:
By the end of the process, we had mapped out a real first version of a business model – the way the team will create value for the customer, deliver it to that customer, and capture value for the company.
It’s always easy to confuse motion for progress, particularly inside large companies where executives often demand Microsoft fiction. Start from the customer and the value he or she seeks. Detail your first transaction. And begin the real process of building a business.
Lindsaycdavisonwelcome back lau lau!
No blog in over 6 months. That was not part of the plan. But a few events made it that I had to reprioritize on the fly... isn't what it's all about anyways?
The plan was simple: in March, the hubby had found the job he loved in London, not only the industry and role he wanted, but also a job that would in about two years allow him to move with the company to Canada (which is where we'd like to live someday). In the meantime, I'd have our first child, take my maternity leave, and bingo bango, in a couple of years reassess and probably move back to Canada, get a house, kiddo number 2, and settle. Talk about a perfect plan!
Plan was in motion, and things started happening like they were supposed to: he got the job, accepted the offer, and quit his old job.
Then mid-April hit: within the span of two weeks, my boss left and I got an unexpected promotion (yay!), I got pregnant (double yay! / uh-oh on the timing with the promotion), and hubby's new company rescinded his offer as they decided to shut down the London office (double uh-oh). So here we are: me newly promoted and managing a larger team, can't tell work yet that I'm pregnant, and hubby is jobless.... that was NOT the plan.
I could've freaked out, and to be honest I did. But learned a great lesson about myself and my planning obsession. Planning has a distinct purpose for me - not necessarily knowing exactly what I'll do or where I'll be in 5 years, but more about reducing stress. I.e.: there is something on paper I can follow that will lead me from point A to point B. If I get diverted en route, all I need to do is to use this as a new starting point and make a new plan!
A few weeks later, as I was trying to ignore the uncertainty in my life, combined with the nausea and fatigue, and stress of a new role, hubby found a new job - probably even better than the first one (yay!), in Los Angeles (uh oh..). He would be starting a couple of months before my maternity leave, so there was no real reason for me to tell him to not go for it... I get bored easily, so change is really exciting. But this was a LOT of change and that excitement was obviously paired with a lot of anxiety. How do I deal with anxiety? My first reaction was to tell him "great - now make a list of what we need to do for the move" - i.e.: the new plan.
We brainstormed a list, worked through it, followed the plan, and here we are. In the grand scheme of things, there was minimal stress and anxiety, and I'm writing this sitting in our apartment in Venice Beach California, with a massive bump that loves to kick me in the ribs.
Expect to see more of me in the next few months (although I suspect there may be another hiatus right around Xmas / New Year's for obvious reasons...)
Now if only there was an instruction manual that came with a new baby - that's a plan I would pay a lot of money to get my hands on!
Lindsaycdavison@andrew
Miami Heat’s Chris Bosh: “I began to notice that the world around me was spinning on an axis powered by varying patterns of 1s and 0s. We’d be fools to ignore the power of mastering the designing and coding of those patterns.”
Chris Bosh will always be a favorite of mine.
Lindsaycdavison@the roses from Andrew...and he says "please follow me"
This unique restaurant uses liquid nitrogen to make truly made-to-order ice cream giving you an amazing freshly-frozen experience.
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Being a teacher now must be tough.
Tour Paris 13 is quite a remarkable art project. Located in a building slated to be demolished later this year, Tour Paris 13 is a collaboration of Galerie Itinerrance along with the 13th arrondissement city hall working with the cooperation of building’s landlord to bring forth a most original art installation. 100 street artists from around the globe were invited to participate, each one given their own floor-to-ceiling space.
Tour Paris 13 is now open till the end of the month and will go down in history as the largest street art group exhibition ever with 4500 meters and 9 floors, 36 four- and five-room apartments, with some still furnished.
The result has created a new art cult: I went yesterday to see it and the line stretched around the block with young and old art lovers patiently camped out waiting the see the art wonders inside.
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Lindsaycdavisontry this quiz- i got 28/36
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/03/well-quiz-the-mind-behind-the-eyes/?_r=0
Lindsaycdavisonduh people are just waiting to have kids.
The U.S. birth rate continues to decline overall, except in the case of women in their late thirties and early forties. The increase is most dramatic for women ages 40 to 44: In that group, the rate rose 1% from 2010 to 2011, hitting 10.3 births per 1,000 women, says Pew Research. (That's not a record: The rate for women in their early forties stood at 10.6 in 1967, when the country's overall birth rate was higher than it is today.) The birth rate dropped 8% from 2010 to 2011 among teenagers and 5% among women ages 20 to 24, hitting historic lows in both age groups.
