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safety and phrenology

shannon e thomas — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 07:21:27 +0000

this has to be the coolest bike helmet ever. hand-painted by danielle baskin of belle helmets.

maria canada

shannon e thomas — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 04:39:31 +0000

this is the girl who made my absolutely amazing wedding dress. she too is absolutely amazing.

now it’s my turn to make something fabulous for her: a portfolio site. what’s up now is a placeholder while hans and i are off galavanting about the eastern mediterranean. i’ll post again when the real bit goes live.

thank you, earth

shannon e thomas — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 20:46:30 +0000

for the water
a beautiful little umbrella from modcloth - 10% of earth day purchases go to the pennsylvania resources council.

for the trees
a cool tee from threadless. $1 donation made to plant a billion with each purchased shirt.

for the birds
charming little feeders from j schatz.

for the bees
a fun little home for your friendly neighbourhood pollenators.

(red).

shannon e thomas — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 06:06:03 +0000

i am generally unimpressed with the whole (product)red thing. it’s a brand whose meaning was lost in its execution; a supposedly charitable project that receives more criticism than praise. take mark rosenman, for example, who describes product(red) as an “example of the corporate world aligning its operations with its central purpose of increasing shareholder profit, except this time it is being cloaked in the patina of philanthropy.”

but then converse jumped on the opportunity with their project 1hund(red), in which one hundred artists design one hundred pairs of shoes. with artists like camilla engman and jeremyville on board, it seems inevitable that i will partake.

when it rains.

shannon e thomas — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 20:15:04 +0000

the summer months have drawn to an end and seattle has turned cold and rainy, which i of course used as an excuse to go shoe shopping - specifically for rain boots.

the world of rain boots is far more vast than i ever would have imagined, and, as i scoured nordstorm’s flagship store, i couldn’t help but take note of my favourites.

seen above are some of the higher end galoshes from fashion elite’s burberry, coach and juicy couture.

these are the more affordable, yet equally as cute options from sporto and roxie.

and then, of course there’s chooka, makers of an incredible selection and my own fat bird galoshes [far left].

loving the air.

shannon e thomas — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 19:04:49 +0000

i’ve spent two weeks with my macbook air, arachne the younger. her older sister, the twelve inch powerbook, has been passed along to somebody who can live with the power pc, and i have been left with only one regret: i have yet to find a fashionable bag to protect my new, slimmer laptop.

after perusing sites such as timbuk2, vy & elle and freitag, i think i have settled on one of tom bihn’s new bags. i’ve never owned a laptop specific bag, and thus worry that the new bag will scream professional in a way that my old, doodled upon, pinned up, army surplus bag could never have managed.

seriously though, i’ve never had any issues with customisation, and i certainly don’t plan to start any time in the foreseeable future.