Earlier last year, Betty and I recapped our favorite travel movies of all time. Here’s a new one for the list: Exit Through the Gift Shop which made me want to visit London and encapsulated something intrinstic about Los Angeles better than 1,000 Hollywood-directed flicks. I’ll admit that for the first thirty minutes I thought I [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Blog posts by Lia'
Travel Movies We Love: 2010′s Best
February 7th, 2011 · No Comments · Blog posts by Lia, Travel Movies We Love
Tags:artists·celebrity·fakes·Los Angeles
Come and Look at Both of Our Buildings–Cleveland!
January 5th, 2011 · No Comments · Blog posts by Lia
Over at GOOD, Alissa Walker writes that funny videos that tell the truth about our burned-out the U.S.’s midwest cities might be a good thing. The argument seems to be that these are labors of love, and might actually be beneficial as tourism drivers. What do you think? Personally, I can’t see any upside for [...]
Defending the Low-Speed Train
January 4th, 2011 · No Comments · Blog posts by Lia, Good design
One of my favorite things is to look beyond the travel-blog circuit for interesting posts on the future of travel. On Design Observer, John Thackara has a thought-provoking piece on the whole high-speed train push of the eco-conscious western world. It’s a contrarian thought, but an interesting one. In short and at its core, he [...]
Try the Catfish Tacos
January 4th, 2011 · No Comments · Blog posts by Lia, Recommended sights
I spent the New Year’s in Texas, and the hands-down highlight of the whole affair was a trip to a funky little joint named the Flying Fish in Joshua, near Fort Worth, Texas. Now, one disclaimer: We at newelty try not to write about food very much since 1) everyone and your grandma has a [...]
What Do You Want Your Year to Be?
December 31st, 2010 · No Comments · Blog posts by Lia, Quick Post
I’m off to Texas to ring in the new year. Yee ha! Which got me thinking about this year that almost was no more. I don’t like everything in the video below, but that’s okay. I absolutely love that image of his wife standing in front of the train at one minute in. And I [...]
Tags:reflections·videos
Have Yourself a Fail-ish Little Christmas
December 24th, 2010 · No Comments · Blog posts by Lia, Fail 'o' the Day
Gift-giving can be a challenge. What I might want for xmas might not be your travel-gifts cup of tea.
But I was reminded of a previous fail ‘o’ the day involving backpacking in a floral onesie when I flipped through Travel + Leisure’s Best Travel Gifts of 2010. While there was one item (out of 68) that I liked, the rest seemed almost determined to avoid the actual travel aspect of this gift-giving list.
Geeky and Chic-y: 14 Great Travel Gifts
December 8th, 2010 · No Comments · Blog posts by Lia, Slightly unnatural love of luggage and bags
Hooray! It’s the season to start buying treats for those you love, and for me, that equals travel gadgets.
Some people can stay firm, keeping their college backpack and eschewing all unnecessary, overly designed items. Shopping at a travel-goods store with Betty was a hoot; she looked at the piles of neatly stacked organizers and rolled her eyes. I wanted all of them.
So, with that disclaimer out of the way, here are the items I can either vouch for (because they are a recent gift) or want want want.
Tags:apps·gifts·iPhone·luggage·travel gear
KLM and Marcel Wanders’ Perfect, Practische Plates
December 7th, 2010 · No Comments · Blog posts by Lia, Obsessed with the Dutch, Transportation bliss
As a little pick-me-up, I bought a cheerful new lipstick at MAC recently, designed by Dutch wonder-designer Marcel Wanders. I liked the look of the lipstick tube itself, which resembles a turned wooden leg of a table.
Which leads me to the pleasing setup above, also from Meneer Wanders–the business-class table setting of KLM. Evidently, this has been a project of his for some time. It’s lovely, with the scalloped edges that instantly remind you that you’re not on US Airways.
Tags:airlines·Dutch·Dutch design·great design·KLM·Netherlands
Manzanita Is the Sufjan Stevens of the Oregon Coast
December 4th, 2010 · No Comments · Blog posts by Lia, Recommended sights
I keep thinking of that line from Emily Dickinson: “Hope is the thing with feathers.” Such a precious little concept, with Emily holed up in her Amherst mansion, and yet…something important to keep in mind in the dead of midwinter. Manzanita is where I come to get my hope back. When I first visited here, [...]
Tags:Oregon·Pacific Northwest
Fail ‘o’ the Day: Body Scanner Freakouts!
November 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · Blog posts by Lia, Fail 'o' the Day, Wary of the advice of others
I’m going to be honest–I don’t care about the methods the TSA uses. And furthermore, I think the people that are so very excited seem to be men worried about someone touching their weens, and the people who retweet them. Which is why I find this Saturday Night Live sketch so very funny, because at [...]
