The Bubble Project

The manifesto on the site states that so much space is being overrun with ads and the bubbles are a way for the public to fight this media attack without censorship. New York and San Francisco are listed as participating cities in the US. Philly isn’t too overrun with ads, but we should get a head start don’t you think?
You can download your bubbles from their website, but then again you can always grab a sharpie and make your own while waiting for the subway.

Time Waster

Need to waste some time at work this week? Create your own album art using these four simple steps.

Step 1: Click here.
The name of the random Wikipedia article is the name of your band.

Step 2: Click here.
The last four or five words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your album.

Step 3: Go to Flickr and click on ‘Explore the last seven days’ link
Use the third picture, no matter what it is, for your album cover art.

Step 4: Use Photoshop and get crazy.

Carefree With Flowers In Her Hair

I cannot help but love Etsy. I have never actually bought anything off of the site, but I am regularly checking the ‘Shop Local’ section for colorful Philadelphia finds. These headpieces struck my fancy a few weeks ago and I am just now getting around to writing about them. (I so badly want the Rosette Fascinator in ‘The Pacific’ shade).
They are made by Sue Eggen, better known as Etsy seller Giant Dwarf. Her pieces are whimsical and one-of-a-kind. Each piece is handmade from eco-friendly recycled clothing and vintage fabrics. But don’t take it from me, check her out yourself.

The Center Of The Stage Is Where I Am

Name: Hillary Rea 
Age: 26
Job: Arden Professional Apprentice (Arden Theatre Company)
Pelly bag, Dimone Rainforest

Tell us about yourself.
I am a singer, Mummer, writer, tap dancer, and pop culture enthusiast who grew up in Philadelphia. I moved to New York City for college, lived in Williamsburg and Greenpoint and worked in Times Square for a couple of years. Last year I taught English in Japan before returning to my hometown to continue my career in theatre!

What do you use your TRKFLD bag for? 
I use my Pelly bag every day that I have to go to work at Arden Theatre Company in Old City, usually six days a week! Not only do I love the structure and style of the bag, but it is named after one of my close friends Jeff Pelly. This was one of the reasons I chose this particular bag!
On a typical day this bag holds everything I need to survive my apprenticeship: my Arden nametag, work gloves, tools, a pencil case, a script, my schedule, power bars, my ipod, my humongous keychain and sometimes a change of clothes!
(To read more about Hillary’s crazy days at the Arden Theater click here).

Tell us about your commute:
I ride my bike to work every day from Rittenhouse to Old City and the Pelly is a great shoulder bag for biking! The Pelly never slides around while riding — even on super bumpy Pine Street which is what I have to take all the way down to the theater!

Internet Funnies

I like web comics. I even considered making my own once but then remembered I cannot draw to save my life. I read Natalie Dee and her affiliates on a daily basis, and sometimes I check in on Terrible Comics By A Terrible Person. But let me introduce you to Lucy Knisley, my new comic crush. She’s funny, she writes songs, and her website is pure delight.
What web comics do you read? Maybe I’ll add them to my Google Reader, maybe.

Colorful Language

Some coffee mugs tell the world you are the ‘World’s Best Dad!” but these Pantone color mugs from Design Warehouse say that you love color. Weather you choose Orange 021 (pictured above) or Dark Blue 286 your mug says to the world ‘I like solid mugs in solid colors’.

Vampires In The Daylight!

Karen Walker Eyewear is already much loved. Worn by everyone from Beth Ditto to Jenny Lewis to Zoe Kravitz just to name a few. If the shades weren’t already fantastic, check out those models with fangs…it’s enough to send Twilight fans into a sunglasses frenzy.

You can find Karen Walker Eyewear right here in Philadelphia at Reward Boutique.

Ladies and Gentlemen

I present to you, the wonderful Liz Marklewicz. She was recently in Scotland and snapped a pic of her and her bag!

Name: Liz Marklewicz
Job: Fashion Copywriter
Bag: Marty in Picadilly Primrose/Sailcloth Shell

Tell us about yourself:
Francophile, cartofile, styleophile, fileofile.

What do you use your TRKFLD bag for?
Journey satchel extraordinaire, sensitive equipment transport, portable pillow (as recently used on a bench at Heathrow after taking the redeye).

Happiness Is A Water Gun

The Garden Gun 5.1 comes from The Design Reaktor which is a research project out of the Berlin University of the Arts. You have to admit that this idea is genius. Not more time-outs during water gun fights needed to refill and no more pumping the gun for pressure, you just pull the trigger. However you are limited to only go the length of the hose.

GlassesGlasses

Lauryn from TRKFLD sat down with Rachel Kichler, founder of GlassesGlasses to talk shop and get some details about my new favorite online magazine.

Theme picture from Shirts & Skins issue.

Tell us about yourself in a sentence or two:
A fifth grade classmate of mine once said that the three words that describe him were “a thorough statistician”, this I am not.
But seriously, I am the founder of Glasses Glasses, a new online magazine featuring stories, essays, short films, and handmade goods.

What motivated you to start an online magazine?
Last spring my friend Olivia and I started working on a short film that we still have yet to complete. At the time, we decided that it was imperative to come up with a name for a production company, Glasses Glasses being the final choice. Riding on a wave of motivation I bought a year’s worth of web hosting to promote the company, but the more that I thought about plans for the site the more I realized what could be done with it. So many talented friends of mine were working so hard to get into their desired industries that they were spending little or no time on their own work–either that or they were still writing, making films, drawing illustrations, etc. without anywhere to showcase the finished product. Thus, Glasses Glasses the magazine was born.