Young House Love – Sherry and John, a young married couple, have decided to take their first home experience and go public. Young and beautiful, Sherry and John document their renovation projects, their home, their baby daughter and everything in between.
This blog was a winner during its feature on the Weekly Blogs lineup, and reading a few posts on Young House Love will show you why. Excellent content, beautiful projects and that personal touch make this blog a must, even if you’re not house hunting anytime soon. We’re not the only ones who appreciate Young House Love; TV shows and magazines such as Real Simple, Do It Yourself and Better Homes have also taken interest in this young duo.
The picture below accompanies the lovely post The Benjamin Button-ization Of Our Style which I recommend reading. Enjoy it.
Mixergy – Created by the business master Andrew Warner, Mixergy is here to inspire ambitious entrepreneurs by providing a startup hub that is well-saturated with insightful and inspiring input of “experienced mentors.” Andrew’s huge business success -during his 20s- and experience inspired him to establish an easily accessible place that introduces you “to doers and thinkers whose ideas and stories are so powerful that just hearing them will change you.”
By holding live speaker events and including online interviews with big entrepreneur names such as Timothy Ferris, Gary Vaynerchuck, Paul Graham and Jimmy Wales, the bubbly Mixergy is all about sharing ideas, success stories and entrepreneurial how-to’s.
For an example of the fascinating content you will find on Mixergy, see the inspiring conversation in the online interview of Intern Queen’s Lauren Berger, talking about how to reach 100+ press hits.
Design Mom – Motherhood, let’s face it, can be a messy ordeal, not to mention hectic and with very limited personal time. That didn’t prevent Gabrielle Blair -a mother of six- from keeping her design passion shining bright, and from finding those intersection points of motherhood and creativity.
Aside from sharing her personal family anecdotes, Gabrielle identifies those super stylish items any mother would crave and shares them in her blog. You will find posts on anything from fancy stationary to children’s party ideas, event seating plans, tips on motherhood and loads more. The blog was a winner Weekly Blog during its week, so it moved up to the Weekly Faves. It’s so pleasant to visit, read, and explore! Great job, Gabrielle.
Here’s a really cool idea I found on Design Mom, entitled “ABC Party.”
For those of you who haven’t fully explored it yet, AllMyFaves offers a whole page dedicated to a most important subject: Education. Suitable for curious souls, students of all ages, teachers and homeschooling parents, the Education page aims to provide a comprehensive resource for practically every field related to learning, teaching and research, both in and outside the classroom.
Thus far we’ve been getting great feedback on the Education page, and we’re delighted students and teachers across the country are making use of the top resources this page has to offer. Take Writings on the Wall, an edu blog of an English teacher (Mrs. Brill) for example. Mrs. Brill introduced the AMF Eduction page to her students as a “favorite homework helper.” Speaking of teachers, AllMyFaves also has a Teachers Mini Faves page available, listing the very top teacher resources the Web has to offer. These include a myriad of tools from classroom technology aids and educational videos to lesson plans, educational blogs and visualization tools for the classroom.
Whether you are a teacher, a pupil or an academic student, the Education page has something for everyone. A world of knowledge awaits you!
This is a picture of the Teachers Mini Faves. Would you like to create your own Mini Faves page? It’s free! Join All My Faves and start customizing your own visual page.
Motherboard.tv – Keeping track of technological advances is rather easy; quick headline-skimming on TechCrunch, Wired or any major newspaper these days will do that. But one aspect of technology that is often difficult to track and explore is tech’s cultural dimension. Dell’s Motherboard offers just that, in the most professional, engaging and alluring way possible.
According to their About page, Motherboard is “an online video network and community focused on the exploration of the nature and culture of technology, as viewed through the lenses of curated editorial content, community, and dialogue.” Tap into original content videos covering a plethora of topics including film + video, music, art + design, gaming, environment + the body, and ‘wonderful.’
Among seemingly infinite informative delights, you will find all the hottest topics buzzing around the Web right now, such as the Gap logo conundrum, or check this video showing the solution to the mysterious bee shortage in the US. Each video is accompanied by superb textual content, which makes any session on Motherboard a most enjoyable didactic experience.
Experience Project – If you feel your life has thrown you into an unusual situation (positive or challenging), there’s now a caring interactive community you can share your story with, get feedback and find the strength to march on with confidence. Experience Project is “a comfortable and supportive place for individuals to share and connect with others around the things that matter to them most.”
To give an example of the touching stories you will find on Experience Project, read The Life Of An Army Girlfriend, which many women all across the US can identify with. Visit groups of specific themes or explore over 24 categories of interesting, poignant experiences people like you and me go through. There are also a Confessions section if you wish to get that load off your chest (and mind), and a Q&A page.
In short, the Experience Project is a most inviting venue to help people cope with their situation, or for you to make use of the cushioned support of the site’s community to deal with yours.
Holycool – A must RSS, the holycool.net blog features nothing short of the absolute coolest products one can find and buy online today. Created by the lovely Dee, Holycool truly stands out from any other design blog I’ve seen recently. Its unpretentious attitude, simplistic design make way for beautiful content and product finds that are genuine, spot-on, and each review post tells you right up front how much that cool product costs and where you can buy it.
Below are a couple of awesome products I haven’t seen or read about anywhere else.
Fred & Friends’ Yumbots Robot Cupcake Molds:
Eco Reminders Wall Stickers (by Hu2 Design):
YouTube Play – This bi-annual Creative Video event is an amazing project of YouTube in collaboration with the Guggenheim Museum and HP, “to discover and showcase exceptional talent working in the ever-expanding realm of online video.” Users all over were invited to submit their unique creative video, and currently the Guggenheim has narrowed it down to the top 125 videos, displayed on the YouTube Play Channel.
As a means to track the technical and innovative advances of users on the Web, the YouTube Play event happens only once every two years, and this makes it all the more special and exciting. Out of the current 125 finalists, up to 20 will be chosen by a jury of art, design, film and video experts. These winners will be displayed at the Guggenheim museums (NY, Berlin, Venice and Bilbao, Spain) throughout October 2010.
Want to sample some or all of the 125 videos that made it to the list? Simply visit the YouTube Play Channel, or start with Some of My Dreams by Tadas Vidmantas (categorized as Narrative), below, that I especially adored.
The Rat Race Trap – This inspiring blog by Stephen aims to provide us with “the tools and information you need to improve your mind, your body, and escape the rat race.” Stephen, a self-proclaimed former workaholic, started this blog out of the altruistic intention of sharing his saner life approach in this crazy world we live in.
Another high scoring Weekly Blog, the Rat Race Trap offers superb content that we can actually turn into practical lifestyles and mode of thinking. I recommend starting with the Must Read post list on the right. That’s where I found the fascinating article, “A Values-Based Approach to Goals.” I intend to regularly visit this blog and I suggest you do the same.
The B-Roll – To me it seems almost impossible to pursue a different creative project every day, from start to finish, and also document it in a blog. But that is exactly what Charlie Visnic, a motion picture editor by day and creative DIY-er by night, does with B-Roll. One of the top three Weekly-Blog-turned-Weekly-Faves, the B-Roll is all about innovation, creativity and mesmerizing off-hours projects.
The project diversity on this blog is amazing, and I can only imagine the intelligence and handyman skills Charlie possesses. See the video below of the creative project for Day 191: Music Box Melody-Maker.
Day 191 / Music Box Melody-Maker from Charlie Visnic on Vimeo.
Dear Blank, Please Blank – This long name is the shortest way I can think of to explain what this exquisite site is about. Regularly updated short feed-like messages of anonymous users make up Dear Blank, Please Blank, and this is a must RSS website.
Browse the various categories of anonymous witty, funny and often compelling messages users have submitted, addressed to their in-laws, ex-boyfriend/girlfriend, parents, sisters, brothers, colleagues, you name it. Thanks to Hans Johnson and Jared Wunsch from Seattle, Dear Blank Please Blank is here for us to enjoy and explore. Tip: I suggest that you start with the How Dare They category. That is where I found the message below:
To submit your own Dear Blank Please Blank message, click on the Submit icon on the upper right corner.
The Curfew – This super fun web-game project created by Littleloud, published by the UK Channel 4 and written by acclaimed comic book author, Kieron Gillen, is a must stop. What is it, exactly? The Curfew website explains it best: “Set in 2027 [Britain] in the heart of an authoritarian security state, The Curfew could be described as a miniature Canterbury Tales set in a not-so-distant future, where citizens must abide by government security measures and ‘sub citizens’ are placed under curfew at night.”
You will need to work your way in this virtual world and interact with the characters you’ll meet to learn who you can trust and who you can’t, and weather you can make a difference or be part of the herd while others make that change for you. This is exciting, intriguing and beautifully done. What an excellent project!