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Bizz April 2009

None of us deserve to live in a mundane environment. Everyone can aspire to creating a space which lifts their spirits and lets their imagination soar. This blog will give you an insight into the world as I see it as a lifelong lover of antiques and interior decoration. Hopefully, you can pick up some tips and tricks which help change your surroundings for the better. The rest of the links are to the best-in-show for design, style and creative visual masterpieces from around the world. Join me. Comment and contribute. Let's start the conversation now.



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I say, fabulous start, Old Bean.

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Not that I am a huge Microsoft fan, but I think their new search engine, Bing, combines a really nice design aesthetic. Also, the search for pictures and videos is (currently) far superior to Google.

Not that I am a huge Microsoft fan, but I think their new search engine, Bing, combines a really nice design aesthetic. Also, the search for pictures and videos is (currently) far superior to Google.

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What I’m doing here is called “lifestreaming”

It’s a richer form of blogging because you can include pictures, links, audio and video, along with text. Some of the world’s most popular bloggers are moving over to it. Like Steve Rubel. Here’s how he describes it

I like to think of lifestreaming as today’s digital equivalent of Leonardo Da Vinci’s notebooks. (Make no mistake, I am no Da Vinci nor do I think of myself in such a way. It’s purely an aspirational metaphor.) Da Vinci recorded notes, drawings, questions and more in his notebooks. Some of these were quite mundane (grocery lists and doodles), others were not. But the body of work was over time, a view of a one individual’s mind (in his case a great one).

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[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

Melissa Galt podcast.

This is an interview by Alan Saunders on National Radio 691 with Melissa Galt. She is a well-known designer in the US, but also the great-granddaughter of groundbreaking architect, Frank Lloyd Wright.

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We look over Lake Hayes and up to Coronet Peak skifield.

We look over Lake Hayes and up to Coronet Peak skifield.

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Evening reflections mirrored in the pool. Due to Queenstown’s position low in the southern hemisphere, dark in high summer is well after 10pm.

Evening reflections mirrored in the pool. Due to Queenstown’s position low in the southern hemisphere, dark in high summer is well after 10pm.

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View through the gabled gateway framed by weeping willows.

View through the gabled gateway framed by weeping willows.

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