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Taylor Stitch just released their new hand-woven silk scarves available in 3 colors. They’re made out of khadi; a hand-spun and hand-woven fabric that only comes from India that you can read more about here. Go get you one over at http://taylorstitch.com. Oh and they make pretty much everything now. So have a look around the entire site and build your whole new wardrobe. Keep up with them over on their blog at http://taylorstitcharchive.tumblr.com

Go take a look at the Portland based Tanner Goods new Spring/Summer lookbook. I’ll take one of each please.

(photo credit: Stumptown)

I’ve been using this AeroPress one cup system for over a year and half now and thanks to this step by step Stumptown tutorial I’m now getting the best cup of coffee out of it that I can. It’s a very inexpensive device that doesn’t take a lot of work to clean and maintain. It comes with a year supply (or more if you reuse them) of filters. Check it out if you’re looking for a simple one cup coffee solution.

Stumptown: How to prepare the perfect AeroPress at home

Things you’ll need/might want:
Aeropress ($25)
Kyocera Hand Burr Grinder, Mr Coffee Electric Burr Grinder (I have this and it does the trick), Bodum Burr Grinder.
Bodum Mini Electric Water Kettle and maybe a scale but I think you could skip this and just do a level scoop for the Aeropress.

Watch the trailer for “Shut Up and Play the Hits” following James Murphy and LCD Soundsystem during their last shows. Beautiful trailer, can’t wait to see this.

Check out this magical music and video from New Zealand by Chelsea Jade aka. Watercolours. Listen to “Under” and purchase the track (pay what you want style) over at Bandcamp. Like her on Facebook.

We’re all moving around to new cities, we’re all traveling. This is when Airbnb comes in. Easy rentals in any place you’d want to visit.

So far Airbnb has made my life easier with both of these things. Now with the Sublets make your life better when your craigslist apartment rental search runs dry or you just need something for a few days or weeks. Check out Airbnb sublets here… Or take a trip and get yourself an apartment in a new exciting place. I just had a great experience with one in Paris that was wonderful.

Airbnb Sublets

Instagram is the photo sharing iPhone only app we’re all loving these days, but what if you want to take it a little further? Well until we know what’s next for the service and where they’re taking it… here are a few things to take your experience next level:

Statigram (The best) : View photos, follow new people, see statistics on your phones and other in depth info, more than you could ever image.

Followgram.me: Easy link to share on social services to easily allow people to follow you.

Carousel (Mac App) : View Instagram photos in this very iOS view like it’s on your phone on your Mac.

Prinstagram: Print your Instagram photos as individual prints, little books and more.

Follow me on Instagram.

Watch the new music video for Seventeen Evergreen’s song Polarity Song off their Psyentist EP directed by Terri Timely. (who I must add used Virb to make their website.)

I always knew it but it was finally time to have someone make a video of me typing.

I’ve tried to explain how I don’t use the homerow keys and just made up my own way of typing because of the maybe 18 hours of typing a day since 5th grade. So in this video you”ll see what I mean and I only get 104WPM but I was under pressure.

I recommend everyone should head on over to the Fast Fingers typing test and record your weird fingers, My friend Nadia did. (Please post it in the comments if you do.)

Listen to my talented friend Mike Perry cuss a lot and inspire you in this interview over at Hugo & Marie. (Yeah I said cuss) I got pumped up! Jump in head first!