The Modern Picnic

Everything you need to take the feasting outdoors

When the weather complies, a picnic represents near ultimate sensory satisfaction. Snacking and sipping, mingling with the beauty of the great outdoors, and basking in the warm seasonal glow—the tradition has all the romance of camping without forgoing a shower. For an update to wicker hampers or all-in-one sets (both destined to rot in your closet), we came up with a few urban-friendly solutions for …

Link About It: This Week’s Picks

A foldable rowboat, microscopic beauties, the human body as an instrument, and more in this week's link list

1. Genital Instruments Panties get strummed and nipples are turntables in this NSFW animated short and accompanying website from the French organization AIDES, putting a comically risqué spin on what in most other cultures would be a typically-sober public service announcement. 2. Spectacles Dazed & Confused editor John-Paul Pryor recently released his first novel called Spectacles, a “hallucinatory” ride through the Ballardian future of London …

The 99% Conference 2012: Tickets

The first step toward making your ideas happen

Tickets for the 2012 99% Conference (held in New York City 3-4 May 2012) go on sale today, 19 July 2011. The conference, organized by our friends at Behance, is inspired by the famous Thomas Edison quotation “Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.” Unique in the conference circuit, it features speakers and workshops dedicated to making your ideas happen. Tickets for the 2011 conference …