Today is a special day, it’s my birthday and I have some gifts for you all! Just a little thank you to all my readers, friends and supporters.

•T-Shirts from Dadawan and Naive Clothing.
•Some Awesome (I mean AWESOME) Alternative Motivational Posters from Right Brain Terrain.
•Slimmy Wallets (which gets my stamp of approval as best wallet, ever).
•BlackCoat T’s from the great folks at Koyono.
•10 Android8 Fun Packs– with some great designer toys and other goodies.
•A set of great designer underwear and top from ISeeFrance, something for the ladies!

I’ll be choosing names randomly from my mailing list (You can sign up for my mailing list in the right menu bar), so if you want in on the fun– sign up. I promise I won’t share any of your information, spam you with viagra or mortgage advertisements, etc, etc.

Also pending my win at the Nike iD Blog Contest, I will have 50 pairs of shoes to give away, too– so get voting!

Damn that’s a lot of good stuff! I’ll be choosing winners randomly tomorrow.

Although it’s 48 degrees and rainy where I am, it’s supposedly “summer” somewhere. Whatever that “sun” thing is, it must be nice. French designer Thomas Sauvage designed these Tandem lounge chairs for Ego in Paris. These are for those sunny days with special company. The chairs are designed to connect, or work separately. I love the simplicity of the design, and give it a special nod– they seem very well executed.

Naive Clothing was started a little over a year ago by a young entrepeneur in college who wanted to create something different–that didn’t conform to pop culture, but “transformed it”. The dream behind Naive was that people will begin to create their own style instead of imitating what others endorse–and the key was to do this affordably. They try to sell their clothing for a low price so everyone can afford to buy them because they think fashion shouldn’t be something you see in a window for $25 promoting a name brand. The designs are all pretty solid, all their shirts are $12, and of course they’re limited edition.

So their were some rumors floating around a while ago that the New York City Transit Authority was trying to ban photography on the subway–some type of anti-terrorism business. DeviantART has a collection of the two hundred photographs that were sent to the NYCTA to quickly remind them how important subway photography is in documenting this crazy world we live in. All politics aside, these subway photographs from around the globe are all really wonderful.