Shotgun + Winchester + Flashlight + Zip Ties = Armadillo Repellent

Yeah, that’s right. Design isn’t always pretty. Many times function trumps form. Apparently, armadillos are primarily nocturnal. And according to my father, one armadillo can ruin a good yard costing him time, sweat and money. From the photo above, one can easily tell he had his fill with that nonsense.

Oh, and that’s a leather glove over the barrel of the shotgun. Just to make sure the dirt dobbers don’t try to make a home because that could get real messy!

moving forest from michael schoner on Vimeo.

NL Architects has created an amazing installation in Amsterdam called The Moving Forest. It consists of 100 trees planted in 100 shopping carts located in a busy urban area, which deliberately blocks pedestrians pathways. Amazing !!

For the week of Thanksgiving, we took a tour of the south altantic region. We landed in Northern Florida and spent a few days at the beach. Upon landing at a small, local airport and waiting for our bags, I looked up and saw this jewel. Yumm … Who wouldn’t want to eat here ?!!?

The Shuttle between Times Square and Grand Central has a new wrap … Google Maps. Gotta love it!

Looks like Duane Reade has gotten a much needed face lift! Stumbled upon what appears to be a recently renovated Duane Reade in the Upper West Side. Clean, bright, new and fresh. But more importantly an extreme lack of the traditional Duane Reade blue and red color scheme. Kudos!!

Now this is a pretty sweet promotion. 1) Have a team of folks from Tylenol on Lexington Ave at E 54 St in Midtown Manhattan attracting attention outside of CVS Pharmacy … 2) Have several British Taxis from Manganese Bronze covered in the Tylenol brand … 3) And offer New Yorkers free rides on a brisk November weekend afternoon. Now that’s knowing your audience! Smart.

Seriously? Someone wrote a book about this subject? People read this? Its sad really.

Navigaya is the best search tool available to date. An unbelievable tool. With this one tool users can search over 10 major search engines, create a profile obviously, create/edit/share music mixes and more. I’m actually using Navigaya to play music here at the studio. And while the music is playing, the music video plays in the background. In the above image, a video is playing of Gnarls Barkley covering Radiohead’s Reckoner.

A great sculpture installed on Wall St in NYC early this morning. The ECONOMY is melting away today in Manhattan!

There is simply nothing else to say … I couldn’t agree more!