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Friday. Love.

Finally Friday! A few things we're loving today:

• New Hermes Pop-Up Stores in London
• Gorillaz to release album made entirely on iPad by Xmas
• Gamer makes $500K IRL on vitrual real-estate

Friday. Love.

This week we are in love with this augmented reality project from Tokyo. It's great proof of concept for the utility of mobile devices interacting with location based data. After you watch the video, stop for a moment and think about how your brand could use technology like this to connect with customers. 

N Building from Alexander Reeder on Vimeo.

 

Friday. Love.

This week we love this poster we found at the Sarasota Classic Car Museum that tells the story of the obsolescence of the horse, the blacksmith and many related industries in the last century by the advent of the automobile.

What jobs, industries or established conventions can we expect to see become obsolete in this century? 

Friday. Love.

This week we share our affection for the new book from author Neil Gaiman, "Hearts, Keys, and Puppetry", written by Neil and 124 Twitterers. Literary crowdsourcing another hallmark for 2009. Love it. (Great example of aggregation, contextualization and editing.)

Friday. Love.

Love. Sometimes it happens in the Apple store.

Friday. Love.

This week we love some of the great moments from New York Fashion Week #nyfw (via @fashionstreamz)

• Models off the catwalk.
• Modelinia's look back on NYFW of season's past.
• The return of The Boyfriend Jacket.

Friday. Love.

"Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."

Friday. Love.

Happy Friday! Here are links to a few things that made us smile this week:

• Amanda Palmer makes $19K on Twitter in 10 hours.
  
• Amazingly cool uniforms at Ace Hotel in NYC.
  
• Rocking new Sephora store in Times Square.

Friday. Love.

This week we continue to seek out the new, the innovative, the kinds of things we love:

• Open Forum—Nice example of a brand becoming media.
• Coupon Chief—Social shopping meets couponing.
• Foursquare—Find new ways to explore NYC. 

Friday. Love.

This Friday, we love venture capitalists. (We've been talking to and meeting with a few lately.) So we'd like to share a little love for Fred Wilson, who has sparked a debate about whether NYC has an "inferiority complex" as a venue for startups. We'd love to see NYC become a technology center again. Let's get some love going for Silicon Alley 2.0.