Graph coffee

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If you come to visit Thailand, you have to stop by Chiang Mai. It’s a cute city with a lot to offer. Cool trendy bars, restaurants and coffee places. Even though Thailand isn’t exactly famous for their coffee, I can say the dark battery acid did me good. While preparing my trips I always make a Pinboard on Pinterest with places to go in every city & town. So every morning – afternoon and evening I choose a new place to eat – drink or chill out.

While walking through Chiang Mai you can find the cutest mini coffee places, but one just stuck to me. Graph is a small industrial looking coffee cafe with great coffee, hot and iced. With it’s intimate atmosphere and vintage interior you can chill here for hours. Hearing the sound of the fresh beans going into the coffee machine and smell the homemade baked goods.

Address:
Ratvithi Lane 1 Alley, Chiang Mai
Thailand

Open:
Everyday from 09:00 – 17:00

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Eyewear brand Ace & Tate in Amserdam

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This brand just topped up and you can say they’re doing really good all over the world. An Amsterdam eyewear brand called Ace & Tate just opened their store in De Negen Straatjes in Amsterdam. Ace & Tate shells trendy spectacles and sunglasses with prescription for an affordable price of only 98€. Way they are so famous, is for their home-try-on service, this way you can try the glasses on at home and choose which you will want to buy (online or at the store). For the trendy interieur owner Mark de Lange teamed up with Occult Studio to show luxuries design frames for an amazing price!

Get the “allround Ace & Tate experience” at Huidenstraat 20 in Amsterdam.

Huidenstraat 20
1016ES Amsterdam
www.aceandtate.nl

The Portrait in Haarlem

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BEANS, COTTON & THINGS

Portrait is one of my favorite stores in Haarlem, Netherlands. It´s a place where people come to work, shop, talk and to have a nice cup of coffee. Karen, Daisy and Rogier created a space where small & local entrepreneurships, fashion labels and interior comes together.

Every inch of this old horse stable is designed and looks amazing. If you visit Haarlem, you definitely have to stop and drink a coffee here. Just to enjoy the store and the lovely store owners.

The Craziest Waterslide

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Oké, summer is began, so what better way to cool off on this sick waterslide! They call it ‘The Royal Flush’ located in the BSR Cable park in Texas. To promote this insane attraction they filmed a video of a bunch of cool guests going down the waterslide in slow-mo! After a month they already got 17 million views on Youtube! So who’s going with me?

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Cereal Magazine

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This magazine is one to read! The images are incredible and have great tips for city trips. Published only twice a year capturing places, people and products of a city. Showing photography featuring a selection of style and culture articles.

The Foreign Japanese Kitchen

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The-Foreign-Japanese-Kitchen-By-Moe-Takemura-food-cookbook-kitchen-desserts-design-ingredients-recipes Cooking japanese can seem like a lot of work or the ingredients are not available in your country, but with the cookbooks of Moé Takemura, you get recipes that can be made in your area. She lived in Sweden at the time working on her MA. She wanted to prove that the Japanese kitchen can be cooked in Western countries, with the ingredients that can be bought locally.

The Foreign Japanese Kitchen introducing the world of Japanese cooking, with fresh ingredients put in 7 full dinner recipes. Creating a modernistic design to make the recipes easy to follow. The cookbook is beautifully designed to explain all the ingredients and how to make the dishes easily.

Coming out with a new cookbook “Foreign Japanese Sweets” for Japanese sweets, how to make traditional desserts also using ingredients available in Western countries. Do you enjoy desserts? Try some delicious and healthy Japanese sweets for a change. A lot of desserts are often gluten free and vegan friendly. Using rice flour in stead of wheat flour, and bean paste instead of cream and chocolate, creating more options than wheat, butter and egg-based cakes and cookies. Continue reading →

An Iconic Argentinian Restaurant in Paris

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La Jeune Rue first project: Anahi, the argentinian restaurant is located in Marias, a backstreet in Paris. This restaurant was created 20 years ago by two sisters: Carmina and Pilar, who sold the place to the French Cédric Naudon. Naudon not only bought Anahi nu also 35 other businesses in the area, to create an entire village of design restaurants, bars and boutiques. And the first step is the cosy Anahi, designer Maud Bury added an incredible chic and modern interior with cool items. Using a lot of Gold to create an extra cosy atmosphere and filling the cracks in the wall. The restaurant has a lot of antique elements and an impressive ceiling.

Address: 49 rue Volta, 75003 Paris, France.
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DIE ANTWOORD: UGLY BOY’S

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The new music video by Die Antwoord called “Ugly Boy’s”, makes a statement. The south African duo, Ninja and Yo-landi Vi$$er, created a video clip to shock the world. Being accompained by the stunning Cara Delevingne, the bassist of Red Hot Chili Peppers Flea, the ATL twins, madman Marilyn Manson, crazy actor Jack Black and his own ex-wife Dita Von Teese. Creating a setting with Dark vs White, Fun vs Static and Creepy vs playful.

“We just did what we could to make it come to life exactly as they imagined it” said stylist Annie + Hannah during an exclusive for MTV.

“People are unconscious, and you have to use your art as a shock machine” were the words of band-member and director of the short-film, Ninja.

What is your opinion about this shocking video?

SLA BAR

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When you visite Amsterdam you much go to this amazing Salad bar! Sla already has 3 restaurants in Amsterdam located around the city, serving salades, healthy snacks, fair coffee, fresh juices and soups. And the meals can also be delivered at home for a healthy lunch or dinner!

A lovely concept where they prefer fresh, organic food with the best flavors. And you can taste that! So if you want a healthy and good meal, you definitely need to visite Sla!

IKEA Mimics Apple-Style Video for Catalogue 2015

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How to get more attention than Apple, be a copycat!

IKEA made this hilarious two-minute video to demo their new 2015 catalog. Showing how great the new catalog is and what beautiful benefits it has.

“At only 8 mm thin, and weighing in at less than 400 g, the 2015 IKEA Catalogue comes pre-installed with thousands of home furnishing ideas,” according to Ikea’s commercial speaker.

Beautifully copied the concept of Apple, the way Apple introduces their new technology.