Surprise in Design: Tablecloth
This is the “Underfull” tablecloth, designed by Kristine Bjaadal. If the sight of red wine near a white tablecloth makes you want to cringe (like it does for me), then you will be pleasantly surprised to see the results of a MAJOR SPILL. OMG IT’S BEEEYOOOOOTIFUL! Talk about inventive design. Kristine has devised a [...]
Why We Surprise
My niece is five-years-old and loves surprising others. The thing is, she doesn’t really get surprise. For example, every time my sister takes her to her grandmother’s house, she walks in the door yelling, “Surprise!” After the first handful of times, this stopped being surprising. I would venture to say it’s now a tradition rather [...]
Surprise in Design: Preserving History
I was recently looking through this Flavorwire gallery of Beautiful Photographs of Decaying and Repurposed Movie Palaces, and found myself struck most by the locations that had been repurposed. Is this not the most epic basketball court? In this day of modern architecture it’s wonderful to see someone who can appreciate the quirky combination of [...]
Surprise Proposals: A YouTube Collection
Getting a marriage proposal just right must be difficult. I’ve never tried it myself, but I’ve just spent hours mining YouTube for fun surprise marriage proposal videos, and I can tell that there’s a lot of pressure to come up with something creative and romantic. Based on my research over the past couple hours (it’s [...]
Surprise Service
It’s the smallest of things that can make you forgive & forget how much you’re overpaying for something. Case-in-point: My sister and I stayed in a hotel where the rates had been hiked up for a special event. It was a small t0 normal-sized room that we had to walk a very long way with [...]
The Surprise Surprise Party
Parties, there are so many kinds! I’d like to describe an occasion that I like to call the “Surprise Surprise Party”. This technique features a slow-build that is a perfect way to help people celebrate that shun the spotlight. I devised this method for my husband’s last birthday after he told me he didn’t want [...]
Blind Cafe
Last week I attended the Blind Cafe in Portland, OR. Blind Cafe is an amazing experience that takes place entirely in the pitch dark. It includes a food tasting, a concert, poetry reading, and a Q and A with the blind waitstaff. I was surprised by a lot of what I felt during the evening. [...]
