There will be no regular postings this week. There will be, however, postings around NY Fashion Week and fashion in general. Meanwhile, check out our right column (goodies, cool product updated daily).
Happy Fashionable Week Everybody!

xo, In Casa

ps.
here are several recommendations on "The Great Indoor" fun by the New York Magazine:

- Amsterdam Billiards, $5.50 per person, per hour; 110 E. 11th St., at Fourth Ave.
- Leisure Time Bowl, $6 to $9 per game, 625 Eighth Ave. 212-268-6909
- Monday Night Squash Training, $30 for nonmembers, Printing House Fitness & Squash Club, 421 Hudson St., at Leroy St.; 212-243-7600
- Baseball Center NYC’s five batting cages, $80 for a one-hour rental with up to five people; 202 W. 74th St. 212-362-0344
- Shuffleboard, $1 per game at Nancy Whisky Pub, 1 Lispenard St., at W. Broadway 212-226-9943
- Indoor Climbing, Chelsea Piers Sports Center, from $50 per person
- Dance Manhattan’s one-day, four-hour crash courses teach you the basics. The next one: salsa on February 4, from $25 at Dance Manhattan, 39 W. 19th St., nr. Fifth Ave. 212-807-0802
- 25 cents Tapper, Barcade Bar, 388 Union Ave., nr. Powers St., Williamsburg, Brooklyn; 718-302-6464

And for kids:
- PlasmaCar scooter, $69 at Mary Arnold Toys, 1010 Lexington Ave., nr. 72nd St. 212-744-8510
- Wii tennis. Wii is available at Toys ’R’ Us, $249.99; 1514 Broadway, at 44th St. 646-366-8800

Photo: NY Mag

COOL PRODUCT OF MON, TUE

Krylon Mirror-Like Paint

COOL PRODUCT OF WED, THUR

Owl Wool Pillow

COOL PRODUCT OF WEEKEND

Red Hot Balloon Bag

IN CASA 10 'IT's OF LAST WEEK

1. Snow!
2. Taschen Warehouse Sale
3. Greene & Furniture Sales
4. Glossy Red Lipstick
5. Winter Melon Soup
6. Jellio's GummiLights
7. Dr. Brandt's Eye Cream
8. Shiatsu
9. Bahamas Pre-Passport
10. Target's Global Bazaar

Viva si globalization!
We lieben mestiere del mundo und كيف هو يكون del 我们的生活.

Translation:
Sprint to the closest Target and get in touch with international gems from around the world through Target's Global Bazaar.
Make sure you arrive before 02.17. Also available at www.target.com
"Aku cinta buatan dunia!!"

COOL PRODUCT OF THE DAY

Marrakesh Chair

On 3 neon Post-its on the refrigerator door:

Green:
hey baby, i killed. AGAIN. this time is for real, i'm seriously considering taking that class “how not to kill

Green:
your houseplant" or i'll start investing my time doing the whole nine yards of those mini landscape in jars, or even smtg like

Pink:
start calling a houseplant specialist. SORRY!!!! ps. don't forget to feed floppy...


Help sources:
- “How Not to Kill Your Houseplant", Brooklyn Botanic Garden, call 718-623-7220 for course schedule and further details
- Soil Moist moisture-release granules 718-836-2402
- Will Creed, houseplant specialist, www.horticulturalhelp.com, 917-887-8601
- Terrariums
- Forest Mural, Graham & Brown or Target

Photo: Davies + Starr

COOL PRODUCT OF THE DAY

Steroids for Soil

Boys and girls, you know Tuesday is your day at In Casa! This week is a kiddie graphic week, so here are some visually-yummy suggestions for you:
1. Rabbit and Turtle - Yukari Miyagi
2. Tokyo and My Daughter - Takashi Homma
3. Emerald - Yoshimi
4. Untitled - Laura Owens
5. Inside - Kuniko Nagasaki

(all books can be purchased through nieves.ch)

COOL PRODUCT OF THE DAY

Hand Crocheted Dolls

Apparently, being homeless these days does not necessarily correlate with being nobody, money-less, and far from the worlds of social and economic exchange, including the artistic/creative world.

Just look at Mr. Roger Greenlee a.k.a. "The Preacher" a.k.a. "Man of Taste" (voted by the NY Post), who was being sued last week by the owner of an artsy antique store for $1 million for his "fragrant vagran[cy]" in front of the fore-mentioned shop. And when being asked of his reaction to the pending suit, he said he was "not worried" and "absolutely not angry".
Wish we knew earlier he had that much $$ in his pockets.

Another example.

The Homeless Museum, also currently home(gallery)less in NYC, has been producing and selling arts and crafts to friends, family, and strangers. They also offer HoMu membership (Patron Circle for ONLY $150! Hello?!) benefiting a homeless of your choice.
We believe HoMu should be placed in the same quadrant with Momofuku Ando's ramen invention (x=genious y= lowbrow) if they could really invent a brilliant something (product or intervention) that homeless all around the world can't live without.
"$100 HoMu cigarettes, dude? How 'bout some HoMu paint? I'd have it with HoMu-made soup myself!"
Surely a very entrepreneurial artsipan, though. They should definitely pay Mr. Greenlee a business visit at his 833 Madison Ave. heated pad for possible future collaborations.

Related Articles:
HoMu
Tyra Banks as a Homeless Woman
Will Smith as a Homeless Man
Undercover Agent Bum

COOL PRODUCT OF THE DAY

Biba Fass- Plastiksack

IN CASA 10 'IT's OF LAST WEEK

1. O'Death
2. Annual No Pants Subway Ride
3. Marcel Wanders' Knotted Chair
4. Bahamas Pre-Passport
5. MADE Porcelain Bowls
6. Matcha
7. Mai Thai's Food (and Waiter)
8. GGG (Golden Globe Glam)
9. Andrea Peyser on Naomi Campbell
10. Etsy HQ Lab

Have a relaxing weekend, Everyone!
Don't forget to check-out our Goodies column (eyes to the right) for cool activities around the City.

xo, In Casa

COOL PRODUCT OF THE WEEKEND

GummiLights

It's been two days back-to-back that The Post posted Jennifer Rubell's contempo-style-war with co-parent, newly-accused-pot "psycho", and ex Daniel Kim whom she met during her Harvard haydays (well, you know how we, 02139s, think of those '38s..).

Anyway.

Private politics aside, Rubell is indeed well-known as an entertainment guru, whose opinion on everything entertaining, matters. On the latest edition of Domino, she (as the magazine's contributing food editor) picks three handcrafted chocolate varieties that we also love.
So here they are, her genious artisanal picks (just hope none of 'em are pot-infused):
1. For the do-gooder: "Garden Mint" from johnandkiras.com $30/15-piece box
2. For the seen-it-all: "Coeur Framboise" from marolinichocolatier.com $40/15 piece box (picture)
3. For the purist: irregular-shaped choco truffles from lamaisonduchocolat.com $45/1/2-pound box

p.s. Thanks to the broken-hearted Jen, we all can give these little glossy hearts to our beloved men on the V-day. Until then, our hearts are with you, Darling!

COOL PRODUCT OF THE DAY

Peacock-Print Silk Pillow

Ok, we admit that we've been into structural lines, textural yet visually-light chairs, and the color red these days. And to our delight, we found two designs that are successfully delivering all the requirements in very elegant and unique ways.
Price-aside (one costs something like 8G), we love Zanuso/Raboni's Super Elastica Chair and Droog's Marcel Wanders' Knotted Chair (red-tinted version is limited to 99 pieces only).
Truly sculptural pieces, both chairs are light-weight and ergonomic, making them irresistable to design lovers/collectors all around the world.

“Now; you are a real frog, am I right?”
“Yes, of course, as you can see. A real frog is exactly what I am. A product neither of metaphor nor allusion nor deconstruction nor sampling nor any other such complex process, I am a genuine frog. Shall I croak for you?”
(Excerpt from Super-Frog Saves Tokyo)

It is an everyday-kind of story of a giant frog who is talking a man into helping him fight the bad worm from causing another deadly earthquake in Japan.
Geniusly written as always, Super-Frog Saves Tokyo is descriptively captivating through a very humble literature language. Reading it is like watching a motion medium minus all the overly-developed, complicated story-board twists.
Guaranteed at least one good laugh every two minutes, Super-Frog is a definite quake in the forever-fascinating Murakami world.
Super-Frog Saves Tokyo is a chapter in Haruki Murakami's After the Quake, 2000

Sound Artist: O'DEATH -- voted the Best Appalachian Hardcore Band by the Village Voice

"So you missed Jim & Jenny and the Pinetops' last whirlwind tour through town, and no matter how you work it, you simply cannot justify flying down to Louisville (that's pronounced LOU-AH-vul, dear) to see crotchety old Tom Waits. So what's a lover of insurgent bluegrass and/or wonky sorta-pop to do? Why, take yourself to see the sexiest Appalachian hardcore (or hardcore Appalachian) band north of the Mason-Dixon line. That would be O'Death, of course. Combining influences as diverse as Sonic Youth and old Civil War gospel, with sweet ukulele-driven melodies and testosterone-soaked post-teen-angst punk energy, their self-released CDs have so far failed to capture either their true sound or their furious punk energy. But live—well, if your idea of a good time is a crowd of folks moshing to the sound of banjo feedback and Savage Republic drumming, then live O'Death is your cup of moonshine. And while I've yet to so much as tongue-kiss any of these fine gents, after some of their boozy, high-octane live shows I've been sore tempted." (LD Beghtol, Village Voice)

http://www.myspace.com/odeath

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2007!