Hasta La Ideas

Each year, the Los Angeles Organizing Awards literally roll out the red carpet to honor individuals and companies in the professional organizing world. For the first time, Unclutterer.com has been nominated for one of these prestigious awards in the “Best Organizing Website or Blog” category.

Now through December 15 you can cast your vote for your favorite products, services, and organizers in the many categories. Anyone can vote — you don’t need to be a professional organizer — and those of us at Unclutterer would love your support if you think that we’re worthy in the Website category. The winners will be announced in late January at the historic Raleigh Studios in Hollywood. The Los Angeles Organizing Awards are the organizing world’s equivalent of the Oscars or Emmys, and we’re truly honored to be nominated for a 2010 award.

I recommend checking out the nominations in all of the categories, even if you don’t vote for us or vote for any of the options. It’s nice to see a listing of the best of the best in the industry. I learned about the Canadian organizing television show Neat through last year’s voting process and many other great organizing and uncluttering resources that had never made it onto my radar screen.

For example, do you know about the other sites in the “Best Organizing Website or Blog” category? If you’ve never checked them out, I suggest giving them a peek as they are written by some amazing organizers:

The Clutter Diet Blog, written by Lorie Marrero:

Jeri’s Organizing and Decluttering News, written by Jeri Dansky:

LifeOrganizers.com, written by Paul & Valerie Holstein:

Simplify101 Blog/Website, written by Aby & Jay Garvey:

Again, now through December 15 you can cast your vote for your favorite products, services, and organizers in the many categories, and obviously we would truly appreciate your support if you think we’re worthy in the “Best Organizing Website or Blog” category.

Hongtao Zhou, maker of frozen furniture (blogged earlier this year), continues his seasonal exploration with From dumpster to Halloween and Christmas. A weird title for a weird (and great) project.

According to Zhou, the chair was found lying broken amongst holiday ads in a Madison, Wisconsin dumpster. Zhou concluded that the chair must have been thrown away prior to seasonal decorating and asked himself, “Should a chair also have holidays?” In response, he fixed this chair and turned it into a Halloween character, with sawdust and wood scraps used as the dripping “blood” of trees.

From Zhou: “Enjoy Halloween and Christmas my chair friend.”

We’re still trying to figure out the Christmas part…will this chair receive gifts?

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Architects Chiasmus Partners have converted a former factory into a dance centre and theatre in the Dongcheng district of Bejing, China. (more…)

Un nouveau concept de téléphone imaginé par le designer coréen Joonho Choi, influencé par les énergies du Yin et du Yang. Love Connection : une utilisation multimédia (lecteur vidéo, mp3 et appareil photo) basée sur la connexion des 2 objets par un fil rétractable.

Previously on Fubiz

• Vodafone Symphonia
• Tactility Mobile Phone
• Orefon Phone

In case you missed it on the big screen, Objectified is now available for download on iTunes. Read our review or listen to New Video’s interview with director Gary Hustwit, also just posted to iTunes.

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