Best of 2011

Bringing to you a review of some of 2011′s Highlight’s in lifestyle and culture for The Perpetualist’ List of the Year.

Duke & Duchess of Cambridge Prince William and Kate Middleton: The Royal Couple not only draws the largest crowd for 2011′s ultimate wedding but they also have represented the world’s ambassador for class, style and grace. Wills and Kate definitely have caught the attention of the people and won our hearts.

Modern Monarchy at it's best.

Steve Jobs: Innovative genius behind our beloved Apple Inc. He remains technology’s creative King and has forever imprinted the standard for the future of the industry. Thank you Mr. Jobs for making our world a much more beautiful and handsome place to live. Godspeed Sir. “Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones that do.” -Steve Jobs

Bite that Apple.

City Living: Cities around the world have up their game on making their neighborhoods a better dwelling place. Sustainable, green, culture, and charm have turned some of the greatest cities all over the globe with a promising future.

City Living

Instagram: Our “Perpetualist” app pick of the year goes to Instagram for being the eye of 2011. Thanks for turning our iPhone into a much pleasant way to capture images.

"Captured" of App of 2011

Louis Vuitton 2011 CityGuide Collection Because no other guide will do. What more can you want in a guide that represents luxury and a world-class way of going out and about. Have the guide, will travel.

The Perpetualist 2011 City Guide

Urban Planning Planning a livable space doesn’t only limit us to our homes but also to the environment we thrive in. Thanks to the folks in the urban planning industry, urban farmers and the architects of the new development of modernizing our cities, we have now a bright future in the years to come. Putting together an ecosystem that compromises of a healthy balance of technology, agriculture and sustainability that will survive for generations.

Green Loft Living

Urban Farming

David and Lauren Lauren Combining two powerful American families, this handsome couple are a match made in heaven with the perfection of class, style and intelligence. They represent an new American icon and combine love with style.

The New American Royalty

11 May, 2011: Situation Room, Aftermath and Reaction to Osama Bin Laden’s death. Enough said.

Going live during Bin Laden's Death

Space Shuttle Program Powers Down: The revolution will not be televised…NASA’s decision to end the Space Shuttle Program has caused a stir in the state of space exploration. But can we really stop our curiosity of space travel and perhaps our chance of reaching for the stars? Only time will tell…

Occupy Wall Street: Chaos for truth. Causing commotion for a cause they believe in, Occupy protestors have began a series of camping out and taking a stand in major cities all over the world.

The Occupiers

Muammar Gaddafi: Death of an Era. Under his regime, Libya achieved the highest living standards in Africa.

"Brother Leader"

Can’t wait to see what’s in store for 2012. Thank you 2011 for making the world a much better place. Happy New Year!

World City Grids

Tasting Gourmet In A Box

Foodzie brings you epicure delights from all over the country delivered right to your home! If you’re passionate about food then this online marketplace is the site for your tastebuds. Foodzie headquarters in San Francisco threw a tasting event, where I got to sample good food from various food producers and companies. The tasting line-up included gourmet popcorn by 479° Popcorn, organic signature olive oil by McEvoy Ranch, handcrafted sodas made with local and sustainable produce by Soda Craft, and creamy, frozen custard with flavors like Cereal Milk and Dirty Chai by local San Francisco company, Frozen Kuhsterd. These companies were amongst the few Foodzie delights that grazed the tasting palette. If you’re a true Perpetualist and love buying delectable, tasty, and gourmet foods, then look no further because a “Tasting Box” from Foodzie is all you’ll need delivered right to your front door!

With Rob LaFave (Co-founder of Foodzie)
With New York Time’s Best Selling Author, Tim Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich

Go ahead, Make it Yoosphool.

Social Networking has been riding the wave of success since it’s early days when all you needed to do was “add” a friend, connect to them, and voila, you’ve got front row seats to your friend’s page. Today, most everyone will want to “add” you to their social networking page whether it be on Facebook, Twitter, or through many social applications that has stormed the internet. Yes, you get access to your friends and their network. Yes, you get to browse their photos, peruse their interests, and perhaps even the occasional banter of comments, but that’s all that we would like to see our social network do right?

What’s more important to ask is, “How do we consolidate our social networking into one streamlined source and be it the mecca of our everyday lifestyle? How can we integrate our passions and lifestyle, and make it useful to enhance our quality of life?”

In order to maintain a quality of life one must make things we have useful and have our gadgets such as computer, laptop, smartphone, ipads, et cetera be a tool that utilizes our quality of life.

I recently found an example through Yoosphool, a company that believes in creating lifestyle apps that enhance our quality of life. They have started introducing applications for your Andriod or iPhone SmartPhone (FoodTrakr, BoozTrakr and WoorkouTrakr) that does everything social apps do.

Yooshpool applications allow you to count calories, track your workouts, retain information of restaurants and the foods you eat, and even keep track of how many dirty martini’s you’re having while schmoozing with your cohorts anytime and anywhere. The great thing is that your social networks can be integrated into this one simple tool. So, you can finally do more with your plethora of Facebook friends or Twitter ‘tats, and turn them into angels who can help you look good, feel good, and keep you safe from having one drink too many. Doubt a restaurant or want to know if your gym is clean enough? Yoosphool’s dashboard interface lets you connect through Yelp, and browse their reviews. It even allows multiple check-ins via FourSquare, Facebook, and Gowalla. Whatever your social digital technorati needs are, Yoosphool is on it’s way to bringing out the best to your quality lifestyle. Now that’s Perpetualist!

Outstanding Culinary Experience

Imagine meals served with a cinematic view whether it be on a farm, on mountain tops, romantic beaches, colorful gardens, on islands and even the urban cityscape? Outstanding In The Fields can provide this beautiful fine dining experience that honors local chefs, farmers and culinary artisans whose work to brings good fresh food to our tables.

This seasonal dining experience is worth the $200 check when you’re chowing down on freshly caught, freshly raised and freshly grown local farm dishes cooked and served right before you.

With a staff that come from far all over the globe to serve you and put the show on the road. As a Perpetualist, you can’t go wrong when you can have it all-excellent food, fine wine and great conversations all under the sun, stars and moon!

Livable Space

Livable Space By Jerianne Banson

If you come think about it we all have our own space. A space to work. A space to live. A space to play. Our own personal space begins with the environment we occupy. It can be our desk at the office to that comfy little area in our living rooms to that small seat we plant ourselves on the train when we commute to and fro work. In a Perpetual sense of things, it’s always a benefit to just simply be awake and aware of the space we occupy. Begin with simply knowing that you are present at the space you are in with the environment that surrounds you. Stop. Take a deep breathe. Look all around you and capture the moment. Heck, if you’re like me feel free to snap a photo of these moments with your iPhone. Often times you’ll get a great sense of small details that make up the big picture.

Make your space livable. You really don’t need much but just your imagination. Live from inside out. You are a person living in a house that’s placed on a street that occupies a neighborhood in a town or city, that make up a state and country and so forth. No matter the situation whether you live on a stressful part of the city or you live in an unkempt neighborhood or you live in a clean pristine street you have the means and the soul (I hope) to make your space livable.

Start by getting things in order. And I don’t mean just throwing away junk but by simply stripping yourself of anything that’s really just a waste of your time and psyche and negative energy. You don’t need it. I don’t need it. No one really wants it so don’t waste your time hosting a slew of stresses that will just clutter your space. Prioritize and organize and use only what you need. Trust me, the things that matter don’t come with clutter.  Practice keeping simple so that you may enjoy living grand!

Maintain quality. Material gluttony is taking over and we are forced to have more and more of what we want less and less of. I admit, I love my style, I love my books, I love my tech gadgets, I do love my things. But let us put a standard on “things”. It is wiser to have spent a little more money on that pair of Paper Denim & Cloth jeans than to have a plethora of disposable jeans that not only suffocates closet space but also can suffocate your style. I consolidate my tech to one or two devices i.e. mobile device BlackBerry/iPhone and MacBook Pro which serves not only as my method of social communication but also as my eBook reader, my banker, my butler and is practically my office.

Livable space is really what we make our environment to be. I can go on and on about how and why and what all this livable space matters but I’ll leave you for something to think about for now. It all boils down to keeping things harmonious and keeping a peace of mind. Once we have ourselves planted in a space we can enjoy then everything becomes a bigger part of the picture that we all can share with one another.

Happy Living.

J

Would you like to take a ride?

Manhattan Blah by Jerianne Banson

Welcome to The Perpetual.  We are a project dedicated to the quality of life and the value of lifestyles through culture, epicures, art and humanities. We encourage the movement of striving to live better, to live the best the you can be and to focus on life’s simple pleasures. If you believe in a life well-lived, then you, like the rest of us, are a “perpetualist” and all because life matters. And it does.

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