Land+Living: Will you still love us when we're incredibly humongoid giant stars?

Will you still love us when we're incredibly humongoid giant stars?

Announcements, News — January 26, 2005 Posted by James

Land+Living in the New York Times

We've hit the big time now. Will you still love us when we're in our "carbohydrate, sequined-jumpsuit, young-girls-in-white-cotton-panties, waking-up-in-a-pool-of-your-own-vomit, bloated-purple-dead-on-a-toilet phase?" Because, you know, it's all just a matter of time now.

Land+Living gets a quick mention in an article by Lockhart Steele about design blogs in the New York Times Home & Garden section. And it has already gone to our heads. So, what are you waiting for? Go read it already!

EDIT - Oh, and we should mention, while the article implies that our focus is landscape design, you can see that we cover a wide range of topics. That said, we are dedicated to covering landscape design, objects and ideas.

Article: NY Times - Hot Off the Web: Gossip and Guidance (alternate link)

*Disclaimer: Title and quote are a (perhaps obsure) reference to Wayne's World 2... did you get it? Excellent.

8 comments

Comments (8)

hijiki — January 27, 2005
it's all downhill

congrats... the spotlight is very well deserved! like them as i do, there's a lot of overlap between many of those blogs and it seems like i find more unique entries at L+L. just curious, do you ever take payment to write about clients? i read design*sponge daily but was surprised when that article revealed that she was doing this.

James — January 27, 2005
thanks!

Hi hijiki, thanks so much for the compliment! We do try very hard to self-edit and to stay true to our own unique voice. We like the other design blogs too, and we keep close tabs on them to see what is going on in the design world, but also to make sure that we are not repeating too much (and we give credit when it is due). We do NOT take payment for any of our posts, ever. At some point we will incorporate advertising to help keep this thing afloat, but ads will always be separate from the blog posts. I will let design*sponge speak for herself, but my impression is that she sees things in her day job which she then chooses to blog on her site... I don't think that she gets paid extra for any posts on her blog. Make of that what you will.

Wayne — January 28, 2005
Party on, Land+Living

You rock.

Jeanne — February 3, 2005
Treehugger: bad. Designsponge: good.

Has anyone noticed how much crap Treehugger posts to there blog? They seem to be the only website mentioned in the article that doesn't give referrals. Grace has her scoops which is sort of self-aggrandizing but a lot of products treehugger features have already been covered in the past by other blogs (Mocoloko, etc.). In my opinion, treehugger is the "bad blogger" (not grace). There is an ethical code in the blog world that treehugger isnt following. I have to say, your comment about the girls in white cotton panties is kinda pervy.

Jeanne — February 4, 2005
Now I get it.

Wayne's World. :-)

Design*Sponge — February 20, 2005
d*s response...

hi guys just wanted to throw in somethin from my side. the times article ended up not being as bad as i thought it would be, since they made me seem like a pr hack, but just for the record: i dont get paid by ANY of my client to post (i dont work for vitra anyway, i work for a small pr firm) i have ALWAYS mentioned that i worked for any company i post about. you can go check my archives for evidence of this. that's really it. btw- i dont really think treehugger is a bad blog. lots of blogs repost stuff- which i don't love, but as long as they don't take credit for having discovered it first, i dont think it's a huge deal, ya know? oh- btw, i LOVE my scoops section. i think it's hysterical. it's all in good fun and everyone in it knows that. i mean, if i dont get paid for my blog, can't i at least have some fun with it? ;) xoxo d*S

James — February 20, 2005
NYTimes is clear as mud

Hey, Grace! Thanks for the response and for clearing the waters... we noticed that things were sorted out in your comments section. The Times article was not exactly worried about accuracy... we're not (solely) a landscape architecture blog, but the Times sure made us sound that way. None the less, I would say that the article has been good for all of us design blogs, even if it wasn't entirely correct. :-)

design*sponge — February 25, 2005
d*s part two

james- couldn't agree with you more. my traffic went up a ton and i'm thrilled to have a wider audience. hooray for the ny times and their non-fact checking selves! ;) d*s