Cupcake ATM

LA is the land of good ideas. They're doing the fashion truck thing that Orlando is getting soon and now they've got a cupcake ATM machine. Yes. An automated machine that dispenses cupcakes with the flick of a credit card. BRING TO ORLANDO!

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Interview With Suite 230 Clothing

By: Benjamin Greger
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The Daily City had the chance to have an interview with an emerging T-Shirt company called Suite 230 Clothing. Have a look at their products, story, and see what Suite 230 Clothing has in stores for themselves.

Being students how do you find time to work on your brand? 

Many times it requires that we make sacrifices in our daily college lives, but we have done a good job on spacing out our school schedules and using all of our free time efficiently. Much of the work we do is fun and in a high energy environment so we look forward to working on the brand any moment we get.

Where do you see Suite 230 going after you both graduate UCF? 

We see Suite 230 continuing to become a well-known name in the Orlando area and expanding from there once we graduate. We anticipate that we will have new lines of designs coming out at least once a year, with special releases and other products in between. Eventually, we see Suite 230 becoming a reputable brand name in the fashion industry, particularly in the t-shirt industry to start.

What other products/lines do you plan on launching? 

While we want to keep Suite 230 Clothing and all of the other brands we do small, we would really like to move towards the more high-end market. T-shirts are a great start and will most likely always be a passion of ours, but to be able to create wearable art that people appreciate from different fabrics would also be a wonderful challenge.

Beyond selling online, we are seeing more "home-based swap and shop" parties and "fashion trucks" beginning to pop up. Do you see yourselves getting into this trend? 

We are not totally against part-taking in that trend but we tend to do things differently from the usual. We do plan to throw consumer launch events every so often to generate sales and promotion, but we tend to do things a little more unconventionally. We like to see what our target market likes to do, and plan an event or set-up a sales front that incorporates that culture.

What designers have inspired the both of you? 

There are many different things, people and places that have inspired us along the way and continue to do so. We have to pay homage to all the indipendent t-shirt brands that came before us, but as far as fashion designers goes, it's probably Alexander McQueen and Dolce & Gabanna. Because what they've done on and off the runway is truly unique, especially McQueen.

The Closing of Delish New York Bakery

Delish New York Bakery closed its doors February 25, 2012 after two three years of operation in the Sand Lake Road/Restaurant Road/Dr Phillips area. It's sad to see another small business close. We wish them all the best in their future projects. See our 2009 post when Delish first opened.

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6th Annual heART of Winter

Expect a packed house for the second visit from Jen O’Connor’s Earth Angels as they travel from all corners of the country to set up a “pop up” show at Jeanine Taylor Folk Art in historic downtown Sanford. This merry band of artists specializes in one of a kind handmade art, jewelry, accessories, soft sculptures, and more. You’ve seen them in national magazines like Where Women Create, now you can meet them in person.

Clyde's General Store at Spirit Farm in Harmony

Harmony Institute is opening up a vegetable shop in May 2012 called Clyde's General Store at Spirit Farm (3500 Arthur J Gallagher Blvd Harmony, FL 34773). The current plan is to have the shop open on Saturdays starting in May. Theywill feature a rotating selection of in-season vegetables. 

Bahama Breeze Island Grille

Bahama Breeze Island Grille — the casual dining restaurant that gives guests the feeling of a Caribbean escape — celebrates the grand opening of its Waterford Lakes location in Central Florida this week. This new restaurant, which created approximately 200 new jobs in the area, is located at 1200 N. Alafaya Trail, across from the Waterford Lakes Town Center and is just minutes from the University of Central Florida campus.

“We are excited to bring Bahama Breeze to Waterford Lakes and the residents of East Orlando,” said Bahama Breeze president Laurie Burns. “At Bahama Breeze, our mission is to provide an unforgettable island escape for our guests, by offering fresh and delicious foods and tropical drinks in a warm and vibrant atmosphere.”

SAK Comedy Lab Artistic Director Steps Down

SAK Comedy Lab Artistic Director Dave Russell officially stepped down from his position he's held since 2005. His replacement has yet to be announced.

SAK has been a downtown comedy improv destination for over 25 years, launched the careers of a few successful working actors and writers and has always prided itself on "clean" comedy aka PG-13.

http://www.sak.com

We Feel Fine

Check out this awesome website "a database of several million human feelings, increasing by 15,000 - 20,000 new feelings per day. Using a series of playful interfaces, the feelings can be searched and sorted across a number of demographic slices, offering responses to specific questions like: do Europeans feel sad more often than Americans? Do women feel fat more often than men? Does rainy weather affect how we feel? What are the most representative feelings of female New Yorkers in their 20s? What do people feel right now in Baghdad? What were people feeling on Valentine's Day? Which are the happiest cities in the world? The saddest? And so on." We Feel Fine. 

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2012 Florida Film Festival Feature Film Competition and Opening Night

The 2012 Florida Film Festival, sponsored by Full Sail University, announced that a record-breaking 167 films were selected from 1706 entries, representing 31 countries.  Of the 167 films, 144 are having their Florida premiere (or higher) at the Festival. There will be 27 World premieres, 5 North American premieres, 2 US premieres, 34 East Coast premieres, and 50 Southeast premieres. This year’s Festival runs April 13-22, 2012 and is located in Central Florida.

Today the Narrative and Documentary Feature Film selections for the 2012 Florida Film Festival American Independent Competition were announced. Nineteen of the selections will be celebrating a premiere: three World, one North American, four East Coast, seven Southeast and four Florida premieres.

Orlando's Best Dance Party, The Movement

NBA All-Star Weekend 2012 is officially in the books and poor Orlando will be walking with a limp for the next few days. Ladies leave your weaves in, fellas dust your twinkies off; Orlando's best dance party, The Movement, is back at it this weekend. Only this time with Grammy nominated, Multi Platinum Producer, Jay-Z & Diddy Tour DJ, 1/3 of EPMD, Master of the Mix and legend: Jam Master DJ Scratch. Word on the street is he'll be dropping face melting dance floor gems that your Mom & Dad used to boogie to in their day. You should already know how we get down, but in case you don't:

The Movement by Lazy Afternoon from Mosa Media on Vimeo.

Construction Begins on Four Seasons

Walt Disney World Resort has begun construction on their newest resort, Four Seasons. The 444-room resort is expected to open in 2014, and is being built in the enclave of Golden Oak at Walt Disney World Resort. It will create 2,000 construction jobs, and provided openings for job positions once the resort is open. Read the full story here.

Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie at Enzian

By Samir Mathur

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TIM AND DOLLAR'S BILLION DOLLAR MOVIE plays at Enzian on Friday and Saturday nights at 11.59pm. (Details and tickets)

It’s very difficult to explain Tim and Eric to someone that doesn’t know them. I must confess that I am, at best, a moderate fan of theirs. I enjoyed their first TV show, ‘Tom Goes To The Mayor’ quite a bit, but their ‘Awesome Show, Great Job!’ was always a little bit too much for me. They’re the masters of anti-comedy - holding every reaction shot for too long; repeating a catchphrase too many times; using sharp edits and extreme close ups, etc. Most of their laughs come from things that demonstrably shouldn’t be funny, but become funny for exactly that reason. Also, they are usually pretty disgusting. Basically, the TV show gave viewers a million reasons not to enjoy it, but many people loved it for exactly those reasons.

So when they came to making a feature film, Tim and Eric were faced with a dilemma. Should they soften the edges, and make something more palatable for more people? Or, should they take the extra money and double down, and go further than they’ve ever gone before? To their credit, they have taken the latter route. The movie deserves credit for being bigger, weirder and grosser than anything that’s come before. Fans of ‘Awesome Show’ will be delighted, everyone else will probably be horrified. It’s not really worth talking about the plot, because it’s really unimportant. What matters is: there’s an infomercial at the start featuring Jeff Goldblum; later on you’ll see a man with a pierced goatee, a child used as a human shield, and a feral John C. Reilly (an Academy Award nominee, lest we forget) attacking a fox. Oh, and there’s a scene that involves Shrim that will – no joke – haunt my nightmares until my dying day.

I can’t say I enjoyed “Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie’, but my laugh-to-cringe-in-terror ratio was about equal. The laughs are very powerful, for sure, but the weirdness is equally palpable. This seems like a perfect movie to see at midnight, and the world’s worst date movie. Watch the trailer above, and see if you’ve got the stomach. Also, if you're a fan of theirs, you may consider signing their BDM Pledge, which also affirms that you will stay away from seeing The Lorax.