Welcome to #WeWant, a weekly selection of the stuff OnMilwaukee.com editors and staffers love.
Wear them: Mint clear green earrings
I love some good ear bling. Spring is right around the corner and the pastels will come out in full force. I, for one, will embrace them. These earrings from "iloniti" on Etsy come with your choice of finish and are custom made. They ship from Israel, so if I order them now maybe by the first 60+ degree day I can show them off. You could too. –Carolynn Buser
Wear it: Chippewa 6in Service Boot
I've had my eye on a pair of Wolverine 1000 Mile boots in cordovan for years, but can't pull the trigger. Though they're beautiful and built-to-last, a combination of price and leather sole holds me back. A few weeks ago I was reminded of Chippewa boots. Their 6in service boot is very close to the 1000 mile in style with the added bonus of a Vibram sole and a 30 percent lower price. I'm leaning heavily toward the Chippewa, but if the Wolverines are more your style, take 15 percent off at East Dane with the coupon code BIGEVENT15. –Nick Barth
Read it: "New Order" by Kevin Cummins (Rizzoli)
On the heels of last year's New Order reunion tour (sans Peter Hook), comes this beautiful, heavy duty hardcover photography book focused on the band's early years. Novelist Douglas Coupland pens the intro, and a series of interviews with the band members (Hookie included this time) are the only text. The bulk of the tome comprises gorgeous photos of the band on the road across the first 10 years of its career. There are onstage shots and more introspective backstage images that capture the alternating emotional current of touring. The part I like the best is the photo set at the front of the book, before the interviews. Here are images of objects that trace the band's history: a landmark cover of The Face, tour credentials and notebooks, correspondence, test pressings of vinyl releases, a floppy disk (!), set lists, a bill for a remote recording of the band in New York in 1981. The book is sort of a companion to the photographer's 2010 book of photographs of Joy Division, also published by Rizzoli. Not to be missed, but at $50, it's aimed squarely at the most devoted fans. –Bobby Tanzilo
Use them: Rolli stamps
I am always on the quest for a kid-friendly craft project – and it’s a huge bonus if it doesn’t require hours of clean up. We recently used these stamp rollers at a friend’s house and now I want them all. You can literally roll them a top any surface and they produce a row of adorable and unique imagery including hedgehogs, French bull dogs, shoes and nesting dolls. These are great for card making and scrap booking, but using them to enhance drawings and paintings is a lot of fun, too. –Molly Snyder
Download it: "Creativity, Inc." by Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace
I've only downloaded the sample so far, but I'm loving this book and will buy soon. Written by Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace, "Creativity, Inc." is the "business" book of now. I've had several people recommend it and after reading only 30 pages I say that if you interact with people and work (two things we all do) it's an almost must read. Here's how Catmull, co-founder of Pixar Animation Studios and president of Pixar Animation and Disney Animation, tees up Part 1 of his book, "I believe the best managers acknowledge and make room for what they do not know – not just because humility is a virtue but because until one adopts that mindset, the most striking breakthroughs cannot occur.
I believe that managers must loosen the controls, not tighten them. They must accept risk; they must trust the people they work with and strive to clear the path for them: and always, they must pay attention to and engage with anything that creates fear. Moreover, successful leaders embrace the reality that their models may be wrong or incomplete. Only when we admit what we don't know can we ever hope to learn it." That's awesome. Forbes says "Creativity, Inc." "just might be the best business book ever written" and it's made Zuckerberg's "A Year in Books" list. I want this book, and hope everyone in Milwaukee reads it soon too. –Jeff Sherman
