Micro-lending has been in the news a lot lately, since Muhammad Yunus won the Nobel Prize for his pioneering work in the field and wrote a book about it, called Banker to the Poor: Micro-lending and the Battle Against World…
Continue Reading →Widgets are the future: they essentially erase the need for consumers to visit websites, by bringing the website to the consumer...or at least to their phone, and in the realm of artistic mobile phone content, it looks like Start Mobile…
Continue Reading →Don't know if you've heard, but Transformers: The Movie comes out July 4th. You've probably been subjected to months of your friends and their robogasms, debates over Michael Bay's directorial abilities or trying to decide if that box of Transformers…
Continue Reading →Last night I went to see the film Knocked Up, and it proved to be every bit of the gut splitting, no holds barred comedy that everyone says it is. At the end, I wondered to myself how many times…
Continue Reading →In a clever marketing ploy, PepsiCo has been reaching out to the DIY/design/art/fashion communities by offering "design your own" contests for cans of Pepsi, and now, 16-oz aluminum bottles of Mountain Dew. Visitors on Mountain Dew's Green Label Art site…
Continue Reading →Many of you have probably noticed the posts by our latest contributor and new hand-on-deck here at JoshSpear.com, Heather Snodgrass. Born in Mackay, North Queensland, Australia (G'day, Mate), Heather moved to NYC in December '05, after four years in San…
Continue Reading →Last night, a friend of mine excitedly passed me a business card. "Its for my new company," he says (I lean in; start-ups, I love them, this could be good), "We make t-shirts!" (Oh no, oh no, oh no!) I…
Continue Reading →Custom skateboard masters Mekanism have added German artist Peter Zimmerman to their ongoing procession of artist collaborations (which have included runs by John Maeda, Invader, and Katharina Grosse, among others), and this latest series of limited edition decks are about…
Continue Reading →If you're in NYC and, like me, feel that all your daily dietary requirements can be derived from martinis and pizza, you should come and check out Pause, Beyond Madison Avenue's creative industries' happy hour tomorrow night at Pizza Bar.…
Continue Reading →My apologies for the radio silence since I arrived here in London! I've had an incredible past few days, filled with meetings and engagements. The most notable experience was definitely my talk at Google Zeitgeist yesterday followed by a panel…
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