When you're done twiddling your thumbs staring out the window thinking about your own earth shattering way to change the world, you should be browsing PopTech's Pop!Casts collection-- watching every single video, one at a time, becoming more educated and…
Continue Reading →You would think that, after all the success of YouTube, video-sharing sites would be evolving at a rate that left us overwhelmed with mountains of user-generated goodness. After all, that's the way it normally works; someone strikes it big in…
Continue Reading →It seems as though we have a "time" theme going today-- so who am I to break the trend? This weekend while in Seattle, I found these Bengt Ek Design Clocks while browsing through cooking store Sur La Table. From…
Continue Reading →For those with rampant procrastination issues, Susanna Hertrich's Chrono_Shredder will have one of two effects: make one infinitely more productive, or spiraling into a pit of shame and self-persecution. As one piece in a series of "fictional" products designed to…
Continue Reading →A few weeks ago, I had the unfortunate task of mediating a disagreement between two friends of mine. Having recently moved in together, they're struggling with merging their two individual styles into one coherent decorating scheme. It was no surprise…
Continue Reading →Marco Monteiro in Sao Paulo pointed us to a clever guerilla campaign by environmental group 50 Graus that happened over the weekend in the city's popular Ibirapuera Park. The group "installed" ice sculptures of penguins on the grass to call…
Continue Reading →One of the newer, more young-spirited cultural spaces in Sao Paulo, Escola Sao Paulo fills a niche that's important to a city whose artists have been gaining more worldwide attention in the last few years. It's an informal school that…
Continue Reading →The concept of interchangeable original artwork may seem as expensive as it does daunting, but the folks over at Cricket Press make it easy and affordable to remedy your blank-wall syndrome on the cheap, no matter how indecisive you are.…
Continue Reading →I think by now everyone has probably noticed the incredible coverage coming out of Sao Paulo from our newest on-the-ground correspondent and site contributor, Phuong-Cac. Phuong-Cac Nguyen is a Los Angeles transplant currently calling dynamic Sao Paulo, Brazil, her new…
Continue Reading →While I'm sure most of our energy-savvy readers have already replaced their regular lightbulbs with the near-magical power of CFL's (compact flourescent lightbulbs), research is currently showing that sales of these earth-savers are only timidly increasing. CFL's use only one-third…
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