TED was not only described to me as inspirational, passionate and unique, but also as mind boggling-- sometimes almost exhaustively so. Today started early, I attended the pre-conference breakfast where TED Prize winners from last year updated attendees on their…
Continue Reading →Trying to describe this conference would be like me trying to cut your hair over the phone (Thanks Jonah for the analogy). The energy, enthusiasm and mass of talented and remarkable people in one place at one time is hard…
Continue Reading →I'm headed out to the world-renowned TED conference early tomorrow morning-- I received an invite for last year's event but unfortunately wasn't able to attend. I had plenty of warning this time around and I've honestly never been this excited…
Continue Reading →A week or so ago, I wrote about the (LESS) campaign-- a 'buy less crap' response to the well-intentioned but mostly ineffective (RED) campaign to which the likes of Bono, Oprah, the Gap and Apple have subscribed. I want to…
Continue Reading →Designer Meg Golden in definitely doing her part-- she's working to raise $10,000 to go towards providing education to poor disadvantaged orphans in Uganda, most of whose parents have died from Aids, a well known and dire issue for the…
Continue Reading →Today I have the true pleasure of publicly introducing a project I've been working on behind closed doors for several months: Spear Collective. Over the past several years in my blogging life I've become quite a fan of a handful…
Continue Reading →This reminds me eerily of the Zach Slow + Lady Sovereign fiasco a little while back, but who am I to get in between three men and their dream. Pool Boys at the Mansion is a recently-surfaced guerrilla campaign by…
Continue Reading →Don't get me wrong, I appreciate how big corporations like Gap are turing sales into helpful donations to great causes through the (RED) campaign; I think (RED) has been successful from a wide-spread outreach standpoint. But I also really appreciate…
Continue Reading →Natalie Jeremijenko, a loved and non-traditional professor at UCSD (and previously, Yale), has brought her amazing Feral Robotic Dog project to the West coast. This awesomely creative and interesting experiment has students transform old toy robotic dogs into toxin-sniffing, pollution…
Continue Reading →I touched down in Amsterdam late Saturday afternoon, welcomed by torrential downpours and incredibly overcast skies-- just my luck! I used some of the evening catching up on emails in my hotel downtown before heading out to dinner at a…
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