An interview with artist/local hero Herbert Baglione and a hardcore-turned-samba musician Kiki Dinucci are just two of the stories in the packed new issue of the Sao Paulo free bimonthly magazine Mais Soma from JoshSpear friends Kultur Studio. With a…
Continue Reading →Ben Kaufman wants you to work for him. And you. And you. And all those people in that building next to you. We told you about his ever morphing business of crowdsourced product development called Kluster. Now it has landed…
Continue Reading →As promised, here are the winning entries for our Tokidoki Mimobot contest: Winner, Timothy Nakayama This is my story, about what happened to my friends and I, the day when our island sunk into the realm of dreams and almost…
Continue Reading →It was a tough decision, but after sifting through all of the sometimes serious, sometimes hilarious, and generally well-written entries, we have decided on our tokidoki mimobot winners. First, a few gems from contestants that didn't make the final cut,…
Continue Reading →If you haven't logged into your iGoogle page yet, you're missing out on a rad new customizing feature: artist themes to personalize your search toolbar. I've got mine set on Nigo's camo apes, but that's after I changed it from…
Continue Reading →Psychologist Carl Jung once talked about the "collective unconscious", what he described as "a reservoir of the experiences of our species." It's kind of like how all children of the '80s intuitively know an Autobot from a Decepticon. What Amy…
Continue Reading →Many well-meaning organizations seek to make people aware of world issues through largely unsuccessful methods, like badgering people on street corners to sign petitions or sending a constant stream of spam. The forward thinking folks at Bantu Republic have come…
Continue Reading →The biggest problem with commuting by bike in a city is probably getting hit repeatedly by cabs. That, and when you come out of the store only to find your nice new Kryptonite lock hanging around the bike rack sans…
Continue Reading →Factory Records played an integral role in the proliferation of the Madchester Music scene of the mid/late eighties and early nineties, releasing albums from seminal acts such as The Happy Mondays and James. However important their musical output was, one…
Continue Reading →Ah, Mimobots. Nerdy enough to help us appear left-brained, arty enough to help us appear right-brained, and tiny enough to keep our top secret files close to our hearts at all times. If you've yet to experience the flashiness of…
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