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Pop Wuping

Posted on March 21, 2008 Under Travel

Taiwan resident Clark MacLeod's personal posts on Pop Wuping (we're saying that three times fast in our mind) fall into the category of blogging we really appreciate. You'd expect a guy who lives in a manufacturing epicenter to have the…

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Studying Character @ Moral Punch

Posted on March 20, 2008 Under Art

Nude dancing harlots, erotic circuses, bare-breasted revolutionaries and crocodile strangling. Now that's culture. These are all examples of characters currently inhabiting West Hollywood's art gallery Moral Punch. During the "Studying Character" exhibition animation artists like Tim Beard, Eliza Frye, Leo…

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Startup New Orleans

Posted on March 20, 2008 Under Life

While Brad Pitt and President Clinton are putting up pink houses (sorry if that sounded sarcastic, it's sincerely good works), Sean Cummings, co-founder of Startup New Orleans has been setting up shop. In an effort to drive creative-minded people to…

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MethodIzaz: Stalkerazzi of the Good Kind

Posted on March 20, 2008 Under Art

What if you could harness paparazzi tactics for good instead of ill? While getting stalked by a photographer usually mean you're Britney Spears, the photographers at MethodIzaz believe that stalking makes for the most candid shots. Everybody knows to pose…

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Jumbo Jumbo Jumbo Jet

Posted on March 19, 2008 Under Design

By now you may have heard that Airbus' A380, the world's largest passenger jet had its maiden voyage from Singapore to London. The 471 passenger big boy is cleaner that a traditional jumbo jet, has more leg room than your…

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Hulger: The DJ Adaptor

Posted on March 18, 2008 Under Design

Hulger -- the London-based old skool phone masters (and MOMA exhibitors) who take your basic clunky '70s handset and connect it to your sleek '08 mobile phone -- have not stopped retrofitting our lives. Behold! The spankin' new DJ adapter.…

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ISO50: Northern Lights

Posted on March 18, 2008 Under Art

Scott Hansen (aka ISO50) has been a favorite of ours for a while. The man is a triple threat -- and in the awesome way, not the Broadway er, way. This month he premiers a new print, Northern Lights, under…

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Color Chart: Reinventing Color from 1950 to Today

Posted on March 14, 2008 Under Art

We'll admit that there have been times when we've wanted to chuck our color wheel out the window. We've stood in Home Depot and really tried to discern the different between antique, eggshell, and albino ferret white. So, we can…

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d*s DIY Contest: Update!

Posted on March 13, 2008 Under Design

A few weeks ago we told you about a little competition Grace over at D*S was having for all of you shelter magazine obsessed DIYers. Now the time has come to vote! Our personal favorites are the newspaper subscription table…

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Dublab

Posted on March 12, 2008 Under Music

Not just drum and bass...and not just music. Dublab, the Los Angeles based DJ collective, has run their Web radio site for seven years, reaching an international community of 300,000 musicians, disc jockeys, artists, and a couple of people who…

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