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Thursday, April 08, 2010
Minimum Wage Machine Pays You $7.15 An Hour For Cranking A Handle [Art]
This is a perfect example of high quality conceptual art with political activist undertones. Yummy!
If you've always wanted to work for minimum wage, but in typical overachieving fashion haven't quite got there yet, the Minimum Wage Machine will pay you $7.15 for an hour of turning the crank-handle. More »
Wednesday, April 07, 2010
iPod-Sized HIV Detector: Affordable Rural testing
Let's get rolling on this one.
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Right now it's difficult, if not impossible, to quickly detect HIV in patients living in impoverished countries. That may all change soon, though — researchers at a California outfit called the Palo Alto Research Center have built an iPod-sized handheld device that can offer up an immune check-up in under 10 minutes — all with a prick of the finger.
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Sunday, April 04, 2010
Calle Ocho quatro
for Antonio.
Monday, March 29, 2010
Brooklyn politician gives booty the boot!
My prayers have been answered! Thank God, I'm not the only one who feels this way.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
NEW MUSIC: BRANDY - “CHINESE (HOME)” + “TODAY”
OMG: TODAY is my Summer anthem. Period
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♫ Brandy feat. Timbaland - Chinese (Home)
♫ Brandy feat. Timbaland - Chinese (Home)
♫ ALTERNATE LINK ♫
Singing sensation Brandy has so much previously unreleased material that it's not even funny.
It's been reported that Brandy had been in the studio with mega-producer, Timbaland to work on her last album, Human and "Chinese (Home)" are from those sessions. Rumors have circulate that in addition to work with Hit Boy of Surf Club, she has also logged some studio time with Timbaland again.
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♫ Brandy - Today
♫ Brandy - Today
♫ ALTERNATE LINK ♫
In addition to working with Timbaland on the last album, she also teamed with Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins, with whom she's been a muse for countless times before. "Today" is the fruit of some of their labor.
There's no official word on Brandy's new album will drop, but with a new reality show about to air, it shouldn't be long before we hear some real new material.
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Friday, March 19, 2010
Soldier's Sight Restored Through Tongue [Cyborg]
I have to learn more about this!
Lance Corporal Craig Lundberg lost his sight to a rocket-propelled grenade in 2007. Now, thanks to a fascinating technology, he can read words and make out shapes using his tongue. It's truly incredible. More »
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Tuesday, March 09, 2010
Precious Surprise
New York never ceases to amaze me. A long time ago, I can remember hearing an amazing vocalist perform at the Union Square subway station in Manhattan. An organization (I think carnegie hall) was sponsoring local buskers in a city-wide exhibition of underground talent (pun intended). Today, I discovered that this amazing performer I heard years ago was Alice Tan Ridley, the mother of Oscar-nominated actress, Gabourey Sidibe. Check out the link, you won't be disappointed.
Wednesday, March 03, 2010
Schooled
The usefulness of this kind of project cannot be understated. The kids learn about sustainable building, the local government saves money, etc. I believe that green design not only reinforces environmentaly sound progress and advancement, it the promotes simple yet rare values such as beauty and ease-of-use that sometimes get lost in commercial and municipal planning.
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The METI school in Rudrapur Dinajpu, Bangledesh teaches the invaluable lesson of green design through its very earthen structure. Architects Anna Heringer and Eike Roswag directed a team of local parents, teachers, school children and craftsman in building the primary school by hand using raw materials including bamboo, straw, jute rope and the ancient building material cob (a layered mixture of wet earth, rice, straw and jute). Completed in just four months time, the collaborative effort has created a meaningful environment wherein rural children may pave a more fruitful future for themselves by receiving an education.
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Monday, March 01, 2010
MOVIE TRAILER: JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT: THE RADIANT CHILD
I really wish I knew more about his work. I have to make some time to study more. But what I do know about his life and his work excites and troubles me. I wonder if some of the things that made him successful and full of ideas, also took his life in the end...
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Check out the trailer of the documentary Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child, directed by friend Tamra Davis, which features never-before seen footage of the artist painting and talking about his art two years before his death in 1988 and sets the record straight following Julian Schnabel's fictional Basquiat.
The film, which was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance last month, was released February 21 and will be shown at SXSW next month.
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Friday, February 19, 2010
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Spilling the Tea Party
The following video is of an incredibly well-crafted speech by Keith Oberman. I have to say that it analyzes an aspect of the Tea Party Movement that I hadn't really parsed out myself.
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Friday, February 12, 2010
fashion legend alexander mcqueen passed away
My heart goes out to the McQueen family. I hope that this tragic moment will teach us all a lesson about personal struggle and priceless value of talent.
with target. some magazines reported that McQ was selling out online within minutes
of his death announcement. mcqueen was due to show off his latest collection at paris fashion
week next month.
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alexander mcqueen spring 2010
alexander mcqueen, the founder and designer of the alexander mcqueen brand died yesterday,
february 11, 2010 at the age of 40.
his body was found by his boyfriend in his mayfair, london, home.
alexander mcqueen spring 2010
alexander mcqueen made the most eccentric and provocative clothes for some of the richest
people on the planet. he represented the drama of fashion. famous for his sense of cut,
proportion and tailoring, mcqueen structured garments to change the shape of the body.
on catwalks he used wild hairstyles and make-up on his models and put them in those
lobster claw shoes and antlers.
mcqueen with his mother joyce (she passed away a week before)
there has never been anyone like him, and the world knew him as fashion's bad boy.
alexander mcqueen (born 16 march 1969) was the youngest of six children (a taxi-driver's son).
he dropped out of school at 16 to become an apprentice on savile row, worked for a few
designers before applying to teach at central saint martin's college of art and design. after
five-years as creative director for givenchy, he created his own label. as his originality
helped him gain popularity, he still struggled to create collections that main street boutiques could sell.
he was awarded a CBE for services to fashion, and won 'british designer of the year' four times.
his extraordinary talent and creativity mean that his designs are adored not just by followers
of haute couture but lovers of great style everywhere. this is a great loss to one of britain's most
successful industries and to the design world more widely. let's hope people will remember him
for the genius he brought to fashion.
with target. some magazines reported that McQ was selling out online within minutes
of his death announcement. mcqueen was due to show off his latest collection at paris fashion
week next month.
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Thursday, February 11, 2010
South Korean iPhone users turn to sausages as a cold weather 'meat stylus'
So, my question now is, what is Apple or its 3rd party accessory partners going to do about this predicament? What's the magical fix for this? I'd like to know.
Apple and HTC might each be trying to patent a fancy capacitive stylus, but it looks like the good people of South Korea have stumbled on a decidedly more low-tech (and delicious) solution to using their phones in the winter: sausages. Apparently snack sausages from the CJ Corporation are electrostatically compatible with the iPhone's capacitive touchscreen, leading many to use them as a "meat stylus" in the cold weather, rather than remove a glove. And it's not just a joke; apparently South Korean snack sausage sales are soaring. We don't know if anyone's managed to combine this bit of amazing hackery with the bacon iPod sleeve yet, but we do know that we just registered meatstylus.com -- anyone care to send in some local sausage test results?
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Tuesday, February 02, 2010
Waldemeyer & Imogen Heap's Twitter dress do the Grammys
I have to say that this is not only a great new media for advertising and public service anouncements, it's looks pretty cool.
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Imogen Heap wears Twitter dress at the Grammys... Say hello to our new creation: after video dresses and laser dresses here is one that connects Imogen to her fans directly via Twitter. When Imogen walked the red carpet to collect her Grammy, fans could send messages and photographs directly to her dress. The messages scrolled across the collar while the images were displayed on her Fendi handbag. How does it work? The Fendi bag contains an iPod Touch that receives the messages (thanks to Memo Akten for programming this). It displays the pictures and passes the text on to a flexible LED display in the collar.Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Crafts | Digg this!
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Monday, February 01, 2010
1-Bit Stop Motion Brilliance
Awesome.
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I like the current wave of unusual stop motion animation. This clip is not as crazy and amazing as the heasploding Videogioco, but I like its simplicity. It was recorded using a webcam, with no post-production whatsoever. [Pink Tentacle]
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