For Sale: single-family home. 5 bedrooms. 14,000 square feet. Exceptionally open concept. Steve Hermann’s Glass Pavilion takes everything that’s wonderful about modernism and displays it for everyone to see. The influences Philip Johnson’s glass house, and Mies Van Der Roh’s Barcelona Pavilion and Farnsworth house are obvious. The modern touches, READ MORE >
You may have heard of a little film festival in Park City Utah called Sundance. It’s no Lebowskifest, but we hear it’s quite popular with Hollywood’s tabloid elite and idealistic young filmmakers itching to sell out. Want a taste? A little catnip, perhaps? You can watch 12 of the festival’s READ MORE >
Or, as future generations will surely ask, “What’s a wallet?” After all, just about everything you can store in your wallet can now be digitized into your smartphone. Take gift cards for example. We love to give them (because we’re lazy) and receive them (it offsets the shame of our READ MORE >
We know it’s fun to bemoan just how far the original spirit of Sundance has jumped over the proverbial shark. We’re guilty of it ourselves (see above). But then we’re really just denying the reality of what Sundance has to offer year in and year out, and that’s quality filmmaking. READ MORE >
Have you ever wanted to hear children analyze your favorite piece of art? Of course you have. Welcome to MoMA Unadulterated, an unofficial audio tour created by kids. Each piece of art is analyzed by experts aged 3-10, as they share their unique, unfiltered perspective on such things as composition, READ MORE >
How do you engage and energize busy consumers to help women in Africa start businesses? The Microloan Foundation found an answer. They invited shoppers to donate money – by texting to a large digital poster in a busy shopping center. When a text arrived, a shower of pennies dropped into READ MORE >
If you’ve seen the film HUGO you’ve probably been exposed to the wonder and vision of an early film maker named Georges Melies. The film orchestrates a fictional relationship between Melies and a young boy, who helps him rediscover his love of the moving image. In real life Mieles was READ MORE >
It seems that social and cause marketing is continually on the rise. IEG’s Sponsorship Report reveals that corporate cause sponsorship was at $1.68 billion in 2011 and is projected to grow by 10% in2012. We believe that the power of good can positively augment the power of a brand in READ MORE >
It’s been a while since we’ve found something Bacon-tastic enough to post. So we were very excited when we uncovered this Bacon Treasure. The next time you have something to celebrate— a birthday, retirement or maybe a graduation— we recommend you lather that cake in sweet sweet baconey goodness. Yep, READ MORE >
While we’re pretty diehard WordPress Junkies when it comes to our own blog, we’ve found Tumblr, literally the easiest way to ‘blog’, to be absolutely awesome. The great thing about Tumblr is that it allows you to share posts, quotes, images and much more from your desktop, your phone or READ MORE >