In our previous issue, we looked back to a time when music and fashion frocked the Casbah. This issue, we’re looking straight ahead like a runway model, never once shifting our gaze to acknowledge the A-list gawkers in our periphery. Fashion season kicked off in sizzling style with the 2013 READ MORE >
At first, we thought this was the work of The Onion. But in reality, it’s an extremely smart idea. On June 1 & 2 the White House will be launching a National Day of Civic Hacking where government agencies such as the Census Bureau and NASA will release data for READ MORE >
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 >