a nice thing to work from home
Friday, den 30. January 2009This chinese new year, I decided to spend a bit more time with my family instead of keeping myself busy with visitation. I only managed to visit a close friend who has been working from home since last year.
It was nice to visit her home office and I noticed that she had a couple of [...]
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Detroit Auto Show: Photo Gallery Inspiration
Friday, den 30. January 2009We’ve begun to assemble a photo gallery from the show. There are 300+ images currently and we’ve got a few more to add. At this point, the slide show is a nice virtual walk through Cobo Hall.
For this last post about the show, we’d like to spotlight Volkswagen’s stand design and concept car they unveiled. [...]
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A Minimalist Approach to Flickr Viewing
Friday, den 30. January 2009
On the heels of our interview with Justin Saunders, we’re directed to another minimalist website ihardlyknowher.com, a service that allows users the ability to view and share Flickr photos in a easy to navigate, streamlined manner. The site has been designed by Muxtape - a site that has recently found a second life - creator Justin Oulette as a [...]
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Rob Forbes Discusses True Design Within Reach
Friday, den 30. January 2009Design Within Reach founder Rob Forbes’ talk at TED offers some insight on finding hidden elegance and design all around us - from mailboxes to cobblestone streets to bridges. Forbes openly acknowledges his critics’ view of his company (dubbed “Design Not Quite Within Reach” by some) and offers beautiful examples of truly within reach, ‘free’ [...]
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Open Source Urban Planning
Friday, den 30. January 2009MArk Gorton, creator of the Lime Wire file sharing software is now using his talents to improve urban transportation design. Using an open source software program he’s created along with data gathered from the collective population, Gorton aims to make urban transportation safer, more efficient and sustainable.
Wired reports:
The top-down culture of public planning stands to [...]
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Event: Brad Downey’s “An Honest Thief” Exhibition
Friday, den 30. January 2009We like the work of Berlin-based Brad Downey, an artist that reexamines urban architecture and its unique, powerful set of symbols. In his exhibition “An Honest Thief“, Downey explores the ways we’re influenced, consciously or not, by our surroundings and the system of order and obedience we submit ourselves to in the public sphere. He [...]
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Nollywood Babylon: The Rise of the Nigerian Film Industry
Friday, den 30. January 2009The location of the world’s fastest growing film industry may surprise you. Behind only Hollywood in the U.S. and Bollywood in India, Nollywood in Nigeria has experienced a meteoric rise, now producing 2,500 movies a year, most for under $10,000. As a result the films are often slapdash affairs in true B-movie style, a mix [...]
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Choose Your Ads On Hulu
Friday, den 30. January 2009We’ve noticed a new set of options on Hulu while watching ‘24′. Before the episode starts, there’s an option to choose between watching a movie trailer in exchange for a commercial free experience, or continue with your normal set of commercial breaks.
We opted for the two minute movie trailer of Taken - which, in our [...]
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Automatic Self Correcting Technology
Friday, den 30. January 2009We’ve notices two useful technologies which monitor ambient conditions and auto-correct themselves based on maintaining comfortable levels - like the way a thermostat regulates a room’s temperature.
Apple has filed a patent for a system that would auto-tune sound volumes on devices based on the level of sound in a room. So, for instance - if [...]
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The Rise of Urban Farming Worldwide
Friday, den 30. January 2009There’s something poignant about this photo of a former bank vault in Tokyo that’s been converted into a semi-automated urban farm. In Japan, urban agriculture is not only making good use of spaces where money used to be, it’s also compensating for the traditional farmers that its shrinking population is shedding.
From Mumbai to Manila, cities [...]
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