GreenDepot: Eco-Easy Home Products Shopping
Thursday, den 12. February 2009
GreenDepot, a new retail concept aiming at making buying environmentally friendly products for the home simple opened today in New York City. The 3,500 square foot flagship store is designed to be consumer friendly, informative, and unique. The Bowery store itself is a model for what can be done with eco and recycled products. GreenDepot has applied for platinum level LEED certification. The location originally served as New York City’s first YMCA. Customers shopping in the front half walk on the original basketball court floor.
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Event: Shorty Awards, Tweet!
Thursday, den 12. February 2009
We had an opportunity to attend the Shorty Awards in NYC Wednesday night, the first awards created to recognize the best producers of content on Twitter. Winners were selected from over 50,000 nominations across 26 categories running the gamut from news and sports to brand and design, highlighting the broad range of ways this relatively new media is being utilized to share information and communicate ideas.
The event kicked off with an opening message from Shaquille O’Neal, NBA player and personality behind the popular Twitter account The_Real_Shaq. The… Continue reading Event: Shorty Awards, Tweet!
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25 Things is a Virus
Thursday, den 12. February 2009
Are ideas literally contagious? It sure seems like it when watching the wildfire spread of memes on the internet. A recent Slate piece shows that the act of “going viral” may be structurally more like its biological counterpart than previously thought. Studying the hyped-up “25 things” meme from Facebook revealed that the spread of the idea was strikingly similar to a virus outbreak, including mutation and epidemic progression.
Slate explains:
Since I’m no evolutionary expert, I shipped Slate’s data to Lauren Ancel Meyers, a biology professor at… Continue reading 25 Things is a Virus
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Event: Hacking The Recession
Thursday, den 12. February 2009
There’s a great event going on in London tomorrow called Hacking The Recession. It’s a gathering where participants will be brainstorming ideas and tactics on how to create new opportunities inside the challenging environment of an economic downturn. It’s taking place at Birkbeck College, starting at 9.
Dougald Hine asks Hacking The Recession founder Mamading Ceesay about the event:
DH: What do you want out of the day?
MC: We want to inspire people to come up with creative solutions to not only surviving, but thriving during the recession… Continue reading Event: Hacking The Recession
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Copenhagen Fashion Week: Nevermore’s Dark Designs
Thursday, den 12. February 2009
One of our favorite collections exhibited at Copenhagen Fashion Week (which ended last weekend) was from Danish brand Woven Flesh.
Established in 2006, Woven Flesh is inspired by the shapes of Japanese packaging, Slovakian folk tales and New York street music. Their goal is to produce 4-5 collections per year, each based on a universal theme and all the fears and wonders of the world, especially the darker ones.
The new collection “Nevermore” is inspired by the American author and poet Edgar Allan Poe’s macabre and mystical stories.
Nevermore will be available… Continue reading Copenhagen Fashion Week: Nevermore’s Dark Designs
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The 6 Month MBA & 999 New Business Ideas
Thursday, den 12. February 2009
Seth Godin is running an alternative MBA program that has at it’s heart, a new vision of learning about being a businessperson. Nine participants are currently learning about entrepreneurship, freelancing and marketing in a practical, real world apprenticeship with Godin rather than going the traditional business school route.
You can follow the group at the excellent SAMBA (Six Month MBA) blog, where they’ve recently come up with 999 new business ideas. The list is a testament to creative thinking that… Continue reading The 6 Month MBA & 999 New Business Ideas
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The Feast NOLA: The Connected Age Emerges from New Orleans
Thursday, den 12. February 2009
I’ve just been presenting and attending Feast Social Innovation Conference in New Orleans. If you don’t already know the smart team of ‘Millennials’ behind it, you should know: they are Alldaybuffet and this was the second in their next generation conferences and social entrepreneur events. What marked their event on Friday, February 6th as special is a combination of things, which may in some ways all add up to a loose definition of the term “Social Innovation”. Never before… Continue reading The Feast NOLA: The Connected Age Emerges from New Orleans
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Seeing Things Differently
Thursday, den 12. February 2009There’s that old saying about talking a lot and not saying much. Coudal Partners points out two ways of looking at the world and actually seeing things.
The Blog of Unnecessary Quotes features a collection of images where the use of quotes convey unintended messages.
And they also point to a collection of infrared photography, which uses filters to block out and enhance certain colors in the visual spectrum, creating surreal, dreamlike images before retouching.
By taking advantage of what is already out there… Continue reading Seeing Things Differently
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“Still Sitting Still”: New Take on Gallery Space
Thursday, den 12. February 2009
Australian artists Daniel Moynihan’s latest exhibition Still Sitting Still makes an unusual use of gallery space. Constructing a giant iceberg in one room, the Melbourne-based artist has installed a periscope for visitors to view the the giant mass’ tip.
Moynihan explains his work:
The relocation of this daunting mass that drifts with a peaceful uncertainty creates a visual demonstration of how impressions can be twisted or exaggerated to suit… Continue reading “Still Sitting Still”: New Take on Gallery Space
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Google PowerMeter Saves $$$ on Your Power Bill
Thursday, den 12. February 2009
How much does it cost to leave your TV on all day? What about turning your air conditioning 1 degree cooler? Which uses more power every month — your fridge or your dishwasher? Is your household more or less energy efficient than similar homes in your neighborhood?
Google is in the final stages of fine-tuning their free Power Meter software, set to inform users on just how much energy appliances use and comparing their energy consumption with that of their neighbours.
‘Russ’, a Google hardwear engineer, claims to have shaved US$3000 off… Continue reading Google PowerMeter Saves $$$ on Your Power Bill
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