Reclaiming the Night, the Sleep Solution
Friday, den 13. February 2009
Would you like to control your appetite, regulate your weight and boost your immune system without going on a special diet or taking a pill?
It turns out you may just need more sleep. Researcher Neil Stanley has recently called for society to “reclaim the night” for some shut-eye. A good night’s sleep may be just as important as exercise and a healthy diet, but it’s rarely emphasized in public health campaigns. Aside from increased grumpiness and a reliance on caffeine, studies have indicated that inadequate sleep can lead to heart… Continue reading Reclaiming the Night, the Sleep Solution
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Google Transforms a Paper Mill into a Data Center
Friday, den 13. February 2009
As if we hadn’t already heard that print is dead and digital is the future, Reuters reports that Google has bought a paper mill in southeastern Finland, in which it plans to build a massive data center. Not only is this purchase an ironic sign of the times, it’s another step Google is making toward staying ahead of its competitors Microsoft and Yahoo. As the NY Times reports, Google is turning barren and once industrial spaces into sprawling data centers to hold their growing wealth of information. They describe… Continue reading Google Transforms a Paper Mill into a Data Center
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Building Momentum for Transportation Alternatives
Friday, den 13. February 2009
Founded in 1973, New York City’s Transportation Alternatives has been a steady voice of advocacy for a bicycling, walking, and public transit to reclaim the streets from the automobile. In recent years, the group has become a venerable force, working with legislators and offering assistance to journalists to make their mission heard and their goals realized. Recent causes include their disapproval of Central Park’s proposal to replace horse-drawn carriages with Model T Fords (”It doesn’t matter whether these cars run on gas, soy beans or sunshine. More traffic in… Continue reading Building Momentum for Transportation Alternatives
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Furniture to Fashion: Kartell and .normaluisa’s Modern Cinderella Slipper
Friday, den 13. February 2009
As a well-known Italian furniture designer, Kartell’s strengths also lie in their extensive experience with and use of plastics and injection-molding technology. Normaluisa, an Italian fashion designer, has developed a clothing line that is inspired by Cinderella’s epic love story. The collaboration brings to life a ballerina flat of plastic that comes in two forms: a two-tone color-scheme or solid. The two-tone flats are either transparent and opaque color combination or two opaque color combinations. The flats have both a classic and edgy feel and it doesn’t hurt that… Continue reading Furniture to Fashion: Kartell and .normaluisa’s Modern Cinderella Slipper
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In Tough Economy, Even Museums Can Lose Their Homes
Friday, den 13. February 2009
Filip Noterdaeme inside Homeless Simulator. Photo by Federica Paoletti
From 2005-2007 The Homeless Museum of Art, aka HoMu, was housed in Director Filip Noterdaeme’s Brooklyn Heights walk-up apartment. When the landlord found out about the museum, and the visitations became as intrusive as a homeless person camped out in the front door well, the museum, fittingly, found itself without a home.
HoMu was created by Noterdaeme—a trained artist and curator himself—to critique an art world where… Continue reading In Tough Economy, Even Museums Can Lose Their Homes
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Agent Provocateur’s Men-Only Lingerie Parties
Friday, den 13. February 2009
Agent Provocateur, the opulent lingerie brand, has ruffled some feathers with their latest promotional escapade. In a series of events leading up to Valentine’s Day, Agent Provocateur has partnered with the private equity group 3i to host some men-only preview “presentations.” The hush-hush events are targeted at investment bankers and give the securely wealthy a chance to brush elbows (amongst other body parts) with lingerie models.
The obvious poor timing of targeting bankers during a recession that the financial sector helped produce has caused some backlash, but the… Continue reading Agent Provocateur’s Men-Only Lingerie Parties
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The LightScraper
Friday, den 13. February 2009
Melbourne-based interactive design company ENESS created the LightScraper for this year’s Rainbow Serpant festival in Beaufort, Victoria. Using Realtime 3D graphics and human motion-tracking technology the structure fully interacts with its surroundings. Acting as a giant music box, the LightScraper’s apex hosts infrared cameras, tracking site visitors and translating movement information into musical melodies and eye-catching visuals. Constructed using custom-build aluminum and semi-translucent mesh… Continue reading The LightScraper
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