July 2012

8 Questions

Jul 30, 2012

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The last time the US hosted an International AIDS Conference was in 1991, before President Reagan banned HIV-positive foreigners entry into this country. Since Obama lifted the ban and became the first sitting president to announce support of gay marriage, public discourse on AIDS and the gay community appear to have transformed here, since its...

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Jul 27, 2012

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William C. Price originally built Long Beach's Psychic Temple back in 1905. It served as the headquarters for his Society of New or Practical Psychology, a.k.a. The Holy Kiss Society. The good times didn't last long, and by 1908, Price had filed suit against his own followers, in a dispute over cash. He'd eventually end...

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Jul 26, 2012

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If you've never heard of ASIMO then you have definitely been living in some black hole across the other side of the universe. ASIMO, Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility, is an AMAZING robot project developed by Honda in 1986 and is continually evolving at an incredibly frightening rate. I remember watching videos when engineers were...

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Jul 25, 2012

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So it may not be an icon that's been around for eternity, but the MetroCard, whether you're a tourist or a straphanger, is intertwined into our daily lives in New York. You know, it's that orange-ie yellow card with blue text. You can get a t-shirt with it printed across the entire body. I can...

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Jul 24, 2012

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From The New York Review of Books: There has long been a tendency to see the most important innovations of Modernism as arising directly from progressive causes. War, in this view, was considered a limiting if not wholly destructive force that stymied civilian architecture in favor of retrogressive military structures. But in his groundbreaking recent book...

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Jul 24, 2012

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I don't need to tell you how popular bikes are [on Broome Street in SoHo I counted no fewer than three non-bike stores with bikes in their storefront display] but bike accessories are a bit wanting. It's just expensive bike saddles and Danish baskets. This is an expired Kickstarter for a brilliantly simple bike-carrying solution, but...

8 Questions

Jul 23, 2012

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The shortest way to accurately describe Oliver Wang might just be to say that he is a very, very busy guy. In attempting to describe his many roles and undertakings in much more detail than that, it's hard to know where to begin. You could say he's an accomplished journalist & author, a scholar, and...

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Jul 23, 2012

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SOLAR is a brand new take on iPhone weather apps. It was developed by Hollr, a talented Long Beach-based mobile development house, and partner of Imprint. We are very happy to announce that it's now available in the iTunes store. It's going for the special introductory price of $0.99, and what you get in return...

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Jul 20, 2012

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Last week I posted a short Youtube video about Japanese clothing retailer UNIQLO and their recent foray into the wild world of marketing on Pinterest. Check it out here. On a related note, web design & development firm MediaNovak recently published an article entitled, "Pinterest: You Are Doing It Wrong" on their blog. MediaNovak specialize...