I'm not sure if it's this stereotypically un-Californian weather we're having here today sending me on a sentimental journey, or not, but I thought I'd share some more highlights from our trip to Tokyo late last year, when it rained nearly every day for a week. The main focus of the visit was the Architecture...
Facebook, Twitter, blogs, online publications, Instagram. Feel free to post, voice, comment whatever you wish but just know that someone is ALWAYS listening. Case in point, an automotive journalist who learned the hard way when he so adamantly voiced his opinion that world renowned Nascar driver, Jeff Gordon's, salesman stunt was fake. Original at the...
With most record labels struggling to scrape by, a generation of eardrums expecting songs to come free, and a shrinking middle class in music in general, it just keeps getting harder for an independent band to pay the bills through its songs. And so one of my favorite groups, the Cambodian psychedelic rock-inspired Dengue Fever,...
A vast and endless sea of photos lie on your phone and tech devices and Benjamin Lotan was one of the co-founders of Social Print Studio a company set out to bring physical copies of photos to you. The company has various photo printing options that vary from printstagr.am the online print shop for your...
Here's one of the first videos to come out of this year's Pow! Wow! artist summit in Hawaii, which we attended last year, and have blogged about several times now. The videography team employed a nice RC helicopter rig, which is perfect for catching sweeping shots of the giant walls popping up around the Kaka'ako...
Life is like a game. Nay, life IS a game. A game that everyone plays and eventually dies in. However what determines whether you win or lose that game is not if you die or live, but rather HOW you live your life and HOW you experience it. Cheesy, I know, but its the truth...
The marketplace for consumers is ever evolving and continuing to change. Now we have the IndieGoGo's the Kickstarter's and all those flash sale sites. Numerous new venues to shop around in, changing consumers in to possible startups etc. Now there's a new way to shop and sell, Prelaunch. The new shop/store revolves around the "Pre-order"....
On Saturday I went to the Charles M. Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa, CA, for the first time in more than a decade. It's a classy, understated tribute to the giant of comic strips and popular culture in general, with landscaping that includes a labyrinth shaped like the World Famous Super Beagle in front and...
Imagine a sustainable green alternative solution to electricity dependent light sources, in which highways and driveways are illuminated with ornamental plant varieties. Bioglow is a company that caught my attention because of its revolutionary development of genetically engineered plants that produce and emit light. This St. Louis-based biotech firm has just launched the first commercially...
We've been keeping our eye on the impressive work of Architecture For Dogs contributing architects, Torafu Architects. The Tokyo-based firm was founded in 2004 by Koichi Suzuno and Shinya Kamuro and they actually produce an incredibly wide range of design work including architectural design, interior design, graphic design, art installations, film making and product design...