DailyCandy: You haven’t gone for the posters-as-decor thing since your rabid seventh-grade Depeche Mode obsession. And, generally speaking, this has been a positive development. But not so fast. Jason Munn has reinvented the wheel with his hand-silk-screened album and concert posters. A trained graphic designer, Munn creates his pieces in his Oakland, California, studio, and each one begins with a […]
Poster Decor
Mom ’n’ Baby Hikes
Iconoculture: Moms and babies head for the hills with Colorado Mountain Mamas hiking club. The group helps new moms get back on the trails – with baby on board. Each hike is led by an experienced guide trained in CPR who stays connected, via walkie-talkie, with the hiker at the back of the line so no one gets lost. In […]
Looking on the Bright Side
BizReport.com: The news menu was stuffed with the dreadful and appalling yesterday. A massive hurricane bearing down on Texas. A bus fire killing 24 elderly people near Dallas. Floods ravaging New Orleans — again. And that was before you even considered what’s happening to the economy, or in Iraq or Afghanistan, or anywhere else in this sad, wicked world. You […]
Gen Wine
TrendCentral: While young drinkers (21 and up, of course) aren’t dropping cheap beer anytime soon, the trend for more “refined” beverages seems to be going more mass lately, with affordable wines being marketed heavily to older Gen Ys and young Gen Xers. Qualitatively, we’ve already seen the beginning of the “hip” wine market with Sofia Coppola’s mini champagne cans, and […]
RoboDoc
BBC News: An intelligent computer system which can imitate doctors’ decisions about treatment for intensive care patients is being developed by scientists. It will monitor patients’ vital signs and then evaluate and administer drugs – a job now done by specialist medics. Decisions will be made in seconds – freeing up valuable time for doctors. The system is being designed […]
Chariot Racing
Iconoculture: What it lacks in Russell Crowe, it makes up for in authenticity. Visitors to Jerash, Jordan, can watch the Roman Army and Chariot Experience (RACE) – an authentic reenactment of Roman chariot races staged in a restored ancient Roman hippodrome. OK, there are no lions and no thumbs-down executions. But otherwise, it’s authentic. Reenactors are former Jordanian police officers […]
What’s That Song?
DailyCandy: You’re standing in a crowded record store attempting to hum (over blaring emo-core) the melody of an unidentified song you heard on the radio to a bemohawked salesperson who has a look on his face that, translated into English, means “kill me now.” Wow. You’d pay money not to go through that again. So do. For just 99 cents, […]
Online Machine Shop
TRENDWATCHING.COM: Taking it one step further is US-based eMachineshop.com, which lets ordinary consumers download free, easy-to-use software which they can use to design objects like car parts, door knobs, in metal or plastic. They can then get a quote, order the product online and eMachineshop will forward the design to a ‘real world’ machine shop for manufacturing. Suddenly, MINIPRENEURS have […]
Skulls and Bugs
Iconoculture: Shiny, colorful, and, oh yeah, bugged out. Still, Weevil Bangles boast a certain creature charm. The Lucite bracelets feature real bugs as design elements. Maxilla and Mandible specializes in gruesome “museum specimen” delights, like skull beads, candy crickets, and curious rocks and fossils (Frommer’s New York Guide 2005). But its Weevil Bangles are attracting fashion lab rats (Lucky 9.05). […]
Social Networking for Clubbers
BarPeople.net: With an innovative approach to social networking and based on the premise that “people with similar interests share similar spaces”, BarPeople.net is set to take the London social scene by storm. BarPeople.net is currently giving visitors exclusive and free prelaunch invitations. Visitors to the site can signup for these at http://www.barpeople.net BarPeople.net revolves around the simple premise that “people […]