Dear Mr President, Regarding the Oil Spill… Please…

FIX IT!

June 29th, 2010 Categories: happenings, misc. Tags: No comments

The world knows this is still happening right?

Over a month later, millions of gallons of oil are still gushing into The Gulf of Mexico. There is a distinct possibility that this will be the single worst human-evoked disaster in our history on this planet. One can only hope that this is not a sign of things to come.

June 8th, 2010 Categories: happenings, misc. Tags: No comments

Websites for everyone!

As a designer and web person, I get asked to help people with there websites a lot. About three months back I discovered a service called flavors.me. This is now THE service I send people looking for a dead simple and pretty website.

Flavors.me from Jack Zerby on Vimeo.

June 1st, 2010 Categories: Video, web Tags: No comments

Horse-drawn… HUMMER?

Those pesky NYC artists are making us think again. This sculptural expression created by Jeremy Dean very literally juxtaposes the old and the new. In the spirit of eco-statements, I would have preferred that a totalled Hummer went into the project rather than a perfectly functional (albeit gas guzzling) automobile. Waste not, want not applies to artists too.

Check out the show in NY: JEREMY DEAN : FUTURAMA @ Pulse New York

March 26th, 2010 Categories: Video, art, happenings Tags: No comments

Bottled? What’s next? They gonna sell air?

This is a great combination of information and graphics.

The Story of Bottled Water, released on March 22, 2010 (World Water Day) employs the Story of Stuff style to tell the story of manufactured demand—how you get Americans to buy more than half a billion bottles of water every week when it already flows from the tap. Over five minutes, the film explores the bottled water industrys attacks on tap water and its use of seductive, environmental-themed advertising to cover up the mountains of plastic waste it produces. The film concludes with a call to take back the tap, not only by making a personal commitment to avoid bottled water, but by supporting investments in clean, available tap water for all.

Learn more at: http://storyofbottledwater.org

March 24th, 2010 Categories: Video, happenings Tags: No comments

Tire Shark

Ji Yong-Ho's tire creatures

Some people recycle their tires, Ji Yong Ho turns them into art. Check out the Theme Magazine interview with Ji & the high res photos of his work courtesy of Autoblog.

Links :
Photos on Autoblog
Ji Yong Ho Interview on Thememagazine.com

March 12th, 2010 Categories: art Tags: No comments

Big scene, made in a small studio

It’s mind blowing to see the images that can be produced without stepping a foot outside.

March 5th, 2010 Categories: Video, technology Tags: No comments

Tiny World

Videographer Mirko Faienza Discovers “a whole tiny world in my father’s small garden.
there is a small pond with small falls, some stones, some plants, and plenty of life!”

February 28th, 2010 Categories: Video, misc. Tags: No comments

INK.

"Stress Relief" - ink on paper

Inspiration is a fickle thing. Sometimes you search for it, but can’t find it. Sometimes it finds you, when you’re not even looking. For the first time in a long time, things have slowed down enough for me to let inspiration tap me on the shoulder and say hello. I’m looking forward to seeing how this affects my professional work.

February 23rd, 2010 Categories: design, happenings Tags: No comments

Comic Relief: The Creative Process

Every creative professional can relate to this on some level.

February 22nd, 2010 Categories: design, funny Tags: No comments

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