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In the 40 years that humans have been traveling into space, the suits they wear have changed very little. The bulky, gas-pressurized outfits give astronauts a bubble of protection, but their significant mass and the pressure itself severely limit mobility.
Continue reading "Who doesn't want to be fashionable in space?" »
John Howard started Megalomaniac Wines as a retirement project. It's a daring new venture that marks a turning point in the evolution of Niagara's hyperconservative wine industry. The implicit message: We're finally mature and confident enough not to take ourselves so seriously. At least that's Mr. Howard's megalomaniacal hope.
Introducing Coloroot, the world's first online color community!
David Pogue, the weekly personal-technology columnist for the New York Times, ditches his old cellphone for the iPhone in this sing-a-long sequel.
Toronto is in the midst of a cultural renaissance with a number of large-scale cultural projects underway including the completed Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art and the ongoing transformation at the Art Gallery of Ontario. A remarkable but smaller scale endeavor is Artscape's Green Arts Barns project; an arts and environmental convergence centre for the local community.
Tokyo's neon splashed, Akihabara district, or Electric Town is what sociologists are calling an urban first -- a ghetto of geeks. A subculture of social misfits obsessed with electronic role-playing games, manga comics and Japanese animation, they began gathering in Akihabara in the late 1990s, lured by the district's proliferation of electronics retailers and stores selling everything you would need to build your own computer.
The above photo depicts two million plastic beverage bottles, the number used in the US every five minutes.
"Running the Numbers," is Von Lintel Gallery's first solo exhibit of photographic works by Chris Jordan. This series focuses on contemporary American culture through the unassailable lens of statistics.
Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on.
Swedish vodka brand Absolut has unveiled a new range called Absolut 100, with packaging and identity by Pearlfisher.
Developed for the duty free and travel retail market, the vodka's look uses a minimal, masculine color palette of semi-opaque black glass, with chrome typography contrasted with grey lettering.
Continue reading "Strength Through Masculinity and Exclusivity" »
In the 40 years that humans have been traveling into space, the suits they wear have changed very little. The bulky, gas-pressurized outfits give astronauts a bubble of protection, but their significant mass and the pressure itself severely limit mobility.
Continue reading "Who doesn't want to be fashionable in space?" »
John Howard started Megalomaniac Wines as a retirement project. It's a daring new venture that marks a turning point in the evolution of Niagara's hyperconservative wine industry. The implicit message: We're finally mature and confident enough not to take ourselves so seriously. At least that's Mr. Howard's megalomaniacal hope.
Introducing Coloroot, the world's first online color community!
Toronto is in the midst of a cultural renaissance with a number of large-scale cultural projects underway including the completed Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art and the ongoing transformation at the Art Gallery of Ontario. A remarkable but smaller scale endeavor is Artscape's Green Arts Barns project; an arts and environmental convergence centre for the local community.
Tokyo's neon splashed, Akihabara district, or Electric Town is what sociologists are calling an urban first -- a ghetto of geeks. A subculture of social misfits obsessed with electronic role-playing games, manga comics and Japanese animation, they began gathering in Akihabara in the late 1990s, lured by the district's proliferation of electronics retailers and stores selling everything you would need to build your own computer.
The above photo depicts two million plastic beverage bottles, the number used in the US every five minutes.
"Running the Numbers," is Von Lintel Gallery's first solo exhibit of photographic works by Chris Jordan. This series focuses on contemporary American culture through the unassailable lens of statistics.
Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on.
Swedish vodka brand Absolut has unveiled a new range called Absolut 100, with packaging and identity by Pearlfisher.
Developed for the duty free and travel retail market, the vodka's look uses a minimal, masculine color palette of semi-opaque black glass, with chrome typography contrasted with grey lettering.
Continue reading "Strength Through Masculinity and Exclusivity" »
