Introducing ’500 Pencils’, which is exactly what it sounds like. When you subscribe to this artistic mail-out, 25 coloured pencils will be sent to you, or the extremely lucky one of your choice. A different set of 25 will be mailed every month, for 20 months! ‘Social Designer’ is the team overseeing this, and their [...]
Artists Christine Santora and Justin Gignac began their sites online in the hopes of selling paintings for the exact price it would cost them to buy what it is they wanted, and the paintings themselves depicted what they’d buy if the painting were to sell. There was the painting of the ‘Miniature Tulip Chair’ for [...]
If someone ‘Google’d you, what would they find? How accurate would it be? ‘Personas’ is a net experiment set up by a team at MIT. Type your name into the engine and the program will attempt to characterize you according to a predetermined set of categories, according to what the search engine can find online [...]
Here’s another way to weather the current economic gales. Blue Star Jets is a company that was originally formed by a group of business executives who realized that not all passengers for private jets actually need to own an aircraft. There was a market for those who were looking merely to lease a jet for [...]
In New York, ‘word of mouth’ not only travels fast, it travels effectively. New Yorkers don’t like to be the one left out of something everyone is doing, or eating, or trying. The latest popular ‘try me’ is a truck by the name of ‘Wafels and Dinges’, which travels around the city offering Belgian breakfast [...]
Designer Neville Mars presents ‘Solar Forest’, a series of man made structures designed to charge the electric cars that will plug into the provided outlets in the trunks. Not only will your new electric ride be parked in the shade, preserving your groceries for a few minutes longer while you run into one more store, [...]
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