Author: Chibi

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Jan 14, 2011

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Los Angeles-based songwriter and artist Allee Willis---in addition to writing the Pointer Sisters' "Neutron Dance" (!!!)---keeps one of the more interesting sites out there (and I really mean out-there). Especially if you might enjoy, say, a roundup of all the YouTubed renditions of Earth, Wind & Fire's "September" (which she also wrote) or maybe a...

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Dec 17, 2010

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"Oh, I downloaded it. It works." "Whaaaa? It works?!" "I mean, you're not going to read the works of Pablo Neruda on it, but you can translate a street sign or a menu." ¡¿Diga lo que?! (via pndbrnd @ short shots and nerds everywhere)...

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Dec 15, 2010

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"Turning 102 is crap," Oscar Niemeyer told AFP a year ago, "and there is nothing to commemorate." These days seem to be going a lot better. Last week the main architect behind the past-future feel of Brasilia debuted "Tranquilo Com a Vida" ("Feeling Good About Life"), a samba (and tribute to the favelas of Rio)...

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Dec 10, 2010

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No one speaks more deeply and enthusiastically about bubble wrap or the front-loading stapler than Morinosuke Kawaguchi,  the Arthur D. Little technology and innovation consultant you may have come across this summer via his talk at Tedx Tokyo on Japanese toilet design.  ("We try to find the fun--even in the toilet! Toilets nowadays, they talk!:...

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Dec 08, 2010

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Hatsune Miku you've already met and should be hearing from a lot more once her maker, Crypton Future Media, keeps its promise to teach her English now that she's topped 39,390 Facebook fans, san-kyu very much. If you're still catching up, Hatsune Miku's a character from the Vocaloid music software program--a virtual diva who "sings"...

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Dec 02, 2010

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Finnish documentarian Rax Rinnekangas began his "Five Master Houses of the World" series with Konstantin Melnikov's hive/studio in Moscow. For those who speak neither Finnish nor Spanish and can't fully enjoy this trailer, Lumière has posted Richard Pare's commentary on the Melnikov House as part of a 2009 exhibition of the Lost Vanguard: Soviet Modernist...