August 2012

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Aug 17, 2012

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Earlier in the year, Staple Design shared this fascinating story about Japanese clothing retailer MUJI having unveiled a big new promotion: the chance to live for two years, for free, in a fully-furnished, beautifully-appointed, and well-stocked MUJI house in Mitaka Tokyo. The catch? The winner, who will be selected by lottery, will be required to...

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Aug 16, 2012

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DARPA : The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. If you're not very familiar with them then boy, oh boy do you have some reading to do. Originally created in 1958 as a response to the Soviet Union's launch of Sputnik, DARPA's purpose is to prevent strategic surprises from negatively impacting our national security and ensuring...

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Aug 15, 2012

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Have you ever sat at your desk wondering what someone else somewhere else is doing right this second? Well the web tool "This is Now" and Instagram help answer just that. The tool streams instagram photos geotagged in various cities real-time. Some of the cities they offer include Los Angeles, Las Vegas, New York, Sao Paulo,...

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Aug 14, 2012

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via The LA Times Adam "MCA" Yauch, the (Beastie Boys) fallen member, has forbidden the use of his music and “artistic property” to be used in advertisements, according to Rolling Stone, which obtained a copy of his will. It was filed on Tuesday in Manhattan Surrogate court. Brilliant. via Forbes But this wording in his will, which he added...

Editorial

Aug 14, 2012

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The answer is yes. Here's your post-2012 Olympic Games Round-Up of The Shortfalls in Womens Sports Broadcasting. Also known as Broad-Casting: +The Japanese women's soccer team and Australian women's basketball team flew coach while their male counterparts enjoyed Business Class. Good job, men of Pacifica. +Juvenile morons on Twitter harass Gabby Douglas about her unkempt hair, arguably...

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Aug 13, 2012

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I had the pleasure of meeting Brian about a year ago while visiting an old college buddy up in the oh so lovely city of San Francisco. The best part about this? The fact that we met on social terms over a few beers rather than at some obligatory networking event. At the time, they...

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Aug 10, 2012

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In the last month or so, we've shared a couple of interesting links about marketing on the "virtual pinboard" social platform, Pinterest. In the meantime, the Buzz Referrals blog have posted an interesting infographic about the up & coming web phenom. With only two years under their belt, 400% month-on-month growth, and 10M+ users and...

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Aug 09, 2012

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Stephen Wiltshire is an amazingly talented artist that was born mute and diagnosed autistic at age 3. From an early age he began using art as a method of communication that eventually resulted in him gaining world wide recognition for his ability to draw insanely accurate representations of cities with a whimsical touch. Some of...

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Aug 08, 2012

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We've seen it! They've done it! The latest Mars rover Curiosity has made it to Mars safely. So it just dropped down and that was that right? Not quite, you could say it's like a video game… And you can play along! NASA released a Mars rover landing video game for Xbox 360 and it's...

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Aug 07, 2012

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Hatsune Miku is near and dear to us at Imprint Lab, what with our sister-company interTrend having brought her to the United States for Toyota North America, all the way from the virtual reality known as Japan. She's a singer, a dancer, the object of fetish and desire, and now she's officially a convenience store...