October 2012

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Oct 12, 2012

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In about 1998, hip-hop fans might recall, Jermaine Dupri and Jay-Z told us that "Money Ain't A Thing." Which is to say, they thought they had such a fiscal surplus, hard currency was more or less completely inconsequential to them. It wasn't a very good song, and it didn't seem sincere either. Interestingly, this insightful...

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Oct 11, 2012

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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation hosted a "re-invent the toilet" challenge back in 2011 and awarded $400,000 in grants to eight universities. According to the World Health Organization, 2.5 billion people around the globe are without access to sanitary toilets, which results in the spread of deadly diseases. Every year, 1.5 million people—mostly those...

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Oct 10, 2012

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Design blogger Grace Bonney of Design*Sponge has been doing a podcast series "After the Jump" for awhile now, they interview designers, store owners and up-and-coming creatives. In their recent podcast they take on the topic of "branding". It's filled with some great insight, do's and don't's and other helpful tips. Take a listen and hopefully...

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Oct 08, 2012

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Matthew Welsh is a designer, an amazing photographer, oh and a musician. He has a design company Killdisco Design and more recently began a blog, The Self Centered Man focused around the motorcycling culture. He's an all around interesting guy who bounces from coast to coast, and we were able to slow him down and...

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Oct 05, 2012

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A couple of years ago Stephen Fry did an interview covering all sorts of topics across the spectrum on how to live a better life and just live in the moment. Its an absolutely brilliant 30 minutes filled with amazing quotes that will certainly make you think for a minute and reflect on your own...

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Oct 05, 2012

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Ted Schilowitz of RED Digital Cinema was one of the Featured Speakers at our What Price Video? conference at Long Beach Museum of Art, last year. It was fascinating to hear how their digital cameras had revolutionized some aspects of movie-making. We also viewed snippets from major blockbusters shot on their tech, which was nothing...

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Oct 03, 2012

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Filmmaker Casey Neistat has taken the time to create a guide to using what has so eloquently replaced "the Twitters" and "the Facebooks" of today, the Instagram. "But how can you go wrong?" you might ask. It's quite apparent and he'll walk you through it. Take some time and watch this video, which was put...

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Oct 01, 2012

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Lyndon Cormack, along with his brother Jamie, heads up one of the most interesting, fastest-growing bag brands around. Having worked at a well-respected footwear company for ten years, Lyndon was able to leverage his knowledge of fashion trends and the retail landscape in order to identify a very real hole in the market, and fill...