Author: Anne Ishii

Jul 01, 2011 So you think you can Google+?

Damn if tech journalism doesn't get more meta, faster, everyday. Google+ is a mere fetus, and I'm already getting pinged articles about the clique-ish nature of Mountain View's answer to Palo Alto (P.S. The link's a worthy meta-review). My $0.02: A.) I like to think that if Facebook was originally a diffusion of False Aristocracy,...

May 24, 2011 Bad Lip Reading: Meta-Viral Video Phenomenon

This is simply amazing. Someone is taking popular music videos, then changing the lyrics of the song to sync with the movement of the singer's lips. [Hence the moniker "Bad Lip Reading."] From Douglas Wolk coverage of the phenomenon: BLR first came to prominence with "Gang Fight," a riff on Rebecca Black's inescapable quasi-hit "Friday" that...

May 20, 2011 “How Target Hyped Its Campaign for Missoni”

via Apartment Therapy. Start a Whisper Campaign Set Up of Social Media Explosion Hold Back Photos Until It's Time. Me personally: excited to see not whether, but how a wholly independent family luxury name fares in a mass-merchandise retailer. ...

May 15, 2011 Easily The Best Item Displayed at ICFF

International Contemporary Film Festival is in town (NYC), for Design Week. Most of the exhibitors have more interesting agendas than products, but this...

May 05, 2011 Thank you. #ICL2011

Thanks to everyone who Veni Vidi Vici-ed ICL 2011: NYC: What Price Architecture? I want to personally thank: Bernhard Karpf for his defense of Architecture. Bill Morrish for his criticism of outpaced development. David Allin for pointing out Architecture is uselesss until it's not. Sou Fujimoto for pointing out Architecture has to be "super useful." Especially in light of the March...

Mar 29, 2011 A Day With A North Korean Hairdresser.

Pyongyang Style from Steve Gong on Vimeo....

Mar 26, 2011 Spread ’em

Mar 26, 2011 Dating by Color, or How to Score a Woman of Color

via YMFY The researchers, after controlling for all other attributes (height, weight, attractiveness, etc.), calculated how much extra income (relative to the income of the average online male dater, $62,500) a man would need to overcome the racial barrier. Here are some of the estimates (there weren’t enough data to do all the interracial permutations) of...

Mar 14, 2011 Help Japan

The footage coming from Japan since Friday has been heartbreaking. I know many of us far away from the physical damage feel closer than ever to the loved ones struck by the disaster(s). Here are some ways to send aid. Red Cross. Text "REDCROSS" to 90999 Citizen Effect, where Google CEO Eric Schmidt is now matching all...

Mar 14, 2011 Love Letter to Japan, Yoko Ono

My dear people of Japan, I feel numb now, as if I was there myself and hit with this disaster as you have been. Only just recently I visited Tokyo, and was delighted how beautiful, clean and quiet the city was! I didn’t expect a disaster like this to happen to the country I love so...