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Feed, Humbled, On Beauty

Sep 27, 2012

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Playing for Change is a global multimedia movement created to bring the human race together as one. Doesn't matter who you are, where you come from, or how you were raised, at one time or another I can guarantee you that music has brought you closer to another individual and also inspired some sort of...

Name Drop, On Beauty, Video

Aug 31, 2012

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We gave you a little recap of our time at the recent Agenda Show, right here in Long Beach, which went down at the beginning of August. It was an amazing event. Now we're back, with some additional video footage we put together, starring the gifted SF-based artist Aaron De La Cruz, going to work...

Information, On Beauty

Jul 27, 2012

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William C. Price originally built Long Beach's Psychic Temple back in 1905. It served as the headquarters for his Society of New or Practical Psychology, a.k.a. The Holy Kiss Society. The good times didn't last long, and by 1908, Price had filed suit against his own followers, in a dispute over cash. He'd eventually end...

Feed, Laughing, On Beauty

Jul 26, 2012

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If you've never heard of ASIMO then you have definitely been living in some black hole across the other side of the universe. ASIMO, Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility, is an AMAZING robot project developed by Honda in 1986 and is continually evolving at an incredibly frightening rate. I remember watching videos when engineers were...

On Beauty

Jul 24, 2012

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From The New York Review of Books: There has long been a tendency to see the most important innovations of Modernism as arising directly from progressive causes. War, in this view, was considered a limiting if not wholly destructive force that stymied civilian architecture in favor of retrogressive military structures. But in his groundbreaking recent book...

On Beauty

Jul 24, 2012

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I don't need to tell you how popular bikes are [on Broome Street in SoHo I counted no fewer than three non-bike stores with bikes in their storefront display] but bike accessories are a bit wanting. It's just expensive bike saddles and Danish baskets. This is an expired Kickstarter for a brilliantly simple bike-carrying solution, but...

Feed, Laughing, On Beauty, Solutions

Jul 19, 2012

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So what do you get when an 1850s gramophone and a 2012 iPhone mate? A GRAMO-iPHONE. YES. And a portable one for that matter. (Image of gramophone below so you don't need to Google it. You're welcome for saving you 2 seconds). Its always great to see Eco-friendly products out on the market because it...

Feed, Name Drop, On Beauty

Jul 07, 2012

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If I'm completely honest (which is not necessarily always the best policy; no matter what they say), I hijacked this content from our friends at Staple Design. But the long and the short of it is, this new documentary Never Sorry, about world famous Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, is just too compelling not to share....

Humbled, On Beauty, Solutions

Jun 29, 2012

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Here's a short documentary about an inspiring project by Spanish art collective Boa Mistura, from January this year. As part of their Crossroads series of projects, the artists spent 10 days in Vila Brasilândia, São Paulo, Brazil, painting massive, colorful, typographic messages across large sections of rundown communities. The artwork was done such that, from...