Fast Company’s list of The 100 Most Creative People in Business 2011 is home to some of the most ambitious, incredible, and innovative people on our planet. As mongers of creative, we are more than pleased to share some of our favorites… (more…)
For cool shit I presented the Kickstarter project + Pool as an attempt to spread the word on this exciting new project in the New York City. + Pool is proposed to be located in the east river and will be filled with filtered water from the Hudson river. (more…)
If you’re someone who is as keen to learn about everything China as we are, then this is definitely a book that you need to add to your summer reading list. (more…)
For this week’s Cool Shit, I shared the RSA’s fun, illustrated video narrated by Phillip Zimbardo — The Secret Powers of Time.
Here’s another video worth watching —
Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us.
Some info about the RSA:
The RSA: an enlightenment organisation committed to finding innovative practical solutions to today’s social challenges. Through its ideas, research and 27,000-strong Fellowship it seeks to understand and enhance human capability so we can close the gap between today’s reality and people’s hopes for a better world.
One man’s experience riding the NYC subway.
After a successful ‘Be Stupid’ Campaign, Diesel is taking it up a notch with their new campaign ‘Diesel Island’. Get ready for a visual feast as this campaign unfolds. Taking its cue from ‘Lost’, Diesel created its own island where rules are written by skimpy youngsters, taking showers together and running around naked. Its what they call ‘the land of the stupid, home of the brave.’
www.diesel.com/island
I am the last person I’d expect to write a post about the Super Bowl, but I wanted to give credit where credit is due. No, not to the Packers [admittedly, I didn't even watch the game], but to the creative genius that populated the airwaves between all of the brute and brawn. At $3M per spot, this years commercial ad space was sold out by October.
Here are a few of my favorites. What were yours?
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This Chrysler commercial featuring Eminem is an evocative shout out to the Motor City. It my pick for most inspiring— a portrait of an industry and a city that knows luxury through decades hard work and struggle. “It’s the hottest fires that makes the hardest steel.”
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I was VERY impressed with the grace and ease at which Motorola took some deep jabs at Apple with this commercial. The Orwellian automaton society, all white, hoodies, walking in formation, each murmuring into their headphone mics. Here motorola challenges us to be different and “create a better world” — walk against the crowd, take out those ear buds and bring some color into the world!
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This Volkswagon commercial wins for just plain cute— a viral success even before it aired on television.
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I think this Doritos commercial is hilarious. It makes me sooooo uncomfortable. Love it!
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The situation we all fear:
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Very funny. Very cute.
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Most bizarre:
“Bodies in Urban Spaces,” an avant-garde moving art exhibition by choreographer Willi Dorner, was performed around Wall Street last Sunday and Monday. Approximately 20 dancers dressed in bright colored work-out clothes and transformed themselves into the surrounding architecture. In New York, it’s not uncommon to encounter strange sights and sounds on the streets, but this unique moving art is just unusual enough to capture the attention of the passersby. “Bodies in Urban Spaces” was created in France and has performed in Austria, England, France, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and the US.
Sources: Flickr by 16 Miles of String, Bryan Derballa for The Wall Street Journal, YouTube
When the rains descended upon Rockefeller Center, it just seemed fitting for the fans and for the lady herself. With over 20,000 people (most of who spent the entire night) squeezed into every nook and cranny, the place pulsated with life while the rest of NYC was fast asleep. Gaga: an icon, a brand, among many other things.
Be forewarned: look out for The Claw!
These are just a few things with which I think America needs to [re]acquaint itself, and embrace to some extent or another.
1. Stoop sitting
‘Nuff said.
2. “Rent is the thing that beats us” or “self-created life”
Poppa Neutrino’s life philosophy is full of gems.
3. Siestas
Leave it to Americans to create the “power nap” instead…
4. Drinking in public
I’m not necessarily advocating public drunkenness. Just the opportunity to sit in the park with a glass of wine or a good beer and get down to people-watching. Let’s add a good piazza to the mix too.
5. Rush hour – with bikes!
6. Taking your time to end a film (and allowing yourself patience when watching a film)
Fassbinder got it right with The American Soldier.
7. Free post-secondary education
If this is too much to ask for, then let’s at least ban rankings by publications like U.S. News & World Report, which cause schools to compete for top spots via increased spending on stuff like state-of-the-art athletic facilities and dorms. We don’t need rock-climbing walls and former hotel rooms. We need more accessible educational opportunities for all.
8. Metric system
It’s the official system of measurement for all nations except Burma, Liberia, and the United States. It’s based on powers of ten. Wouldn’t it just make things a little simpler?
9. The autobahn
The facts are there: higher speed doesn’t mean more fatalities or accidents. Differences in speed are the main factors in highway accidents; more liberal speed limit laws actually improve the flow of traffic and reduce the number of accidents. Having cops lying in wait along the side of the road proves a dangerous distraction and disrupts the traffic flow as drivers attempt to quickly hit the brakes in order to avoid a ticket.
10. Extended paid parental leave
This practice is rooted in the belief that more time spent together makes for a stronger family, and stronger families mean a stronger society overall.
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