With architects using cheese to build models, it comes to us at no surprise that corporate lawyers are turning to unconventional materials to create art.
Take for instance, Nathan Sawaya who after winning a national Master Lego Model Builder competition in 2004, quit his job as a corporate lawyer to pursue art. Nathan uses Legos to create architectural phenomena, accurate portraits, and designs…
Haruo Suekichi got thrown out of watch-making school in Japan for making watches that look like they belong in a Hayao Miyazaki film. Miniature Howl’s Moving Castles. He works alone in a cluttered studio, making about one watch a day. Watches with tiny spinning snowflakes, pneumatic pumps, layers of cities and moons. He takes inspiration Star Wars, Gundam, and Michael Jackson’s…
If you haven’t heard by now the city by the bay has banned plastic bags from large supermarkets. Brown paper sounds better anyway.
We agree with Ross Mirkarimi, the city legislator who pushed the ordinance, if other states and cities follow suit the environmental implications are enormous.
Chances are that SF mayor, Gavin Newsom will sign the bill. Or he could…
In this edition of How to Save the World With Good Thoughts: Pretty:Darn:Swell, and Jonathan Lethem.
If you’re an artist or like art that makes you think of The Emperor of Ice Cream and dressers made of deal, check out Pretty:Darn:Swell. Artists featured on the site are selling high-quality prints of their work and donating $5 of the sale to their…
The Pull-Out Method is back in NYC with a dirty dance party at Midway tonight at 10pm. The action will be on two floors, Neutral Mute (best of WMF ‘06) downstairs with some primal dance squirm-in-your-chair electro punk, followed by headliners Purple Crush, fresh from the WMC in Miami to feed you some sleazy spice all night long.
Stick around after the…
We just got back from lunch at the new Whole Foods. They haven’t even got the security cameras up yet. There’s a waterfall, a pommes frittes counter with twelve dipping sauces in varieties of cinnamon and salt, a fromagerie, a land of powdered confections, and NYPD keeping watch over it all from the 2nd floor bridge, probably to deter any…
The UN released a study on Thursday saying that better architecture and energy savings could do more to fight global warming than any restrictions on greenhouse emissions. Simple measures can make a big difference: more blinds to keep the sun out in hot climates, energy efficient lightbulbs, better insulation and ventilation, not living in absurdly big houses that are impossible to…
There comes a time in every young semi-secret members club’s life when they begin to question the world they’ve been presented. Why are we here? How did we get here? Are there fundamental laws to our universe?
Physics, dear readers, holds the answers to one of those questions.
Pure starship poetry, physics is the mode of thought that revealed why…
Indians in Arizona have figured out a way to make money other than gambling. J. Crowley and Neil Punsalan are taking a stab at it too.
When NBC slashed the budget for a show the two friends had created, the young men decided to play it their way, walked out of the building, took the leftover money to a roulette table…
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If the tiny Indian island of Ghoramara is any indication, the world’s food consumption is reaching a critical level. We are literally eating away the ground beneath our feet.
Intensive farming and deforestation on Ghoramara in the Bay of Bengal is causing the island to disinegrate. Combine that with rising sea-levels and the island may vanish altogether.
The planet is disappearing because…
We’re running out of animals. Seriously. Remember that amazing book, Animalia? It ain’t gonna look like that around here anymore if the Fish and Wildlife Service has anything to say about it. Not that New York resembles an enchanted alphabetical animal kingdom. We wish.
From the NY Times:
“Fish and Wildlife Service, dedicated to conserving America’s nature, is considering limiting the…
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