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Monthly Archives: February 2009

Google Energy Monitoring?

Google PowerMeter will help users figure out how much energy they consume.
Google PowerMeter, now in prototype, will receive information from utility smart meters and energy management devices and provide anyone who signs up access to her home electricity consumption right on her iGoogle homepage. The graph below shows how someone could use this information [...]

Follow Your Heart

Duncan Jepson’s new documentary focuses on China’s established and emerging hip-hop artists and their impact on youth culture and culture at large.

Fifty People. One Question.

The filmmakers go to locations and ask 50 people the same question with diverse, sometimes heartbreaking, results.
Fifty People, One Question: London from Fifty People, One Question on Vimeo.

Just a matter of time…

before Michelle was immortalized Warhol-style. Mickelene Thomas has already created a pop art rendition.

MICKALENE THOMAS, Michelle O, Screenprint on Rives BFK, 2008

Art by Andy Gilmore

From Andy Gilmore’s blog.

Judging a Book

A new archive of book cover designs and designers.

Sugar

The fates handed us tickets to last night’s Portland International Film Festival screening of Sugar, a film by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck about the economic and emotional weight felt by aspiring Dominican baseball players. Recommended viewing. (Thanks Ricky!)

I Can Read Movies

Just great.

Thinking Through Craft

Glenn Adamson is the head of research at the Victoria and Albert Museum and the author of Thinking Through Craft, a critical appraisal of the value, position and possibilities for modern craft production. He’ll be speaking this weekend at the University of Oregon. (Saturday 2/21, White Stag Block, 70 NW Couch St. 2:30pm)

The New Geography

The March issue of The Atlantic features an interesting article by Richard Florida on the effects that the economic/housing collapse may have on the use of space in America. Among Florida’s proposals are a shift from home ownership to long-term renting and the development of suburbs into higher-density nodes within urban metro-zones. Here’s a quote:
If [...]

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