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Activist | Sara Ziff

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:35:00 -0500

Sara Ziff is a model, activist, filmmaker and a lovely woman with a brave vision. New York Magazine calls her Norma Rae of the Runway. She started a labor movement, a non-profit called The Model Alliance - a platform that aims to radically improve the conditions under which models work.

Over the years, I had an intimate first look at the Fashion Industry and things behind the scenes are not always pretty. Fortunately, Sara is bringing much needed transparency to the fashion industry and just in time for the New York Fashion Week.

The Model Alliance Video Campaign from The Model Alliance on Vimeo.

Startup Candy | Health 2.0

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:47:00 -0500

Greatist is our new favorite health, fitness & wellness source. The articles are informative and fun to read!

The image below was originally published in the article on Exercise Addiction.

Gogol Bordello | New Years Eve Show

Mon, 02 Jan 2012 13:44:00 -0500

Gogol Bordello at Terminal 5 on New Years Eve was the best way to start 2012-dancing, singing, laughing & celebrating life!

Gogol Bordello— Wonderlust King from Nate Pommer on Vimeo.

“What we’re making isn’t folk music, but savage intellectualism. We speak a language of a new world community that understands cultures can relate. So people who still speak of nationalism and racism or what separates us, they are inadequate for this time. Evolution goes on.” - Eugene Hutz

Startup Candy | Content Tools

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 19:35:00 -0500

Startup Candy is a feature where I’d like to share news about startups, technology, and innovation.

During the Code Meet Print Meetup at the General Assembly in NYC we learned about 3 awesome startups:

URTAK is a free embeddable application for finding out what people think. This tool can help increase audience engagement with your content and easily collect user feedback.

FINDINGS makes it possible to import highlights from the books you are reading, collect text from the web, and share them with your friends.

PROJEQT is a device-neutral platform for showing creative work. This is an elegant creative storytelling platform enabling people to display content in a slideshow style. Agency TBWA led the software development and the site is written completely in HTML5. I already used it to create a pitch for a client and are happy that it runs as well on iPads and iPhones as it does on the desktop.

projeqt \ how great stories are told from projeqt on Vimeo.

Grimes | Oblivion

Sat, 17 Dec 2011 11:44:00 -0500

Grimes (Claire Boucher) seduced me today with her synthpop beats, sweet voice, and DIY aesthetics. Her messy hair reminds me of Lisa, character played by Angelina Jolie in the 1999 movie Girl, Interrupted (based on Susanna Kaysen’s memoir) Grimes translates the feeling of anxiety by playing one note at the time-and in turn creates a mood of beautiful disorder.

I enjoyed the suspense and the visuals in her live session for In My Room presented by Yours Truly and MTV Hive.

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cool-and-calm: Overwerk - Contact — his music would be the...

Fri, 02 Dec 2011 10:08:00 -0500

cool-and-calm:

Overwerk - Contact — his music would be the audio interpretation of my imagination when it’s traveling throughout outerspace.

Startup Candy | Social Travel

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 16:54:00 -0500

InBed.Me is a social booking site for travelers. This is a great platform that connects people and local businesses organically while growing global communities.

I was at the InBed.me launch party yesterday hosted at the HI USA hostel in NYC. The energy in the room was awesome and founders Diego Saez-Gil and Alex Torrenegra were great hosts.

Content Candy | Everything is a Remix

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 20:20:00 -0500

Kirby Ferguson is shaping the future of media by curating a holistic pre-digital era guide called Everything is a Remix.

Everything is a Remix Part 1 from Kirby Ferguson on Vimeo.

Some people have a natural ability for pattern recognition.

Content Candy | Etsy

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 15:01:00 -0500

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Etsy’s got a wonderous video campaign running. They’re producing individual indie films about craftspeople from across the world, like only an indie film maker could do. In the process, they’re promoting the love of hand made products and driving traffic to their site.

Telling stories works, and it’s easy to forget that sometimes the people just need great content. Sometimes it’s really that easy. From 22GL.

Visual Candy | Oh Snap! Smile Brooklyn wedding photographer and...

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 12:03:00 -0500

Visual Candy | Oh Snap! Smile

Brooklyn wedding photographer and my dear friend, Tanveer married beautiful Kelly and invited us all to get cozy! Check out the review for Oh Snap! Smile photo booth on Glamour.com

Idealist Dead at 22

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 07:11:00 -0500

Social networking site Diaspora co-founder and open web enthusiast Ilya Zhitomirskiy, passed away suddenly on Saturday night November 12, 2011.

Ilya poetically spoke code and was an idealist for the Digital Age. He was Free Culture warrior and inspiration for the Adjustment Generation that’s at the intersection of culture, technology and media.

We have the power to shape the future, start revolutions and communicate faster than ever before. Now that we have a powerful platform, how are the rest of us going to use our voice?

“The time will come when every change shall cease, this quick revolving wheel shall rest in peace: no summer then shall glow, nor winter freeze; nothing shall be to come, and nothing past, but an eternal now shall ever last.” ~ Petrarch

Please visit Hans Koning’s Tribute for Ilya

"How a geek girl is able to communicate with her peers might be best pinned to how comfortable she..."

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 10:29:00 -0500

“How a geek girl is able to communicate with her peers might be best pinned to how comfortable she feels in her own skin, especially when talking about her area of geek expertise. If she’s surrounded by people who don’t understand her world, then she’ll shut up tighter than a clam. However, if our she-geek is among kindred spirits who understand her quirks and quips, then I think she can schmooze with the best of them.”

- (“Geek Girls Unite” author Leslie Simon @geekgirlsunite)

"Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel..."

Sun, 23 Oct 2011 23:37:00 -0400

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Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things. And the reason they were able to do that was that they’ve had more experiences or they have thought more about their experiences than other people.

Unfortunately, that’s too rare a commodity. A lot of people in our industry haven’t had very diverse experiences. So they don’t have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.

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- Steve Jobs, Wired, February, 1995 (via brit)

Photo by Me. ”Mya” Sculpture by Ella Tulin The...

Sun, 17 Jul 2011 17:57:00 -0400

Photo by Me. ”Mya” Sculpture by Ella Tulin

The sculpture is currently displayed at the Field Gallery in Martha’s Vineyard.

“The way I celebrate life is through the making of sculpture. I sculpt women, earthy, vulnerable, open, sexy, joyful, pained and exuding life. The woman’s pelvis cradles the world” -Ella Tulin

She Smells Like Flowers And Tastes Like Butter

Wed, 23 Mar 2011 01:07:00 -0400

Skins is my new obsession! Just finished watching Season 1, Episode 10, “Eura.”

There are so many things I love about this show and this episode in particular, but right now I’d like to highlight one-Stanley.

Skins character Stanley is played by a young, very talented actor Daniel Flaherty. In this last episode Stanley plays acoustic guitar and sings to Daisy in his room, but we hear the same song, different version, towards the end of the episode.

The more polished version of the mystery song goes like “She Smells Like Flowers And Tastes Like Butter” and the artist is still Daniel Flaherty. What is the title of the song? Where can I find it? My mission tonight was to find this song.

In my crazed online search I found out something so delicious, Danny is indeed a singer/songwriter. You can listen to his music here.

Thank You MTV for taking a chance on this show, it was the smartest decision you have made in a while. I am proud to say that I am a fan of your network again.

Deep inside I am still the hopeful seventeen year old version of myself, even after some brutal years of living in New York City. And the music in this show, along with the story, and perfectly delivered lines transport me right back to the carefree state of mind, where ideas bloomed and every day was an adventure.

My childlike enthusiasm is revived and I am bursting with creativity.

Prediction, in the next season of Skins, Stanley is going to have some serious stage time.

Pop Levi | Pick Me Up Uppercut

Wed, 01 Dec 2010 22:27:00 -0500

Pop Levi | Pick Me Up Uppercut

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Thu, 25 Nov 2010 09:27:45 -0500

Megan Cedro is a brilliant artist living in Brooklyn and has...

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 00:43:00 -0400

Megan Cedro is a brilliant artist living in Brooklyn and has Mast Brothers Chocolate treats at her fingertips.

In 2005, this street art had a home in Williamsburg, Brooklyn on...

Fri, 21 May 2010 01:46:00 -0400

In 2005, this street art had a home in Williamsburg, Brooklyn on the corner of North 3rd & Kent building that once was a Wild Turkey Bourbon factory.

ANGEL CITY. Consider art as a way of experiencing a fusion of ...

Tue, 11 May 2010 23:09:00 -0400

ANGEL CITY.

Consider art as a way of experiencing a fusion of “pleasure” and “insight.” Reach this by impurity, or multiplicity of levels, rather than by reduction-Öyvind Fahlström