April 2010
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Design*Sponge » Blog Archive » charleston, south... →
Apr 28th
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All lovely things will have an ending : Arturo... →
A series taken in Savannah.
Apr 24th
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When Hipsters Move in on Chinese: It's Ugly -... →
“A Delancey Street displacement drama, in which both sides—Chinese families and new tenants—seem pretty clueless about each other.”
Apr 23rd
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Suburbia Gone Wild | A Project By Martin Adolfsson →
When the projects is finished I will have depicted model homes in 7 suburbs spread across the rising economies of the world. By omitting geographical and national traces I want to create a strong visual narrative between the suburbs. The similarities interest me more then the national and cultural differences. My intentions are to create a visual narrative that takes the viewer in front of the...
Apr 19th
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Apr 16th
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The Landscape Of Innovation | The New Republic →
If the next American economy will be export-oriented, lower-carbon, and innovation-driven, as Larry Summers has posited (my colleagues and I agree), what kind of landscape will result? What will be the successor to the exit-ramp office parks, tangled residential cul-de-sacs, relentless highways, and reliably repetitive strip malls that were the built environment for the consumption-fueled,...
Apr 15th
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Championing books -- and a sense of community -... →
At a new shop in Manhattan Beach, what’s on the shelves is just part of the story. It’s one of a number of such stores that aim to provide a place for real contact in an increasingly virtual world.
Apr 15th
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Apr 12th
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“The wireless technology that makes us more or less permanently available prompts...”
– Ringtones < PopMatters
Apr 12th
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Apr 6th
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She & Him charms, while crowd remains seated →
SCAD reviewer Jennifer Marie Dunn complains about what made She & Him show unsatisfying: “It was the crowd. The audience sat in their seats until the band left the stage. And I wasn’t the only one to notice. “Stay standing,” Deschanel, who had finally gotten the dour-faced crowd on their feet, cautioned before starting her encore. Maybe I’m way off base, here. Maybe some bands enjoy...
Apr 3rd