Tim Brown’s talk from “Art’s Center: Serious Play”, which I attended and blogged, is online now. Watch it above. Watch out for the finger blasters!! and yes, work should be play!

Very cool. makes ya think about doing things differently!
“GuerilLA, the Improv Everywhere-offshoot in Los Angeles, recently put up their newest mission, Aerial Philanthropy. The group threw dollar bill airplanes off of a parking deck in Los Angeles by the ArcLight Theatre. You’ll notice Skylar Stone randomly happened to catch one of the bills.”

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Congrats Barack Obama! Yes We Can! Watch Obama’s acceptance speech above!

Very clever!

“Instructions.
Step 1: Click on the stickers below and drag or right click to save to your desktop.
Step 2: Print onto a sticker sheet.
Step 3: Leave no vending machine un-stickered.
Bonus: You find some change to put in your pocket along the way.”

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Yasuaki Chiba rethinks the everyday cloths hanger making it a bit easier to slip that second arm into the shirt. Pretty clever.. I’ll have to try it out. Buy it here.

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How awesome! Seongyong Lee added a little air bubble to his utensils designs which float them like buoys with handles in the air, and a nice scooper for your punch bowl!

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Juan Enriquez (2008) Pop!Tech Pop!Cast from PopTech on Vimeo.

Juan Enriquez presents a vigorous 10 point commandment plan to save the US economy for our next president during Pop!Tech 2008. Watch the video here with more info on joining to help out including a pdf of his presentation!

Buy Juan’s books here.

Copied from the current wiki here:
IMMEDIATE ACTIONS FOR THE COUNTRY AND PRESIDENT ELECT DURING THE NEXT ADMINISTRATION’S FIRST 60 DAYS:

1. We have to save the dollar (AAA rating in jeopardy)

2. We have to fundamentally and brutally restructure debt

3. All entitlements are fair game.

4. Cut back military by 2% per year for ten years

5. Cap medical costs at 18% GNP (going to be a cat fight, but we need to have it)

6. We have to triage our support for companies (don’t attempt to save dying whales)

7. The program has to be fundamentally American, meaning it must once again limit the federal government.

8. Simplify and broadly apply Sarbanes Oxley – apply it to government, apply it to hedge funds

9. We will invest in growing start up companies (which create the most jobs – this is where the economy is growing)

10. We will treat education as a varsity sport (and continue to recruit foreign PhDs)

I’m off to Camden Maine again for this years “Pop!Tech 2008:Scarcity and Abundance” Conference! This years lineup of speakers and musicians are awesome! I’m not sure how much time I’ll have to post, but make sure to watch the FREE live online video stream!(9am-6:30am EST) Check out the entire speaker list and schedule here, otherwise I’ll list a few highlights below:

- Chris Anderson, Editor Wired magazine
- Stephen Badylak, Regenerative Medicine
- Malcolm Gladwell, Tipping Point, Blink, New Yorker
- Van Jones, human rights and civil rights activist
- Jay Parkinson, online doctor
- Clay Shirky, all things web
- Frank Warren, Post Secret Founder
- Benjamin Zander, renaissance musician
- Imogen Heap, musician
- Erin Mckean, lexicographer
- Chris Jordan, photographer
- the unusual, suspenseful, mind blowing, amazing!!!

Swwweeeeet! IdeaPaint transforms any surface into a dry erase board!!!! Just paint over it, let it dry, and marker board away! I’m wanting to paint every elevator, table, chalk board, ceiling, projection surface, column, sketch book cover, and everything else! It’s also very environmentally friendly, allowing any surface to be easily repainted. Watch a video here and get your FREE sample!!!!

If you prefer, you can ChalkBoard your space as well!

Air Art from flip on Vimeo.

I found this fish blimp video amusing. A simple change in an object transforms the space surrounding it. Before it was just a blimp floating in thin air. Add some fins and some movement to that object and the space once perceived as air becomes more fluid, thick, and water like. Perception, Perspective, fun…all part of design.

Get your morning box of “Obama O’s” or ” Cap’n McCains” in from the inventive crew at AirbedAndBreakfast.com launching a tasty limited production (500) of election cereal boxes with real cereal, fun facts, a definite conversation starter, and their very own online jingle (Obama O’s Jingle, Cap’n McCains Jingle) . Choose from the political flavors of “Hope in Every Bowl”, a “Maverick in Every Bite”, or both if your seeking a taste in history.

A box of these goodies cost $39 with 5% of the sales to each campaign.

I discovered these delicious new creations during RISD’s alumni sale event this past weekend running into co-founder Joe Gebbia (RISD ID ’05) who’s also founded Critbuns.com, Ecolect.net, and now AirbedAndBreakfast.com

I took a few pics with Joe after the jump… including my Freshmaker selection!

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I’m not sure what Nudibranch’s are exactly, but what I am mesmerized by is how photographer David Doubilet takes these incredible images underwater seemingly CGI or at least a bit of photoshopping, but sweet goodness, David strapped a mini lightbox to his camera and went right down in the ocean to shoot! Awesome! I need a large portable lightbox strapped to my camera now! Check out the rest of the article and images via National Geographic!

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