PART 3 of 4 Months after eating at El Bulli my thoughts and perspectives on the meal are still changing: Certain taste memories are extremely vivid and seem to get stronger, others are bizarrely still changing. It has also been fascinating to compare and contrast my experience there with other innovative...
Karen Armstrong won the TED Prize on February 28, 2008, and made a wish: for help creating, launching and propagating a Charter for Compassion. Since that day, thousands of people have contributed to the process and yesterday, the Charter was unveiled to the world. The Charter for Compassion is a cooperative...
In an age where we have Google and Microsoft mapping technology available that allows us to see such voyeuristic details as the front door of a building or a bird’s eye view of a celebrity’s backyard, it’s sometimes refreshing to look at a road map with a different lens, one that only...
El·e·gant, an adjective and define or characterized by or exhibiting refined, tasteful beauty of manner, form, or style. Marc Jacob? Chanel? Jil Sander? Hermes? All are unquestionably elegant by design in the fashion world. How about Amazon Kindle? Apple iPhone? Blackberry? Are they elegant? Is elegant...
Don’t freak out, privacy doesn’t really exist anyways. When Google began its operations to archive and organize the web, it used the assumption that if you put something online, then you want it indexed. Opting out is your burden. This policy extends across most of its services; if there’s...
Ubicomp, (or ubiquitous computing) is a term that describes how computing devices will become invisible to the user as they gradually find a use and a home in all objects. For anyone who works in the technology space, the idea of ubicomp is incredible, inevitable, and the next evolutionary step for society....
Handy links: Brands in Public, Zeo Sleep Coach Brands in Public is a collection of interesting, accessible, public-facing dashboards for your favorite brands – from Zappos to Virgin America to In-n-Out Burger. Each dashboard organizes a hot list of what’s being said about the brand around the...
San Francisco-based designer, Mitchell Heinrich has created a new form of street art using scent. Since early human cave wall painting, graffiti has remained largely unchanged as a medium. The style, tools and purpose have evolved over the centuries, but still nobody has successfully broken free...
London-based Hu2 Design (http://www.hu2.com/index.php ) is an innovative company that creates and sells quirky die-cut wall stickers that are great for making temporary changes to a space since they’re made of low-tack adhesive vinyl that allow for simple installation and residue-free removal...
PART 2 of 4 This is the second in a four part series on my adventure ding at El Bulli. Before heading up the coast to Roses I spent some time in Barcelona exploring the Boqueria market. The market is the perfect place to understand the terroir of Catalonia and a major inspirational source for Ferran...
Ubiquitous computing technology may sound like science fiction, but it has already found a role in our lives.