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...
Recently, Electronic Arts announced that it is acquiring Playfish, the company behind hit social games such as Who Has the Biggest Brain (mine is apparently 2568 cubic centimeters — which, it seems, makes me pretty smart amongst my friends but only slightly smarter than a door knob on a world-wide...
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...
Apples Ipod keynote, boiled down to nothing but Superlatives. Enjoy this. Think they’re trying to let us know they product is Amazingly Nice and Just That Easy?
As a promotional tie-in corresponding with the launch of their 2009 series of “Dunny” action figures, toy and apparel designers Kid Robot have organized a mobile phone-based scavenger hunt in Manhattan centered around scanning Quick Response (QR) codes. After downloading an application for an iPhone...
Check out this awesome video experiment, great visualization and re-representation of some powerful audio from The Shining. The Colouring from Dan Britt on Vimeo.
Here’s a pretty cool clip that demonstrates the power of the pentatonic scale …featuring Bobby McFerrin.
It seems that Flash Mobs have become all the rage. With multiple Youtube videos, an appearance in the season premiere of Weeds and a surprisingly detailed entry on Wikipedia, they really can’t get much more mainstream. Frozen Grand Central from ImprovEverywhere on Vimeo. In Januray 2009, T-Mobile...
Since it’s July, I know we’re all thinking about our next adventure at a snowy ski resort. I’m not sure how your snow adventures unfold, but mine usually begin with a vain attempt to coordinate more than two carloads arriving at the mountain at different times, followed by a ride up...
The ultimate innovation challenge comes to America’s doorstep. It’s knocking, banging, kicking and screaming. Someone give that kid a lollipop and get to work. But there’s so much to do! Hmmmm… the economic crisis has destroyed banks, jobs, academic endowments, homes and more; there’s...
Just how much money will people spend while playing video games? Investors seem to be betting that it’s quite a lot.