By Juan Carlos Pineiro Escoriaza
A couple of months ago I got really inspired at an environmental committee event on earth day. The speaker was Dan Miner, and he spoke passionately about urban heat islands. Two months later I accidentally started a non-profit, and found myself building an epic infographic to describe the kind of change we could make. You can find it… Read More
By Juan Carlos Pineiro Escoriaza
There is something so satisfying about seeing aging juggernaut Microsoft fail on its feet so badly. Introducing and ending the Kin – In just 48 short days we have seen an abysmal product (marketed heavily on top 40 radio around the nation) that you may or may not have heard of go… Read More
By Juan Carlos Pineiro Escoriaza
There are a few surprises in the fight for the Gulf of Mexico. One is that Kevin Costner is not only a humanitarian, but he has a plan on how to save us from the worst oil spill of all time. He teamed up with his brother after the Exxon Valdez spill in 1989, bought… Read More
By Jiun Kwon
So Mrs. Aguilera’s forthcoming Bi-on-ic has totally leaked and it looks like a bulk of the material on the album is a mix of so-so, kinda-danceable, kinda naughty, kinda techno-poppy, kinda cool, but ultimately forgettable production-heavy tunes. And the video for Not Myself Tonight is admittedly… um… a lot –though it is extravagantly art directed within an inch… Read More
By Juan Carlos Pineiro Escoriaza
What if one day you woke up after the apocalypse and had to put the world back together again? Would you be able to do it?
In 2009 Substitute Materials set out to test whether they could re-create a telegraph without using modern tools. The only resource they gave themselves was whatever they could find on the… Read More
By Julia Hanes
Last night I saw Alice in Wonderland (awesome) at the 2nd Ave movie theater in NYC. I chose it because (1) it had “IMAX”, (2) it is next to my friend’s house, and (3) it is less gross and sticky than the Lincoln Center theater.
During the movie I felt like the screen was smaller but just… Read More
I woke up this morning to a disconcerting tweet. A musician I follow announced that his song was listed among the top ten geek anthems of all time. I remembered the message from over a month ago, when I’d written the top ten list on Popten and he’d expressed his gratitude. But this time, the link led to CNN.
The next click made my jaw drop…
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Short and sweet. Part 1 of the Heavy Rain discussion.
Upcoming interactive drama, Heavy Rain was a substantial reason why I bought my PS3. Heavy Rain premiered at E3 2006, via a tech demo called The Casting. Then in 2008, Heavy Rain reappeared with a new demo that featured a now-false release date of 2009. My… Read More
By Jiun Kwon
So way back in October, the Washington Post published an article by Ann Hornaday, entitled Women & Film, which posed the following question:
I had been ruminating (read: seething) on this for a while now, and was… Read More
The other night, Gabby went on the ESRB website then IM’d me. I was intrigued by her findings, and so the following conversation occurred. (As with last time, my replies are in bold, while hers are in quotes.):
Tomorrow marks 100 days since the BP oil spill in the gulf. I know they “successfully” capped it, but as long as that sucker is still leaking, I’m saying there is still an oil spill. But this disaster got me thinking a lot about the good old days of folk – when popular music regularly included anthems… Read More
When I was in my formative high school days, going to the Warped Tour was a highlight of the summer. Just old enough to drive, we’d pile about 9 bros and skateboards into mom-duke’s Ford Exploder and drive at high speed to Fitchburg or some other pseudo-municipality in middle Massachusetts, blasting Rage Against The Machine and… Read More