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Muralist Brian “TAZROC” Garcia has completed his latest public art installation, a mural depicting Marijuana activist Jack Herer, which can now be seen on the side of the Nile Collective building at 1501 Pacific Ave. Herer, known as the “Emperor of Hemp”, wrote “The Emperor wears no clothes” a book used in efforts to decriminalizeRead More …

Let’s say you load up a piano. Then, instead of using the computer keyboard buttons to play the piano, you can hook up the MaKey MaKey to something fun, like bananas, and the bananas become your piano keys Or let’s say you Google for an online Pacman game and draw a joystick with a pencil,Read More …

To explore the world of connected objects, Art, Copy & Code has partnered with artist Zach Lieberman and interactive design studio yesyesno to create an adidas smart sneaker with personality that communicates and connects the user’s activity to web. Using an accelerometer, a gyroscope, bluetooth and other technologies, the ‘talking shoe’ translates sneaker movements intoRead More …

Going to rock concerts has always meant dealing with a bunch of unruly people, many of them very drunk – but it seems like lately things have been worse than ever. Attention spans are at an all-time low, and the ubiquity of smartphones has resulted in a huge percentage of the audience at any givenRead More …

A dress that detects when the wearer is feeling amorous has been designed by an award-winning fashion. Never mind embarrassing sweat patches or accidentally putting your clothes on back-to-front – this dress can tell whether you’ve got sex on the mind… and it could be coming to a high street near you. The futuristic ‘IntimacyRead More …

French graffiti artists Sowat (DMV) and Lek, invited 40 urban artists to paint an abandoned supermarket in the north of Paris since they discovered the great, decayed building in summer 2011! Just to make it clear, imagine an old, four storey supermarket and dozens of talented graffiti artists who paint and paint an paint…and filmRead More …

The number of federal background checks for firearm sales declined last month following a surge in gun sales toward the end of the year that’s left many retailers out of stock as Washington considered new gun control measures. An Associated Press analysis of new FBI data published early Tuesday shows the National Instant Criminal BackgroundRead More …

Hundreds of mourners filled the Great Hall at New York’s Cooper Union on January 19th to honor the life of Aaron Swartz, the Internet activist who took his own life earlier this month at age 26. Swartz was well-known in technology circles for helping develop the RSS web feed format and the popular site Reddit,Read More …

Buro Beehive transforms disused buildings into flexible workplaces for creative entrepreneurial types. These sorts of “co-working” spaces are becoming ever-more familiar features of modern cities. Beehive’s new BEEBOX offers something new, however. These secure, mobile self-contained one or two-person offices may just give its work hubs an edge. Beehive describes the BEEBOX as a “completeRead More …

Taking after the Gnomes on the animated series who ardently practice American capitalism, Trey Parker and Matt Stone have wooed investors and raised money to form their own production studio, which they plan to announce on Monday. The new company is to be called Important Studios and hopes to be just that. With an estimatedRead More …