Last August I went to northeast China and for the following five months I’ve been putting together a story about an eco-village in China. Or, rather, an attempted eco-village. Here’s how Frontline/World described it: “The village of Huangbaiyu in rural northeast China was supposed to be a model for energy-conscious design. The initial project was [...]
I’m a little late to the party on this one, but friend and colleague Michael Zhao has posted his multimedia project on electronic waste in China online in documentary form. He starts in California, where trashed computers are dismantled and, occasionally, recycled. More often they’re sent over to China, where men, women, and children pick [...]
Too many people would have been too unhappy with me if they’d heard about this after the fact. So: tomorrow, Tuesday, October 23. Jeopardy!. Check your local listings.
Keep your eyes open for an hour of voluntary darkness in San Francisco Saturday night. A “citywide conservation event” is scheduled from 8 to 9 p.m.; organizers from Lights Out San Francisco ask that all unessential lights be turned off during this time. Restaurants will serve by candlelight. They are getting a lot of attention. [...]
The amazing, disappearing honeybee has become the sleeper hit of journalism. It has slowly gained momentum over the last nine or ten months and now it seems like just about everyone has heard of it, even if they don’t really know anything about it. Most coverage follows the same beaten path: bees are disappearing, did [...]
Backdate your Spoon fanhood a few years for maximum benefit, same as you do with stock options. And do it now, before Spoon gets so popular that it’s too late to proclaim your enthusiasm as still unique. Tell your friends you got in on the ground floor. If all you’ve had to go on for [...]
Sunday: Groceries; and that hotel room Monday: A car, at a dealership Tuesday: Sushi; and maybe some more groceries Wednesday: Plane tickets in the morning; also, Six Flags, a movie, and the art museum Thursday: Gasoline, in the morning; books, from chain stores; and that charcoal v-neck at Banana Republic, in the evening Friday: ??? [...]
Spotted this about 10 days ago, which gives you an idea of my blog lag. And the commercial is further evidence of the growing love for Peter, Bjorn, and John and Young Folks.Watch the fake iPhone ad at iPhonenewyorkcity.com Bonus: watch/listen to “Young Folks” below:
Click on the Tahoe: I accidentally submitted this (twice) to the Chevy ad people, so I don’t expect it to exist much longer on their site.
On February 16, I wrote about the tilt-shift effect and included examples of tilt-shift photography that I created using Photoshop. Two days ago, on the 27th, Boing Boing, the blog that leaves everyone breathless, published a post saying that you could, after all, fake the tilt-shift effect, and included a link to instructions on how [...]
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