I love this ambient campaign from Streets ice-cream, Australia. They are letting passers-by share a fun video of themselves online. You may remember this film technique was first made famous by the Matrix films. The technology involves a bunch of cameras in a circle that go off just as you jump in the air. It [...]
This is one of those headlines you read and can’t quite fathom. It made me think it was somehow an old post from years ago, but no, it was posted today. “New York Opens Its First Gay Boutique Hotel” Really? You are telling me New York City, in the year 2012 didn’t have a Gay [...]
I’m going to go out on a limb and say that 99.9% of people reading this know what a flash mob is. For the one or two people who have been away on sabbatical at the end of the earth somewhere without internet… THIS is a particularly elaborate and fun one. Well the concept of [...]
Everyone loves a good Wi-Fi hotspot. However, in my travels I’ve found many of them to be so annoyingly slow or full of pop-up log-in screens and virtual hoops to jump through. Well, a way to circumvent that process is coming soon. The Wi-Fi Alliance will begin to certify wireless devices for its industry-wide “Passpoint [...]
Let’s face it. They don’t call it the 99% for nothing. Most of us see will never see the kind of wealth it takes to afford a Bugatti Veyron. This sort of unthinkable wealth is currently floating just off Venice Beach, CA right now. A rumored Russian Vodka mogul has decided to parade his 300 [...]
Have you noticed more and more people talking about Pinterest lately? Do you think it’s just an online scrapbook or “vision board”? If that’s the case, think again: “Pinterest is the hottest thing in social content curation right now and has been billed as one of the top web properties in 2012, even though it [...]
Like Oprah, I have a lot of favorite things. In this case, a bunch of them of them are coming to together in a wonderful way. Romance Fine Dining The Princess Bride Wine “Quote along” movie screenings O to be in Austin, TX with a beau on Valentine’s Day! The Alamo [...]
The Virtual Merge™ wave is where the actual world meets the virtual world. I came across a two examples that have been inspired by the big guns of social media. The first sprung up in the surprisingly unlikely place of the Amazon. Apparently, a “commodity-fueled economic boom and increased government investment” has brought high speed [...]
Apparently a very interesting “dinner party” will be held at the end of the year. On the menu will be chicken… …That’s been grown in a laboratory. “Five years ago Peta, the world’s largest animal welfare group, gave scientists until 30 June 2012 to prove they could make “cultured”, or laboratory meat, in commercial quantities. [...]
This is something never occurred to me: hearing impaired people can’t use drive thrus. The same revelation came to me when I saw this youtube video of a blind man showing how difficult it is to use an ATM- even with braille. Then I went to a party with a friend who has a heavy [...]