“When I’m there, it feels like home.”™
Main Street USA; it is a staple of political rhetoric, we are told of its suffering at the hands of big box retailers, but where exactly is Main Street and what does it look like?
Texas, Hawaii, New York and California. That seems somewhat broad to describe America doesn’t it? Well, to the folks over at McDonald’s Japan that seems just about right when it comes to flavor profiling.
I’m back in Australia for the first time in many years and after reading many of my dear American friend’s Facebook updates and twitter feeds about Thanksgiving it led me to ponder the holiday.
Ok, anyway my focus for this blog is 99%. It’s from the people behind Behance (A free platform for the world’s leading creative professionals) …their last conference was “productivity-themed” and I guess they taken their own advice because they have recently re-launched the 99% site as a resource chock block full of articles, interviews, tips…
The first Latina character I saw as a child set the stage for every other young Latina character I would come across on television, movies, and in the music industry: Rosie Perez as Gloria in “White Men Can’t Jump”. For those who never saw it I’ve got three words: bling, makeup, deafening.
We [...]
Described as living in the “strange hinterland between the awesome and the horrific” there will be a Snuggie Pub-Crawl in Chicago on Saturday April 18th.
Drunk people stumbling around in Snuggies – my friends…that is my idea of a good time!
That’s why it’s a perfect WE ARE FAMILY example. Whether your attraction to this “blanket with [...]
Catering to a specific niche market has always been risky business for larger retailers, but at a time when trying to satisfy everyone is harder than ever, one grocer decided to go all out – in only one direction.
Shutting down his former American traditional grocery store, owner Juan Alonso decided to give it [...]
“Pictures of You: Images from Iran”, a photography exhibit by Colorado based artist Tom Loughlin, challenges us to see past the political and ideological differences that exist between the US and Iran and see what the Iranian people truly are…People. People like us.
Loughlin’s project that began in 2006 presents a side of Iran that we [...]
Hans Weishäupl’s new photography book and exhibition, “ Faces of Evil” is a somber commentary on the connections that we all share. These photographic reconstructions of the world’s most infamous dictators were produced using the facial features of persons who currently live in the country that that dictator ruled over. Despite the lifelike feel and [...]
I love my caffeine, I am probably ever on the cusp of caffeine intoxication. Still, it seems that the point of ridiculousness has been surpassed to the point that you would have to look in a magnifying rear-view mirror to even see it when they start putting it in personal hygiene products. There [...]
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