Highly Evolved Sex Toys
Historically, sex toys haven’t been known for their beautiful design (unless you’re partial to jelly rubber and molded plastic genitals)—but over the past few years, that’s begun to change. One company that’s been leading the charge for sex toys that are both beautiful to look at and fun to use is Lelo, a Sweden-based operation [...]
Read More »GREEN PORNO 2 Film Screening With Isabella Rossellini
Make sure to go out for a Movie Night with Isabella Rossellini. The legendary actress will be presenting her new GREEN PORNO 2 shorts and her father’s film THE FLOWERS OF ST. FRANCIS Wednesday, April 1 at 7pm. The event will be held at the IFC Center Wednesday, located at 323 Sixth Avenue, New York, [...]
Read More »Five Tools for Tracking (and Lowering) Your Energy Use
Trying to keep the Carbon Cops at bay? Or, just want a lower electric bill? These five tools will help you identify the energy hogs in your life… and put them on a diet! ENERGY STAR@Home: This interactive web tool takes you on a tour of a typical American home, points out the energy guzzlers, [...]
Read More »When It Comes to Casual Sex, Men Have It Worse. So Do Women.
For as long as women have talked about sex over cocktails, they have complained about the double-standard of casual boot-knocking: The more he does it, the more his buddies high-five him; the more she does it, the more her “friends” whisper behind her back about what a slut she is. But apparently these days, it’s [...]
Read More »The Journey of a Seed
An impressive animated short mixing cut-paper craft and 2D illustration depicting the journey of an apple seed after an apple is consumed. It really is a lot more interesting than it may sound. The Seed from Johnny Kelly on Vimeo. And watch the “Making Of” video: Making of ‘The Seed’ from Johnny Kelly on Vimeo. [...]
Read More »Book Cover Mashup: Face/Off
A brilliant graphic designer and illustrator known as Spacesick has been making a series of hilarious, pitch-perfect book cover mashups and posting them on Flickr. He takes a classic or contemporary film and recreates it as a vintage-paperback movie novelization. They’re conceptually brilliant, and his Photoshop technique is ace. Here’s the full set, and below [...]
Read More »Cut & Paste
“What we’re asking you to do is fairly ridiculous,” says Cut&Paste founder John Fiorelli to a room of contestants. What he and the rest of the Cut&Paste crew is asking, exactly, is for this group of designers to battle each other in a high-energy, tournament-style competition in one of three categories: 2D, 3D, and Motion [...]
Read More »Kama Sutra cookie cutters
They say the way to a man’s heart is through the stomach—but what if you’re aiming for an area that’s a little further south? Swedish company Pipparkakan might have just the thing you need: their Kama Sutra cookie cutters allow you to transform an ordinary dish into an aphrodisiac buffet—provided your potential paramour is aroused [...]
Read More »Robert Redford On Solar Power
I was Too Early on Solar Power; Let’s Not Be Too Late In his State of the Union address, President Obama noted that although America invented solar energy technology, we have fallen behind countries like Germany and Japan in producing it. He is right of course. I remember when America was leading the pack on [...]
Read More »Girls on Vespas.
Is this art? Is this advertising? Or is it a fetish? And what is this funny feeling I have while viewing them? However you slice it, there’s something appealing about this Flickr collection of glamorous calendar photos of ladies posing with Vespas from the 1950s through the ’70s. Link: http://www.flickr.com/photos/59287402@N00/sets/1787954/ Via: http://www.metafilter.com/79922/Momma-Mia-Ragazze-in-Vespa-Girls-on-Vespas
Read More »Animation Spotlight: Nicole Mitchell’s ZOOLOGIC
Watch Nicole Mitchell’s amusing animated short ZOOLOGIC about a fussy zookeeper’s comeuppance. It won a gold medal in the animation category at this year’s Student Academy Awards, an annual competition held by the Academy for aspiring auteurs. Notable winners in the past include the unofficial mayor of NYC and the Knicks, Spike Lee; Robert Zemeckis [...]
Read More »Amazing Animated Video for Death Cab for Cutie’s “Grapevine Fires”
Death Cab for Cutie’s 2008 album Narrow Stairs didn’t immediately grab me the way their last two discs did, but I’ve come to really like it. The one song I unequivocally loved on first listen was “Grapevine Fires,” a haunting, beautifully paced track about the effects of the 2007 Southern California wildfires. Death Cab’s Ben [...]
Read More »At the Helm – Mast Brothers Chocolate
Making chocolate isn’t easy. It takes a lot of work to make a little cocoa nib good enough to use, especially if your standards are as high as Rick and Michael Mast’s, the chocolate artisans behind Brooklyn-based operation Mast Brothers Chocolate. Brooklyn has seen a steady rise in the number of purveyors of farm-to-table goods, [...]
Read More »Do It Tomorrow Night! Turn off the Lights
This Saturday, March 28th, at 8:30pm local time all around the world, individuals, companies, historical landmarks, towns and countries have committed to turning off the lights for one hour to highlight the threat of climate change. According to Earthhour.org’s Facebook page, Sydney turned off the lights in 2007 and cut their energy usage by 10%; [...]
Read More »Online Hookup Tracking
The internet has given us tools to track virtually every aspect of our lives—so really, it was only a matter of time until someone thought to create an online tool to help track hookups. Well, someones, actually—there are at least two websites devoted to helping you document what goes down every time you get hot [...]
Read More »Clay Shirky on the Death of Newspapers
For anyone who cares about the implosion of the journalism business and how it might evolve to save itself, the writings of New York University professor Clay Shirky are a must-read. His recent blog post “Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable” has been widely linked to, and if you missed it, here’s a taste: “When someone [...]
Read More »Eating Red and Processed Meats May Increase Risk of Death
ROCKVILLE, Maryland, March 25, 2009 (ENS) – People who eat more red meat and processed meats appear to have a “modestly increased risk of death” from all causes and also from cancer or heart disease over a 10-year period, finds a new study of half a million U.S. men and women who were aged 50 [...]
Read More »Congress Votes ‘Yes’ to Sweeping Public Lands Protection Act
WASHINGTON, DC, March 25, 2009 (ENS) – Congress today approved a massive public lands bill that protects 200 million acres of wilderness in nine states and a thousand miles of rivers, a 50 percent increase in the wild and scenic river system. It establishes new national trails, national parks and a new national monument and [...]
Read More »Finally, a Trailer for WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE
Spike Jonze’s adaptation of WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE has been in the works for years, and it’s being readied for an October release. The first official trailer appeared on the web today, and it’s really promising. The script is by Dave Eggers, and the cast includes Catherine Keener, Mark Ruffalo, Lauren Ambrose, and James [...]
Read More »Hawaii Sued to Protect Endangered Palila Bird
HONOLULU, Hawaii, March 24, 2009 (ENS) – The critically endangered palila bird on the Island of Hawaii is slipping into extinction in part due to the failure of the State of Hawaii to keep a 55-mile-long fence in good repair, according to legal papers filed Monday by three conservation groups. The fence is supposed to [...]
Read More »20 Years After Valdez Oil Spill, Exxon Still Owes $92M
WASHINGTON, DC, March 24, 2009 (ENS) – Today is the 20th anniversary of the massive Exxon Valdez oil spill, but the federal and state governments have yet to collect millions of dollars that the oil company agreed to pay. A final $92 million claim for harm to wildlife, habitat and subsistence users filed in 2006 [...]
Read More »Congress Looks to Green Technologies for Stormwater Control
WASHINGTON, DC, March 23, 2009 (ENS) – Green technologies for controlling urban stormwater runoff took center stage Thursday at the nation’s Capitol, as the House Water Resources and Environment Subcommittee heard testimony on how to reduce barriers to adopting these methods of reducing runoff. “Instead of engineering the stormwater system to deal with increasingly large [...]
Read More »Top Ten Things You Don’t Want to Hear from your Green Porno Partner
The wait is almost over!! Season two of GREEN PORNO with Isabella Rossellini premieres on sundancechannel.com on April 1st! In case you missed last season’s amazing videos and photos, click here: www.sundancechannel.com As we learned in season one, the term “safe sex” doesn’t always apply to the animal kingdom, so with that in mind and [...]
Read More »High-Tech Water Purification Firm Grows in Colorado
PUEBLO, Colorado, March 23, 2009 (ENS) – Colorado Governor Bill Ritter today praised the decision of a high-tech water purification firm to expand and add more than 100 new jobs in Pueblo. Known simply as The Water Company, LLC, the company has about 30 employees and operates in a small industrial building near the Pueblo [...]
Read More »Artist Spotlight: Ji Lee, “Insanely Awesome Designer”
Okay, not to oversell it, but Ji Lee really is an insanely awesome designer. He is currently the Creative Director of Google Labs at…uhm, Google, which you may have heard of. If not, I suggest visiting the Internets. His freelance and independent projects, many which are topical, have captured a lot of buzz from his [...]
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