The Roots rock for the youth

I heard about this months ago but just saw the vid. Sersiously, is there any crowd they can't rock for!!?? They must've had a blast doing this performance for the kids show Yo Gabba Gabba...I need to get this for my nephews!.

La La Land

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December '08 practice session pt.1 (© December 2008)


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shocking..

For over a century people have been trying to find inventive ways of electricuting themselves at home. Well, finally a group of socially conscious designers have developed an adapter specifically for sticking your fingers in the socket. No longer will you need to worry about fiddling around with forks or wire.
You can find out more about this at the designer's site- ArtLebedev.com

Wal Mart is like a plague

Since 1962 Wal Mart has spread like a plague across America to a staggering 3,176 stores. This doesn't even include their locations in other countries! You can watch the growth at FlowingData.com

Simplicity isn't always simple..

John Maeda is one of the great designers and visionaries of our time. He's also known to be an entertaining speaker. I've seen a few of his talks on line and saw him in-person last year. Anyway, this dude is amazing. He's one of the most accomplished artists of our time and somehow manages to have a healthy family life with five daughters, is the recent president of RISD, has degrees in computer science, design and business and is just an all-around interesting character. Imagine if him and Neri Oxman got together on a project!? Maybe they'd make a fabric that behaves like a banana peel?! who knows... 

Check out his company- MaedaStudio
and his blog (yeah, he keeps a blog & twitter that he updates a lot!)

no, maybe this is the perfect woman..

This one is actually a 'real' woman and not android although she may as well be. She is extremely brilliant and beautiful. Her name is Neri Oxman and if you're geek or just into material science, architecture, design or art you already know the name or at least her work. I forget name pretty easily unless I'm reminded again. In this case, when I was reminded it was one of those, "Duh! Of course I know her work!" kind of things. Amazingly, she's still working on a pHD in Design & Computation from MIT. Her body of work is very extensive and her list of awards and achievements is probably as long as she is tall. She's studied all over the world, been showcased in Seed Magazine and featured in nearly any architecture or design magazine around the world, been in shows at museums around the world, spoke at several lectures and somehow stays very grounded. Perhaps it's her medical background and growing up in Israel? In any event, she is destined to become one of the major players in architecture, design and material science in the 21st century. So what does she do?

" M A T E R I A L E C O L O G Y was formed in 2006 by Neri Oxman as an interdisciplinary research initiative that undertakes design research in the intersection between architecture, engineering, computation, biology and ecology. As such, this initiative is concerned with material organization and performance across all scales of design thought and practice. Material is interpreted merely as any physical entity which corresponds and reacts with its environment. As such, it seeks to promote and define a design research agenda which is ecological in nature, in ideology and in material practice; it aims at embracing the evolving elements of change in both (and indeed related) social constructs and environmental descriptions of the ever changing built environment."

For a proper explanation of what she does, just go to her site- MaterialEcology

To see her most current award or project go to her Blog

the perfect woman!!..almost :( *

Aiko is a Japanese girl built in Canada that can do almost anything for you and doesn't forget anything. The only major issues with this chick are that she requires a charge ever few hours and doesn't walk. From what I could tell, she can be a bit of a pain, but you could program her to your liking. Oh, and NO SEX! I don't know why someone would ever make a woman like that!!?? However, it's a lot cheaper than a real wife would cost that did give you sex- only $28,000 for the current model. Compare that to the millions you'll spend over a lifetime trying to convince your real wife to sleep with you once a year! She does speak Japanese and English though but her English isn't very sexy. She is the product of a lifetime of work by 'genius' (psycho) Le Trung.

*Disclaimer: In case you can't tell, I'm kidding! Some people get real crazy about this kind of humor for some reason.?

Read more about Aiko at her website- ProjectAiko.com

“Aiko is what happens when science meets beauty. I want to make her look, feel and act as human as possible so she can be the perfect companion.

I talk to her a lot, and hope to improve her knowledge. So far, she can understand and speak 13,000 different sentences in English and Japanese. She recognizes faces and says hello when any of my family come around to visit.

She helps me pick what to have for dinner and knows what drinks I like.

She even helps me with directions when we’re going somewhere. She has all senses except for smell, a is very patient and never complains,” says Mr. Trung

(this is a weird picture...she probably beat him up for this!)

The Juan Maclean- Give Me Every Little Thing

I love how in the beginning you think the two dudes are some gay lovers and by then the dude goes from getting it ON with some hot black girl and then gets into some weird wire-frame virtual sex. Check out the Cajmere remix too..

Worth watching..

pretty interesting animation..

That's it, I'm leaving this country..

For years now I've been wanting to leave America for many reasons. It's not that I'm anti-American in anyway. The problem is that our system has failed us all miserably and I for one just cannot see myself ever living a comfortable life here. This movie somewhat helps to justify my decision to leave. Why stay in a country that will most-likely not get better in my lifetime? Just watch...this is one of several documentaries about this issue that I've seen and since it's the most current, I'm posting this one..