Yale Fox is a DJ and nightclub sociologist living and working between Las Vegas and New York City. In 2010, while working towards his PhD at the University of Toronto, Yale was contacted by a prominent Las Vegas nightclub – one of the highest rated in the world. So began Yale Fox’s transition from...
There is no shortage of recommendation tools on the web. Amazon recommends books, Pandora recommends music, YouTube recommends video, just to name a few of the more popular online services. While the added value is obvious in the realm of personalized content discovery, if we keep adding streams of...
The Internet is dead? According to Prince, The Artist and The Artist Formerly Know As Prince, it is. Has he gone mad? Perhaps one too many sips of the old purple Kool-Aid? Or is it just another one of his mediocre PR stunts? Needless to say, he is once again pushing the envelope and recently released...
I stumbled upon this very innovative magazine that you can actually wear it. Like the regular subscribed magazine, each “issue”, designed by T-Post will focus on one news issue. In this past issue, you can play rock, paper, scissors with the t-shirt through a webcam. Not only it take publishing...
PART 3 of 4 Months after eating at El Bulli my thoughts and perspectives on the meal are still changing: Certain taste memories are extremely vivid and seem to get stronger, others are bizarrely still changing. It has also been fascinating to compare and contrast my experience there with other innovative...
Recently, Electronic Arts announced that it is acquiring Playfish, the company behind hit social games such as Who Has the Biggest Brain (mine is apparently 2568 cubic centimeters — which, it seems, makes me pretty smart amongst my friends but only slightly smarter than a door knob on a world-wide...
PART 2 of 4 This is the second in a four part series on my adventure ding at El Bulli. Before heading up the coast to Roses I spent some time in Barcelona exploring the Boqueria market. The market is the perfect place to understand the terroir of Catalonia and a major inspirational source for Ferran...
Apples Ipod keynote, boiled down to nothing but Superlatives. Enjoy this. Think they’re trying to let us know they product is Amazingly Nice and Just That Easy?
As a promotional tie-in corresponding with the launch of their 2009 series of “Dunny” action figures, toy and apparel designers Kid Robot have organized a mobile phone-based scavenger hunt in Manhattan centered around scanning Quick Response (QR) codes. After downloading an application for an iPhone...
Check out this awesome video experiment, great visualization and re-representation of some powerful audio from The Shining. The Colouring from Dan Britt on Vimeo.
More is not always better, because there’s only so much that we can digest. The signal to noise ratio does not necessarily improve if that which was once signal converts to noise as new signals are introduced into the system.