It would appear green is the new black and I am not talking about the color. If you Goggle eco fashion, you will come up with hundreds of companies who have jumped on the green bandwagon. (more…)

In 1971, Reyner Banham’s well-known book, Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies, offered an inspired version of what the city had to offer. Rather than deride the sprawling, car-crazy metropolis, Banham embraced the place, dividing it into four zones (more…)

It used to be that making it in the fashion world entailed actual sewing, meeting a few well-placed people face-to-face, selling them on well-designed clothes and then setting up a tiny boutique shop preferably in a hip neighborhood of New York. But that’s all so passé now. (more…)

It would be hard to find a night sky darker than the one over U.S. Route 67, on the way to Marfa, Texas. According to some accounts, it would be more difficult to miss the strange, floating balls of colored light known as the Marfa Lights, which occasionally float against the jet black horizon. (more…)

Sometimes I can’t tell if technology is ruining my life or becoming my life, or if the two are ultimately inseparable. When I was growing up in Spokane, WA, I’d read the Spokesman Review every Sunday and that was that. (more…)

Humble accessory no more, the shoe has graduated into becoming any ensemble’s main focal point. Like little sculptures for the feet, this new breed of shoes escape their traditional form and construction while challenging current footwear archetypes (more…)

Its name will probably create a vision of a piece of a lychee resting on a Petri dish, awaiting tingling currents to come from some electrode to touch its white, almost translucent flesh, in an attempt to perhaps invent something (more…)

One of the oldest truisms in design has to be, “Don’t reinvent the wheel.” And yet, the wheel itself was a reinvention – a microscopic, electromagnetic motor, complete with hub, spokes, and axle, is fundamental machinery deep within every cell of your body. (more…)

Coffee stains are now an art form. Every drip, stroke, brush and blot of this everyday beverage (decaf or not) on canvass, can create bottomless servings of brown watercolor-like paintings that are potent enough to keep one’s art senses wide awake. (more…)

In the wake of economic recession, art is about much more than beauty and posterity; it’s about finding a fresh perspective.

“You’ve taken money out of the hands of a mother who can barely buy her kid’s asthma medicine,” wrote Lydia from New Jersey on a New York Times blog. (more…)