Blog Updates and inspiration

Perfectly timed with MOVE:DC, you’ll have the opportunity to see some amazing work by Roy Lichtenstein. From now until mid-January, Washington DC’s National Gallery of Art will showcase Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective, the artist’s biggest showing since his death in 1997. The 100+ collection spans several decades and showcases how he became a leading man in the Pop […]

We love kids and we love football (ok, only some of us love football.) The below video is a 5th grade football game. The red team is down by two points with just seconds left. This just goes to show – it’s not how you start, it’s how you finish. You know, sort of like […]

In two weeks, the whole United States of America will be doing the same thing at the same time: voting for the next President. It’s a big deal. As a result, the elections are meticulously planned out and always fall on a Tuesday – the day after the second Monday in November. But it hasn’t […]

There’s several definitions of photography. My favorite one? Photography is the art of creating stories on your view of the world. The below pictures are little slices of life and they had me transfixed. Enjoy. (Photo credits: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)

Eddie Obeng might talk faster than anyone you have ever met, but it’s only because he has so much to say. Obeng is the founder of Penacle, an online business school where “new world management” is taught. Because here’s the thing: the world is different than it was fifteen years ago, and it is constantly […]

Watching Mitt Romney and Barack Obama waltz around each other in a smug fact-war sparring match is a surreal experience. Suddenly, the iconography and grandeur of the political system becomes human: approachable and reproachable at the same time. The debates have been both informative and mind numbing, for me mostly numbing. I am certain that […]

Want to know what 65,000 old CDs look like? Take a look at Bruce Munro’s Water Lilies to get an idea. The CDs are placed on foam discs, then netted together to make this beautiful madness. Munro usually works with LED lights to create his projects, but he decided to go with a more recycled […]

A little competition pervades the IC office. At month’s end, the person who gets the most people into a theater to see “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” wins. A coming of age story, the film follows the intensely introverted Charlie through his freshman year of high school. New found friends — his advanced English teacher and a pair […]

London’s Design Festival annually brings together innovative architects and designers to amplify the city’s imaginative borders and to recreate the city’s most notable places. In September, London’s Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) was invaded by a mysterious structure that lived off an invisible force. Prism, designed by London artist Keiichi Matsuda, was one of several large-scale interactive installations presented by […]

Carolina Fontoura Alzaga has taken the word “recycle” and given it a completely new meaning. Seriously. All of the chandeliers below are produced from old bicycle parts she found at garbage dumps all over Los Angeles. Who knew your old tricycle from 1987 could still serve a purpose? Check out the below interview with Carolina […]