Acholi cooking lesson with Doreen
Last month, students who raised funds to build Schools for Schools projects came to visit Uganda and learn more about Invisible Children programs, the history of northern Uganda, and Acholi culture. Doreen gave them an introduction to Ugandan cooking, teaching them how to prepare dishes like boo and malakwang. Doreen even agreed to share her […]
Beasts of the Southern Wild? Yes please.
Have you heard of Beasts of the Southern Wild? Here’s a rundown of the film as told by Sundance: Hushpuppy, an intrepid six-year-old girl, lives with her father, Wink, in “the Bathtub,” a southern Delta community at the edge of the world. Wink’s tough love prepares her for the unraveling of the universe; for a […]
Who knew light graffiti was a thing? Not us.
If you were to take street art, add LED lights and water guns, then you’d collectively come up with the coolest art project I’ve seen in a while. Water Light Graffiti is a project that started in Poitiers, France in July by creative genius Antonin Fourneau and his friends at Digitalarti Artlab. Basically they cover a […]
Turning the world inside out
In 2011, an artist from France named JR (#nolastname #mysterious) was selected for the Ted Prize and awarded $100,000 for a global art project called The Inside Out Project. JR takes photos of people across the globe in their “true face”, and with the help of wheat paste, posts these photos in bizarre places. Since 2011, […]
1968 Summer Olympics: Protest from the Podium
At the ‘68 Summer Olympics, Tommie Smith, John Carlos and Peter Norman defined the games with an iconic image of the civil rights movement. Two athletes stood on the podium with their heads down, arms in the air and fists clinched. The third athlete stood in silent solidarity. The trio’s courage and boldness was a […]
No driver needed. Well, almost.
As a 90’s kid who grew up in the middle of the technology and internet boom, I pictured a futuristic adulthood world with flying cars, robot helpers and hologram phone calls. With all the cool gadgets we have these days, giving up my walkman for a CD player then an iPod doesn’t really seem like […]
We love books. And fungi. Apparently.
If you asked our staff to name the things they love, I guarantee that somewhere in the top five would be art and books. And if there was ever a way to utilize those two things together, we would all simply overdose on excitement. Get ready for all the overdosing. The folks at Jardin de la […]
TED talk: The art of creating awe
Apollo 13 was one of those movies. When I was seven years old, my mother took me to see it at a Sunday matinee. And I was hooked. I just knew – when I grew up, I’d be an astronaut. The movie held that much power for me. While pursuing a career in the space industry […]
Speed of light
In Edinburgh, Scotland, hundreds of walkers and runners—clad in LED suits and carrying musical glowsticks—came together around Arthur’s Seat last week to form a massive light show called “Speed of Light.” Hey, we can get behind a public art piece that demonstrates the beauty of illuminating darkness. —Rachel (Photo Credit: Dan Kitwood)
The great toilet race
It’s a contest. It’s all in good, clean fun. Literally. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has decided to combat the world’s sanitation problem head on—and they have asked for help. Their goal? To build the world’s most ecologically advanced toilet. “The current design has a real problem. It uses a lot of water, requires […]