Blog Updates and inspiration

Where has Kony been hiding? The ultimate question. We recently partnered with The Resolve LRA Crisis Initiative and the Enough Project to produce a detailed and lengthy report to try to answer it. Hidden in Plain Sight: Sudan’s Harboring of the LRA in the Kafia Kingi Enclave, 2009-2013 can be viewed in full [HERE] and is summarized […]

After hosting a successful interactive music installation at SXSW, Sonos is at it again, clashing the digital world with minimalist art in it’s museum exhibit, Playground Deconstructed. Designed by Aramique, Red Paper Heart, and Fake love, the exhibit brings art to life through visualizing sound as an immersible music video. To sum it up: the photo below + moving visuals. Quick, someone buy me […]

Canadian-born designer Wesley Chau got his latest inspiration from the 1986 concert film Home of the Brave. The fim which highlights various artists, provides an element of percussion almost entirely derived from the body. The result of his inspiration is a unique and highly wearable set of electronic percussion pads. His project, Drop the Beat, is made of […]

NAME: Alexander Mark Collins AGE: 29 1/4 HOMETOWN: Yale, Michigan JOB: Artist Relations Music Manager + FIRST RECORD: Cassette: The “Waterfalls” single by TLC  | Compact Disc: August and Everything After by The Counting Crows  LAST RECORD: Bastille’s Bad Blood NEXT RECORD: Surfer Blood’s Pythons FIRST CONCERT: I’d rather not say, but it was Newsboys. LAST CONCERT: Phosphorescent at the Casbah in San Diego, CA NEXT […]

Meet Alicia. She’s our Office Management intern and she’s constantly smiling. That’s probably a good thing  since she’s the first face people see when they walk into our office. She’s knowledgeable of all things Invisible Children and is always willing to lend a helping hand. I recently sat down with Alicia to find out more about her […]

Innovation is the name of the game and To Write Love on Her Arms always finds the right avenues to engage with its supporters. Among various methods, the organization brings issues such as depression, addiction, self injury, and suicide, to the forefront through the story of hope, events, and merchandise. Seeing the value in inspiring and encouraging others, it invests directly into treatment […]

Wednesday morning our friends at The Monarch School opened the doors to their brand new campus just down the block from our office, and we couldn’t be more excited to have them in the neighborhood. The mission of the Monarch School is to educate students impacted by homelessness and to help them develop hope for a future with […]

College admissions essays. Sigh. Either you wrote one and loathed every minute of it (who are we kidding? every hour of it), will someday have to write one, or never intend to write such a thing (such a rebel!) Regardless, what you will read below is hysterical & fascinating & makes me realize that the […]

We wrote about the Rock for Justice compilation Songs for Justice a couple weeks ago when we premiered a (great) track from Generationals. With the pre-order for the record officially open, however, it bears repeating. Rock for Justice is a non-profit that uses art to speak about and facilitate global justice programs. They’ve been long-time […]

Patrick Ocan is a member of the Village Savings and Loan Associations group Pur Kwiri Alok, which has the optimistic meaning “there is no loss in farming.” Everyone in the group is a farmer. For many members of the group, life has been about survival. Completing an education had to be put on the back […]