Blog Updates and inspiration

Schools for Schools doesn’t stop at building beautiful new classrooms and laboratories at our 11 partner schools – the team also works with students and staff at the schools to find better ways of maintaining their campuses once the structures are built. One of the challenges the team has found in working with the schools over the […]

The below post was contributed by Liz Allen, IC’s Director of Information Systems. “We are limited by our beliefs.” Last week I went to see the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour all four evenings it played at the San Diego Natural History Museum. If you like films, the outdoors, or revel in humans pushing themselves past […]

Our crew that was in Uganda filming a special viewer-funded documentary with The Very Best and the Polyphonic Spree have returned to their respected homes and are getting all nostalgic about the journey. Artist Relations Director Kenny Laubbacher gives us the second update from the trip. (Read update one HERE) Wow.. where to begin?! In […]

March Madness is in full swing and I’m already near the bottom of our office bracket challenge. But if I believe in one thing during this tournament, it’s the underdog. So here’s to hoping things turn around. Michael Bailey, an economist on Facebook’s Data Science team, compiled an analysis of the more than 1 million Facebook user’s […]

Concerts are usually experienced in the masses but even in the largest of crowds, every audience member has a unique experience– the true beauty behind live music. In their second project together, musician Edisonnoside and visual artist Daniel Schwartz have clashed music and light projection together to recreate the concert experience in Imposition. What began as […]

Students at Invisible Children Uganda partner school Sir Samuel Baker wash up after class. Invisible Children partners with 11 schools in northern Uganda to build structures such as laboratories, classrooms and dormitories, and to conduct trainings for teachers and students on a variety of topics from academic to how to improve hygiene on campus.

Let’s talk about water. It is a basic necessity central to human existence and it may seem inconceivable to imagine living without it. But the UN reports that 783 million people do not have access to clean water and almost 2.5 billion do not have access to adequate sanitation. What? Since 1993 there has been […]

This Philadelphia group immediately grabbed our attention when they debuted their track “Fever.” It’s a falsetto fury with synths that made its way onto every “party” type playlist we created. Night Panther have followed up that track with further songs of brilliance – “Fire” and “Lioness.” Each track surprises and takes you in a direction […]

You probably wouldn’t know it by looking at them, but Pierce Freelon and his colleague Stephen Levitin are both professors at the University of North Carolina. Together they teach Beat Making Lab at the university, where students learn the basic skills needed to create and distribute beats for various genres including hip-hop. In addition to teaching, both men are […]

Using marketing & media to change the course of history. Something we know a little bit about… The film No premiered on limited screens in February 2013 and was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar at the 85th Academy Awards. The movie centers around René Saavedra, an ad executive in 1988 who comes up with […]