Nothing Ever Happens

Always in print:
#1 / Monocle
Started by Tyler Brule (who founded Wallpaper in 1996) is my absolute favorite. It’s all about the quality of life! Monocle is a new entrant which shows there is always room for innovation even in a declining industry. While newspapers are closing overseas offices and trimming staff, Monocle is adding offices […]

Enter the culture of overexposure.
They’ve been documented like no group before them, most especially by themselves: on their blogs, their MySpace, Facebook and Flickr pages, and on YouTube. And now the artistes are taking their turn, with a new wave of reality series, films and books examining the documentation generation.
But are we seeing real people, […]

Chinese design is taking off. I am wondering when we are going to pay a premium for Chinese designed products, similar to how we pay premium prices for Japanese cars, electronics etc. and know that not so long ago they were considered cheap stuff.
“China Design Now” is the impressive, must-see new exhibit at London’s Victoria […]

1. Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
From New York University professor Clay Shirky and famous internet social-phenomena observateur.
2. Microtrends: The Small Forces Behind Tomorrow’s Big Changes
From “Soccer Moms” to “Late-Breaking Gays” Mark Penn studies America’s ever-splintering societal subsets.
3. Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob
Critic Lee Siegel […]

(From Economist.com)
“DUMB and Dumber”, one of the modern classics of American comedy, tells the story of an affable idiot, Lloyd Christmas, who falls in love with a classy beauty, Mary Swanson. In one scene he asks her the chances of “a guy like you and a girl like me” ending up together. The answer is […]

We are the Universe.

Welcome to the world of industrial food production and high-tech farming! Our Daily Bread (2005) reminds us which direction we as humanity are taking / and how hungry we are :/ (*tg i’m a veggie). Don’t be a chicken, please watch Excerpts 1 and 2.

I read the interview for Wired (with horror pictures from Abu Ghraib) with Stanford psychology professor emeritus Philip Zimbardo, who’s new book The Lucifer Effect summarizes more than 30 years of research on factors that can create a “perfect storm” which leads good people to engage in evil actions. And then there his hope […]