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...message lands in Reinier Evers' In box, bearing the promise of something new and cool. Sometimes the sender is describing a product that's suddenly generating local buzz, like lipstick-size aromatherapy tubes in New Zealand or cone-shaped pizza in Italy. Other times it's an innovative retail concept, like customized-candy shops in Australia or American T-shirt "delis" where designs are personalized like sandwiches. The correspondence comes in from trendspotters everywhere--a coffee shop in Istanbul or a library in Taipei--all part of Evers' network of more than 7,000 volunteers, most of whom have never...
...usually modern art that aims to overturn preconceptions, but a new show of 19th century paintings delivers more shocks than Tracey Emin. One revelation is embedded in the title - "Black Victorians: Black People in British Art 1800-1900." The very concept of "black Victorians" may surprise. There had, of course, been Africans in Britain long before Victoria ascended the throne in 1837, but in the 19th century they were a familiar sight - not that you'd know that from most accounts of the old Queen's reign. Yet the show's curator, Jan Marsh, discovered that Victorian art depicted many...
...Apple CEO Steve Jobsabout it, and he'll tell you an instructive little story. Call it the Parable of the Concept Car. "Here's what you find at a lot of companies," he says, kicking back in a conference room at Apple's gleaming white Silicon Valley headquarters, which looks something like a cross between an Ivy League university and an iPod. "You know how you see a show car, and it's really cool, and then four years later you see the production car, and it sucks? And you go, What happened? They had it! They...
...unable to spend millions of dollars on a music video. The video in itself, is very well done and put together, not getting wrapped up in special effects and in your face symbolism and obvious surface level meanings that so many music videos these days are. It has concept, depth and does not fail to touch those who watch it. Even those who see the video daily, still are touched by the song and its meaning. The band is not a typical “let’s shoot a video that is us playing at a high school...
...Plus, somehow I’ve managed to absorb the concept of weighing the cost/benefit of such a situation, even if I routinely ward off economics and other math-like endeavors with my garlic pendant. And did I mention that the “Supernatural” marketing team had actual gifts for passersby in certain locations? That is, if your very liberal definition of a gift includes those trendy, “love-a-cause,” wristbands...