Apple Computer is taking a defiant stance with Scandinavian regulators, staunchly defending its right to make its iPod the only portable music player compatible with songs purchased from the company's iTunes music store. Wired View full entry
Raymond J. Learsy says, out of the public spotlight, the Bush administration is planning to build a 4,000 mile $184 billion multi-modal - ten-lane transport superhighway" [...] "splitting the country in two" from Mexico to Canada, when gas is already over $3 a gallon. The peeps over at Hammerblog... View full entry
We just found out that for the next month Amazon.com has paired up An Inconvenient Truth with Design Like You Give A Damn for a special price of $34. (insert global warming pun here) View full entry
"Jean Baudrillard, notorious for his essay The Gulf War Did Not Take Place and his trenchant views on the symbolism of the attacks on the World Trade Centre, will make a public appearance in London in the autumn for the first time in six years." The Guardian preps us for an event on October 14th... View full entry
A British think tank calls the excessive use of alarming images "Climate Porn." And says that these tactics place people into a torrent of despair--making them feel helpless. BBC View full entry
“My whole thing now is if you don't sell out, you sell out on yourself,” he went on to announce. If he could get the money, the resources, he could go bigger, with more creative projects, reaching more people ”” and he wouldn't worry about being called a sellout... View full entry
With apologies to all you breeders, this could be an interesting and fun option. Imagine...JetBlue but with Adult movies on the Direct TV: Read | via View full entry
- Blair meets the "emissions terminator". - Arnie "snubs" white house with deal that paves way to joining EU scheme - and in the UK, Currys one of the biggest electrical retailers announced it was to start selling solar panels on the high street. View full entry
The Museum and Creative Time, the New York-based public art organization, have jointly commissioned Doug Aitken to create the artist's first large-scale public artwork in the United States, which will be the first to bring art to MoMA's exterior walls. Continuous sequences of film scenes will be... View full entry
Inner City Youth, London is a narrated photo essay by Simon Wheatly. It attempts to capture the lives of Londons' under privalaged youth and the music culture (grime) that is developing out of their real world experiences and the influence of mainstream American hip-Hop. Via Future Feeder, Magnum... View full entry
Keith and Chandra Calhoun have been documenting the Lower 9th for the past 25 years. Although their home and studio was wiped out after Hurricane Katrina they are not stopping anytime soon. See their ongoing work tonight on NBC's Nightly News. John Dwyer and Shelter Architecture are working with... View full entry
Tonight is the first of two 24 hour sessions where Rem Koolhaas and Hans Ulrich Obrist interview over 50 people. More info and the full list of participants inside >> FRIDAY 28 JULY 6pm - 9pm Ken Adam / David Adjaye / Brian Eno / Zaha Hadid / Charles Jencks / Hanif Kureishi / Ken Loach... View full entry
Since moving to the West Coast we've been a little to lax at putting out updates - so much so that most people haven't realized we have left Montana. Anyway, here is our mid-summer newletter for those who are interested. Cheers C View full entry
A three-part BBC program, Pulp's Jarvis Cocker speaks about British art schools, their influence on pop music and pop culture as a whole: listen here (RealPlayer required.) View full entry
My wife and I are proud to announce the arrival of our beautiful baby girl. That's a good enough reason to let the Archinect.com domain renewal pass me by yesterday, isn't it ;) View full entry