Author: Jerry Hsiao

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Jul 13, 2015

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When I first met Erica Recto, she was working as an accessories designer at a big company. She is one of those creative types that is always creating and doing amazing things, and you wonder "why they don't do their own thing." Well now Erica is the owner of Amelia Brooklyn and is teaching and...

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Jul 08, 2015

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Next year we'll all be ramping up for the summer olympics in Rio de Janeiro. But until then we have a peek at the winning design for the olympic torch. São Paulo-based design studio Chelles & Hayashi came up with the winning design and that's both functional and entertaining. As in the video below previewing...

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Jun 24, 2015

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We all love Ball Jars and a reason to love them more is that a subsidiary of the company we love happens to have a camera heading to pluto that will give us the highest resolution image of pluto yet. Ball's Ralph imager, as it's called will be flying by Pluto around July 14th and...

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May 27, 2015

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The book Skate Girls of Kabul is still on pre-order, but there’s already a lot of buzz about the new title. Photographer Jessica Fulford-Dobson shows the incredible story of Afghani girls who have taken up the sport of skateboarding, thanks to Skateistan, a charity which provides skate parks to get kids back into their education system....

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May 18, 2015

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For this 8 Questions I thought I'd get my wife, Amanda Hsiao to participate. She's a fashion designer by trade but originally received her degree in merchandising. Her journey to become a designer is one of the stories I enjoy and it basically goes as follows: Amanda picked up knitting as a hobby to get...

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May 13, 2015

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In the latest in intriguing-not-on-cable entertainment, I bring to you Hobbies with Asa Akira courtesy of The Hundreds. Asa Akira is most notably a porn star who also found a large following from her role in artist David Choe's podcast DVDASA. Now she has this show, which is similar to Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe,...

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May 06, 2015

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Photography, in this day and age, has become simplified - most of us have iPhones, iPads or some other digital camera. But you don't become a great photographer overnight, or specifically, not a forensic photographer. We've all seen them on the Law & Order and CSI, but this video illustrates a deeper sense of what...

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Apr 29, 2015

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My obsession with drones continues! This film, Drone Aviary, envisions a world where drones have other roles and are likely controlled, at least in part, by the government. Just imagine a network of drones which monitor and give directions, based on the movement of civilians. The film is just part of the project from The...