Asking for the color is another way to ask for the time with James E. Murphy’s What Colour Is It? web app. His new clock web app translates the current time into its corresponding hexadecimal color code. So 8 o’clock (8:00:00) is interpreted as #080000, which makes the background a dark turquoise...
It's that crazy tech show in vegas time again. CES is ramping up and tech news is oozing all over my screen from every orifice of the net. From wearables to drones and basically anything that's apart of the "Internet of things". But two items have stuck out in my perusing, and both have had...
Last night Oakland artist, zinemaker, and DIY champion Rich Jacobs had a party at Proper LBC to celebrate the release of his new shoes by Vans. For the event, he spray painted his largest works yet. While the pieces were huge, the aesthetic remained humble. The canvases were generic drop cloth from Home Depot. The...
The fifth Save Music in Chinatown benefit takes place in less than three weeks. But will anyone think about it over the holidays? Will it be more than an afterthought to stressing, shopping, and traveling? I hope so. My daughter's school Castelar Elementary still relies on private donations to pay for the defunded music program....
2014 has been another exciting year for Imprint, with some great new speakers, successful events, new partnerships, fresh learnings, expanded networks, and much more. Much like last year, I asked the Imprint team to each choose one highlight from 2014, thinking we'd send the year off by featuring some of the best moments here. So...
Archiculture has been making the rounds at film festivals and architecture schools for a year now, and on Wednesday, December 17, it will be made available to the public via archiculturefilm.com and YouTube. The 25-minute documentary produced by Arbuckle Industries not only gives five architecture students the Spellbound or First Position treatment in an effort...
Ray Barbee has been a huge inspiration to me because we share the same interests. He is a professional skateboarder, musician and photographer based in Long Beach, CA. In this short film he did with Helio Collective and Leica camera, called “Let Us Roam”, he explains that you have to practice and put...
In recent weeks I've been on the hunt for a new coffee maker. I've checked out the K-Cup brewers and Nespresso machines, but I like brewing those beans. Here are three offerings all various forms of brewing that have popped up recently, two that are presently in pre-order status. Le Creuset French Press $60 Le Creuset is...
[caption id="attachment_12167" align="alignnone" width="790"] Point Lobos, California (July 1, 2014)[/caption] 2014 is about to end and not a moment too soon. We'll probably look back at it as an uneasy year riddled with tension between races and distrust of The Man from all sides. But there's some brightness to be found if you make an effort....
Who still buys books? Those antiquated, cumbersome, and tree-killing publications that have been rendered obsolete by digital media. Those overpriced eyesores on your bookshelves that are so heavy to move and make no sense to own when you can have it all on a tablet plus links, sounds, and other bells and whistles. Well, that...