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New York Farm City: locally grown produce in NYC

April 12, 2011 @ 9:49 pm

Urban farming and locally grown foods is a great idea, but something strikes me as very unsafe about using a rooftop as a makeshift field for growing crops. I feel like the structural integrity of the roof will be taken … Continue reading →

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Farming Siberian Sturgeon for caviar

February 5, 2011 @ 1:24 am

Liza de Guia of FoodCurated produces another fantastic food-related video, this time about the domestic production of caviar in Sarasota, Florida. She talks to Jim Michaels, the program manager at Mote Marine Laboratory for their Siberian Sturgeon program and discusses … Continue reading →

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Be Linen Movie

November 8, 2010 @ 5:37 am

BE LINEN MOVIE from Benoit MILLOT on Vimeo. This short film follows the cultivation, production, and subsequent use of linen in a wide variety of products. In the film you get to see how the production travels across Europe to … Continue reading →

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Self-expanding coffee cup sleeve

March 23, 2010 @ 6:02 pm

This self-expanding coffee sleeve made is an actual prototype material that reacts and grows when it sense a hot liquid around it. It’s a sort of space-saving, integrated coffee collar/sleeve alternative that gives me the creeps every time I see … Continue reading →

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Does Bill Gates have the fastest growing Twitter account?

January 19, 2010 @ 10:13 pm

Victoria and I were talking today about how Bill Gates amassed about 40,000 followers in the span of several minutes after announcing to the world that he was on Twitter. His verified Twitter account (@BillGates) proves that his thoughts, as … Continue reading →

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Ball

December 4, 2009 @ 12:33 am

Ball from Ries Straver on Vimeo. “Ball” by Ries Straver is a looping video of a young girl holding a red ball/balloon that seems to grow and shrink under her control. The video is an exercise in precarious tension as … Continue reading →

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