Medellin, Colombia, took that opportunity to the next level and consulted with their population… "Their public works plan, says David Mohney, secretary for the $100,000 Curry Stone Design Prize, which picked Echeverri and Fajardo as the 2009 winners for Transformative Public Works, “was about bringing design to the table to deal with problems and audiences it doesn’t often deal with, and improving the lives of a broad range of people.”"

Dutch Design Week 09: in Eindhoven this week graduate designer Erik De Nijs of Nieuwe Heren presents a set of suitcases that can be combined to form a sofa when not in useCalled Suited Case, De Nijs aimed to produce something that reminds users of the familiarity of home whilst travelling.

The store, which is still in the conceptual stages, offers apps that users can download on-the-move to the iDrive in their BMW or via Computer (apps are then transfered to the car system). Apps currently under development include: travel guides, geowikis, games, podcasts, Facebook, Xing, and Twitter. One of the unique features of mobile apps that will also apply to BMW apps is it draws on your location to deliver useful and timely information. For example, applications for social networks (Facebook or Twitter) can read your car’s navigation system to guide your car thru traffic or recommend a great restaurant en route to your destination. In addition, it is a vitual certainty that car related data — braking patterns or acceleration history — will be used to develop apps that help you stay safe or save gas.

We tagged along with one of the whitewashing teams this morning in SoHo, as they took down five billboards. Surprisingly, no one looked twice at them as they walked around with an enormous bucket of paint, brushes, and a wobbly cart. Later, we biked over to LES, where NPA employees had already commenced retaking the whitewashed billboards, less than an hour after they were painted. And still later, we took some shots of the artists the PAC had organized to paint the remaining billboards.

From the press release: "In his most recent video and photographic works, the artist takes a critical stance on the architecture and social culture of the favelas in the Brazilian megalópolis of São Paulo. The main feature of the spatial identity of these slums, clearly deviating from the formal concept of traditional urban planning, is the fact that the inhabitants of the dwellings are also their builders. There are no construction plans by independent architects. The labyrinthine and improvised structures of the favelas are in a constant state of flux; they continually grow and change, completely untouched by the logical order of a planned city.

Dionisio González attempts to capture this flux in his photographic works. He inserts new building structures into his photographs of the favelas via computer."

This is a new concept of a modern indoor/outdoor gas fireplace made of special kind of ceramic that has been discovered recently. When the fireplace is off the ceramic is of white colour and becomes transparent as the fireplace warms up, allowing the visibility of the fire inside.
After the use, with the cooling process it becomes white again.

We place broken objects on our large, common fixing table for collective consideration and share ideas and techniques for repairing, mending, enhancing or repurposing the objects before us. Our skilled Master Fixers provide support and guidance as needed. For a $5 donation, you can get help fixing your broken thing OR you can sign up to become a Fixers Apprentice* for free and earn your Fixers Apprentice Badge!

Encouraging people to donate their old jeans and other clothing items does more than just divert waste from overflowing landfills.

"As the 'Original Recycler,' 166 community-based Goodwills in the United States and Canada collectively divert more than 1.5 billion pounds of clothing and textiles every year from landfill by recovering the value in people's unwanted material goods. In addition to funding community-based services, these landfill diversion programs create job-training opportunities for more than 1.5 million people a year," said Goodwill Industries International CEO and President Jim Gibbons.

The 335,114 word novel has been broken down into 5,196 pieces, and, using clues given on the homepage participants are encouraged to hunt them down and deliver them back to the site. These extracts have been scattered across hundreds of websites and locations throughout the UK, including fan, horror, thriller and lifestyle websites. As pieces are found they will appear on www.stephenking.co.uk enabling fans to move them around and link them together, gradually forming bigger sections of the book.

The effort, dubbed "Expedition 206," marks another venture by a big-name brand to delve deep into social media. Such efforts, which include blogging, posting updates on Twitter and adding videos to YouTube, can generate talk by consumers and sales, companies hope.

The three people - who will be chosen in an online vote starting Wednesday - will spend the entire year traveling. Coke will pay their travel expenses and pay them a salary. It wouldn't disclose the cost of the venture.

Confirming our belief that Japan is at once among the coolest and craziest places on this planet we all call home is Burger King's exclusive Windows 7 Whopper. Seven stacked beef patties extend your usual Whopper to over five inches in height and the whole thing costs an appropriate ¥777 (or $8.55). It'll be available for one week only — or seven days, get it? Join us past the break to see the full towering size of this meaty monstrosity.

The magazine shows a sophisticated layout – very similar to a number of women’s lifestyle titles currently available – the key selling point for readers will be the discount coupons for brands such as Clairol, Secret, Venus and Tampax which the magazine will contain. "

That Rupert Murdoch may tilt the news rightward more for commercial than ideological reasons is beside the point. What matters is the way that Fox's model has invaded the bloodstream of the American media. By showing that ideologically distorted news can drive ratings, Ailes has provoked his rivals at CNN and MSNBC to develop a variety of populist and ideological takes on the news. In this way, Fox hasn't just corrupted its own coverage. Its example has made all of cable news unpleasant and unreliable.

SLPS Montréal présentera les travaux d’artistes locaux et canadiens œuvrant dans la photographie contemporaine et documentaire.Profitez de l’occasion pour faire valoir vos talents culinaires en apportant votre plat préféré et venez vous joindre à une communauté d’amateurs d’art afin de profiter de ce festin pour les yeux et le ventre !

Glo brings the Bible to life with HD video and documentaries, high- resolution images, zoomable maps, 360-degree virtual tours and much more. And its all easy to find and natural to use with Glos unique browsing lenses. Find what you need when you need it. Thats Glo.

After playing the "happy farm" game on kaixin001.com, would you like to put yourself among the real corps while smelling the fragrance of the countryside? Recently, a farm land service called "happy farm in reality" was opened in the suburbs of Shanghai where white-collar workers from around that region can experience the real farmer's life by themselves.

Mr. Liu, a white-collar worker who lives in the Pudong district with his family, rented a piece of farmland in the suburb with a 3, 000 yuan membership fee. When weekend comes, the whole family likes to drive to their own farm to have fun. Watering, weeding, fertilizing and worming, each bringing them unique fun. And during the harvest season, they usually take the harvest back to enjoy with their friends and neighbors.