DNA 11 on Why World Vision?
Yesterday I posted a question on DNA 11's Facebook fan page. I asked why the company chose World Vision and what was the connection between their product and World Vision.
I just received an email from a unique company that makes what they call DNA art. DNA 11 creates personalized art from (you guessed it) DNA, fingerprints, and kiss marks. Specifically, their product line includes DNA Portraits, Fingerprint Portraits, and Kiss Portraits.
The past few nights I've been sampling tunes on RCRDLBL.com and tonight came across Solid Gold. Since I'm only scanning the reviews in my Google Reader and artists' bio pages, I didn't see this group is from Minneapolis until I'd given their song a good listen. Tony Plunkett on RCRDLBL likens Solid Gold's sound to Culture Club, but there aren't enough tracks there for me to make a comparison. Hop over to their MySpace page and check it out though.
"Who You Gonna Run To" is worth the [free] download…I couldn't be a music critic as I'm instrument-ignorant so I'm hard pressed to describe the actual sounds here..There's one sound that's a constant in the song…Plunkett says it gives it a "woozy groovy" feel. I'd just have to agree.
Diana over at Dee's Delightful Blog is Hulu.com's newest fan. A joint venture between NBC Universal and News Corporation, Hulu.com launched in the spring of 2007. Their mission is "to help people find and enjoy the world's premium video content when, where and how they want it." About a month ago, they announced the release of several widgets, which hits the nail on the head as far as satisfying the when/where/how components. There are four different widgets: Player, Summer, Show, and Picks widgets.
Player Widget allows users to watch content directly from the widget and track featured, most popular or recently viewed videos. Additionally, you can search for videos not found on Hulu.com This widget can be embedded to the Apple dashboard, iGoogle, soon Facebook, among others.
Summer Widget features a unique video each day, so this widget is not customizable.
Show Widget serves up your favorite show, by episode or clip. When new videos are added to Hulu.com, the widget automatically updates as well.
Picks Widget allows you to choose from today's highest rated, most popular, or recently added videos.
All widgets can be embedded into your blog/site.
This solar-powered streetlight would be perfect for lighting in city parks, plazas, and sidewalks. The leaf-shaped lights, designed to be interwoven among tree branches, gives off light during the night from the energy it has stored during the day time. Not only is this concept sustainable, its design works with the tree, the 'faux' lamp stand.
The Seoul, South Korean designer of the light, Jongho Lee, says, "I'd like to make something naturally from our daily life and the way we respond to the world." Like a lot of designers do, Lee finds inspiration from observing people. What really caught my eye in her bio was her further explanation of inspiration: "In their [people] life where joy and despair coexist, design is my way of conversing with them". I wonder where, in this lighting project, she found an element of despair. Was she thinking of the ugliness of typical street lamps clashing with the beauty of a park? Or did she consider the every-day 'despair' of energy-wasting technology?