Papier Mache Floats rule for Tanabata Festival

It is refreshing to see how even malls can be about more than shopping. Our friends at PingMag show in Asagaya’s Tanabata Festival: The Papier-mache Float Parade how the Pearl Shopping Center unleashes its...

"Inspiring Invention" campaign encourages children to keep thinking.

The Department of Commerce's United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and the National Inventors Hall of Fame Foundation (NIHFF) joined The Advertising Council today to launch a series of national public...

'Mind's Eye' Influences Visual Perception

This is a recent news gathered in ScienceDaily.com and showed just how important the relationship of imagination with our visual perception of things.  To wit -Letting your imagination run away with you may actually influence how you see the world. New research from...

Defend Fair Copyright in Canada

All Canadians should be worried about this."Following pressure from the U.S. government and entertainment lobbies, the Canadian government announced sweeping changes to Canadian copyright law. The changes mirror...

Dubliner wins world coffee-making prize

The story below reminds me of my first visit to California in 1979.I had just joined Memorex and the company had arranged for me to spend some time at HQ. Fifteen of us left Dublin to travel to the US via Heathrow (my least favourite airport). Due to various problems we...

At 'Grand Fooding 2008' in Paris , Chefs Offer Culinary Delights on June 22nd

On Sunday, June 22nd, Chefs leave their usual haunts and set their tent on the esplanade of the Bibliotheque Nationale de France in Paris.They will offer their culinary delights to a salivating crowd for Le Grand Fooding 2008, not La Grande Bouffe.I would be happy to try the...

Hanoi Sofitel Metropole named ‘The Best Hotel in Hanoi’

The one hundred year old hotel Sofitel Metropole Hanoi has been continuously awarded “The Best Hotel in Hanoi in 2007” by the Asia Money’s readers, the leading monthly capital market magazine in Asia."With...

Ga ga meets Dada: Fine art for toddlers

It's becoming more common for young parents to invest in artwork more edifying than that of Barney and Blue's Clues, according to a feature in today's Globe and Mail.This is positive news indeed, methinks. ...

Pastry's New Wave Rocks in Paris: Macha Millefeuille, Endive and Marmelade Br...

When I hear Pain de Sucre it brings to mind Rio de Janeiro not Paris.Never mind, the City of Light has its own Pain de Sucre, a Patisserie (pastry shop) run by Nathalie Robert and Didier Mathray (on the Rive Droite).Pastry must be poetry for them as they named the brioche...

Michael Geist at UBC

"LOCATION: St. John's College, 2111 Lower Mall, UBCTIME: Check in: 6:00 p.m., Presentation 6:30 p.m. DESCRIPTION: The Internet and new technologies have ushered in a seemingly unlimited array of possibilities for...

Masks, Chocolate Hearts and Theater: Not Just Valentine's Day at Josephine Va...

Rather than limit herself to truffles, chocolate bars and your average chocolate creations, in Paris chocolate artist Josephine Vannier's offerings ran the gamut from piano to masks of initiation or theater with 'tragedy-satire-comedy' or 'columbine', not to forget a...

Creative Disorder, The Mystery of the Messy Desk

My desk is messy. Very messy, some would say. It's how I work best. Papers, pens, straws, soya sauce packets all find their natural resting place.  When I came across this dandy of an article, I couldn't resist...

The Hives ask fans to make art for new single

This is cool for the fans I suppose, but a little lazy on the part of the band. If your job is to be an artist, pick up a pen and draw something on the cover. "12/19/2007 For many fans of music being a part of your...

Copyright - How long should it last?

" In 1735 William Hogarth, after a lively public campaign, helped to pass an act giving engravers the rights to their work for 14 years from publication. It was a landmark in the history of copyright as it bestowed...

Adventures in 'Legoland'...Building Asia Brick by Brick

The architectural landscape in Asia has change quite a bit in the past 25 years. Some decided to illustrate the changes and offer ideas or should I say models for the future by Building Asia Brick by Brick, we are talking Lego here. The results of this joint project by Art...

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