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...
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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...
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...
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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. ...
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...
"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...
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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...
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...
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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...
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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...
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...