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NINJA New York: Smoking Food & Sword-Wielding Ninja Waiters
My father, @CognitiveFlex, visited me this past weekend in New York City, and we unintentionally found ourselves in several surreal situations that felt totally immersive and like back-to-back movie sets. First, we visited the McKittrick Hotel for Sleep No More, Punchdrunk's Macbeth-themed choose yo ...
New Technology Lets You Take Photographs With Your Fingers
The world of photography seems to be changing at a phenomenally fast pace. If you think about it, only a few years ago we were taking our roll of film to the Kodak store to be developed. We now have digital cameras on almost every device. Camera phones are in the hands of every age group, DSLR camer ...
Wear Your Agenda With Wrist Watch Post-It Notes
As a college student, I have a very busy lifestyle. When school is in session, I typically have up to three classes a day mixed in with meetings with professors about projects and meetings for my school’s literary magazine, Avant, on which I serve as the treasurer. In addition to these meetings, I a ...
Retro Game Posters Highlight Environmental Issues
Bulgarian designer, Alexander Nedelev, produced some captivating works entitled "It's Not a Game Anymore" where he used retro game designs to depict messages about environmental degradation. Each black-and-white design features a stylized reproduction of a particular old school arcade game. A quote ...
Imagine How Creativity Works & Create More “Aha” Moments
Looking for ways to spark your creativity? Want to understand how our brains are able to imagine something that does not yet exist? Wondering why inspiration so often comes just after we have "given up?" Check out Imagine: How Creativity Works, where Jonah Lehrer explores exactly these issues. Lehre ...
Creative Cocktail Recipes Inspired By The Avengers
I was surprised this morning when I heard that The Avengers was number one at the box office again this past weekend. That movie is still going strong, and everyone I've talked to who has seen it has really enjoyed it. It will be no surprise when we start hearing about the next Avengers movie since ...
52 Ace Illustrators In One Deck Of Cards
I love art of all kinds. I don’t care if it is a Van Gogh or a piece of graffiti on a subway wall. The rise of Banksy in the commercial art world is only be possible thanks to all the great graffiti artists of the 1980s and onwards who paved the way with their incredible innovations. One reason why ...
8 Witty & Entertaining 404 Pages That Generate Traffic
Last month, Google released one of its biggest algorithm changes ever. "Penguin," as it's called by Search Engine Optimizers (SEOs), devalued thousands of links all over the web, obliterating the rankings on many sites participating in "black hat" and "gray hat" SEO. This is just one of the many exa ...
London In Puddles: Magical Photographs Taken In Rain Puddles
Several months ago, I wrote about some photos that were taken through puddles. It is a unique photography perspective that will twist your mind into a pretzel. Before I saw those pictures, I never realized what magic could be found in the simple reflection of a rain puddle. When my dear friend Nini ...
Award-Winning Advertising: The Three Little Pigs With A Twist
There are times when you watch a video and say to yourself, “Wow, that was a great concept and a well designed brand message.” The Guardian journalism news site has leveraged the changes in their industry from print to online media. While watching this three little pigs video, you can see that they ...
Cupcakewurst: The Ultimate Freak Of Nature Sausage Cupcakes
Out of all the cupcakes I've written about before, these have got to be the most bizarre freak of nature cupcakes ever. I'd like to think I know a thing or two about cupcakes, but I've never seen anything like this before. Someone's been smoking something again cuz this just ain't right. I mean, a c ...
Creative Phone Book Art Is As Easy As A Strikethrough
I have found that it is easy to be creative once you know what you want to be creative with. What I mean to express is that finding something to be creative with is probably harder than to come up with something creative once you have picked your outlet. Art in general has always mesmerized my mushy ...
World’s Largest Chocolate Sculpture (9 Tons Of Chocolate)
Whoa! This is awesome! Breaking a world record seems to be a popular way to get a lot of free publicity lately. We see a lot of companies gather all their employees to break world records to celebrate their company's anniversary, to promote a good cause, or even just to raise morale. About six month ...
Mickey Mouse Sugar Rush: Mickey Oreos, Cupcakes & Cake Pops
Have you ever been on the Internet reading something and then you see another interesting link somewhere on the page and you click on it? Everybody has done that, right? You read that page and then click on another link, and this goes on and on until you find yourself on a website and you have no id ...
The Completely Transparent House With No Privacy
When I first saw the pictures of this transparent house in Tokyo, I thought no way would I be able to live there. I don't have any curtains or blinds on the windows along the front of my house. I know that when people walk by on the sidewalk at night they can see inside if I have the lights on, but ...