A series focusing exclusively on the burgeoning underground music scene in Portland. Using a combination of interviews and live footage we will expose the world to all the interesting bands, record labels and underground venues that make Portland’s music scene so unique.
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This particular project is the direct result and response to 10 minutes of exposure to television shows where participants fight over paternity mysteries. At the conclusion of the dramatic episode DNA results 99.999% accurate are revealed. This particular project was completed in one sitting over the course of 14 hours. The tool of choice was Garage Band. There are 15 separate tracks and the piano tracks were added last and they complement the female lyrics quite well.
Urban Salvaged Hardwood, contemporary, high quality and versatile bunk bed. Designed by an internationally acclaimed Toronto architecture firm. The bunk bed is designed from all four sides, the upper bunk having two access points, and thus can be placed in various configurations depending on the size and shape of the room – against one wall, in a corner, or freestanding.
Gufler, an Austrian designer offers the world of design the Berta chair. Made of molded plywood and solid wood.
The German autobahn is the mecca of motoring for high-performance enthusiasts. For many long stretches of road there are no speed limits with the only exceptions coming by way of junction points, construction zones or areas where noise or pollution are problematic. With a highway system where extreme speeds are the norm. Every year the Essen Motor Show is home to the annual Tune It Safe! program and showcases a variety of police cars jazzed up by various tuners to promote safety in the industry. The 2009 offering above was modified by AC Schnitzer and should be noted that is not in actual use by the German Police. Sorry Tom…
Mayo Clinic Meditation is a clinically validated method of meditation you can easily practice using your iPhone or iPod Touch. Developed by Mayo Clinic, this meditation program will help you feel more focused and relaxed throughout your day. Mayo Clinic Meditation uses musical chords and circles to teach you slow, paced breathing which can help clear your mind of daily distractions, leaving you feeling calm, refreshed and at peace. You can choose either the 5 or 15 minute meditation program for your relaxation and enjoyment. The 5 minute program is perfect when you have just a few minutes to unwind. For maximum benefit, make time for the 15 minute program, which guides you through three cycles of paced breathing and silent meditation.
Mayo Clinic Meditation is based upon the research of Amit Sood, M.D., a consultant in the Complementary and Integrative Medicine program at Mayo Clinic. Complimentary and integrative medicine aims to promote wellness by strengthening the communication between your mind and your body. Dr. Sood has published an initial clinical study showing the benefits of Mayo Clinic Meditation. The pilot study indicates that this simple paced-breathing meditation program can reduce stress and improve overall quality of life.
Graduates are emerging from interdisciplinary master’s programs that integrate design, technology, and business. These professionals are trained in “design thinking.” Sure, it’s the latest trendy term to sweep the business world, but it’s a technique that designers and executives alike hope may help to provide a solution to some of the world’s serious challenges. Business Week recently focused on twenty-one recent graduates.
Featured above is Caroline Lu, 32, a 2008 graduate of California College of the Arts, San Francisco. She currently is a designer/researcher at SPARC Design Studio, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn. Lu works at the Center for Innovation, a department within the Mayo Clinic that looks to improve the patient experience by developing better services for health-care delivery. Using her background as a graphic designer and design thinker—along with her own experience surviving cancer—she applies personal insight and design-driven techniques to come up with new ideas.
The work of James Cutler, FAIA, and Bruce Anderson, AIA, of Cutler Anderson Architects is internationally renowned for its environmental awareness and meticulous attention to detail. Each project begins with an investigation of place and materials and culminates in a finely crafted building that fits seamlessly into the landscape.
Rockport publishing offers The Best of Cutler Anderson Architects, the firm’s outstanding designs from two previous Rockport volumes, James Cutler and Cutler Anderson Architects, as well as new and equally compelling projects from around the world that expand the firm’s vocabulary
Go to Cutler Anderson Architects site.
For more than 30 years Prairie Avenue Bookshop had been a staple of the architectural and design community. It also had a global outreach with its vast online catalog of books on architecture and design. As of September the largest architectural bookstore in the world closed its doors due to the high cost of doing business in Downtown Chicago and poor sales. The story of the beloved bookstore began when the owners Marylin and Wilbert Hasbrouck founded the Prairie Avenue School Press in 1961 to reprint Louis Sullivan’s “A System of Architectural Ornament.”
In the early 1980s, Prairie Avenue Bookshop was one of the first independent bookstores to adopt computers, shipping books around the globe, thus establishing itself as the premier architectural bookstore in the world. By the late 1980s, Prairie Avenue became a meeting place for avante garde and mainstream architects as well as architectural historians. The bookshop includes furniture designed by Frank Loyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, and Joseph Hoffman. The closing of this venerable bookshop is symptomatic of the way this digital age has affected and transformed the publishing business. Prairie Avenue Bookshop shall be sadly missed.
Luke Jerram creates sculptures, installations, soundscapes, and live arts projects that investigate the mysterious process of how we construct inner worlds from objective reality. His work is inspired by such disparate areas of research as biology, acoustic science, sleep research, ecology, and neural pathways. Recently Jerram’s H1N1 sculpture was accepted permanently into the Wellcome Collection in London.
