Global Intellect

Don’t hold your breath for music subscriptions from Apple’s iTunes music store — Steve Jobs will never offer them. Renting music flies in the face of consumer behavior. Consumers want to buy music, not rent it, and a big
Original post by Brad

1978: Spam. And we don’t mean Monty Python.
The first piece of unsolicited bulk e-mail (what will come to be known as spam) is written. When it’s sent two days later, more than 400 people with an Arpanet
Original post by Sharon Weinberger

The look of the Jellyfish House is so graceful it’s easy to forget the building is an environmental workhorse. But the concept house harvests rainwater in its lacelike structure, filters its own waste water and is built on a
Original post by Sharon Weinberger

Original post by Sharon Weinberger

Chris Johanson’s new book, Please Listen I have Something to Tell You About What Is, surveys drawings, paintings, installations and sculptures he completed from 1992–2006. Moving chronologically, the book documents how his art progresses— from his beginnings as a street artist in San Francisco to his more recent contemplative work in Portland where he now […]