February 2012
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Skillshare + COMMON Pitch NYC: Startup Bootcamp →
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Skillshare is excited to announce that we’re a proud partner of COMMON Pitch NYC! We’re teaming up to host COMMON’s Mentor Day at the School of Visual Arts. On February 14th, COMMON is hosting a full day startup bootcamp at SVA. The day will include a series interactive lectures on the science of startups - everything from communications to legal complexities to things some...
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There's no such thing as "clean coal"
Boston.com’s The Big Picture has a shocking set of photos showing the coal industry in all its so-called “clean” glory:
Mining for coal is one of the world’s most dangerous jobs. While deadliest in China, where thousands of miners die annually, the profession is still hazardous in the West and other regions as well. Our mining and use of coal accounts for a variety...
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Open Source Ecology
The ultimate in agricultural nerding. Open Source Ecology is a network of farmers and engineers that has been creating an open source, low-cost, high performance technological platform that allows for the easy, DIY fabrication of the 50 different Industrial Machines that it takes to build a sustainable civilization with modern comforts.
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Beyond the personal automobile
Dan Sturges writes in MIT’s Technology Review about how new advances in technology are allowing people to ditch their cars in favor of a more efficient, more connected system:
I think any transition would have to start with the roughly 70 million commuters in the United States. The recipe for making car ownership less necessary for them requires three main ingredients. First, we need...
January 2012
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Art director interview
A student at the Art Institute of Colorado recently reached out to the FearLess Cottage looking to interview an art director for a school project. Here are my answers to his questions:
What do you like most about being a art director? It’s kind of a tricky question because I don’t really think of myself as an art director. I just think of myself as someone who helps make creative ideas come...
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December 2011
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November 2011
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WatchPivot: Jonathan Hoefler
This is a must watch for any design nerd. Type specialist Jonathan Hoefler of the type foundry Hoefler & Frere-Jones covers not only the complexities of designing beautiful typefaces, but more importantly the complexities of making those typefaces appear beautiful on a variety of platforms (newsprint, web, mobile devices, etc.)
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“We just think it would be unfortunate if low-lying areas were flooded, while...”
– Matthew Yglesias on being a Climate Hawk
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Job Killers vs. People Killers
A couple of recent posts in the always great Climate Progress underscore a huge detachment from reality in today’s political conversation regarding environmental regulation.
First, a debunking of regulations as “job killers”:
One report from the University of Massachusetts estimates that more than 250,000 jobs will be created through installation of new equipment at...
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EAMES: The Architect and The Painter
It’s about time somebody made a film about Charles and Ray Eames.
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October 2011
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September 2011
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August 2011
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FearLess show with Al Gore
Today one of my heroes sat down to chat with one of my other heroes. We streamed the whole thing live. I was one of the few people in the room, feeding them Twitter questions.
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Dan Mountford
I’m really digging the double exposure photographic work of the UK’s Dan Mountford. It’s like when you’re dreaming about one thing then suddenly another… and he caught the moment right in between.
July 2011
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J. Zachary Keenan
I came across the work of J. Zachary Keenan from the music he did for Mike Perry’s video in the previous post. I discovered that, like Perry, he does some fantastic handwritten type.
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Live Colorfully by Mike Perry
This is a fun little exploratory video “inspired by the color green” by Mike Perry and Diego Berakha for Kate Spade. Music by J. Zachary Keenan.
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Choose Reality
I’m super excited to be working with The Climate Reality Project, the latest climate awareness effort by Al Gore. The campaign aims to “focus the world’s attention on the full truth, scope, scale and impact of the climate crisis. To remove the doubt. Reveal the deniers. And catalyze urgency around an issue that affects every one of us.”
Watch the video for the first...
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June 2011
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The Alabamboo Make & Ride
A group of four cyclists recently descended upon Greensboro, Alabama to build bikes with locally grown bamboo and to ride them across the country making their way to San Francisco. The project is part of a collaboration between Project M, Bamboo Bike Studio, Common Cycles, and a local effort to advance the growth of “Alabamboo” as an agricultural cash crop in the United States.
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Robyn O'Brien at TEDxMileHigh
Robyn O’Brien is a good friend of ours at the FearLess Cottage. Here she gives her powerful personal story of going from a Wall Street analyst to a mom who learned things about her kids’ food that she simply couldn’t unlearn.
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