Eco-Luxury is the New Black
Nothing is more American in spirit than the latest trend in mashups - eco-luxury. The idea, of course, is that you can still have your lavish lifestyle of excess without the guilty conscience. Or simply put, you can have your cake and eat it too.
[Image: Landing page for the new SKY development in Florida. Courtesy of SKY.]
Your attitude towards “eco-luxury” plays heavily on your understanding of sustainability. Are you leaving less of an impact in a direct or relative manner? Are you trying to have a minimal impact on the environment, or are you just trying to be slightly better than the energy-hungry mcmansion you could have built?
Sphere: Related ContentCitysense - GPS For Your Social Life
For those lazy or inexperienced socialites, Sense Networks has the solution to a problem you never knew you had. Citysense brings urban mapping to your cell phone as a new mobile application for social navigation. In real-time, their system “senses” activity of other mobile users and displays them on a heat map.
[Image: Citysense heat map as it would appear on a Blackberry. Courtesy of Sense Networks.]
So the next time you find yourself thinking, “where is everyone now?” just turn on your iphone, let your fingers dance on the touch screen, and follow the red pixel road.
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[Image: San Francisco at night, from the list of top 10 cities for design in America. Courtesy of Business Week.]
Business Week has released their list of Top 10 Cities for Design in America, and I’m sure everyone has seen it here. However, considering a visual standard of measure, I began thinking about the image of these cities and how one might make their first impression via the web. Increasingly, today’s youth appear to be getting their information, entertainment, and understanding from the web. Wikipedia anyone?
Perhaps my awareness to this was heightened last night on the subway ride home. I heard a guy telling his buddy that his 7 year old son is already using YouTube to search for Super Mario videos. The punch line to the guy’s story was that he walked into the computer room amid a series of F-bombs, with the kid absolutely clueless to the language. Well, that was until his father had to explain his angry reaction to a Super Mario video.
Now, imagine this kid has never visited one of these cities. He will likely use the internet considering the number of kids I have heard at the grocery store reply, “Just Google it.” Seeing as first impressions are now being made through web resources, I wanted to do a little experiment to answer the following question.
Using a few of the most popular information sources on the web, what is the first “image” of each city in the Top 10.
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This week, I wanted to start off with the an installment of Pattern Recognition. Enjoy.
AOU Update - Fixed/Broken Links
I just realized today that as a result of the site’s redesign, there are a couple glitches as anticipated. So far, I have discovered problems with the pattern gallery and the glossary. I have fixed the link to the glossary, so all is normal there.
However, there are bigger code issues related to the display of the pattern gallery. In order to address this problem I have removed the link to the gallery. For now, the sample pattern box will continue to feed random images from the gallery, but the gallery will not be accessible. As soon as I find the time, I will fix the problem and restore the link to the gallery. In the meantime, please enjoy the first three installments of Pattern Recognition.
I apologize for any inconvenience, and I appreciate your patience as I continue to smooth over glitches from the redesign process.
As always, I appreciate any and all feedback on the site and it’s redesign, as well as notification of any other problems you may encounter.
Enjoy.
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