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Aimless meandering around the web can lead to some really pleasant or, more often, disturbing distractions. Our most recent find falls into the first category. Earth Album combines a GoogleEarth format with Flikr content. Peruse the Earth map, pick a country/state/city/neighborhood, and see what kind of stunning photography is coming out of said location. [...]
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If you’re at all like the rest of us, except for me because it’s my job, then keeping up with new social networking tools is like middle school all over again. You’re trying to be cool and know what’s cool before everyone else knows that you don’t know what’s cool when no one actually [...]
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Tags:Ben Brundage·Communication Breakdown·Facebook·Foursquare·Social Media·Social Networks·Twitter
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Who doesn’t love toys? If you’ve ever set foot in the Nogginwerks office then you are likely well aware that we work inside a giant misfit toy chest. Perhaps it has caused you to ponder from time to time what your life would have been like had you been born a strange Japanese plush [...]
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We love how these shadow tracings turn the sidewalk into a surreal carnival mirror version of the world. Speaking of surreal, have we mentioned the spacey majesty of a scanned sandwich?
When someone is able to put a new perspective on an object as commonplace as a shadow or a sandwich, that’s cool. Turning the [...]
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We dig plants. Who doesn’t? But, we’re crap at keeping them alive which had always been an insurmountable obstacle along the path to our dream status of urban gardener super stardom. Enter Seedbombs.
Drop some coins in the machine, obtain bomb, and toss with wild abandon (ideally wherever you think the urban landscape could [...]
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Tags:Advertising Agency·common studio·commonstudio·Doodle·gardening·green·greenaid·guerilla·Indianapolis·life after people·noggin·nogginwerks·nogginworks·seedboms·urban garden
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Inspired by events like Pop-Up Magazine and backed by an accomplished group of magazine editors, the 48HR Magazine project aims to write, design, edit and ship a magazine in (guess what) 48 hours. But, they need help. Lots of help. Your help, in fact. So, check them out on May 7th when they announce [...]
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Well, it’s finally here. After two years of refining her concept for the art world’s answer to Project Runway, Sarah Jessica Parker announces that Work of Art: The Next Great Artist is set to debut on Bravo this summer. Is it just this cynical mood we woke up in or does this show look [...]
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Tags:Advertising Agency·art·Indianapolis·modern art·noggin·nogginwerks·nogginworks·reality show·Sarah Jessica Parker·SJP·the next great artist·work of art
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There is this distant universe we have recently become aware of where eerie children with rebellious spirits live out literary fantasies in what could easily be the set of a Tim Burton film all under the careful watch of one Mab Graves.
Mab is an artist. She makes stuff. More specifically, she paints stuff. Even [...]
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Textile designs by Elisabeth Buecher
“I designed a series of water-saving shower curtains which inflate after four minutes spent under the water, taking over the space and discouraging long water-wasting showers.”
Marketability aside, we like the cutesy Nintendo menace this curtain brings to any sudsy space. It’s just how we imagine being done in by our [...]
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