Can your surroundings prolong your life? Can where you live provide you with good health? Can you actually reverse your destiny? According to Architects Arakawa and Madeline Gins, yes, and for 45 years they have been building on the mantra that dying is optional.

Artists, poets, architects Arakawa and Gins (more…)

So, you got a Facebook account. Of course you did. And now you can’t stop spending hours checking your friends’ status updates, uploading pictures or finding out which Sex and the City character you most resemble.

But what’s the point, you moaned to your friends in your pre-Facebook days.

And now you know the secret. There is no secret.

While social networking sites (more…)

I’ve been a label snob since junior high school. Like most teens, I had to have the latest trends and generic brands would not suffice. Now 45, having designer everything continues to be an important aspect of my life. I recently purchased a pair of Armani sunglasses for $138.00 on eBay. (more…)

In the world of Madison Avenue circa 1960, life was a party. Adulterous flings, come-ons and ogling twenty-something secretaries were like sport for the hipster ad men in charge. The women, on the other hand, were no more than dolls, sweethearts, (more…)

So-called experts typically don’t even know a recession is taking place until years after the fact.

Let me be the first to tell you in live time: things don’t look good.

In case you missed the massive financial meltdown, the multiple national banks failing and the general panic overtaking (more…)

Autism has been getting a lot of media attention lately which has slowly dispelled myths about the condition. It was once thought that people afflicted with autism were low functioning and were dismissed as mentally retarded. While most people who are autistic lack language and social skills, they generally have extremely high intelligence levels. (more…)

Before a character even opens their mouth in a Wes Anderson film, you can tell who they are just by their appearance. They have eccentric looking hats, head-bands, sunglasses, sports jackets, suits, tuxedos, athletic wear, bow ties, unusual hairdos, facial hair, and accessories. Like Federico Fellini, Anderson has created his own surreal, (more…)

“If you have this really big plan about what your writing should be, then, basically, you’re interested in power,” said New York Times critic Roberta Smith during a 2007 panel discussion. “You cannot write more than what you believe and what you see. And if you do, if you start projecting or if you start deciding you have an agenda (more…)

Amnesty International originally known for its fierce human rights work has produced an equally aggressive media strategy that is changing the look of social justice advertising. It use to be that all the innovative and fresh advertisements that would turn heads represented corporations. Now, Amnesty International (more…)

“I’m a big believer in recycling, even carpets,” Hillary Clinton said in a February issue of US Weekly, joking about a heavy, tapestry-like coat she wore in 2000. The US Weekly spread featured Clinton’s repertoire of fashion foibles and the then presidential hopeful poked fun at her past style decisions. Perhaps she anticipated the front-and-center position fashion would (more…)