Nina Bhatti, Founder, Kokko Beauty, Los Altos, California
...to a makeup artist and they look at your skin and characterize what product is going to work. I took the manual process and tried to automate it. So once...
The Evil to Come
For a brief moment, each one of us saw the possibility of the end of capitalism rather than the end of the world
Square and Circle: The Logic of Occupy
...of the camp whenever they tried to enter. But attempts to mediate the conflict essentially failed, and S. seemed immune to all reason. One day, after he had started another...
Beauty Blogosphere 8.31.12
...its own benefit. Biden Bergamot Body Butter: Bliss releases a limited-edition election product pair: orange-scented O-bama lotion, and Mint Romney lotion. I've tried to think about why this makes my...
FROM HARLEM TO PALESTINE: GLOBALIZE THE INTIFADA
Communiqué on the Liberation of Hind’s Hall
A film in the catacinema
...the soft clatter of those ghost-rid horse who whipped back and forth across the icy ground and to the noise of how when they tried to stop this mad stampede...
Jar-Jar Jesus
...have refuted this psychosocial equivalent of a breath mint, yet every time I closed my eyes and tried to use the force of my self-belief to make my dog levitate...
Three screens, a blinded cyclops, a name
...an enormous, prop comedy cordless telephone. And it feels like one, slightly pebbled, integral. But it cannot be looked through. There are no round places to stick your eyes in...
The Jimmy McNulty Gambit: Mike Daisey and the Thickening Crust of Our Awareness
...fails, of course, but that’s not the important thing; the important thing is why he even tried. After all, Jimmy McNulty’s problem is not only that he’s an unscrupulous narcissist,...
Flag-waving And Drowning: On The New Branding Policy Of UKaid
...effects of migration and political struggle. But development officials would be laughed out of their meetings if they actually tried to run a line about the positive legacies of colonialism....
Lies and Videotape
...you’ll feel like we tried napalm out on you, at your expense. We can only give you a hint of an idea of how napalm works. In both films, the...
Just Friends
...the way creative technological disruption, in the form of social media, has tried to make friendship just another platform for self-fashioning consumption. There could be another side to this antagonism....
The Fame Game
...against moderators, other users, my family. So we tried to pre-screen the secrets, where every secret submitted had to be looked at by a moderator before it could be shared,...
Manet in Tunisia
...student protests against the increasingly authoritative regime of President Habib Bourguiba, who, since independence from France in 1956, tried to create a secular state based on philosophical ideas he learned...
Needles and the Damage Done
...went off to college, I tried to erase all trace of my small-town upbringing. I thought about Needles as little as possible, and only went back for brief visits at...
This Week in Art Crime
...the man put up quite a fight, injuring two officers while they tried to arrest him, with Detective Inspector Brendon Cullen saying one officer suffered a shoulder injury. (via) •...