After the highly successful $0.99 Recession Case for your iphone, which is made out of cardboard, case-mate has decided to hold a photo contest where you can add your own artistic flair to the case, take a pic, and upload to their site.  Whichever picture gets the most votes will receive the Grand Prize of: Read more...

“This is a place for friends.” says Jon. My usually foul-mouthed Filipino sherpa was unusually eloquent, albeit sarcastic. We stood about 20 yards off a main path in a shallow thicket, surrounded by condom wrappers and shit-stained baby-wipes. Everyone’s got their goals in this town.
So how did I end up in the middle of the Read more...

This past Friday, BPM attended a luncheon at the Marrakesh House in Culver City. The Marraskesh House is a Green Demonstration home that was remodeled by filmmaker Chris Paine, who made the documentary, ‘Who Killed the Electric Car’, along with other artists and designers. The house was inspired by Moroccan design and is built to Read more...

Mr. Lif’s albums have always had their finger on the pulse of America but I Heard It Today is his coup du sort. Lif has blended veteran producers such as Edan and J Zone with up and coming producers Willie Evans Jr., Batsauce, Therapy, and Headnodic to create an album that speaks about Read more...

When you’ve run out of juice, turn to a silver plated, solar panel laden mother earth to solve your problems. 54 moveable photovoltaic panels help you charge your devices as you get your digital bonsai kicks. 10ein.blogspot.com

Each week millions upon millions of exuberant human beings head out of their houses and into nightclubs to expend large amounts of energy on the dancefloor. While it may not be the pastime for everyone, there’s no denying this a powerful resource. Could it really be possible to harness this energy and help save the Read more...

Next April, D:Fuse will be one with nature…and that hard ass seat he’ll be sitting on. The DJ/producer plans to cover 700 miles of open road, from Los Angles to Albuquerque, in 10 days on his bike to spread the word about going green. His way, he says, of digging his head out of the Read more...

New nightclub Greenhouse, opening at the end of October, will be located at 150 Varick Street, in SoHo, and is designed to be a unique “green” experience. One of Greenhouse’s most spectacular attributes is the transparent ceiling fixture, compromised of over 5,000 individually hung crystals, which is designed to emulate a rolling landscape. The Read more...

Even if Lee Stoetzel’s wooden sculptures fail to turn your intellectual light on, make you ponder our relationship with nature and the predicament of the man-made (sadly something environmental art rarely does), it’s impossible to not be impressed by the high level of craftsmanship in his work. It’s social commentary wrapped in aesthetic perfection. And Read more...

There were a few things the framers left out when drafting the now crusty, but majestic, legal document we know as the Bill of Rights—that is, the inalienable right of any human being to place their belongings anyplace they damn well please when comes its obsolescence.
When I’m done with something, I throw it to the Read more...