Startup Weekend Charlottesville | March 23-25 2012

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Have a great idea for a business and looking for help and inspiration? Check this out:

"Startup Weekend is a 54-hour event where developers, designers,
marketers, product managers, and startup enthusiasts come together to
share ideas, form teams, build products, and launch startups".

What a great idea. Kudos to those bringing this to Charlottesville.

 

Top Videos of the past two years, via the Guggenheim Museum

see all the winning entries via guggenheim.org

On October 21, the top videos selected by the YouTube Play jury were revealed and celebrated at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. The videos, which can be viewed below and on youtube.com/play, will be presented at the Guggenheim Museums in New York, Bilbao, Berlin, and Venice on October 22–24, 2010. They comprise the ultimate YouTube playlist: a selection of the most unique, innovative, groundbreaking video work being created and distributed online during the past two years. 

 

Virginia Tech's Lumenhaus: A Home for the Future - An Interactive Feature from the NYT

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Virginia Tech’s Lumenhaus, a solar-powered home that won the 2010 Solar Decathlon Europe, provides a glimpse into future living. Take a tour through the home and listen to Joe Wheeler, one of three primary faculty members who worked on the project with more than 200 students, explain the home’s features and how it may change the way we live and use energy.

View the entire Article and Interactive Feature via nytimes.com

 

 

 

Redefining What Home Means: a great debate over at the NYT

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How has the collapse of the housing market changed people's attitudes toward homeownership and their expectations for how they will live? Is the yearning for a McMansion on the edge of a corn field really dead?

 

 

The Thrifty Garde Robe. Re-invent your wardrobe!

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This post is basically totally off topic for my blog, but I just love the creativity and practicality on display here. As the owner of complete wardrobes in quite a range of sizes, I have often thought about hitting my own storage closet and artistically re-purposing some pieces.