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7 February - 13 February 2012

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Anish Kapoor’s beloved Bean (also known as ‘Cloud Gate’) in Millenium Park in Chicago is the site for a spectacular light show from February 10th – 20th. More and more artists are looking to participate in architectural light shows to breathe life into spaces that are already quite incredible themselves.

Anish Kapoor’s Bean Gets a Light Show:

Proof, “a social tasting game for single malt connoisseurs and newbies alike,” is a new web app optimized for the iPad. It allows you to test your knowl-edge of whiskey while simultaneously going on a virtual journey through the regions that your whiskey was bottled in.

Facebooks for Doctors, Lawyers and Robots:

Toymakers and buyers at the 109th American Toy Fair in New York are in the midst of presenting the most popular toys and trends in the industry right now. “Although the down economy still presents many challenges, at the end of the day, kids will always want the latest and greatest toys.” explained Jer-emy Padawer, EVP of Marketing for Jakks Pacific Inc.

Toymakers Look to 80s, Apps, and Facebook for Hits:

Robot Readable World by Timo shows us how computer vision systems and robots see their environments: through arrows, numbered boxes, and lines that are used to track and map out every moving object’s path in the com-puter’s line of sight.

Robot Readable World:

Currently, the Google search system is based on the significance of the key-words in the search and the hope that somebody, somewhere, has written about it already on the web. However, a vision is developing in Google where it will both understand and answer the question for you – and not just by directing you to another article written on the web.

Google Knowledge Graph Could Change Search Forever:

At the Kauko café in Helsinki, the coffee is free but the experience quite un-predictable. At Kauko, customers are able to access a website that lets inter-net users control the lights, change the music, and even play tricks on other customers at the café.

Experimental Helsinki Café Tries Out Web-Controlled Furniture:

Since the Inside Out Project launched last year at TED, more than 70,000 in-dividual photos have been shot and pasted in almost 9,000 locations around the world. To house this astonishing collection of portraits online, Inside Out recently revamped their website — insideoutproject.net. Now, you can ex-plore and browse the gallery and sign up to take part in a portrait pasting of your own.

Have You Visited Inside Out Project Lately?:

Taking gamification to the next level, Capcom, the Japanese video games de-veloper, recently launched the Capcom Bar in Tokyo complete with in-house game kiosks and game-inspired dishes. Offers include a meat dish recreating the stamina-boosting drumstick from the game Monster Hunter, a black-and-white seafood pasta reminiscent of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, and a Resi-dent Evil-inspired ‘brain cake.’

Games developer launches themed restaurant:

With printed media on the endangered list, literary magazines may seem especially at risk to go extinct or online-only. To many people, however, these scrappy journals are actually something of a renaissance in print. They are buoyed by on-demand publishers like Lulu and CreateSpace, and print fetish-ists who treat them like sacred art objects. In this article, The New York Times distinguishes ten of them.

Literary Heirs:

Budweiser’s global brand agency, Anomaly, is gearing up to open an office in Toronto. According to Agency CEO Carl Johnson, the office should be up and running by April.

Anomaly to Add Toronto Office, With Budweiser as First Client:

David Sable, global CEO of WPP’s Y&R, is continuing to make aggressive changes to the creative agency network. The most recent changes includes granting Y&R’s new North American chief, Carter Murray, the additional role of CEO of Y&O New York, and bringing in his former colleague from Wun-derman (Sean Howard) to serve as general manager of the New York office.

Carter Murray Named CEO of Y&R, New York, Tom Sebok Departs:

Grey’s Europe, Middle East and Africa division have formed a partnership with Possible Worldwide that will have the two WPP shops collaborating on accounts, beginning with shared client Procter & Gamble. This article dis-cusses the pairing with Possible Worldwide’s global CEO Trevor Kaufman.

Possible Worldwide CEO Trevor Kaufman’s On Partnership With Grey:

America supports 2.7 million jobs in the clean energy economy. And in Cali-fornia, jobs like these have proven more resilient to the economic downturn. While California’s overall economy took a 7% hit, the green economy shrunk by only 3%. In other words, green jobs have staying power – they are not in luxury industries that dissipate when times get tough.

In California, Green Jobs Are Recession-Proof:

Drawing inspiration from the environmental disaster that is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, photographer Mandy Barker created Soup, a photography series capturing trash salvaged from beaches all over the world. The compo-sition creates strange alien scenes – and although the objects in these photos aren’t alive, they are still dangerous because they kill ocean life wherever the patch travels.

Photographs Document Ocean Debris:

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission recently approved a construction and operating license for new nuclear power reactors for the first time since 1978. The commission voted 4-1 in favor, with NRC Chairman Gregory Jacz-ko casting the sole vote against granting the license. “I think this license need-ed something that ensured that the changes as a result of Fukushima would be implemented,” Jaczko said in an interview after the vote.

NRC approves construction of new nuclear power reactors in Georgia:

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