A journey through pixels, originality and AI, Eric Hu, 2023

Hidden amidst the tranquil green setting of Kyoto, lies Kikunoi Honten, a world-renowned 3-Michelin Star kaiseki restaurant that has served guests traditional Japanese cuisine for over 100 years.

The act of sending loved ones little videos and cute pictures and funny things throughout the day is called pebbling because there’s a species of penguin that likes to leave pebbles in their partners’ nests to show they care.

Red-winged blackbird calling on a cold morning

Jony Ive’s LoveFrom reinvents the button with Moncler

What once might have been a universal signal of wealth like a Rolex or a Chanel Bag, now can under certain circumstances instead ironically communicate the lack thereof. These days, it seems like we prefer signs that are harder to fake.

In the process of chasing cool, brands have lost the purpose of analyzing culture. Most of the signals considered trends today are really nothing more than frivolous entertainment.

Design your own asteroid and launch it at Earth

OpenStreetMap creates poems by using information such as local landmarks, weather, and time.

The Takahashi method is a technique deploying extremely simple and distilled visual slides for presentations. Unlike a typical presentation, no pictures and no charts are used.

Soviet postcard, 1954

The Pygmalion effect is a psychological phenomenon in which high expectations lead to improved performance in a given area and low expectations lead to worse performance.

The future is simply a landscape defined by two natural boundaries. One separates the currently infeasible from the feasible, and the other separates the normalized from the un-normalized.