In Chinese astrology, 2012 is the Year of the Dragon — a very special event. The theme of a Dragon year is fast change & exciting challenges. The Year of the Dragon invites us to show how well we can roll with the punches — & rewards us for doing so!
When you throw a Halloween party, you are limited by the space you are working in. You can plaster your home in fake spider webs, hang bats from the ceiling, and carve as many scary pumpkins as you want, but unless you have a really cool location, it’s hard to make the party memorable. Fortunately for Southern California Halloween adventure seekers, Mr. Johnny Love has a Master’s Degree in haunted festivity hosting.
Ever watch movies like Night of the Living Dead and chastise the zombies for their lack of enthusiasm? Discover redemption in flicks like 28 Days Later – where the zombies have verve, pep, and really want those brains? Now you can run away from those brain-hungry bastards in the Zombie 5 K Marathon !
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I bore easily. And my team of crack doctors are not sure if that is the result of the misfiring of a couple bazillion plaque laden dendrites or more likely the result of a mind/body switch (like with Sex, Drugs, and Natalie Portman), but mine with a kitteh. So it’s not all to often I find myself as entertained as I was this past weekend at TwentyWonder. A “carnival of the mind” featuring art, science, music and comedy which collided heart first with ass kickin roller derby to benefit the Down Syndrome Association of Los Angeles.
ChinaShop wishes you a happy Independence Day and in the words of Katy, please feel free to “Ignite the light and let it shine just own the night like the Forth of July.”
Party on,
ChinaShop
To celebrate the U.S. launch of The Red Bulletin magazine, New Yorkers and famous athletes flocked to District 36 to party down with July’s cover girl and two-time World Champion Hurdler Lolo Jones, along with the Boston Celtics’ Rajon Rondo, Red Bull Racing NASCAR driver Brian Vickers and Dahani Jones of the Cincinnati Bengals.
NEW YORK — May 11, 2011 – Circuit boards were soldered, sheets of metal sawed methodically, voltage cranked up to a million and of course, many things were set on fire. Red Bull Creation’s call for submissions had been answered. For the alarmingly innovative, the qualifier rules were simple: Assemble a team of four, build an invention which “hacks the past to create the future” while incorporating an Arduino microcontroller, film the process and submit. From there, a panel of self-professed brainiacs would nominate the 10 most creative, most palm-to-the-forehead brilliant teams to come to New York this July, competing in a final hacker showdown.
From coast-to-coast, metal shops and hackerspaces, basement studios and hobby labs lit up with creativity incarnate. And the results were…intimidating. Mining through submissions was no simple feat — but in the end, 10 teams proved themselves the clear frontrunners. Though this proving ground is far from over.
Food trucks are hard to keep track of. You can follow their Twitter feeds and burn your gas driving around trying to locate them, but wouldn’t it be nice if there was just one place where they all congregated? Fortunately, as of March 6th, food trucks of LA will unite at a monthly food lover’s paradise, otherwise known as Truckit Fest. The other good news is you can catch all these mobile muncharies this Sunday April 3rd and get your eat on.
Start sparkin’ together those jumper wires, fire up the LED’s, make sure the power tools are on their chargers. From July 7 – 10, 2011, a soon-to-be-disclosed location in NYC will be turned into the ultimate hackerspace and serve as the laboratory for Red Bull Creation. For 72 hours, you’ll be thrown smack into the middle of a marathon of high stakes innovation. New York will become your playground as you roam the streets of the city and the alleys of your imagination, tapping into parts of the brain you’ve never heard of (or strike that, you’re the inventor here, you probably know way more about that than we do.)
Here in Austin, there’s just as much good stuff happening on the street corners and outside of venues as there is on the inside. From dawn to dusk and beyond, it’s nothing but end-to-end music, which leaves very little time to remove oneself from the slipstream and relax. That’s where ChinaShop comes in. We’ve always fancied ourselves as purveyors of good taste, communicating the best of what’s out there straight to your computer monitor, but this week we thought we’d go the extra mile provide a tangible service to the band’s themselves. The music makers. The dreamers of dreams. So here’s what we did.