Author Archives: ben

jeffstaple draws Honolulu’s creatives to Waikiki to talk about “The Little Things in Life”

@supercw put it best
“please nobody throw a grenade in the hau terrace at the halekulani. all of oahus most creative ppl in retail, art n design will b lost.”
Drawing an impressive list of local talent (see partial list below), jeffstaple treated the crowd to an insightful conversation about what he does and how he got [...]

Competition for New Community Architecture catches the attention of AOLnews Philanthropy Project

The Philanthropy Project on AOL News caught wind of our “Competition for New Community Architecture” and did a small feature on the competition, the beneficiary, and the winners.
Read more at: http://www.aolnews.com/philanthropy/nc/article/contest-seeks-to-nurture-civic/1159890
And we’d like to take this chance to extend another round of congratulations to our competition winners Luke Altenau and Katie Coffman!

The Interisland Terminal Friends and Family Post

It’s starting to get hard to keep up! We’ve got a few projects in the pipe (more on that in a blog post later), but in the meantime, many of our partners, associates, and staff members have had plenty of news of their own.

First, our friends over at The Department of Public Works have a [...]

More from Tribeca: James Franco’s Saturday Night

One other late update from Tribeca: James Franco filmed a doc called ‘Saturday Night’ that chronicled the process of creating one episode of Saturday Night Live. The result of his amazing access to the cast and crew was fascinating
Here are couple of links about the show and subsequent Q&A with Franco and some of the [...]

The 18 movies I saw at Tribeca Film Festival

Over the 9 days I was at TFF, I managed to squeeze in 18 films, 7 filmmaker Q&A sessions, and 3 Tribeca talks. Really good filmmaker presence
My 4 favorite

Monogamy – great looking film shot on the Red camera. The way it showcased brooklyn, helped make up for the fact that I was spending most of [...]

Wondering how LA-Based Architect Jennifer Siegal’s Mobile Design Work Might Impact Hawaii? Come to UH at 6:00PM to find out!

http://www.hawaiipublicradio.org/hpr/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4505&Itemid=70
“I’ve always loved the idea of a trailer park”, says Jennifer Siegal roughly 3 minutes, 30 seconds into her interview with Noe Tanigawa on Hawaii Public Radio.
For Siegal, the concept of a “third space” for shared activities that fit between the things you do in the privacy of your home and those you do in [...]

Solar Beat

Taking a quick break from architecture…
Check out this elegant little solar system visualization at http://www.whitevinyldesign.com/solarbeat/.
I showed it to the wife who was not as impressed as I was, but to me it demonstrates everything I love about infographics. A really simple idea ends up helping one visualize everything from how gravity wells work, to why [...]