Archive for September 2nd, 2010

Last Call for Labs (Foodspotting Proves It Can Work)

imgThis Saturday marks the last day to apply for the pre-incubator Labs program through Women 2.0, but fear not: men and women can still qualify for the five week program for engineers, designers, and “business and marketing mavens” looking to start developing high-growth technology ventures in SF. Labs doesn’t require company equity or require that you quit your day job, so hop to it, advocates of rapid prototyping.

And if you’re seeking proof that concentrated time through these programs can pay off, look at Alexa Andrzeweski: after founding meal recommendation tool Foodspotting through one of Women 2.0′s incubator programs, the company has taken off in ways the former UX designer would never have expected. She sat down during final presentation night for the summer Labs to discuss picking business partners and surrounding yourself with entrepreneurial-minded individuals. Thanks to Alley Pezanoski-Browne for videography and VidSF for editing.

Fifty24SF Opens “Over Normal”

Radiohead’s interactions with San Francisco have been overwhelmingly positive (if you discount sound interruptions at the first Outside Lands fest, of course). I’m excited to see that their artist collaborator Stanley Donwood is having his first stateside show, “Over Normal,” at Fifty24SF on Fillmore starting tonight. Following a reception tonight, the work that plays on text-focused ads in primary colors will be viewable through the end of October: “The catalyst for the large works featured in the show is Los Angeles, where Stanley began to notice (with equal parts amazement and distress) that the advertisements bombarding him on the multilane highways were made of seven basic colors, immediately grabbing viewers’ attention in a primal way…Stanley noticed a parallel between the use of those colors and an influx of spam emails that promised everything from more fruitful sex lives, to cheap foreclosed properties at the expense of someone else’s misery. ”
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Listen.

What would we do without public broadcasting?

I loved this Everynone production “Words” created in collaboration with WNYC, RadioLab and NPR. A good reminder to pay attention thanks to San Francisco-bound pal Michelle Cohen.