People have staged concerts, speeches and rallies on Second Life but this was the first time that a group staged a cataclysmic flood. That’s exactly what Adventure Ecology, founded by Pop!Techer David de Rothschild, did to remind of the real world outside of their computers and the real climate crisis that we face.
Creating the flood [...]

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I flew up to Camden, ME this week to meet up with my fellow Pop!Techers. As I waited for my flight at New York’s JFK, I decided to ease myself into an outdoorsy frame of mind and bought the latest issue of Outside Magazine.
The banner across cover model, Governor Schwarzenegger’s chest, reads The Green Issue. [...]

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CoolHunting had a nice feature on Pop!Tech friend Edward Burtynsky. The award winning documentary about Burtnysky’s work Manufactured Landscapes has just been released on DVD on March 6th. In conjuction with the release, Mongrel Media is holding a contest with the Grand Prize being an original Burtynsky print.
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These two images, separated by nearly half a century, represent the dreams of human exploration of space. Together they tell a story of lost opportunity and future promise.
Forty-five years ago today astronaut John Glenn completed an epoch space mission making him the first American to orbit the Earth. The Port Arthur News reported: “Glancing at [...]

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On December 18th, in the mind-blowingly beautiful Soho loft of world-class designer, Cheryl Heller, our friends and NYC neighbors gathered to celebrate the very first music release from Pop!Tech.

Pop!Tech CEO Thomas LeVine and Producer Beth Cohen
Andrew started off the evening speaking about Pop!Tech and how this amazing project came together. Losang Rabgey, director of [...]

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(Trumpet Fanfare!)

AntiBabel Album Cover by Hamilton Hughes Design
Here it is…the first ever music release from Pop!Tech. And we couldn’t be more thrilled. Pop!Tech recently brought two of our favorite performers from 2006, Yungchen Lhamo and Reggie Watts together to record “AntiBabel”.
And with the generous support of Banana Republic and Etymotic, Pop!Tech is donating 100% [...]

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Peter Durand, Director of Alphachimp Studio creates works of art inspired by the Pop!Tech Speaker’s presentations in real time.
The resulting images give a life to the ideas generated that resonate long after the participants have gone their separate ways. Ben McConnell, author of Creating Customer Evangelists, describes the experience as such:
Having Alphachimp create a visual [...]

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