When you're going online to accomplish specific goals, it's good to make a list and check off everything as you go along. We've all been sidetracked by hyperlinks, and this is part of the addictive quality of the Internet.

Art, design, business, and culture have merged. Experiences and products are all about what someone feels. People act or react, attend or purchase, like or follow because they are drawn toward something.

The Occupy movement has been in hibernation mode for several months, but with warmer weather on the horizon, odds are it will become a fixture in every major city in America during this election year.

Shuttered businesses and jobs shipped overseas are a cold reality for the people inhabiting <em>Wrecking Ball</em>.

Technology is advancing at such a rapid rate that it will eventually surpass the human mind's ability to keep up with the myriad accelerations one now adjusts to, often on a weekly basis.

Current technology can already process our experiences faster than we can think about them. Whether we welcome it or not, it's unavoidable, and greater digital acceleration will happen.

It's safe to say there's been no other time in the history of the world when so much information on peoples' purchasing habits has been gathered, stored, catalogued, and most importantly... used.

In the same way Orwell wrote about 1948 and titled his novel <em>1984</em>, one can ask whether <em>The Hunger Games</em> is a reflection of our current world or a warning of horrific things to come.

Time is your best buddy, and it's going to lead you to a well-spring of ideas that you've been chasing for a while, or maybe you never knew existed.

In a fragmented, sped-up world, images needed to be broken into their separate parts and pieced back together.