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SO, WHO ARE YOU?

05.2.13

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If you haven’t heard, ArchetypeMe was just named Time Inc’s 10 NYC Startups to Watch in 2013. Who cares? WE DO.

ArchetypeMe is a friend of the family here at JWALK and we’re beyond proud of ArchetypeMe’s success, so we want to share with you the epic-ness that is them.

If you’ve taken a personality test as an insecure high schooler attempting to find where you fit in, then this will be a no-brainer to you. ArchetypeMe uses the wisdom of Plato and Carl Jung to analyze your personality (without all the flashbacks to Psych 101). ArchetypeMe asks eight pivotal questions to determine the mix of archetypes that make up most of your personality. Because like most people, you don’t fit in a perfect, neat little box right?

Once the quiz is complete, you’re given a personal homepage filled with unique content generated by your personality(ies). Say you’re a Creative, Fashionista, Visionary: ArchetypeMe aggregates content (both original and from around the web) to give you only the stories and unique finds you want filled with the Top C’s: Content, Community & Commerce.

As people do, we change. You can easily customize your profile based on who you are and who you’re becoming. Enticed yet? Think of it like this:

It’s Facebook + Pinterest + Shopping + Refinery29-like. Oh, and it’s free.

Go on then, what are you waiting for?

Take the quiz.

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LACOSTE L!VE Desert Pool Party

04.19.13

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LACOSTE L!VE 4th Annual Desert Pool Party - Day 2

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LACOSTE L!VE Desert Pool Party In Celebration Of Coachella - Day 1

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The LACOSTE L!VE Desert Pool Party went off without a hitch- and we were there to doc it all.

With our social team on hand, we captured some of the greatest moments of the pool party in Indio, CA. Playing off the invention of the first tennis ball launcher by Rene´ Lacoste, we helped to ideate a paintball machine to launch paint-covered tennis balls at LACOSTE's Polo Gigante. We also brought our friends, Bosco, to the party where the cool kids congregated, making epic gifs. We also brought a bunch of our blogger friends like Leandra, Jules, Liz, Aimee, Danielle and more cool cats. Flower crowns from Cult Gaia were definitely their calling. We brought along Sin Thirst Sin, who served the parched line queue outside the party and the beauties inside the party. Sin was a major hit, boosting energy while the pretty people partied in the sun.

Hard work pays off however. But the desert has those secrets now.

Were you at Coachella? (Phoenix + R.Kelly were pretty much the most epic moment)

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Thanksgiving RJW Roundup

11.25.10

Here at the RJW Headquarters in New York City, we're getting into the Thanksgiving spirit by reflecting on the important things in life: our technology & media diet.

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Here's what the RJW Collective team is thankful for on this fine Thanksgiving Day:

Jess: "I'm thankful for my iPhone which allows me to bring the whole internet with me where ever I roam."

Adam: "I'm thankful for my Droid Eris which forces me to be a more patient person as I constantly wait for it to not work as well as an iPhone."

Carli: "Hypem.com so I can throw on my headphones and jam out when Doug’s out the office."

Doug: "I'm thankful for my Blackberry. It allows me to know what is happening in
real time. I'm not sure how people did business without the ability to BBM!"

Brit: "I'm thankful for Facebook and Twitter, because without them, I would not have a job (or at least this one)."

Kathrin: "I'm thankful for my iPhone - especially Google Maps, which I almost use everyday. And without it i would be lost already... :) "

Emi: "I’m thankful for BBM because it allows me to connect quickly with friends and, more importantly, makes it easy to send faces that represent words like 'Party!' and 'Dancing!' "

Zac: "I'm thankful for my iPod and external hard drive, both of which permit me an irresponsible amount of sonic enjoyment."

Suzy: "Although I'm not a member of Chase Bank, I'm thankful for the possibilities of other banks to catch onto Chase's clever iPhone App. It allows you to take a picture of the front and back of your check and then the money is deposited into your bank account. There still figuring a few kinks out, but no trip to the bank necessary!"

Matt: "I’m thankful for my iPad which I don’t have to put in a separate bin while going through airport security!!"

Rishi: "I'm thankful for my Playstation 3 and Blu-Ray that will keep me entertained throughout the holiday season."

Casper: "I'm thankful for the Internet which helps me to find information I need in really short time."

Martina: "I'm VERY thankful for Netflix, which has allowed me to get a serious film history education (and also catch up on 15 years of ER episodes...) I really can't imagine what the world must've been like without instant streaming media. It was like the Dark Ages, really."

Jack: "I'm thankful for RackSpace.com because they have great customer service and they are making my life so much easier!"

Have a great Thanksgiving!

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Punch Me Panda

11.23.10

Do you ever get so mad that you want to punch something?
If you're frustrated, angry, or just had a bad day, the Brooklyn Panda will come to your house, and you can punch him. It costs one cent per punch.
For an appointment or more information please visit:
http://natehillisnuts.com/home/punch-me-panda/
(sorry, serving all Brooklyn only..:)



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Greatest Videogame Characters Ever.

11.15.10

Gameinformer always strives to add relevance to what is otherwise considered as a nuisance by the State of California. The December cover of Gameinformer finds a litany of videogame characters sitting, posing and contemplating their collective futures in moody lighting.

Nathan Drake and Elena Fisher (from Uncharted and Uncharted 2) as well as a really pissed off  Kratos make notable appearances. Gordon Freeman and Max Payne are nowhere to be seen, though Master Chief appears, sitting listlessly and looking as irrelevant as ever.

This should be made available as a print, I think.

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Enter: Movember

11.12.10

November is good for lots of stuff: Veteran's Day, turkey/giving thanks, really breaking into Fall... and Movember!  For those who don't know, Movember is an annual recognition and fundraising push to benefit men with prostate cancer, and those who will be stricken with the disease in the future.  The rules are as follows: arrive to work/school/life with a freshly-shaved punim (face - Yiddish) November 1, and let that sucker grow.  Any razor-upper lip contact is strictly forbidden for the duration of the month.

"How to Grow a Mustache"

The guys in this picture had their combined mustachery documented by the photographer Gustavo Osorio (side note, they all grow way better mustaches than me).  May they be an inspiration to us all.

Donate here: http://us.movember.com/mospace/1097190/.

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IKEA – HOMEMADE IS BEST

11.1.10

90% of all the photographs taken in baking books look extremly alike. This is book tried something different and present the recipes in a totally new fashion.

http://demo.fb.se/e/ikea/homemade_is_best/





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Angels in America in New York

10.28.10

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I was recently given the opportunity to attend a preview performance of The Signature Theater’s Angels in America. The Pulitzer Prize winning play is just as relevant now as it was in 1986 when it was written, and of course I left the theater crying and swearing to become a better person and love my fellow man.

There is no way to summarize this show, but it’s mostly about love and politics and religion and discrimination and happiness and pretty much every important issue that exists in the world. The Signature Theater’s performance features some serious stars, but I’ll admit that I was most smitten by Zachary Quinto (SPOCK!) as Louis, who perfectly delivers one of the most difficult theater monologues I’ve ever read/seen in a play.

If you have a chance, you really can’t miss this performance, which is insanely cheap for such a landmark play: $20 per night, and the play is split into 2 3-hour shows. The show officially opened last night, check out their website for tickets and details.

Oh, and if you’re still not convinced- there is full nudity for almost the entire cast.

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Naoki Kawamoto: Orishiki Suitcase

10.26.10

Working with the mechanism and principles of origami folding, japanese product designer Naoki Kawamoto has made a traveling suitcase with wheels which can fold out flat for flexibility and compactability.
'orishiki suitcase' features a hard, faceted shell that folds in on itself to create a three dimensional luggage piece.
lined with a soft layer of patterned silk on the inside, the product features internet netting and belt, much like a conventional suitcase, to firmly hold its items in place.

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Ansel Adams: Photos of Japanese Americans Interned During WWII

10.22.10

Okie dokie, kiddies - this week, you get a history lesson and some awesome photography from one of the greats. In 1943, Ansel Adams documented the Manzanar War Relocation Center in California (my home state!) and the nearly 10,000 Japanese Americans interned there during World War II.


These digital scans of Adams’ original negatives are part of the Library of Congress collection Suffering under a Great Injustice: Ansel Adams’s Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar.


Adams was invited to photograph daily life at the camp by the Camp Director Ralph Merritt, and, from 1943 to 1944, made a number of trips to the camp, located to the east of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.


His work has been widely criticized for sanitizing the suffering of interned Japanese-Americans, although he was censored in what he was able to photograph. A selection of these photographed were exhibited in 1944 under the title, Born Free and Equal and was not well received by wartime America.


While not necessarily everyone's favorite piece of US history to revisit, Ansel Adams' ability to capture "America" inside of even this camp's people and landscape demonstrated the ultimate absurdity and intolerance of the Japanese Internment - all through an incredibly beautiful medium.



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