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A Table Lamp by Nottdesign That You Interact with to Turn It A table lamp that encourages you to interact with it in order to turn it on and off. ... 26-08-2017 16:10 The Droids On Roids Office Comes to Life in Wroclaw, Poland Mode:lina gives a Polish software company a bold, yellow and black office with mobile app iconography . ... 26-08-2017 16:10 RAVN: A Collection of Modular Sideboards by Max Voytenko Modular storage units with raised handles that give the finished product a three-dimensional, geometric look. ... 26-08-2017 16:10 Foodie-For-Hire David Ma?s Food Films We explore David Ma?s Food Films as this foodie-for- hire cleverly creates recipe instructional videos in the style of famous directors. ... 26-08-2017 16:10 Weekend Reading & Blog Name Change Hello friends! Happy late summer weekend to you! I?ve been really busy behind the scenes this week. I took on a new kitchen remodel project for the lo ... 26-08-2017 16:09 Bedroom Upgrade Tips More than four walls an...

Los Angeles is home to some of the best modern and contemporary residential architecture in the United States, if not the world. This quality arises from a number of factors: the 72-and-sunny climate and therefore an embrace of outdoor living; the dramatic topography, especially the foothills that open to views of L.A.'s plains; a sprawling urban landscape that invites single-family houses as much as apartments and vertical living; and of course the money that pays for the houses, be it from Hollywood or other local industries. Yet, like Chicago, the residential climate is also influenced by historical modernists, especially Richard Neutra, R.M. Schindler, and Irving Gill. The last two figures are celebrated in Esther McCoy's indispensable Five California Architects , which also includes Bernard Maybeck , and the Greene brothers. Gill quietly trailblazed simple unadorned forms before European modernists; R.M. Schindler articulated complex layering of surfaces and indoor and...

Photo by Andrea Yori | CC BY 2.0 In the wake of the 2001 terrorist attacks, Washington pursued its elusive enemies across the landscapes of Asia and Africa, thanks in part to a massive expansion of its intelligence infrastructure, particularly of the emerging technologies for digital surveillance , agile drones, and biometric identification. In 2010, almost a decade into this secret war with its voracious appetite for information, the Washington Post reported that the national security state had swelled into a “fourth branch” of the federal government — with 854,000 vetted officials, 263 security organizations , and over 3,000 intelligence units, issuing 50,000 special reports every year. Though stunning, these statistics only skimmed the visible surface of what had become history’s largest and most lethal clandestine apparatus . According to classified documents that Edward Snowden leaked in 2013, the nation’s 16 intelligence agencies alone had 107,035 employees and a combined “b...