Posts Archive

  This is an initiative we want to support because it has a meaning and it’s interactive: every year, ONE hosts the ONE Campus Challenge (OCC), a friendly competition to determine which university’s student body has the most effective global poverty-fighting campaign (read more here).   OCC asked more than 2,000 colleges and universities across the country to make 90-second video messages to their senators. Their judging panel narrowed it ...

Last year we published several posts about unicycles. At that time, we wished we could all use one to go to work until we realized the cold and snowy weather would not let us do so. In August, we started the ‘Unicycle Series of Posts’ with the eniCycle: eniCycle: electric unicycle for lazy circus clowns; in September, we followed with the YikeBike: YikeBike: high wheel bicycle of the 21st century, and in October, we introduced you to the Honda ...

It’s Sunday but no Twitter Sunday today because it’s Valentine’s Day. We decided to give you ideas: kisses, presents and eCards to offer to the one(s) you love. Let’s start with (RED) website which is offering a large range of products to buy for the occasion; we selected for you: For material lovers: GAP (Product)RED Artist Ts (Women and Men), $28.00 Emporio Armani (Product)RED Sunglasses, $195 For romantic lovers: ...

That is the title of a post published on CNN: ‘Why France is best place to live in world’. Bindi Dupouy is Australian, she lives in Paris and she’s married to a French man. Most of the Sama Team members live in Paris and we were very happy to read that France was voted the best place in the world to live for the fifth year in a row by International Living magazine. Let’s find out the reasons exposed in CNN’s article by ...

  In 1985, Keith Haring painted a 70-foot-long mural for the South of Market Childcare Center (SOMACC) in San Francisco. Today the wall is exposed at Deitch Projects (18 Wooster Street, New York), until February 16, 2010. Keith Haring is unquestionably one of the most iconic artists of the 20th century, mixing Abstract Expressionism and Pop in a very unique way.   Information about the exhibition at Deitch Projects (visit website):   Deitch Projects ...

  For this new Twitter Sunday rendezvous, we will share with you the tweets from a great singer. His name is Prince Rogers Nelson, a.k.a Prince. We were very happy to follow him when he started to tweet a few days ago but the pleasure didn’t last very long… Instead of interesting tweets about his work or even his daily life, we got hundreds of tweets and retweets polluting our Twitter page,  messing with all the others tweets we were ...

  If you are a regular reader of The Sama Gazette (aka a Sama-Reader), then you probably already know the Sama Epicurean Fraternal Society.  It has been a while since we first mentioned it on the Gazette and many of you are very interested in the idea of a Sama Epicurean Fraternal Society. We also are. And we are working on it, as the information already leaked from a careless but still beloved Sama Team member (it starts with an ...

 Charlotte Gainsbourg doesn’t sing, she whispers. A barely audible hiss, a style pioneered by her father, the great Serge Gainsbourg. But with her new album comes a new voice, Charlotte’s voice. We can hear it. Finally. And appreciate it. It’s soft, and yet it carries a strong feeling. With ‘IRM’ (the French equivalent of “MRI” an acronym for magnetic resonance imaging), produced by Beck who also wrote most of the ...

  Dear Sama-Readers, we are pleased to present our Twitter Sunday Rendezvous! Today we decided to share with you our Favorites Tweets @UNICEF. The organization has been very active to help people in Haiti after the earthquake (Read our post about Haiti:Haiti: compassion, communication, occupation… Education? and Haiti: International aid mobilization on the way). But UNICEF also provides support in many countries: Senegal, Somalia, West Bengal, Syria, ...

  Working with Max Dana for quite a long time now, we are used to discover almost everyday, the many aspects of the World of Sama and the creative world of our beloved artist. We appreciate creativity whatever the form is can take and recently, we were very impressed by the amazing work done by the San Francisco based company, IXIA. ‘Nature, re-arranged’ that’s it.   Read ‘About IXIA’ from their Website:   Walk into IXIA ...