tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43229422905071623612024-03-13T12:23:58.901-07:00Sarah KeaneThese are the things that inspire me daily.Sarah Keanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14453350047475644177noreply@blogger.comBlogger85125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4322942290507162361.post-87128930810030272282012-05-01T11:57:00.000-07:002012-05-01T13:18:18.829-07:00The league of awesome possibilities
So, yesterday I confessed my newfound love for Richmond, my city. As luck would have it, I stumbled across a project that was born from Melanie Kahl's love for her own city, Chicago. The project is called The League of Awesome Possibilities. The name alone conjures up a sort of giddy nostalgia – little league, big league chew, a league of their own – all of it's just awesome possum.
Sarah Keanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14453350047475644177noreply@blogger.com1United States33.431441335575293 -78.0468757.9713288355752923 -118.4765625 58.891553835575294 -37.6171875tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4322942290507162361.post-30947061008238751442012-04-30T10:24:00.004-07:002012-04-30T10:49:09.847-07:00GOOD Ideas for RichmondMy only goal after graduating from VCU was to pluck my shallow roots and get the heck out of Richmond. However, fate intervened and I was offered an amazing job that kept me around.
Since then, I've experienced life here through many different lenses and I'm not ashamed to say that I'm really starting to love this city. – which is why I was so excited to participate in GOOD's new initiative – Sarah Keanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14453350047475644177noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4322942290507162361.post-18091425713044161512012-02-06T06:11:00.000-08:002012-02-06T06:27:12.519-08:00When We Build"We make our world what it is and we become the kind of people who live in it." –Wilson Miner on why Designers have such a great job.Wilson Miner - When We Build from Build on Vimeo.Designers & programmers – WATCH THIS TALK by Wilson Miner (Head designer of Rdio, Designer & cofounder of EveryBlock, and former designer and developer at Apple). The talk took place at last year's Build Sarah Keanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14453350047475644177noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4322942290507162361.post-4892396757199117662011-11-18T07:31:00.000-08:002011-11-18T07:54:46.875-08:00Advocacy through Industry7 years after its inception, Apolis has opened Apolis:Common Gallery, a space to host exhibitions, collection releases, film screenings, and any other means to promote their mission. And what an inspiring mission that is...Apolis is a platform for a network of global citizens who are empowering people through opportunity. Apolis co-creates products with manufacturers and we allow the market to Sarah Keanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14453350047475644177noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4322942290507162361.post-68532073254846520402011-09-08T15:04:00.000-07:002011-09-08T15:37:03.543-07:00natural selection and altruismI love Radiolab because it's "a show about curiosity" and as it happens, that's just what I'm about. After listening to a recent short titled Mapping Tic Tac Toe-dom, I decided to peruse through some of the older seasons and listen while I worked.I think The Good Show (Season 9, Episode 1) is particularly relevant to this blog AND it's an interesting seed of thought for anyone in the good-doing Sarah Keanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14453350047475644177noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4322942290507162361.post-38898864310407774292011-08-10T15:25:00.000-07:002011-08-10T15:52:36.347-07:00Floating Islands too!Seriously people, floating is the best. Personally, I love it because it feels like the closest we'll ever get to flying, naturally at least (our bodies are not yet built to sustain flight, though successful gravity modification could be in our future!)
Anyways, animals like this little guy like to float too, even if it is on a manmade floating island. Looks pretty cozy to me.
"What do you do Sarah Keanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14453350047475644177noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4322942290507162361.post-73212459876887914582011-08-09T16:15:00.001-07:002011-08-09T16:32:08.671-07:00the queen of rage?
I'm not a huge fan of Michele Bachmann (less of a fan of the Republican party at this moment and even less of a fan of the Tea Party ), but I respect her as an elected representative of my follow citizens.
The last time I posted about Newsweek, the Stephen Colbert cover had me grinning from ear to ear. This time I'm a little sad to see an ambitious and dedicated woman portrayed in such a Sarah Keanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14453350047475644177noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4322942290507162361.post-86451347708548697822011-06-14T17:36:00.000-07:002011-06-14T18:33:41.753-07:00mindlabMindlab is a design agency/government innovation unit. WHAT?! I was thrilled to find these two seemingly independent themes wrapped under one creative umbrella.Since its inception in 2002, Mindlab has evolved into a vehicle for bureaucratic reform."We work with the civil servants in our three parent ministries: the Ministry of Economic and Business Affairs, the Ministry of Taxation and the Sarah Keanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14453350047475644177noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4322942290507162361.post-40740868616372633102011-06-01T14:52:00.000-07:002011-06-01T15:38:15.547-07:00Summmmerrrr!This weekend was heaven. I spent (literally) the entire day at the beach with my sister/best friend, had a perfect taco dinner with the whole family, rode in my dad's vintage firetruck – in a parade, enjoyed a refreshing mug (or 2) of birch beer at my favorite local festival, fired a shot gun (terrifying) AND spent another blissful day in the sun – in an inflatable lounge chair in a beautiful Sarah Keanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14453350047475644177noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4322942290507162361.post-50070951618705271262011-05-25T19:24:00.000-07:002011-07-29T15:34:21.742-07:00The Plus PoolI don't want to taint this post with grumbles about how one of my favorite ideas was somehow realized by another party, but here goes. My hopes of inventing the world's first floating pool are dashed...(and not just because the clever people at Family and PlayLab have beaten me to the punch...it seems this idea has been around in some form since the early 19th century!) I am happy, though Sarah Keanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14453350047475644177noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4322942290507162361.post-12500844714638458692011-05-24T08:12:00.000-07:002011-06-01T15:40:37.487-07:00Re-BinderI think it's safe to say that designers love office supplies. Organizing is one of my favorite hobbies and now we can all feel a little better about the products we buy to rearrange our clutter. RECYCLED binders, composition books, covers, tabs, pockets, media storage, and labels!Each year, over 500 metric tons of toxic PVC ends up in landfills as the result of vinyl binders that people use. Sarah Keanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14453350047475644177noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4322942290507162361.post-78799409490228614542011-05-18T15:11:00.000-07:002011-05-24T20:28:11.328-07:00Bracket – Hunger The second issue of Bracket features 16 visionaries who have pursued their hunger to create change in the world. “Emerson wrote that a man’s ambition is proportional to his abilities, that “the height of the pinnacle is determined by the breadth of his base.” These are the words of a hungry man. And if we follow their logic, then what we have in this issue are snapshots of sixteen Sarah Keanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14453350047475644177noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4322942290507162361.post-10589795630260133632010-06-09T17:00:00.000-07:002010-06-09T17:14:52.316-07:00Design RevolutionThe Colbert ReportMon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30cEmily Pillotonwww.colbertnation.comColbert Report Full EpisodesPolitical HumorFox NewsI had never heard of Project H until Dawn of Firebelly mentioned their work last year during camp. A few months ago, I ordered Design Revolution:100 Products that Empower People, only to find that it was authored by Project H founder, Emily Pilloton! The book is Sarah Keanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14453350047475644177noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4322942290507162361.post-76601030108183530802010-05-19T15:23:00.000-07:002010-05-19T15:42:08.804-07:00Yub NubviaThey forgot to include the Ewoks. I give them an A+ for being the rolliest polliest, and consequently cuddliest, species to grace science fiction thus far.If you're wondering, Yub Nub means freedom in Ewokese. Need to brush up?–you can find an up-to-date dictionary of terms here. Sarah Keanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14453350047475644177noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4322942290507162361.post-57890504947405264882010-04-08T15:40:00.000-07:002011-05-24T08:26:32.562-07:00war movie backwards"American planes, full of holes and wounded men and corpses took off backwards from an airfield in England. Over France, a few German fighter plains flew at them backwards, sucked bullets and shell fragments from some of the planes and crewmen. They did the same for wrecked American bombers on the ground, and those planes flew up backwards to join the formation.The formation flew backwards overSarah Keanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14453350047475644177noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4322942290507162361.post-34641463657219756892010-01-30T21:27:00.000-08:002010-01-30T22:30:37.808-08:00awwwOh my goodness! Look at all the baby wind turbines! You have to admit, they're working pretty hard over there in China. (Obama was right to address this particular issue in both his state of the union address and his remarks to the House Republican retreat on Friday.)Though I would love for America to raise the bar and start innovating in the realm of alternative energy, I will say that I am Sarah Keanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14453350047475644177noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4322942290507162361.post-86323148446361821582010-01-14T16:24:00.000-08:002010-01-14T16:38:56.311-08:00sigh of fleeting reliefUpon reading today's news, I was relieved to find that the doomsday clock is now 6 whole minutes away from midnight, pushed back last night from 5 minutes. Bleak, but also, somehow, encouraging."The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, which maintains the clock and puts an illustration of it on its cover, attributed the move to efforts by world leaders to reduce their countries' nuclear arsenals and Sarah Keanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14453350047475644177noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4322942290507162361.post-4855760101654670742010-01-11T21:07:00.001-08:002010-01-11T21:14:13.787-08:00thanks stefan-stefan sagmeisterjust a little quote to live by.Sarah Keanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14453350047475644177noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4322942290507162361.post-61510719529885231112010-01-10T14:08:00.001-08:002010-01-10T15:51:34.133-08:00Heirloom DesignI finally received my first issue of GOOD Magazine this month after a mix-up with my subscription back in September. (sweet!) It's the Slow Issue, containing inside a number of great articles focused around the issue of our quickening lifestyles.There is a small interview with an inventor named Saul Griffith (He's the founder of Instructables!-and developed designs for energy-producing kites!) Sarah Keanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14453350047475644177noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4322942290507162361.post-22524697316599059952010-01-08T16:18:00.000-08:002010-01-08T17:28:15.556-08:00Design is the first signal of human intention.I haven't updated in a while. Things have been so hectic, and I think I started to lose sight of a lot of the things I really care about. After a minor breakdown yesterday, (My mom would probably argue that the term "minor" used in this situation is a bit of an understatement. She is awesome for helping me get through it; listening to me vent for almost an hour and encouraging me, as my parents Sarah Keanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14453350047475644177noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4322942290507162361.post-44938055660738750112009-07-11T18:10:00.000-07:002009-07-11T19:42:28.551-07:00Camp FirebellyI have been home from Camp Firebelly for a week now and I thought it would be appropriate to post some appreciation for all of the people in the image above (and the rest of the team at Firebelly Design of course).We did so many amazing things during camp (all of which are documented in the camp blog here). But, my fellow campers were incredible and I miss them. Trust me when I say that you can Sarah Keanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14453350047475644177noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4322942290507162361.post-88490706759862427552009-07-10T11:55:00.001-07:002011-06-01T15:44:53.267-07:00Currently EnjoyingThe Idealist.org: Handbook to Building a Better World.Dawn at Firebelly gave these out as a gift to each of the campers this year. Though I have not finished, I found this quote to be pretty inspiring..."One of my lifetime goals is to be as generous as I can be. I am not the most brilliant thinker in the world, so I am not going to push forward the frontiers of human knowledge. Nor am I Sarah Keanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14453350047475644177noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4322942290507162361.post-48830625013691510962009-06-09T07:47:00.000-07:002009-06-09T07:53:18.393-07:00Conventional Wisdom, Think again"No, your eyes aren't deceiving you. You're reading Stephen Colbert. And for that I apologize. The last thing I want is to contribute to the corrosive influence of the print media. I prefer to yell my opinions at you in person. But I can't do that this week, because I am in Iraq. I've brought my hit TV broadcast over there to support our troops. I figure if I do this, I can finally takeSarah Keanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14453350047475644177noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4322942290507162361.post-88245902161641493172009-06-08T22:27:00.000-07:002009-06-08T22:41:03.175-07:00thank you!It's only right that I update with a few of the things I've been doing that have kept me from updating this thing. For now, I will just post some thank you cards I've been working on.I am very, very lucky and received lots of gifts and congratulations for graduating this past month. I felt like everyone who took the time to put a gift together for me deserved a special thank you card in return. ISarah Keanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14453350047475644177noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4322942290507162361.post-63841445824376163362009-06-04T18:54:00.000-07:002009-06-04T19:18:16.157-07:00the less we use our power, the greater it will beJust finished watching the Obama Cairo speech via the united states of jamerica.So many things said that I've always wanted but never thought I'd hear. If you haven't seen it already, take a gander!Sarah Keanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14453350047475644177noreply@blogger.com0