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JOHN BROWN is the editor of theslowhome.com and the founder of the Slow Home Movement. He is a registered architect, real estate broker and Professor of Architecture at the University of Calgary.
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An Innovative Product Inventor
Reveal
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Adam Frank is an internationally shown artist and truly innovative product inventor. His body of work is an ongoing investigation of light and interactivity. This investigation naturally blurs the boundaries between fine art, toys and products for the home.
Adam began his career at George Coates Performance Works, a high-technology theater company in San Francisco. While leading the computer graphics unit at GCPW, he created and performed groundbreaking 3D digital environments and effects which, when projected, interact with live actors on stage.
Adam created Dogz and Catz, The world’s first virtual Petz. Dogz and Catz, interactive, autonomous virtual characters, allow their users the unprecedented experience of actually touching an on-screen illusion of life. For this work he is widely credited for defining a new category of entertainment software. More than 14 million pets have been sold to date.
Adam is currently designing and producing artwork, products and toys that directly utilize his unique expertise in projected environments and virtual interactive characters. He was an artist-in-residence at the LMCC World Views program in The World Trade Center, produced a large-scale installation in co-production with The Banff Centre for the Arts and has received a NYFA grant. At Eyebeam, a new media arts lab in Chelsea NYC, Adam produced an interactive artwork using real-time, autonomous characters. In 2004 Adam was selected to represent the United States in an exhibition at the Athens Summer Olympic Games, was awarded a NYSCA grant and was a Yaddo fellow.
Adam is a professional independent inventor and product designer. Adam Frank Incorporated manufactures, markets and distributes new types of products invented and designed by AF.
The first of these products, LUMEN, a shadow casting oil lamp, was introduced in 2006. The second, REVEAL, is just about to come to market. REVEAL is a new type of ambient interior lighting. This product creates the impression of sunlight streaming through a window and onto an interior wall. A light breeze appears to move through trees in the cast image. Reveal will be available for purchase on adamfrank.com in April 2007.
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We believe that our homes and neighborhoods should be healthy, vibrant places that uplift the spirit and gracefully fit our needs. We call for an end to poor construction, bad design, misleading marketing, unfair lending practices and environmental neglect in the housing industry. We acknowledge our collective responsibility to create CLOSE, SIMPLE, LIGHT places to live that leave a positive legacy for future generations.
provides design focused information that homeowners can use to improve the quality of how and where they live. It takes its name from the slow food movement which arose as a reaction to the processed food industry. The sprawl of cookie cutter housing that surrounds us is like fast food - standardized, homogenous, and wasteful. It contributes to a too fast life that is bad for us, our cities, and the environment. In the same way that slow food raises awareness of the food we eat and how these choices affect our lives, Slow Home empowers you to take more control of your home and improve the quality of how you live while reducing your environmental impact and futureproofing the long term investment value of your home.
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