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• Tricking People into Doing the Right Thing

  "People are, shall we say, nudge-able. With subtle hints, you can convince them to do things they otherwise might not be able to do for themselves."
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  • 012: New School
  • Date: Aug 27 2008
  • Contributors: Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein

• National Treasure?

  There is an estimated 2.194 billion square feet of rentable self-storage space in the United States. GOOD and Heavy Meta unpack.
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  • 012: New School
  • Date: Aug 12 2008
  • Contributors: GOOD magazine

• Wanderlust

  GOOD traces the most famous trips in history. An original interactive graphic.
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  • 012: New School
  • Date: Aug 07 2008
  • Contributors: GOOD magazine and Graham Roberts

• Who Doesn't Love A Photobooth

  That's what photographer Nakki Goranin was thinking when she turned her focus to the history of the instant photo machine for her new book American Photobooth. Emerging at the beginning of the 20th century, the photobooth was a development that made photography affordable for and accessible to everyone. Today, it's a novelty that makes photography accessible to tipsy hipsters at especially excellent bars and to random mall-goers at a few other select locations around the U.S., where the ~250 remaining authentic chemical booths are still intact. Goranin's chronicle and accompanying images are the best PR for the photobooth since its major role in Amélie. And we have to mention, we'd be almost as charmed by this very similar endeavor, Found Polaroids, if we weren't still in denial over the impending extinction of polaroid film... Image: left, from American Photobooth; right, from our personal archives.
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  • Date: Sep 04 2008
  • Posted by alexandra_m

• Three Years After Katrina

  Anniversaries are a time for celebrating how we've grown, acknowledging the distances we've traversed, congratulating each other for the obstacles over which we've prevailed. But as we mark the third year after Hurricane Katrina made landfall on New Orleans, the words "progress" and "growth" aren't being thrown around too loosely. With good reason. The words scandal and struggle, however, are still in heavy use. And in the midst of all this looking back, the city is busy bracing itself for Gustav. Here's hope against hope that one of the biggest disasters in American history was a learning experience to help it weather yet another storm. Photo: Garrett Sussman outside his home two months after Katrina, by Alex UPDATE: In the meantime, to stave off pessimism, which has never solved anything, here's a list of 100 of the good things that have happened in New Orleans since Katrina.
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  • Date: Aug 29 2008
  • Posted by alexandra_m

• Graduate Housing

  A Yale graduate student is building a tiny off-the-grid home to make the best use of her paltry graduate stipend. She's no Andrea Zittel, but she's doing a fine job so far.
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  • Date: Aug 19 2008
  • Posted by Patrick James

• I'm Back

  So I used to be user blueshoesism, I figured I should change the name eventually. It really did give my bad memories from last year. Hence, I decided to start this new account with my name jenniferso. I have been reading GOOD for Issue #5, and it has been fabulous, something worst the time in the world to read. Well, college is about to start for me, and I'm moving in a few days. I have always wanted to see how GOOD inc. is like, and maybe even work there someday. (I dreamt of starting a magazine.) Well, yesterday, I discovered a fall internship available to college students, and hey why not, I'm willing to contribute 15 to 20 hours a week to GOOD. Perhap, GOOD will really give me the real hands-on experience I need. GOOD idea.
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  • Date: Sep 11 2008
  • Posted by jenniferso

• Where's Kon-Tiki and Ra - Thor Heyerdahl

  The first journey(s) I looked for were those of Thor Heyerdahl and crew - on the Kon-Tiki and on the Ra II. I've never tired of those expeditions and have re-read Kon-Tiki an untold number of times. Both, great stories - and, for me, anyway, preferable to Kerouac.
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  • Date: Sep 02 2008
  • Posted by union

• Listening to you.

  In the cool celerity of a diffident young bird I try to forget a dying behaviour, the sound of a picture and a luminous care, easily, like an earnest desire. Francesco Sinibaldi
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  • Date: Aug 30 2008
  • Posted by Sinibaldi