Not just drum and bass…and not just music. Dublab, the Los Angeles based DJ collective, has run their Web radio site for seven years, reaching an international community of 300,000 musicians, disc jockeys, artists, and a couple of people who just like records. Their goal: to spin out a well-edited selection of streaming music and visual media to compliment it. At the center of the site are the “labrats,” guys with handles like Daedelus, Frosty, and our favorite, The Gaslamp Killer. They podcast, compile playlists, and generally keep things from getting stale. It’s inspired Web radio, because while the site offers a mix of dance floor fare — from trance to house and all points in between — as well as a fair share of indie rockers, they also give their collaborators the freedom to select some truly bizarre cuts…and not Weird Al bizarre.

Reading, writing, and arithmetic are certainly essential components of a child's education, but too often the importance of the arts to a child's development gets lost in the shuffle of all of those other subjects. Recognizing the need for kids to be immersed in all kinds of aesthetic endeavors, the inspiring minds at Boston's Thomas Edison Middle School thought it would be a good idea to have an Art Day. The after school center, one of thirty seven Citizen School programs that focus on hands-on learning as a means to foster academic leadership and strong study habits for kids in underserved communities, will host the program from 3pm to 5pm on March 27th with the express purpose of increasing students' enthusiasm for a wide variety of the arts. The previous year's event had everything from puppet making to balloon design and this year, who knows? If you have any artistic talent (note: armpit farts are not artistic talent) that you'd like to share with the kids at Thomas Edison Middle in Boston, the event is looking for a few good volunteers, who are willing to make their enthusiasm for the arts contagious. Get involved.

American Apparel may claim to wear its conscience on its ribbed thermal sleeve, but Apolis Activism lives up to its claim of socially responsible fashion. Raan, Shea, and Sten Parton started their designer couture rooted firmly in charitable work. They’ve partnered with organizations like Invisible Children, which helps displaced children of Uganda, and Yuva Lok, a Bangalore, India based charity that uses education to break the poverty cycle. The brothers have also gone on missions down to Uganda, which actually used have a thriving cotton business before the rebel fighting broke out. You say, ‘Fantastic! I love helping people and wearing organic cotton! But, what about the clothes?’ Apolis’ garments are what you’d expect from a high-minded company: cool hoodies, t-shirts, jackets and pants that have an anachronistic charm. So, suck on that Dov Charney.

Sony's digital imaging branch sure has a history of wondrously eccentric and eye-catching ad campaigns. Over the last several years they've dropped 250,000 super balls down a San Francisco street, exploded 17,000 liters of paint in Glasgow, and most recently used two and half tons of Play Doh to have bunnies invade a New York City square. It should come as no surprise then, that their next campaign is just as if not more monolithic than their previous efforts.

When the folks at Fallon London and Sony approached the film friendly city of Miami to see if they could fill a few downtown blocks with foam for their latest ad campaign, city officials thought they were joking. Rest assured, this was no joke. We saw it with our own eyes. Over the last several days a team consisting of 150 crew people (eighteen on foam detail) led by director HLA's Simon Ratigan, took several city blocks by storm, or foam rather. With the help of the world's biggest foam machine, capable of churning out two million liters of foam per minute and filling an Olympic sized pool in twenty-four seconds, Miami was turned into Foam City.

The idea behind the Foam City ad campaign is that bubbles are beautiful, but it's extremely hard to capture that beauty in an image. However, since the latest in Sony's digital imaging arsenal, including the new Alpha 350 with tilt screen, CybershotW175 with smile shutter, and HD Handycam, specialize in ‘capturing images like no other’ we can finally see bubbles the way they're meant to be seen or in a larger sense any truly unique moment. How's 200 locals wading around a city block covered in foam taking pictures with the latest Sony gear for a unique moment?

In addition to the 80,000 plus feet of film shot for the campaign, the commercials will also feature images shot by those wandering through the sea of suds, as well as the documentary filmmaker on hand. We know you can't wait to see the finished product, neither can we. However, we're all going to have to wait until the staggered release of the various incarnations of the ad, set to debut in the Spring and Early Summer. Until then, you'll just have to be satisfied with the images we snapped while on the shoot.

After Monday’s Federer versus Sampras exhibition at MSG, we were all set to play winner. The striped socks were half way up when we realized: we suck at tennis. Luckily Lane, Steve, and their Wii-equipped Wiinnebago are coming to your town and ready to take on even the least athletic of us. Last year the guys set up a tournament at Barcade in Brooklyn, inviting 128 competitors to square off in Wii Tennis madness. This year they need your help. As they make their way to San Francisco in June, they need places to play, places to play, and gamers to best. To make it from coast to coast they’ll take parking lots, couches, back rooms, and maybe even an alley or two to set up the tournaments. Hell, they’ll even shill your product. The final tournament will take place in San Francisco on June 21st, location TBD. So, help these guys. All they want is a little friendly competition.