 |  | Infographic of the Day: How America Describes Itself In Dating Profiles | | Morgan Clendaniel | | If you've ever attempted online dating--or really, even filled out your Facebook profile--you know how agonizing it can be to figure out exactly what information about yourself you want to include. How can you quantify, in writing, how you want the rest of the world to see you? That's the question that the artist R. Luke DuBois aims to answer in his series of graphics, A More Perfect Union.  Read more |  | | | Don Draper Meets Alvar Aalto, In Retro-Chic Photos [Slideshow] | | Suzanne LaBarre | | We don't know about you, but we've been suffering from the boob-tube equivalent of delirium tremens ever since Mad Men went off the air. Thank god for Ben Sandler. The Israeli-born, Paris-based photographer has taken a monument of mid-century modernism -- Alvar Aalto's stunning Maison Carré outside Paris -- and turned it into the backdrop for an ultra-stylized photo shoot that could've come straight from the mind of Matthew Weiner. Bonjooooour, French Don Draper! Read more |  | | | Infographic of the Day: 15 Facts About America's Income Inequality | | Morgan Clendaniel | | You might not know it, with all the progress we've made as a society in the past 100 years (our first black president, for instance), but America is still an incredibly unequal place. The gaps between classes, sexes, and races are--in many ways--actually getting worse, and the gap between the rich and the poor is larger than at any time in the last 75 years. Read more |  | | | Gorgeously Preserved Eero Saarinen Home to Open for Tours [Slideshow] | | Suzanne LaBarre | | For more than 50 years, Eero Saarinen's lovely little Miller House in Columbus, Indiana, sat closed off to all but a select (and lucky) few. Now, with the death of the last original owner, this low-slung gem by a giant of mid-century modernism is opening to the public. Read more |  | | | Did The "Uncanny Valley" Kill Disney's CGI Company? | | John Pavlus | | About a year ago, Walt Disney Studios chairman Rich Ross did something noble, true and just -- not something that Hollywood executives do very often. He closed a production company called ImageMovers Digital, which, under the sinister vision of Robert Zemeckis, had specialized in using motion-capture technology to foist freakish, zombie-infested abominations like The Polar Express and A Christmas Carol on moviegoers. According to the New York Times, Ross pulled the trigger after seeing early footage from an Imagemovers film that his predecessor had greenlit called Mars Needs Moms. The studio was in too deep at that point to scrap the film, but Ross knew that enough was enough: Disney wouldn't be in the corpse-animating business anymore. Not under his watch. Read more | | CLICK HERE TO UNSUBSCRIBE   |
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