Year: 2008
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Welcome Back
Liking the new Improv Everywhere piece, featuring a crowd welcoming back random strangers at the airport. Like the other Improv missions, it's the randomness that makes it such fun. Interesting too, that it was commissioned by Absolut as part of their "In An Absolut World" project ("In An Absolut World someone is always there to…
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Privacy And Accountability
"When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else."David Brin, sci-fi author.
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I Met The Walrus
"In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan, armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck, snuck into John Lennon's hotel room in Toronto and convinced John to do an interview about peace." 38 years later, he's collaborated with Director Josh Rankin and produced a film about it. Prescient and strangely current.
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Method In The Madness
Good case study from Tom Fishburne whom you may know as the creator of the excellent Brandcamp cartoons, but is otherwise employed as the Marketing Director for Method. I like the approach that in a recession, people may well want to trade down in price but they also want to trade up in value: “Everything…
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Make Your Own Money
Regular readers will know of my mild obsession with Sleeveface related ideas. Well here's the credit crunch version – make your own money.
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Exactitudes
Coincidentally, the day after reading about Random and Directed copying in Mark and Alex's piece, I happen across this project from Dutch photographer Ari Versluis and profiler Ellie Uyttenbroek who since 1994 have documented a record of "people's attempts to distinguish themselves from others by assuming a group identity". Exactitudes (a mash up of 'exact'…
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Counterintuitive
The principles on which the networked world are based are counterintuitive to those that govern the world of industrial era mass-marketing. That means the opposite to what we're used to. Reinventing what we know. Which isn't easy. And if the two worlds are co-existing right now, it doesn't mean that you can fit old established…