Category: culture
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Making Money From Free
In case you missed it, there's been a mild spat going on between two heavyweights in cultural thinking. In the blue corner, Chris Anderson is out launching his new book on 'Free' (The Future of A Radical Price) : marginal costs trend to zero in a world of ubiquitous choice and rapid technological advancement; the…
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Self-Generated Opportunity
When I wrote about tweetable career advice, Andy left a comment suggesting one: "Don't look for the job you want. Create it." Sage advice. Because in spite of all the doom and gloom around I still believe that there is amazing potential for self-generated opportunity out there. I've been reading The Element by Sir Ken…
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Bubble Battle
This is lovely idea. A giant bubble battle in Times Square, organised by Newmindspace. Bringing people together and giving them something to do. Here's the Flickr pool to last year's event. And a nice video below. If you happen to be in NYC, this year's bubble battle takes place in Times Square on Saturday 21st…
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Sorry I’m Late
Some stop motion goodness, this one shot with a stills camera in the ceiling pointing straight at the floor. http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=4862670&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1 Sorry I'm Late from Tomas Mankovsky on Vimeo.
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Auto Tuning
Some Tuesday morning fun. Hilarious http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=3718294&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1 Auto Tuning from Casey Donahue on Vimeo.
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Cover Versions
Great catch on the Word Magazine weekly email – a short list of mashups that redesign classic album sleeves. This Flickr stream is my favourite, featuring some of my favourite albums too – "Classic records lost in time and format, re-emerged as Pelican books. Just for fun."
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New York 2008
Made using a cheap casio camera. http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2910103&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1 New York 2008 from Vicente Sahuc on Vimeo.
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Delete
A couple of years ago NY based artist and designer Ji Lee printed up 30,000 empty speech bubbles and started posted them on outdoor ads around the city. It wasn't long of-course before people were filling in the blanks, the most interesting of which he collected together as The Bubble Project. Now he's part of…
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Black Rain
Sourced from images collected by NASA's STEREO (Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory) mission.Two nearly identical space-based observatories – one ahead of Earth in its orbit, the other trailing behind. Composed from raw satellite data, which has not been cleaned and processed for public consumption. http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=3921306&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1Black Rain from Semiconductor on Vimeo.