Category: culture
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The Perfect Community
I loved this short film that asked one simple question: "What Does 'Community' Mean To You?". As Maria points out there are some (perhaps expected) universal needs that seem to emerge including proximity and convenience, face to face interaction but the over-riding need seems to be for a sense of belonging. Which leads me to…
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Social Paintings
Courtesy of the Bad Banana blog I came across the remarkable work of Enda O’Donoghue, an Irish artist living in Berlin who's work is influenced by his background as a computer programmer and web developer. Enda scours social networks and blogs looking for "the throw-away shots which otherwise gather digital dust buried away on hard-drives, camera chips,…
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Fashionable Data
London Fashion Week finished this past week (strangely, I wasn't invited) so with my sometime obsession around interesting applications of data streams, it's timely to think about what the collision of two such polar opposite worlds as fashion and data might look like. Fortunately there's already some interesting examples. Take Fashiolista. Backed by one of…
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Everything Is A Remix
"the remix is the very nature of the digital" William Gibson As Faris (from whom I remixed the Gibson quote above) has said eloquently for a few years now, culture is inherently recombinant. Kirby Ferguson, a New York-based filmmaker, is producing a web series on the subject. The first couple of short films are quite…
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Parsing Nature
"Visual experience, if attended to, tells us that the things of nature are uncountable but connected; unpredictable but patterned; nothing to do with us and everything to do with us." Stephen Taylor Over the Christmas break I read Alain De Botton's The Pleasures And Sorrows Of Work, a fantastically evocative series of essays on a…
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Mavericks
There was an Economist piece on Innovation a while back on Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble's new book “The Other Side of Innovation: Solving the Execution Challenge”, dealing largely with innovation in established companies. There's much focus on ideas generation these days, perhaps more so than on what innovation really is: the commercialisation of those…
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Wiedenisms
Rules we live by: Advertising is a weapon; be careful where you point itCreativity comes out both endsDon't act bigDon't say it, be itDo something people will loveFail harderFind people who make you betterGet rid of the crap.Hire wrong.Independence is everythingLet goNo sharp stuffPatience and progress are f*cking hardShut up when someone's talkingStay foolish.The work…
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iPad Light Painting
This is way cool. A collaboration between Dentsu London and Berg on Making Future Magic. And Beeker worked on it. And you can read more about it here and here. Lovely. Making Future Magic: iPad light painting from Dentsu London on Vimeo.