April 2009
94 posts
“Two-thirds of Americans (66%) believe advertising agencies have at least some...”
– Majorities of Americans Lay Some Blame for Economic Crisis on Media and Advertising Agencies
I thought Advertising was ineffective and it was personal recommendations or keeping up with the Jones that caused it – never question people rationalising their behaviour i guess.
“I asked Ben Maurer, chief engineer of reCAPTCHA about this ‘penis flood‘ attack,...”
– moot wins, Time Inc. loses
Mapping for the Masses Accessing Web 2.0 Through... →
Our latest paper written with Andrew Crooks, Michael Batty, and Richard Milton from CASA entitled “Mapping for the Masses Accessing Web 2.0 Through Crowdsourcing” is now available…
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Art & Copy Film →
ART & COPY reveals the stories behind and the personal odysseys of some of the most influential advertising visionaries of our time and their campaigns
You Must Create (YMC) →
YMC clothing is not led or influenced by seasonal trends but try to provide the solution for intelligent clothing that is both wearable and distinctive. Collections gradually develop from season to…
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WatchTaking just a plain old vinyl record and attaching an AR marker to the label you can track the record in 3D space. The next question was, can you scratch the record? AR scratching on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
fans: will they go along for the ride? →
Chances are, on a long enough timeline, every corporate marketing brainstorm hits the same grand idea: we should get our consumers to get their friends to buy our products. Without fail, we all go there eventually. Then we typically pad the idea with a lot of other things we want to ask people to do; like remix a song, vote on something, or make their own ad (woof). The do’ers in the room run off...
“Current TV reminds me of the signage at the Madrid Airport, where gates are...”
– What’s the Story? – Design Observer
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“Kafka would have had a Twitter feed! And so would have Hemingway, and so would...”
– BLDGBLOG: How the Other Half Writes: In Defense of Twitter (via langer)
The Pirate Bay and The Pirate Google →
ThePirateBay has links to content hosted elsewhere that’s available for download using the BitTorrent protocol. The site also provides a search engine for finding that content, and a page for…
“Sometimes I wonder, then: given that everyone in design seems to more or less...”
– Dear Designer, You Suck – Khoi Vinh
One of the things that I really struggle with within webdesign is the lack of constructive criticism re the message, often it seems that we are surrounded with smart people that often are technologists rather than communicators – the web is predominantly a...
Nixon's Undelivered Moon Disaster Speech [1969] →
On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin became the first men to walk on the moon. The following speech, revealed in 1999, was prepared by Nixon’s then speechwriter, William Safire,…
Wanna Start a Commune? →
Wanna Start a Commune? is a movement dedicated to bringing a communal lifestyle to the forefront of American culture.
A commune is defined simply as “a community where resources are shared.” We think…
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WatchHow To Make A Good Movie | David Lynch Foundation Television Beta
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Class Dismissed - The Atlantic →
Although Americans loathe discussing social class, this relatively new, rugged country of ours did indeed have a British-style class system, if less defined by money than by that elusive quality called taste.
Foursquare, Locative Media, and Prescriptive... →
foursquare is that it’s a terrific example of prescriptive social software: applications that encourage particular social behaviors and provide very clear rewards for behaving in the “right” way.
8: Most new ideas aren't →
Most new ideas aren’t. Someone, somehow, somewhere already thought up the essence of what you’re thinking about.
Which is all the more reason to keep plugging away.
Accepting that someone else…
Searching for Bruce Sterling →
Yesterday afternoon I read Virginia Heffernan’s essay, “Let Them Eat Tweets: Why Twitter is a trap,” in the New York Times Magazine, and so interesting did I find it that for a good part of this…
Forgiveness and Irony by Roger Scruton, City... →
Wherever the Western vision of political order has gained a foothold, we find freedom of expression: not merely the freedom to disagree with others publicly about matters of faith and morality but also the freedom to satirize solemnity and to ridicule nonsense, including solemnity and nonsense of the sacred kind. This freedom of conscience requires secular government. But what makes secular...
‘Slapped together without much care or thought’ →
BBH’s crowspring experiment, as discussed this week, seems to perplexing them as well.
Quoted here from their BBH Labs blog:
First, many of the designs being presented seem to be…
WatchPaul Sahre: A Designer And His Problems on Vimeo (via swissmiss)
A Designer and His Problems is a journey through one designer’s typos, questionable color choices and poor font selection. A Designer and His Problems deals with the feeling that we all have from time to time: that something is wrong but we don’t know quite what.
Mist Bench →
The mist bench consist responds to human movement and changes its appearance accordingly. It consists of coarse knits of optical fibers that light up based upon the proximity of humans. Initially…
Tag ties & affective spies, a critical... →
What happens when we are “tagging” , “posting” and “sharing” our experiences and opinions in platforms such as those of Facebook, YouTube, flickr or del.icio.us? Are we really connecting…
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A chair designed to point out that perhaps not all... →
Tinkerer Randy Sarafan has used his mechanical skills to make an amusing sociological comment about the often pointless, banal postings of the masses on sites like Twitter. To be more…
“The 2001 recession might have ended the bubble, but the Federal Reserve decided...”
– Steven Gjerstad and Vernon Smith Explain Why the Housing Crash Ruined the Financial System but the Dot-com Collapse Did Not
Fireworks text bug… again
adobegripes:
Explained here and easily my most hated issue with CS4 because it renders an entire program near useless at times.
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Well Adobe according to Wikipedia CS4 has been out 181 days, WHERE IS THAT FUCKING FIX? You rendered Fireworks utterly worthless and have the cheek to charge £269.58 for it.
I think this is one of my reasons to be hesistant on updating blindly within the CS...