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- G+: Who is Tim Cook? (How Tim Cook is changing Apple - Fortune Tech) https://t.co/LqUlajh3
- Make your own Infographics! | @scoopit http://t.co/ejYJuqO6
- RT @mashsocialmedia: What's More Valuable in the Future, Authors or Curators? http://t.co/DmNOR2WK Interesting but shame on video quality!
- RT @breakingnewson: Facebook launches photo-sharing application http://t.co/h3IBQBmh
- @grandenchilada any leftovers?
- Photo: http://t.co/EpnUU6Mk
- We r worth less to FB 2day than we did when Google IPOed. Absent? Apple whose value is not its users but its products. http://t.co/mzIdGrhN
- That's what called : fueling the world of ideas. Photo: http://t.co/xHLf6e21
- The MET is 'uncensoring' coverage of its productions. Bravo! Il n'y a que les imbeciles qui ne changent pas d'avis! http://t.co/nYKo1feH
- Am I the only one? Could not believe Billy Bob Thornton bitter anti internet rant on last nite Tavis Smiley. (15:36) http://t.co/mH9fBuaA
- AP's Interactive video about Egypt's elections is great journalism, use of multimedia tools and...fun. http://t.co/Kzo94CoP
- Photo: A superb reminder of one of my personal challenge. Adopt new technologies while trying to keep the... http://t.co/Z3YE9qZ6
- 15,000 pictures in my iPhoto Library?! When did that happen? Time to go on shutter diet.
- Public Library Head Faces Critics of Renovation Plan http://t.co/76yDJoCh Wondering: who is right?
- Eugene Polley, the Inventor of the TV Remote, Dies at 96 http://t.co/x8VuQS30 RIP ZAP!
- @inthegrape Looks good indeed!
- @mattamediagirl sounds like a winner at last!
- Paperless Post is nice but don't send a bunch of individual cards by simply editing them: you'll soon be on everybody's %^&$ list.
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Visual poetry — all about Twitter…
Twitter Notes. Graphite, colored pencil, and watercolor on clayboard. 2012. Courtesy of Postmasters Gallery.
Sounds are such a powerful way to trigger a flow of visual images. Sit back, watch “Forgotten”, and let the emotions sink in.
The Katonah Museum is presently showing works from various Chinese artist. One of them is Zhang Huan, whose piece entitled Family Tree, deeply resonated with me.
Zhang Huan’s international career was launched when he immigrated to New York in 1998. Family Tree was created two years after he left China. Dealing with issues of cultural identity, familial relationships, and self-expression, Family Tree is a moving image of the isolation felt with the loss of one’s past. The work was staged solely for the camera.
“More culture is slowly smothering us and turning our faces black. It is impossible to take away your inborn blood and personality….
“I invited three calligraphers to write texts on my face from early morning until night. I told them what they should write and to always keep a serious attitude when writing the texts even when my face turns to dark. My face followed the daylight till it slowly darkened. I cannot tell who I am. My identity has disappeared.
“This work speaks about a family story, a spirit of family. In the middle of my forehead, the text means ‘Move the Mountain by Fool (Yu Kong Yi Shan).’ This traditional Chinese story is known by all common people, it is about determination and challenge. If you really want to do something, then it could really happen. Other texts are about human fate, like a kind of divination. Your eyes, nose, mouth, ears, cheekbone, and moles indicate your future, wealth, sex, disease, etc. I always feel that some mysterious fate surrounds human life which you can do nothing about, you can do nothing to control it…”
Todd Jensen and Natalie Cottrill of Ancestry.com explain why we should all rush to the site where we can now search more than 1 billion birth, marriage, death and military records from the 1940s, plus U.S. City Directories and the 1930 U.S. Census for FREE. (Looking for the 1940 Census? You’ll find it here.)
On April 1, 1940, there were 132,164,569 people living in America. And today, 87 percent of Americans can find a direct family link to one — or more — of them.
When the 1940 U.S. Federal Census is opened to the public this April, you’ll have a window into every one of those 132 million lives. Their names, where they lived, who shared their house, even where they were five years earlier.
This won’t come as a shock to many of us, but after studying the hundreds of thousands of his outgoing-emails dating back to 1989, Dr. Wolfram, concluded that : “the practical aspects of his days were highly regular -“
I am more moved by the idea that our lives are like a pile of 1 and 0s constantly jumping up and down in the hope of being picked up to be processed.
Truth is our ability to keep track of our every move does not make our lives more interesting. But it does increase our obsession with self-examination. A need that will only increase with the infiltration of technology into every aspect of our lives and — population growth. Others may see analyzing one’s own life data as an opportunity to work on correcting trajectories, or weaknesses, or unhealthy patterns. In my eyes, it highlights the risk of trusting our memories to formats soon to decay while getting us ever closer to ….
The pitch: A Three-Month College Sitcom on Facebook. Big Brother meets Lonelygirl15 meets Jersey Shore….
The platform: Facebook.
35 characters who acted out a fictitious three months of college, with a series of dramas, like a college basketball star and math geek involved in a drug ring and the unrequited love of two fraternity guys.
- Attribution: the Curator's Code
The word “curation” is often much too good for what many of us do online, i.e. pick up something here and move it forward. Actually the success of many platforms come from helping us do exactly that but easily, fast and beautifully. (see Pinterest or this one lovely Tumblr)
Truth is, what we do, ressembles often more the job of a mailman than that of an author. Yes, we are careful about what we decide to share but so much less so than the original professional curators who’d spent a lifetime deepening their knowledge of a specific field and we trusted to define our taste or our understanding of a topic.
Yet, we love to be called: ‘curators’…it is so much more elegant and sophisticated than “filter” or “info pusher”.
Here enters Maria Popova, the ultimate “curator”, an art she’s perfected on ‘Brain Pickings’. In fact she’s almost invented the field. And she’s done an amazing job.
Now, with designer Kelli Anderson, she’s launched the “Curator’s Code” a visual language to “honor discovery”. What a wonderful idea! Why not tell the world where you got your information from, who inspired you and yes, the virutal location where you picked up the info. After all, until recently journalists i.e professional information pushers, were asked to attribute their quotes.
Yes, there are many reasons not to do it, but there are many more to adopt this idea and make it a standard. Ideas originate somewhere, why not credit their authors and those who’ve passed it along? It’s a ….virtual payment, or compliment. Does not cost us much…
The internet first came to life as the “web” honoring this idea that it was all connected. It has not changed. Even if YOU/ME branding has taken over the world acknowledging the influence of others on our work is simply the right thing to do. (TBC)
- SXSW Panels' Illustrated Recaps For 'Ogilvy Notes' (SLIDESHOW)
Austin’s South By Southwest festival is known for the massive chaos that is the music industry taking over the city, but it’s also gaining wide recognition for its tech side.
“Advertising house Ogilvy helped out with an illustrated system to make sense of some of the best [tech] panels during SXSW.”
Via huffingtonpost.com We’re shaped by the people who came before us and we shape those who come after us.
Peter Behrens in conversation with Jacki Lyden on Weekend Edition Saturday of March 17, 2012 on his new book, The O’Briens.This is one example among those found in series published in the Daily Mail’s of mugshots of convicted Australian criminals from the 1910s to the 1930s.
“Harry Williams was sentenced to 12 months’ hard labour in 1929 for breaking, entering and stealing.”
The collection of black and white pictures are from a series of around 2,500 ‘special photographs’ taken by the New South Wales Police Department photographers.
They all tell a story that of an other era.
In this one, “Harry Crawford - real name Eugenia Falleni - originally of Stanmore, was arrested and charged with murdering ‘his’ wife after passing herself off as a man since 1899. Falleni had married Annie Birkett in 1914, but three years later, after announcing she had found out ‘something amazing about Harry’, she disappeared.”
Battle Castle is officially “an action documentary series starring Dan Snow that is premiering on History Television February 23, 2012, and on Discovery Knowledge in Spring 2012.”
But spend two minutes on the site, Battlecastle.tv, click on the slider and you will plunge into an immersing experience that includes a game, a blog, twitter updates, educational content and the video trailer…it looks wonderful and exciting.
Our only issue with it is the hype. In the press release, it states “But with hundreds of people talking about it on Facebook and a social media reach approaching 1 million, it seems like the show has already aired.”
A couple of days before it starts airing they already have 4,290 likes on their FB page, and 372 followers on Twitter, not bad…but how does that exactly translate into a social media reach of 1 million?
This is a great project, it airs on History channel, it looks superbly executed, so no need to blow the balloon people, or it might end up bursting faster than you’d ever imagined.
Only a fool would think that someone should be able to bear boredom and frustration for long hours at a time and that this would be an achievement.
Telling the story of unemployment is a challenge. Personalizing it, is often the best way for the media to help the audience to identify with the issue.
On ‘state impact’, the producers mix statistics and individual storiesto convey what the reality of the economic crisis feels on the ground.
Well done!
The art director for IL-Intelligence in Lifestyle, the monthly magazine of Il Sole 24 ORE, Italy’s leading financial daily, Francesco Franchi: Visual storytelling is not a fad…
The behind the scene of remaking a website, and not any website.
In this post, Cait O’Riordan, responsible within Future Media for the development of the BBC Sport Website, describes the changes they’ve made to the site and the process behind it.
It is really interesting. After all, a website is always about the same thing: how to best tell a story to the user? How to make the information easily accessible etc.
The BBC Sport website is the most popular Sport site in the UK, attracting an average of 11.5 million browsers a week.
There is a lot of fundamental changes. After all they had not revamped the side for about 9 years. But what I find the most interesting, is the emphasis on LIVE.
After all, our constant use of the internet puts an enormous pressure on outlets to provide a continuous stream of up to date information. Users expect no less. Constant access equals uninterrupted flow….
There is a lot to be said about the consequences that this kind of pressure puts on a system. But when it comes to sports, there is no doubt, that speed is of the essence.
Go visit the site and see for yourself.
What do you think? How do you rate their job?
- Mind-Blowing Installation Makes You Feel Like You’re Walking On A Cloud
Via Scoop.it - Tracking Transmedia
That’s because Doug Wheeler’s new installation at the David Zwirner gallery in New York is the closest I’ll ever get to satisfying a desire I’ve had since childhood: to float on a puffy white cloud.
Via fastcodesign.com Pioneering programs at MoMA and other museums show that engagement with modern art can improve quality of life for Alzheimer’s patients and their caregivers.
Projection Mapping is a digital art that I’ve been completely in awe with since I first witnessed it at the Vimeo conference in NY a couple of years ago.
This one, celebrating the UAE national day 2011 is thrilling…and absolutely gorgeous.
Using 44 projectors with a combined brightness of 840,000 lumens, a new reality of fairytale proportions is created. On a massive scale (the projected area covers a surface 600ft wide x 351ft high), it’s hard to imagine what it would be like to witness this project in person, but the video certainly captures enough to knock us off our seats.
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