February 2012
3 posts
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Bill Moyers on Occupy Wall Street
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Everything is a Remix: System Failure
Our system of law doesn’t acknowledge the derivative nature of creativity. Instead, ideas are regarded as property, as unique and original lots with distinct boundaries. But ideas aren’t so tidy. They’re layered, they’re interwoven, they’re tangled. And when the system conflicts with the reality… the system starts to fail.
Everything is a Remix: System Failure
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Network: The Secret Life of Your Personal Data
Information technology has become a ubiquitous presence. By visualizing the processes that underlie our interactions with this technology we can trace what happens to the information we feed into the network.
January 2012
8 posts
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Jeremy Keith: All Our Yesterdays
Our communication methods have improved over time, from stone tablets, papyrus, and vellum through to the printing press and the World Wide Web. But while the web has democratised publishing, allowing anyone to share ideas with a global audience, it doesn’t appear to be the best medium for preserving our cultural resources: websites and documents disappear down the digital memory hole every day....
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Wilson Miner: When We Build
We shape our tools and our tools shape us.” As more of the tools we live with every day become digital instead of physical, our opportunity – and responsibility – as designers is multiplying. We live in a world of screens, and we are the ones who decide what goes on them. We are in a unique position to have an impact – one that lasts longer than the next redesign or the latest technology. What...
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Martin Roemers - Metropolis
Martin Roemers
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Alain de Botton: Atheism 2.0
What aspects of religion should atheists (respectfully) adopt? Alain de Botton suggests a “religion for atheists” — call it Atheism 2.0 — that incorporates religious forms and traditions to satisfy our human need for connection, ritual and transcendence.
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Miru Kim's Naked Cities
Miru Kim
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Defend our freedom to share (or why SOPA is a bad...
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Every Presentation Ever
December 2011
8 posts
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Aerial Airport Patterns
Hubert Branz
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Global Pulse General Assembly Briefing 2011
On 8 November 2011, the Global Pulse team briefed the United Nations General Assembly on its Research Projects, Technology Toolkit, country-based Pulse Labs and its plans for the coming year. The briefing also featured a keynote address by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. This video is an edited version of the full 1.5 hour event and provides a summary of Global Pulse’s work in 2010.
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Animal Maps
Wrenay Gomez Charlton
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Erik Hersman: Africa on the Rise
Hersman asks us to shed outdated notions of Africa as a unified place plagued by starvation and war. Between mobile phone innovations like M-PESA, social networking like MXit and entrepreneurial spaces like Maker Faire Africa, Hersman sees innovation and entrepreneurship exploding within some of Africa’s—and the world’s—fastest growing economies.
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Skateboarding Innovation
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Digital Portrait Uses Video Clips As Paint
Sergio Albiac’s “videorative portraits” use videos about the subject’s life as digital paint, so that each piece is made of the sitter’s own memories.
via FastCoDesign
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Clay Shirky on Social Media's Impact on...
November 2011
4 posts
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Bundled, Buried & Behind Closed Doors
Lower Manhattan’s 60 Hudson Street is one of the world’s most concentrated hubs of Internet connectivity. This short documentary peeks inside, offering a glimpse of the massive material infrastructure that makes the Internet possible.
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Amazing Russian Street Art
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I Believe I can Fly (flight of the frenchies)
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Chris Riley: How Social Media Accesses Global...
Will social media kill Western storytelling. Chris Riley, of studioriley asked the audience at PSFK CONFERENCE SAN FRANCISCO to listen to the globes’ creative voices. While traditional media has developed a single narrative around culture and the world, social media has allowed a generation of storytellers to counter the status quo and tell better stories about people, places and ideas.
Some...
October 2011
10 posts
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Burning Man 2011 Tilt Shift Time-lapse
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Chris Poole on our Digital Identities
In a passionate speech at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Poole claimed that Internet users should have a choice as to whether they want to stay anonymous on the web or use their real identities. The argument comes as Facebook and Google push to remove anonymity from the web. “Google and Facebook would have you believe that you’re a mirror, but we’re actually more like diamonds,”...
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Burning Man 2011 Time Lapse
From dust to dust, this time lapse covers over 5 weeks including the preparation of the event, from before the trash fence erection and after basically everyone except for DPW trickles out. Other than a few occasional pauses, the main event goest by at a rate of 3 hours every second.
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Charlie Rose & Tim O'Reilly on Making the Future
Charlie Rose, journalist, and Tim O’Reilly, O’Reilly Media, chat about media and advertising, including that the future most often happens with crackpots who are pre-startup, not with startups, and that successful enthusiasts are once-in-a-generation.
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Interview With Webby Awards Founder and Filmmaker...
Brian Solis talks with Tiffany Shlain, filmmaker and Webby Awards founder. Her latest film, Connected: An Autoblogography About Love, Death, and Technology, premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival.
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Our Digital Society in the Next 30 Years: An...
Brian Solis talks with John Battelle, founder and Chairman of Federated Media. John is an entrepreneur, journalist, professor, and author who has founded or co-founded businesses, magazines and websites. (skip the pompous intro)
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Levitating Self-Portraits
Floating Girl Blog
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Koren Shadmi
Koren Shadmi
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Sarah Harvey
iamdonald:
Sarah Harvey
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IS TROPICAL - THE GREEKS
September 2011
4 posts
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American Juggalo
American Juggalo is a look at the often mocked and misunderstood subculture of Juggalos, hardcore Insane Clown Posse fans who meet once a year for four days at The Gathering of the Juggalos.
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Skrillex - First Of the Year
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100 YEARS / STYLE / EAST LONDON
100 years of East London style in 100 seconds.
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Hippie Punks & Hobo Squatters
Mike Brodie
August 2011
8 posts
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Extreme Photography: Shooting Big Climbs at...
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Eskmo - Cloudlight
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Benga — Baltimore Clap
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Eternal Flame
Street-art project dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the beginning of the Second World War.
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Adam Ostrow: After your final status update
Many of us have a social media presence — a virtual personality made up of status updates, tweets and connections, stored in the cloud. Adam Ostrow asks a big question: What happens to that personality after you’ve died? Could it … live on?
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Typography in 7 Minutes: A PBS Micro-Documentary
Type is everywhere. Every print publication, website, movie, advertisement and public message involves the creation or selection of a fitting typeface. Online, a rich and artistic typographical culture exists, where typefaces are created and graphic design seeps in to every image.
In episode 2 of Off Book, typeface designers Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones outline the importance...
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WatchTimeline Tools – a vision for tracking the actions of tools, giving each tool in a toolbox the ability to log its removal and return, and compiling them into a tweetable timeline
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Metamorphosis
Metamorphosis
July 2011
5 posts
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Rebecca MacKinnon: Let's take back the Internet!
In this powerful talk from TEDGlobal, Rebecca MacKinnon describes the expanding struggle for freedom and control in cyberspace, and asks: How do we design the next phase of the Internet with accountability and freedom at its core, rather than control? She believes the internet is headed for a “Magna Carta” moment when citizens around the world demand that their governments...
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How Algorithms Shape Our World
Kevin Slavin argues that we’re living in a world designed for — and increasingly controlled by — algorithms. In this riveting talk from TEDGlobal, he shows how these complex computer programs determine: espionage tactics, stock prices, movie scripts, and architecture. And he warns that we are writing code we can’t understand, with implications we can’t control.
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The Surprising Math of Cities and Corporations
Physicist Geoffrey West has found that simple, mathematical laws govern the properties of cities — that wealth, crime rate, walking speed and many other aspects of a city can be deduced from a single number: the city’s population. In this mind-bending talk from TEDGlobal he shows how it works and how similar laws hold for organisms and corporations
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Eclectic Method - The Dark Side
Eclecltic Method
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A Tribute to Terminator 2