Thursday, 30 April 2009
Interiors, sunshine and a day off tomorrow.
Today is a perfect Paris day and I woke up to the sun on fresh white bed linen. Making my day but unleashing the need for me to go house shopping crazy! Breathe ....
These aren't helping either -
These aren't helping either -
Wednesday, 29 April 2009
IBM Geekery
IBM are building a computer system to challenge humans at the game of Jeopardy. While certainly entertaining in and of itself, this is more than just an entertainment stunt and it has serious implications on how we bring computing to a new level of understanding of the human environment.
Also Andy Stanford a UK IBMmer has set up an automated twitter feed to record his house. Read the article here about "House Hacking" or check out Wired House for some serious house hacking down to when the door bell rings and what windows are open. Oh, and have a look at everything he has in his fridge! Mad!
Tuesday, 28 April 2009
Disney Remix
This piece is made up of 90% sampled sounds from the Disney made Alice in Wonderland movie.
Monday, 27 April 2009
Friday, 24 April 2009
Emmanuelle Alt
“FORGET TRENDY DESIGNER LABELS. JEANS, A SWEATER OR A T-SHIRT WORN UNDER A JACKET THAT SEEMS WELDED TO YOU. WHEN IT’S JUST RIGHT, WHEN YOU DON’T SEE THE EFFORT, IT’S IRRESISTIBLE.”
Thursday, 23 April 2009
Stu Gibson ...
... makes me want to surf. And take lots of pictures. I am missing the water. I have only just realised how bad after spending the weekend talking about it.
You must go over to his site and see them big.
You must go over to his site and see them big.
Matt Caplin
His Black and White Photographs are amazing as well. Have a browse through more here on his flickr account. Can you believe he is 18?
Cute electricity vinyls
Instead of trying to hide plugs and cables, the vinyl stickers, created for the Brazilian company Diz Decor, emphasise the »electronic chaos«. Birds and clouds can be arranged personally.
Available at www.dizdecor.com
Ravensbourne's Silent Auction
This years Students are really getting some press for their up-coming silent auction called blank canvas
It is now being plugged by Creative Review
Awesome.
It is now being plugged by Creative Review
Awesome.
Wednesday, 22 April 2009
AudioBoo
"Mr Web" Steven Fry has been playing with audioBoo and I thought I would stick some links up to it. It's like Twitter but with audio clips and is a refreshing addition to the microblogging world I think. It will soon have twitter integration and currently has GeoLocation which is nice.
Here is a nice walk-through about how it all works:
Take a listen at Steven's other boos if to hear his wonderful voice, oooh that reminds me - He is doing the voiceovers for little big planet on the PSP. Love it.
Here is a nice walk-through about how it all works:
Take a listen at Steven's other boos if to hear his wonderful voice, oooh that reminds me - He is doing the voiceovers for little big planet on the PSP. Love it.
Tuesday, 21 April 2009
Bike Hero!
I love stuff like this. It just one big private joke and so is undoubtedly going to be picked up by the fans and spread all over the place.
Planes
Not sure why I am having a rekindled interest in planes recently because my recent interaction with them has been fraught.
Jeffrey Milstein takes the most amazing pictures of planes. They remind me of sitting at Hatton Cross tube station and watching the planes land. So the underside of a plane has a weird attraction to me now. I would love to have something like this in my house. I found some amazing prints of Concord in a gallery in Paris the other week.
The Gallery is called Yellow Korner and is at 8 Rue des Francs-Bourgeois, 75003 just down from Place des Vosges in Paris. There is some amazing new stuff on their website. if you have time have a look. I am particularly liking the polo prints.
Jeffrey Milstein takes the most amazing pictures of planes. They remind me of sitting at Hatton Cross tube station and watching the planes land. So the underside of a plane has a weird attraction to me now. I would love to have something like this in my house. I found some amazing prints of Concord in a gallery in Paris the other week.
The Gallery is called Yellow Korner and is at 8 Rue des Francs-Bourgeois, 75003 just down from Place des Vosges in Paris. There is some amazing new stuff on their website. if you have time have a look. I am particularly liking the polo prints.
Friday, 17 April 2009
Thursday, 16 April 2009
I before we?
'No man is an island'. - John Donne
or
'The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.' - Nietzsche
or
'The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.' - Nietzsche
AT&T launches family-tracking service
AT&T's service, called FamilyMaps, allows people to track the location of any cell phone on AT&T's network from a mobile phone or PC. The person being tracked receives a text message informing him or her that he or she is being watched.
This is ridiculous!!! It was always going to be just a matter of time. Or if your not on the AT&T family plan its only a matter of money. Welcome to Big Brother. Scary.
Friday, 10 April 2009
Social Media
Myths debunked by Jessica Lee
myth #1: it's only for extroverts. i'd argue it's a mix of extroverts and introverts both engaging in social media and i might argue there are more introverts. me? i'm an introvert - but i tweet, and use Facebook, and blog. i like producing and consuming content both - but what makes social media work for me is that i can converse and be "out there" without having to really put myself out there. you can hide behind your laptop safely but still be part of a community - because we all want to belong, don't we?
myth #2: it's for play and all personal. initially, why people jump into social media is usually for personal reasons... perhaps. but more and more people are finding the value of establishing their brand online - and they're putting themselves out there to be found for professional reasons. enough said.
myth #3: you need to be tech savvy. you need to like technology, and be willing to play with it. but you don't need to understand how it works. on the back end, i don't get any of it. people talk about API's and i have no clue what it means. i'm too lazy to even look it up on wikipedia. and i don't care that much... you have to be curious, and when you get "advanced," you do need to know how different social media tools might interact with each other. that's it. trust me. i'm so clueless when it comes to technology that when my wifi signal is down, i plug in my cord-thingie... and at one point in time, i sat around plugged in to access the web for two months. you don't need to know how it works.
myth #4: it's all young people who use social media. can i just give you anecdotal proof? most all of my friends are on Facebook - but almost none are on Twitter or blog. most of my social media friends? older. (relatively speaking.) 30+. for those who want more proof, a BIGresearch study found that the average blogger is actually 37.6 years old. this Techcrunch piece breaks down the rising average age of Facebook users.
myth #5: you need a lot of free, extra time. you have to be committed to being online and to using social media. true, it's still a bit unclear how much time you have to spend to really see results or to have someone manage social media for your organization or for your recruiting efforts. know this though - people who love technology like for it to be streamlined, and easy. if there's a quicker easier way to do things or use technology, someone is figuring it out. take Twitter or Facebook for example - you can update and maintain both while on the go with your mobile device.
myth #6. it's not measurable. social media can be measured - you just need to know what tools to use. here's a post at Fistful of Talent that outlines a metrics as a starting point for measuring the efficacy of social media, particularly for recruiting. but there are parallels for many industries, or for yourself it's just that you have to understand social media is about conversations and community so there's a slight mind shift that has to be made when you consider measuring it - it's not all quantitative, a lot of it is qualitative.
Pew Internet is a great place to get good data on social networking and media. Such as:
"As of December 2008, 11% of online American adults said they used a service like Twitter or another service that allowed them to share updates about themselves or to see the updates of others."
OR
"The share of adult internet users who have a profile on an online social network site has more than quadrupled in the past four years -- from 8% in 2005 to 35% at the end of 2008."
myth #1: it's only for extroverts. i'd argue it's a mix of extroverts and introverts both engaging in social media and i might argue there are more introverts. me? i'm an introvert - but i tweet, and use Facebook, and blog. i like producing and consuming content both - but what makes social media work for me is that i can converse and be "out there" without having to really put myself out there. you can hide behind your laptop safely but still be part of a community - because we all want to belong, don't we?
myth #2: it's for play and all personal. initially, why people jump into social media is usually for personal reasons... perhaps. but more and more people are finding the value of establishing their brand online - and they're putting themselves out there to be found for professional reasons. enough said.
myth #3: you need to be tech savvy. you need to like technology, and be willing to play with it. but you don't need to understand how it works. on the back end, i don't get any of it. people talk about API's and i have no clue what it means. i'm too lazy to even look it up on wikipedia. and i don't care that much... you have to be curious, and when you get "advanced," you do need to know how different social media tools might interact with each other. that's it. trust me. i'm so clueless when it comes to technology that when my wifi signal is down, i plug in my cord-thingie... and at one point in time, i sat around plugged in to access the web for two months. you don't need to know how it works.
myth #4: it's all young people who use social media. can i just give you anecdotal proof? most all of my friends are on Facebook - but almost none are on Twitter or blog. most of my social media friends? older. (relatively speaking.) 30+. for those who want more proof, a BIGresearch study found that the average blogger is actually 37.6 years old. this Techcrunch piece breaks down the rising average age of Facebook users.
myth #5: you need a lot of free, extra time. you have to be committed to being online and to using social media. true, it's still a bit unclear how much time you have to spend to really see results or to have someone manage social media for your organization or for your recruiting efforts. know this though - people who love technology like for it to be streamlined, and easy. if there's a quicker easier way to do things or use technology, someone is figuring it out. take Twitter or Facebook for example - you can update and maintain both while on the go with your mobile device.
myth #6. it's not measurable. social media can be measured - you just need to know what tools to use. here's a post at Fistful of Talent that outlines a metrics as a starting point for measuring the efficacy of social media, particularly for recruiting. but there are parallels for many industries, or for yourself it's just that you have to understand social media is about conversations and community so there's a slight mind shift that has to be made when you consider measuring it - it's not all quantitative, a lot of it is qualitative.
Pew Internet is a great place to get good data on social networking and media. Such as:
"As of December 2008, 11% of online American adults said they used a service like Twitter or another service that allowed them to share updates about themselves or to see the updates of others."
OR
"The share of adult internet users who have a profile on an online social network site has more than quadrupled in the past four years -- from 8% in 2005 to 35% at the end of 2008."
Thursday, 9 April 2009
BMW Z4 - augmented reality
This was originally done for the mini cooper convertible so you could have a look inside and printed on the back of a magazine. You couldn't however drive the car around which is great! But not great enough for me to bother with downloading the software to run it, which I presume I will regret as I think we are going to see many, many more ads and websites like this. Still don't know if it beats GE.
oh, and how could I forget - the car looks HOT!!!
Emily Levine: A trickster's theory of everything
Philosopher-comedian Emily Levine talks (hilariously) about science, math, society and the way everything connects. She's a brilliant trickster, poking holes in our fixed ideas and bringing hidden truths to light. Settle in and let her ping your brain.
I know it's a little eco but ...
I don't care when it looks like this. NYC/Napoli based LOT-EK have been working on a new project called Puma City. It makes use of 24 shipping containers put together to create a 3 storey transportable store with over 11,000 sqf, including a bar/lounge area and 2 decks.
Via Filip Kleremark who is one the interactive art director course at Hyper Island. Jealous.
Sprint
I am obsessed with the current sprint advertising stuff - It is super intriguing and I am impressed with how they have managed to keep it light hearted despite all the data. It could have so easily gone the other way. I wonder how much research you would have to do it get those kind of sociocentric figures - or is it all made up?
Check out the dashboard >here
Check out the dashboard >here
Wednesday, 8 April 2009
The thing that will change everything - Interesting blog post about how 'marketing and advertising people always overestimate the impact of new things and always underestimate the power of traditional consumer behavior.'
Such as:
We love new things and hate old things. Just look at the advertising we create.
People over the age of 50 control 77% of the wealth of this country. Please show me one Super Bowl ad this year that was directed at them.
The average American buys 13 cars in his lifetime -- 8 of them after the age of 50. When is the last time you saw an old person in a car ad?
Such as:
We love new things and hate old things. Just look at the advertising we create.
People over the age of 50 control 77% of the wealth of this country. Please show me one Super Bowl ad this year that was directed at them.
The average American buys 13 cars in his lifetime -- 8 of them after the age of 50. When is the last time you saw an old person in a car ad?
Monday, 6 April 2009
Thursday, 2 April 2009
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