Emotional typography. The combination of music and written words to create a compelling story.
This lovely typo-video is part of a new campaign to empower adolescent girls in the developing world, “Because when adolescent girls in the developing world have a chance, they can be the most powerful force of change for themselves, their families, [...]
It seems like the streaming live video from your mobile to the web is getting momentum is going to be the next big thing in user generated content. The opportunities here are endless. I’m less enthuse about lifestreaming but much more about worldstreaming.
Do you remember life without Youtube? Thats what I think we will [...]
Fleet Foxes - Ragged Wood
The new darlings of indie-folk-rock, Fleet Foxes are well worth the hype. I saw them live last week and it was absolutely incredible. These remarkable vocal harmonies back with clouds of organs, tom-toms, bells and assorted stringed instruments creating rich, swirling heartwarming melodies. It’s hard to believe that this mature, pastoral [...]
Is it just me or every other page on The Internets now has that ‘Share This” functionality? I was looking for something in online dictionary and there it was, the new hygiene functionality:
I really didn’t know what to do first shall i digg it or post it on facebook?
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Video reactions are one of the most fascinating things on youtube. It’s a new form of dialouge, self-to-other expression platform which can take many forms and shapes depends on the context. I find this conversational form an anthropological goldmine. One video can spark a vast range of human communicative behaviours, from rant to praise, from [...]
“Over the past few years I’ve had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming the memory. My mind isn’t going—so far as I can tell—but it’s changing. I’m not thinking the way I used to think. I can feel it most strongly when I’m [...]
I was never really into Sigur Ros but their new music video is inspired by, and made in collaboration with the amazing, Ryan McGinley. It contains his signature style with naked teens running, falling from the sky, making love, dancing, playing…it’s bursting with youth erotic energies and raw sensuality…it’s truly mesmerising.
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Is it really?
What is it with smart academics that can’t resist the urge to tell us whats good and whats bad for us? Or that doing A is better than doing B?
Clay Shirky is one of my heros and a very very clever person and, in principle, his argument of a seismic change in [...]
This is fantastic. It really made my day. A small but very REAL example of how we all have the power to change. I wanna hug this guy, really.
Carrotmob Makes It Rain from carrotmob on Vimeo.
Cheers Dino
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I only know Jacques Lacan - the French intellectual and psychoanalyst through his compelling articulation of the “mirror stage”. The mirror stage involves the moment during which the human being first recognizes himself as Self, as Other, possibly even as others see him. This moment marks the true beginning of history for the individual by [...]
