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Asi Sharabi’s Private Selections

Category: misc

Sampling Serendipitous(ish)

Today’s morning I stumbled upon this talented beatboy: Dub FX ‘Love Someone’ from Ben Dowden on Vimeo. Then later Tom introduced me to this lovely tree-sampler: Diego Stocco – Music From A Tree from Diego Stocco on Vimeo. Which for some reason made me play this beautiful album I didn’t play for some good six [...]

The conversation is broken = tools are flawed = influence is elusive

Once upon a time tracking a conversation was easy. All we had was blog posts, comments, trackbacks, technorati rank. How simple was life back in those days, ha? But the conversation today is sparse, discontinuous and is spilled over different platforms and environments. You write something on your blog, you share it via facebook, it [...]

Hitler and remix culture

I won’t go on about the wonders of the remix culture as smarter people had done it already (watch Faris and Lessig) What strikes me every time I come across a new cracking Hitler mash-up (there are hundreds of them now and they are cross cultural and cross communal) is the power of non-verbal communications. [...]

Hello Hyper

First, thanks loads for your kind wishes. Sorry it’s been a bit quite here but last week’s move and settling in my new job at Hyper consumed all my mental and cognitive energies leaving nothing for blogging. So….Hyper. Hyper is a young, (predominantly) digital comms planning and creative shop from the Naked family. They called [...]

My top things and stuff of 2008

you gotta love end-of-year lists.. funny year it’s been, must i admit. Whats more, I cannot really remember anything that happened before the 2nd of August when Thalia was born and our life turn upside down inside out in a totally awesome way, so the winner in the category ‘event of the year’ is pretty [...]

A video a day keeps the Doctor away

The interweb is flooded with some absolutely amazing conference presentation videos, I’m starting to believe that the only reasons for you to pay some good money and go to a conference today is for the sake of personal contact, the social gathering and networking (Gd, how i hate this word) which are as valuable as [...]

Finally

This was an idea that just waited there (for too long) for one of the car manufacturers to bring to life and Fiat realised the opportunity and took the market lead. Kudos to you! (note: I have no idea what are the carbon credentials of the Fiat – I guess they are pretty average) Eco-Drive [...]

Spam is the new Ulysess(?)

My spam comments increasingly read like they were written by James Joice (click to enlarge) I really like the idea of spam as the new literary form. Someone should somehow recognise these aspiring writers and help them find their voice. I’m thinking of spam reading evenings in local bohemian pub

Truth in advertising

Ads usually suffer from lack of credibility. They always show shiny happy people especially in all health & beauty categories. That’s why I was rather surprised from the image of the lady in that banner for some diet. I waited to see something changing but nope. It’s just a static image. She clearly suffers. She’s [...]

3D Flash Awesomeness

Fantastic use of 3D flash in this luvly Eco Zoo project from McCann Erickson Japan. Lovely design, ffunky mouse control and irresistible folding books. Too bad there are only few animals – I hope they’ll populate it with loads more as it can be used as highly engaging educational tool. Really enchanting.