An amazing TED Talk which answers how artists and musicians can make a living in a world where we no longer pay for the things they create.
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Guaranteed to get under you skin.
An amazing spoken word piece/animation about bullying and defiance by Shane Koyczan.
Rodney Mullen: “there is an intrinsic value in creating for the sake of creating”
On February 14, 2013
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An articulate, heartfelt, intelligent TED talk by skateboarding legend Rodney Mullen. There is a sequence at the beginning where he shows a video of his 14 year old self doing an ollie, what he brushes over is the fact that he invented this fundamental trick and 100′s of others which form the basis of modern skateboarding. His take on creativity and innovation and how you feed off your peers and progress can be applied to any creative practice. I haven’t ridden a skateboard since my teens, but I would class him as one of my all time heroes.
3 zero budget digital campaigns you wish you thought of
On February 5, 2013
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No crazy app builds, no augmented reality, and no requests to scan a QR code.
Here are three digital campaigns that are clever thinking and using the existing site functionality of sites we all use every day.
1. Bury the past.
In the Philippines, defaming women by creating sex scandal videos has reached epidemic proportions. A group defending womans’s rights has created this simple, effective Facebook meme to
counter these malicious acts.
2. The Film Festival You Didn’t Know You Entered.
In a very smart act of appreciating how fans now interact with your music and each other on You Tube, Blink 182 created this achingly simple twist on how to treat people who use their music illegally.
3. Ikea Showroom.
Using a digital camera, his display stock and Facebook’s photo tagging function, the manager of a new Ikea store in Malmo pulled this off – one of the cleveriest zero budget (not including his floor stock) local area marketing campaigns ever.
Artists revisit the scenes of geolocated tweets.
I have been thinking about this project for a week now after seeing it on PSFK.
It is beautiful, harrowing, and points out so much about how social media, especially things like Instagram and Twitter are flippant, yet at the same time permanent.
See more at Larson & Shilderman
Spotify isn’t the future of music, these guys are.
I would pay a cover charge to watch these guys play.
Why we need more start-ups like NEVERWHERE.
My Dad was a high school computers teacher in the Victorian State Schools system.
He would have loved this idea.
NEVERWHERE are offering a centralised server box which can use slow antiquated machines as clients, suddenly giving them super computer-like speeds, not to mention massively reducing costs to maintain a computer lab.
I think this is a creative area that we should be exploring on behalf of our clients. Instead of seeking ideas that utilise new technology, why not put some energy into making old technology relevant again.
If you need me, I’ll be with a packet of sugru somewhere attempting to fix the future.
Get yours at sugru.com
What would you do if money were no object?
It’s always nice to be reminded how simple this stuff really is when you disregard all the useless stuff that lingers around it. via swiss miss.
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