I’m not too sure what category to put this under, but it was just so original and cool that I had to post it.
A group of 200 people freeze in Grand Central Station ala freeze tag. Watch the bewilderment of the masses passing through.
I’m loving this idea for a flickr pool. Here’s the blog too.
For all of you how are asking where I’ve been these days, the simple answer is, working on the final semester of my masters thesis. I’m really excited about my research and the discoveries I’ve been making. I’ve been trying to establish a new language for social media storytelling, which has led me to do tons of research into the work of Marshall Mcluhan, Walter Ong and Eric Havelock. I’ve written a ten part series on the connection between orality and social media storytelling over on my thesis blog: i am user generated.
Comments and crits are always welcome, preferably over beers somewhere.
I’m grinning ear to ear today after finding this ad. It combines all my loves: soccer, basketball, art cinema and advertising. It also has a great score. Then there’s the whole element of DIY that the Wall Street Journal article elaborates on. Steve Nash enlisted the help of Lola Schnabel, daughter of Julian Schnabel, to shoot the mini-documentary.
I’ve been trying to find more and more examples of super soft advertising that takes an oblique approach to the brand message they’re trying to deliver. Here’s a series of shorts made by Adidas riffing of their colours.
As we seen a trend towards more targeted video sharing sites it was only a matter of time before we saw a rich-media site for intellectuals. I’m speaking of Big Think, which provides a platform to hear from academics, intellectuals and professionals on various age old questions.TedUbuPoptech are also worth checking out.
Here’s some photos I took for designer Anita Heiberg’s new line.
This Diesel show also employs some interesting technologies, but unfortunately the clothes fall flat.
Hussein Chalayan has often been criticized in the fashion world for over-intellectualizing clothes. After seeing his Fall 2007 collection, I’d say that this is one art piece where the critical discourse and work seem to sync up. All too often the discourse that surrounds the work is far beyond the physical representation. Chalayan asks questions of our world and answers them with his collections.
Check out Lichtfaktor’s flickr page for some great light writing photos. Then check out this example of light graffiti.
Paris By Light
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