Posts tagged ideas
Jaron Lanier: The Internet Destroyed The Middle Class
“Kodak employed 140,000 people. Instagram, 13. A digital visionary says the Web kills jobs, wealth — even democracy”
Revenge Pornography
I suppose Revenge Pornography is truly a sign of our wired times. For those of you who have drunkenly or privately shared photos and those images of your naughty bits and those pictures have shown up on the web, ‘implied confidentiality’ might be a legal defense for you.
The Disapproval Matrix
Low-maintenance ladyswagger Ann Friedman writes: “In my ongoing quest for the perfect framework for understanding haters, I created The Disapproval Matrix**. (With a deep bow to its inspiration.) This is one way to separate haterade from productive feedback. Here’s how the quadrants break down” Click.
Bouzhee Writing In Wired Magazine
Why We Should Kickstart People, Not Projects by Dave Girouard; “standardized test scores, internships, job offers — we can statistically predict a person’s future income.” Who wants to fund people who always follow the rules and color within the lines, yawn, what about the mad scientist, what about innovation?
Designboom Interviews Pritzker Prize Winning Architect Toyo Ito - In this original from 2001, (Designboom met Toyo Ito in his first solo-exhibition in Europe, at the Basilica Palladiana in Vicenza, Italy) and talked with the now Pritzker Prize recipient about architecture in the electronic age and especially about the Mediatheque in Sendai.
Take Your Head Offline For Awhile, Rafaël Rozendaal’s, 2013 Looking At Something.
Your Mid Century Modern Dream Home Realized. Travel Back To The Past To Retrieve Your Haul of Furniture and Russel Wright American Modern Dinnerware. Ask The Question, Just What Is It That Makes Today’s Homes So Different, So Appealing?
Rhetoric of The Image
“Curiously, audiences (or customers) remain a spectral presence in both books. In O’Neill’s tract, there is no sustained discussion of the public, which seems to be conceived of as a black-box unknown, another integral and indeterminate manifestation to set alongside the artwork and the event, and that may be created by them. Smith notes that general viewers remain a systematic omission in current curatorial thinking; his audiences (in what he admits is an ideal description) have novel works placed before them and are ‘disinterested.’ This Kantian description, while in apparent tension with the virtues of multiplicity and mobility, allows them to be seen as placeholders for autonomous bourgeois individuals, free to think and feel without restraint before the unbound work of art.”
Support The Public Domain Review
The Public Domain Review is a not-for-profit project dedicated to showcasing the most interesting and unusual artefacts in the history of art, literature and ideas – all of which have fallen into the public domain and so are free for everyone to enjoy, reuse and share. Started in 2011, the site has created a large and ever growing archive of the beautiful and bizarre. Highlights from their collections include a ghostly series of decayed daguerrotypes, a dictionary of Victorian slang, a set of 19th century French postcards of the year 2000, and a 1930s Michigan farmer playing the tune of Yankee Doodle with “hand-farts”…It’s a great project, and it needs your support to continue. With their initial funding now coming to an end, The Public Domain Review is turning to its community of readers to help it continue to tell the world about the importance of the public domain
Stay On The Fucking Bus! Art and The Helsinki Bus Station Theory
The theory claims the secret to a creatively fulfilling career lies in understanding the operations of Helsinki’s main bus station.
More Now! Collaborative Consumption! Share Everything!
“What’s really going on here is the urbanization of the world and the reurbanization of American cities,’ Turner [Molly Turner, the director of public policy for short-term rental lodging website Airbnb] says. ‘Either consciously or subconsciously, [people] are realizing that that involves the public realm, the commons, sharing goods and services and infrastructure. And I think that kind of bleeds into your personal life…’ ‘People don’t want the cognitive load associated with owning,’ reasons Neal Gorenflo, the publisher of Shareable magazine. ‘If you’re a creative person, you don’t want to cut the lawn. Or wash your car. It’s like, ‘Oh my god, are you kidding me? I could be creating the next piece of software.’”
Kenneth Goldsmith: “If It Doesn't Exist on the Internet, It Doesn't Exist”
“Blogging opens up instantaneous discourse with a group of like-minded thinkers. We all know of colleagues who post chapters-in-progress of their latest books on their blogs. Older proprietary ways of thinking would condemn this practice with the fear that your ideas would be swiped, brought quickly to the marketplace, rendering your efforts useless. On the contrary, what happens is the opposite. Like any twelve-step program alumnus knows: words are deeds. By showing your commitment to these ideas publicly, they are acknowledged by a given community as being yours. If it’s available to the whole world, then anyone trying to swipe your ideas will be outed by the public knowledge that you’re the one who has been working on this subject. Academic bloggers find that their community of readers often act as fact-checkers or engage the blogger in instantaneous debate over specific points before the book reaches the concretized state of print. Instant feedback on your work: does it get any better than that?”
Austin Kleon posted this entry (also see the fascinating statement about paper being radical, yes) pointing to a piece from 2005 Kenneth Goldsmith, If It Doesn’t Exist on the Internet, It Doesn’t Exist, with the preface that “The following statements are directed at academic production and should be considered in that context. This does not include painters, potters, printmakers, book artists or metal workers. Yet.” I agree for the most part, but this assumes (some 8 years ago now) that you and your work as an author have name recognition, that an audience is going to behave and your work is going to retain attribution, and you won’t get buried in a Google search by a more popular site that starts remixing and spinning your original ideas. I’m not saying any of this is bad, I’m all for total unfettered access whoa yea, but there are other issues to consider, perhaps an update or second edition of this article is in order.
You Are What You Click: On Microtargeting
“Accounts of privacy violations bubble through the news and stir public outrage, which is often followed by a backlash and occasionally a fine. But these stories rarely reveal the porous privacy lines of the digital realm, or whether other types of violations are being committed online, by companies other than the household names. The outrage is selective and the enforcements ad hoc. News stories about hacking, data sniffing and the like have become red herrings. They provide false assurances that, in the normal course of things, our privacy is not being invaded on the Internet, that our personal data is safe, and that we are anonymous in our online—and offline—activities. But we aren’t. “Privacy” and “anonymity” are being defined down…”
Richard Jackson’s ‘Bad Dog’ amuses me to no end. The 8.5 meter tall sculpture of a black Labrador Retriever pissing down on the facade of the Orange County Museum of Art in Newport Beach is the artist’s latest sculpture
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