posted by on July 15, 2009 at 11:02 AM
filed under:
Advertising and
Art
...even a really beautiful, ingenious, powerful ad (of which there are a lot) can never be any kind of real art: an ad has no status as gift, i.e. it’s never really for the person it’s directed at.
- David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again
Not sure about this – neither the qualification that art has to be created without any personal or outside interest in gain, nor the idea that this self- or third-party-interest precludes the ability of something created to also be a gift.
This is a nice article. It’s nice to be reminded that information visualization is not just a fad (as it starts to seem at times), and can be part of effecting change in a very real way, even back in the day before Processing :) It helps to have connections with Queen Victoria though.
This weekend, I made the trek from my Boston hovel to glamorous, glittery New York City to attend
Titans of Small Town, a ROFLCon webcomics gallery event sponsored by
TBG and held at Street Attack’s
303Grand space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. This event had a real A-Team of webcomics in attendance:
- Ryan North of Dinosaur Comics, showing several paintings
- Chris Hastings of Dr McNinja, who brought raw pages of Dr McNinja comic artwork
- Emily Horne and Joey Comeau of A Softer World, displaying some large prints of their favorite Softer Worlds
- and special e-guest, Chris Onstad of Achewood fame, who pleasantly conversed via Instant Messenger with the gallery attendees for some hours into the night. Several of his drawings, paintings, and screenprints were displayed.
The event began with…
Every action on a social networking site does not require an equal, opposite action.
or
The enemy of my enemy, or friend of my friend, doesn’t necessarily have to be my friend.
You can lead a user to a blog, but you can’t make him generate content.
That is all.
posted by on December 19, 2008 at 11:29 AM
filed under:
Fashion and
Boston
The holiday season is excellent for busting out those infrequently worn
festive sweaters.
Happy Festive Friday!
Though certainly not in the same league of showings as
New York’s, we here in Boston had a really terrific, synergistic Formal Halloween Friday.
Great meeting everyone.
Regards,
Ashley Holtgraver
Desk Aligned Ombudsman, Cambridge Division
ashley@barbariangroup.com
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SF Formal Friday Slurpees!
Apologies for this being up a bit late; chalk it up to the west coast time difference. I could find neither cable nor SD card reader in the office out there to grab the photo. Let it be said there is an advantage to being in Boston and having 7 years of random tech detritus sprinkled around the office.
