buy the shirt!
posted by Benjamin Palmer
on July 01, 2009 at 11:44 AM
Benjamin Palmer
Co-founder, CEO : New York
topics: Agency Collaboration, Alcoholic Beverages, Brands, Automotive, and Banners and Rich Media
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Creepy or Cool?
posted by Shelby MacLeod
on June 30, 2009 at 09:38 AM
Shelby MacLeod
Client Services Lead : Boston
topics: Agile and Scrum, Social Networking and Community, Client Services and Relations, Brands, and Agency Collaboration
The game Prototype looks a bit creepy if you ask me but the online campaign promoting the game’s launch is kinda cool. It uses Facebook Connect to pull images and information from your profile and includes them into the trailer for the game. This is the first use of Facebook Connect that I have found to be purely creative rather than functional. I have to admit it was a bit creepy to see my daughter’s picture in the trailer for this game.
Failed to Connect: Some notes on WebSharing
The Problem This weekend, I discovered my localhost wasn’t working when I wanted to do a bit of local website development. I got a pretty unfriendly ‘Failed to Connect’ message when trying to hit http://localhost/, http://127.0.0.1/ or the IP my mac was telling me my Sites/ were at in System Preferences. Bummer. I tried pinging my [...]
iphone formatted New Yorker URL
posted by Benjamin Palmer on June 29, 2009 at 11:51 PM
Benjamin Palmer
Co-founder, CEO : New York
topics: Art Direction, Financial Services, Entertainment, Creativity, and CD ROMs and DVDs
Quell and the Qualification of the term "Photographer".
posted by Ryan McManus
on June 29, 2009 at 05:14 PM
filed under: Art, Internet Culture, and Photography
filed under: Art, Internet Culture, and Photography
Ages ago, I went to see the photographer Nikki S. Lee give a lecture about her newest project, The Hispanic Project. For those not familiar with Ms. Lee, she’s an artist who immerses herself into a subculture (whether it be Lesbians, Lindy Hoppers or Punks) and when she feels she’s become completely assimilated into that particular culture, she has photos taken of her with her newfound community. She then quits the scene for her next project.
Artistic criticisms aside, one of the most interesting points of discussion to come up in the follow-up Q&A did not revolve around Ms. Lee’s assumptions about the mutability of identity, but the fact that she chose to label herself a “photographer”. While the end result of her projects were indeed photographic evidence of her participation, she was not behind, but in front of, the lens.
This debate is far from contained or resolved: what, exactly, qualifies one as a photographer? Is it technical skill, like Ansel Adams, or is it simply using the photograph as a medium for the way you see the world (like Terry Richardson, for example)?
Such questions arise with Quell, a new photo series from Brian M. Cassidy and Melanie Shatzky, the creative duo behind Pigeon Projects (editorial disclaimer: Brian is my cousin). Quell is a series of low-resolution, noisy images of people (teenagers, mostly) undergoing a sort of voluntary asphyxiation. But the catch is this – Mr. Cassidy and Ms. Shatzky did not take these photos or witness these events. They are screen-captured stills from videos freely posted to YouTube.
“Within the countless hours of crudely captured and degraded self-documentation, we have selected moments in which violence, grace, eroticism and tenderness converge into solitary and painterly images.”
But the question Quell brings up, along with a beautiful, hollow window into the bored and risky lives of it’s subjects, is this: Is this Photography? Are Mr. Cassidy and Ms. Shatzky, in this role, photographers? Or is this something else, some new breed of artistic curation that simply uses the still image as its conduit?
Perhaps the thing I like most about this new series is that it defies that easy codification, not just in style, but where it fits into an entire history and continuum.
Another Office
posted by Mike Rubenstein
on June 29, 2009 at 04:48 PM
filed under: Lunch
Mike Rubenstein
Art Director : Boston
topics: Lunch, Art Direction, Animation and 3D, Internet Video, and Video Production
filed under: Lunch
The Chaos in Your Head
posted by Noah Brier
on June 29, 2009 at 04:17 PM
Noah Brier
Head of Strategic Planning : New York
topics: The Networks and the Internet, Advertising, Social Networking and Community, Strategy, and Internet Culture
Neuroscience and networks, two topics I can’t resist.
And here they are all wrapped together in an article about how your brain constantly walks on the edge of chaos . Apparently, the chaotic cascades inside your head are what drives intelligence and people who let chaos take over more often (though not too much) are smarter (at least from an IQ perspective).
The neuronal avalanches that Beggs investigated, for example, are perfect for transmitting information across the brain. If the brain was in a more stable state, these avalanches would die out before the message had been transmitted. If it was chaotic, each avalanche could swamp the brain.
Oh, and apparently your brain has 13 degrees of separation. Who knew?
IP Trial Strategy: Buying Tivo's Bull
posted by Rick Webb
on June 29, 2009 at 12:13 AM
Rick Webb
Co-founder, COO : Boston
topics: Automotive, Internet Video, Agency Collaboration, Social Networking and Community, and Brands
IP Trial Strategy: Buying Tivo’s Bull : Man, Marshall, Texas is weird. It seems wrong such a small town so heavily influences patent law in this country. And that people buy prize winning steers as part of the process. THE FUTURE.
It’s gonna be awesome.™
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