My friend and prominent musician Manuel Mera has published few new instrumental tracks with video clips on his YouTube channel as part of his Reconstruction&Development EP.
The clips are a re-edit of Werner Herzog’s film Lessons of Darkness, which includes imagery concentrates on the aftermath of the first Gulf War.
Track list: Addictive ; Afghanistan ; Buffalo ; Meridian
This concept came to me as I was walking in the streets of SoHo in New York in April 2007. The display windows reflected the houses on the street, and I thought that the houses reflected the window displays.
This is happening in any city that we live in. The city is a reflection of our way of consumer culture. We can see it in every corner, in every city in the world.
This is my reflections on consumerism.
* I would like it to be my next idea for an exhibition.
This is my dissertation “The Freedom to Create & Creating freedom”. It was written as part of my final year project for BA Graphic Design at Central Saint Martins College in 2006.
A lot of the ideas came to me from reading Lawrence Lessig blog posts and books, as well as the work of The Creative Commons.
I’ve uploaded the PDF to Issuu.com, Scribd, and you can view it here, or you can download and share the PDF (908 kb).
The Freedom to Create and Creating Freedom
This work is presented with a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 – you are free to share and remix the work, under the conditions that you will give credit and distribute the result under the same license.
Why don’t the social networks and communication tools you use work well together?
John McCrea [Plaxo], Joseph Smarr [Plaxo], and David Recordon [SixApart] in the pilot show of TheSocialWeb.TV
[Via Niv Calderon (Hebrew)]
Amazing animated film directed by Josh Raskin and produced by Jerry Levitan in 2007.
Featuring an interview of 14 year old Levitan with John Lennon.
Links: Official site /Â Wikipedia
[via Adam Buxton and Bug]
70 countries will soon get the [official] iPhone 3G.
Israel is not one of these countries, and I’m quite annoyed at this.
The most annoying thing is that Israel’s neighbours – Jordan and Egypt will get the iPhone. How ruthless can Apple be? People will stand on the other side of the border with their 3G iPhones laughing at the Palestinians and Israelis, who will fight each other just to get a glimpse…
Countries like Liechtenstein [pop. 35,365], Macau [pop. 520,400] and Guinea-Bissau [pop. 1,586,000] are going to get the iPhone.
Hello!!! The glorious people of Israel have already jailbreaked more than 25,000 iPhones. Bought in American and European Apple Stores and brought to Israel in deep pockets, or bought in one of the dozens private importers of the iPhone to Israel, without the consent of the valid distributor iDigital.
Israeli entrepreneur Ouriel Ohayon says: Who cares?Â
But I do. I care!
Breaking News: Series Of Concentric Circles Emanating From Glowing Red Dot
The Onion are getting better any day…
[Via Tal Galili's Hitchhikers Guide to Statistics (Hebrew)]
Yesterday Firefox 2.0 was released. I think it is a moment to celebrate the take over Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. Even if it is a way to make Microsoft update IE in a “satisfying” way.
With IE 7.0 out, it is going to be harder to make people appreciate the other browsers.
Within the last week, two new browsers have been released. The good news is that both browsers have seen some significant enhancements in three key areas: user experience, security and web standards. The bad news is that one browser still has better features and standards support than the other.
It is so hard to transform a netuser who just surfs. Most people just use the software that comes with their PC/Mac. For Mac its OK. Safari is a great companion.
But IE… I just hate Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. For web-designer it’s the worst thing that could ever happened. Nothing works correctly with it while with all the other browsers the design will work just fine. Most people don’t know the behind the scenes of creating web pages. It’s a big headache – esspecially when you need to twick the design to fit the different browsers.
“Every other browser renders correctly”
So true. This is a detailed story from a designer’s perspective.
With my website, for the moment, I don’t care about Microsoft, IE, or their users. I will recommend to Transform! My website will look nicer on Firefox, Opera, Safari, etc. and your satisfaction will be priceless…