“Emitting messages, however clever and evocative they may be, is not the same as being with real people, in real places, who are changing their lived material reality. That’s why I have a radical proposal: Consider speaking your words in a place rather than pressing “send.” … ( and one for Simon here) … Ivan Illich believed that our culture started to go off the rails in 1120, when monks stopped reading texts aloud to each other and became solitary scholars…”
This (as well as being directly mirrored by the way I’m collating all these sources and redistributing them) links (with varying degrees of tangential-ness) to a previous post about ways of thinking and processing information, the rise of the schizoid reader (unable or unwilling to process texts in a linear and ‘complete’ fashion) and the ahead-of-their-time work of the amazing Muriel Cooper and the MIT Media Lab. (from 1994 — see below)
Today we are launching The Bunker, a plot of land, slap bang in the middle of where Trump wants to build his golf course. Just like Greenpeace’s Airplot that recently helped stop Heathrow’s 3rd runway, The Bunker is a plot of land that thousands of us can add our names to. If it comes to the point where Aberdeenshire Council agrees to Trump’s demands to throw local people off their land, they’ll have to deal with all of us too.
You can be part of the plot too. Join us in The Bunker now.
Over 15,000 of us signed the petition supporting Aberdeenshire Council to rule out Trump’s demands for the use of compulsory purchase orders in order to throw local families out of their homes, but they chose not to act. A recent opinion poll told us that Trump now has just 13% support on this basis. Aberdeenshire Council continues to fail to protect local families, from Trump’s demands for forced evictions.
So let’s take this matter into our own hands and stand side by side with the local families against the bully Donald Trump.
Please forward this email far and wide. Everyone is welcome in The Bunker. And we’ll be creating some fun on the site of The Bunker in the future, so keep an eye out for updates.
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Just picking up on Neil’s Augmented Reality theme.
Sorry foggy. You can create your own hero here. This promo is for the Swedish Broadcaster RadioJånst to encourage the internet generation to pay their licence fee. You can view it full screen here.
Whilst cautious of sounding like a right sad-bastard, this augmented reality iPhone application seems like an interesting way of giving archives and collections a geographical context, and taking them out of the museum, via: Creative Review – StreetMuseum iPhone app.
The principle of hacking could be applied to any situation where you find yourself thinking that something isn’t what it could be, from a piece of furniture, to an educational institution, to a piece of software, to a government. As a facet of ‘open-source’, the idea of hacking and reverse-engineering is at the heart of the principle of re-purposing and re-using knowledge, tools and technology, and Science Hack Day (London, June 19th–20th) applies this to the field of science and technology. Sign up if you fancy creating artificial life in your fridge, beyond that over-ripe stilton sitting at the back.
Phonetikana is a project by Johnson Banks to create a font that embeds the phonetic sound into the font to allow tourists in Japan to pronounce the words in Japanese properly. It is based around the Japanese typographic style ‘Katakana’ which is essentially phonetic.
Photographer Joel Sternfeld talks about his project documenting the Highline in New York. The HIghline has recently been reclaimed from being a disused elevated railway to being developed as a park in the middle of Manhattan. You can find out more about the project here. Or follow the project on the blog here. It has also become the focus for arts related projects in NYC.
Apartamento is an Interiors magaazine that looks for inspiration from everyday environments and the objects people choose to surround themselves with rather than an idealised aspirational model of traditional interiors magazines.
TBWA created a campaign for The Zimbabwean Newspaper which had been forced out of the country for criticising Mugabe and enforced a 55% tax on the newspaper as a luxury tax. The campaign uses the currency as a symbol for regime’s policies bankrupting the country by printing the campaign on Zimbabwean Trillion Dollar notes. Flyers were also printed on the notes as below.
Jim Naughten’s Re-Enactors is a personal project capturing a series of portraits of military re-enactors and their battles. Colour plays a big part in portraying the portraits as echos of the original events in time. It plays off his own childhood re-enactment with plastic toy soldiers.
You can view a series of spreads from the book here.
The Foundation for Children’s Welfare Stamps in the Netherlands promoted their stamps with this animation from Paul Postma. The theme of the animation is ‘Let Children Learn’ and comes from the foundation’s belief that every child has the right to education. The animation focuses on learning through play to solve problems.
Music: ‘Brother John’ by Clutchy Hopkins & Lord Kenjamin
Sound: Jasper Boeke
Animation: Paul Postma
What do you get the company that have already applied their logo to every person, surface, publication and website they can get their hands on?
It’s not quite friday afternoon yet, but Logotoaster definitely fits the things to look at on a friday afternoon category. But what shall I tag this as?
OFF THE WALL by the Yale Graphic Design 2010 MFA cohort, is energetic but employs a visually difficult navigation (in execution, not necessarily in concept), which fails to show the work at a meaningful scale (i think).
Link is a student initiative from the university of arts in bremen, germany. They organize public presentations and workshops of artists and designers at their university. It also looks like their talks may be available as podcasts via itunes.
this probably wasn’t distributed up here as Squatters Rights don’t exist in Scots law…
INDYMEDIA SOMEWHERE
Squatters In Tabloid Paper Shocker
MESHO, a spoof paper has been produced for the weekend of squatted autonomous spaces happening in cities across Britain (and everywhere else), this weekend.
MESHO, The 16-page tabloid spoof paper about squatting, homelessness and autonomous spaces is out! Apeing the METRO masthead, watch out if you see what looks like a METRO on a tube train or bus – it might be a MESHO.
Look out for MESHO in all the squatted/autonomous spaces opened up this weekend in cities across Britain. Allegedly the paper nearly didn’t happen because three separate printers pulled out
at the last minute fearing a legal comeback – or claiming they didn’t have insurance. One excused themselves because they print METRO, before another finally obliged at the last minute.
What does MESHO mean? Well it looks like METRO but is an anagram of HOMES. So there.
Use Me, Abuse Me explores several questions, including: Where will image-making take us? Will all existing photography be endlessly recycled? Will we soon see more photographers taking fewer photographs? How far can we stretch the medium of photography?
The views expressed on the Visual Communication blog are at the very most those of the authors, and possibly not even that. Any similarities to hyperlinks either live or dead are purely coincidental.
Apartamento is an Interiors magaazine that looks for inspiration from everyday environments and the objects people choose to surround themselves with rather than an idealised aspirational model of traditional interiors magazines.
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