Posted by February 24, 2010 permalink
We still have a ways to go. I’m finding the concept of “cloud” computing, or “cloud” services and applications, can be a difficult one for some people to wrap their heads around. Case-in-point: my wife. She is a tech-savvy girl—she has almost a decade on me with respect to mobile phone usage—yet she still insists on carrying USB memory sticks around in her purse, or in her pocket. Even worse, she will often rely on emailing important work files to herself. I’ve tried to turn her on to using Dropbox, but for some reason, she simply does not want to bother (even though the benefits have been made quite clear to her). I think we need a dead-simple explanation of the benefits of storing files online, on a remote machine, to turn-the-tide.
No matter how many external drive back-ups you have, or burned DVD’s—if your home, office, or studio burns down, or much more likely, gets burglarized, I think it’s a safe bet you’ll lose everything. Your data is 1000x more valuable than your new Macbook Pro and 1TB Lacie drives.
Posted by February 16, 2010 permalink
I’d been watching Coronation Street on CBC this evening, and I thought I’d share my own personal obsession with Manchester—music.
*Mind the horrid ad that Youtube (or rather, Google) feels it necessary to slop over your video. I’m sure these issues will be solved with HTML 5.
Posted by February 2, 2010 permalink
I wish music still had balls like this. The band is Funkadelic, the location is New York City, 1973. The song is “Cosmic Slop”. Sounds like just another silly 70’s track, right? Nothing about that could be farther from the truth (it’s exactly what I thought before I listened hard to the lyrics). The song is about a prostitute mother trying to raise several young kids in the ghetto. Potent stuff. Give it a serious listen.
Several of these guys went on to lead hard lives—with some harsh consequences. Regardless, they were total trailblazers—creating a genre of music, and influencing and helping to define several other future music movements (think: hip-hop). If you look hard enough, you’ll see a young George Clinton…
Free your mind, and your ass will follow.
Posted by January 29, 2010 permalink
Have a cup of tea with Joshua Davis. Take a look around at clickforart, there are lots of other great artists represented there too.
Posted by January 28, 2010 permalink
Seth Godin speaks with Nora Young on Spark. A great interview to start off the new year—download the interview here. Seth is also offering his book What Matters Now as a free ebook. Seth really hits the nail on the head in this interview.
Posted by January 4, 2010 permalink
“Every week, we invite an artist or a band to play in the streets, in a bar, a park, or even in a flat or in an elevator, and we film the whole session.”
In my travels through YouTube over the last few years I have come across a few TAKE-AWAY SHOWS, but I have never taken a look at the archive. There are some great artists archived here. Well worth some viewing time.
Posted by December 31, 2009 permalink
I have posted a website review over at COMMANDOpera. This is the first in a series of reviews I will be doing for the fine folks over there.
Posted by December 16, 2009 permalink
Hadn’t seen this photo in a long, long time. Forgot how powerful it can be…
Posted by November 19, 2009 permalink
Ben Wisch came to analogue wanting something different. Something that would break the mould. The idea was hatched to create a film piece for his web presence that would capture who he is. This film would encapsulate all three professional aspects of his life. It become more and more apparent that the site would serve as a delivery mechanism for this film. If visitors were to only view the film, they would have a snapshot of Ben Wisch. Not only would it capture Ben, but it would also capture a moment.
The film was directed, shot and edited by a fantastic filmmaker named Constanze Waeger. She captured Ben in his environment and was instrumental in the ultimate success of this web experience. My sincere thanks go out to Constanze for what she created.
Here is the film:
The web experience needed to be simple and needed to have have a flow that drew people in as they used it. There also had to be a seamless transition between the information side of the site and the film side. We are quite proud of this web experience and how it remains true to the initial ideas that were hatched at the beginning of the project.
Posted by November 4, 2009 permalink
Eric’s latest article at Ideas on Ideas offers great insight into some common advertising problems, myths, and misunderstandings.
Posted by October 22, 2009 permalink
