Here’s a novel idea: Make a film, and charge people $1 to be listed as a producer. The result is a one-second film with 90 minutes of credits. THE 1 SECOND FILM is a 70mm non-profit collaborative film bringing thousands of diverse people around the world together to create film history: ‘The biggest shortest film […]
May 16, 2006
Gratuitous Name-Dropping
[Attention conservation notice: This post contains little of actual value.] I spoke with Jeffrey Zeldman today. (I just have to say it again—I spoke with Jeffrey Zeldman today!) A client is evaluating technical vendors. One of the prospects wrote a strong proposal, really kind of in-your-face for this small northern New England college, but she […]
May 14, 2006
Flying Carpet
Great idea: This project consists of an aerial view of the Sacramento River that is woven into a carpet for the floor of a pedestrian bridge connecting the terminal to the parking garage. This image represents approximately 50 miles of the Sacramento River starting just outside of Colusa, California and ending about 6 miles south […]
May 10, 2006
Political Action Videos
Wow. Check out this political ad (1:23) from a US Senate race in PA. “Our President is a criminal….” Handheld, black & white + color, kids, aggressive language, no holds barred. Of course, in one sense it’s still cynical – taking advantage of our unrest with The System, but still, you gotta hand it to […]
May 7, 2006
We Put On Gloves and Dug In
Lynne and I went for a walk down the road today. Ran into neighbor S., who, like Lynne, is a massage therapist. S: I went to a two-day cadaver workshop last month! L: Oh, excellent! S: There were about a dozen of us. There were four cadavers, two up, two down, cut wide open. We […]
May 5, 2006
Opening Space for Ourselves and Each Other
Chris Corrigan posts some (great) current thinking on the Four Practices of Open Space. I hope he and Michael actually do get a book written about their experiences. Spending three days with them was life-changing, in many subtle but persistent ways. One example: staying in touch with Ashley, and thus seeing posts like this.
May 1, 2006
Linkfest
Minor procrastination battle raging. Productive but difficult. Hence: * Ever wonder what it’s like to become an expert in the press? Ph.D. student Danah Boyd helps you out. “I talk to press every time i’m in my car, in the airport and walking around. I spend a good 15 hours a week addressing press right […]
April 30, 2006
Bush Does Not Laugh
The Happy Tutor educates us on the meaning of Steven Colbert’s savage roast satarizing Bush. [video]
April 30, 2006
Refreshing Authenticity
Meanwhile, in looking to see if Umair had posted on the dumbest move this week™, I saw he pointed to this. What a riot! Columbia Business School Dean Glenn Hubbard, who was in the running to be the new Fed chairman, issues a parody video set to “Every Breath You Take,” poking fun at Ben […]
April 28, 2006
Idea No. 22
Some of my loyal readers are already subscribed to the Signals vs. Noise feed; to you I apologize for the repetition. Just skip ahead to the last three paragraphs now. For everyone else: Could you live like this? A slide show (NY Times) of commisioned pieces from the collection of Ohio art collector Andy Stillpass, […]
April 28, 2006
Neil Young Gets It
Neil Young has a new album, Living With War and he is working the digital network to best effect. “Living With War will stream on NeilYoung.com beginning Fri, Apr. 28th. The album will be available at digital retailers beginning May 2nd. CDs will be available in stores early May.” Listen to the whole album free. […]
April 27, 2006
Just For The Irony
Video: Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, and Vince Welnick of the Grateful Dead sing the National Anthem in Candlestick Park, San Francisco on April 12th, 1993.
April 26, 2006
Fun While Flying
Chris Pirillo mimes the airplane safety instructions. Hilarious. [via Scripting News]
April 21, 2006
April 24 New Yorker
Just a mention that the current issue of the New Yorker has a number of great articles around the theme of “Journeys.” Especially fantastic is Anthony Lane’s European Journal contribution on low-cost air travel. It’s literally littered with witty asides that resonate with anyone who gets on a plane more than once a year. I […]
April 17, 2006
Stuff You Don’t Have Time To Read Either
* The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom (book, wiki, free pdf). * Collaborative Thesaurus Tagging the Wikipedia Way (abstract, pdf, author’s blog). * Integral Communication (review, master’s thesis pdf). They all look great. Wish I had time to read them. Maybe next year.
April 15, 2006
Pay Special Attention To Human Faces
Berkeley economist Brad DeLong experiments with video. A worthy 2:45 of your attention.
April 12, 2006
A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall
Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son? Oh, where have you been, my darling young one? I’ve stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains, I’ve walked and I’ve crawled on six crooked highways, I’ve stepped in the middle of seven sad forests, I’ve been out in front of a dozen dead oceans, I’ve […]
April 12, 2006
An Awkward Third Bridge Steak
Idle Words (“brevity is for the weak”) brings us Argentina On Two Steaks A Day: The classic begginer’s mistake in Argentina is to neglect the first steak of the day. You will be tempted to just peck at it or even skip it altogether, rationalizing that you need to save yourself for the much larger […]
April 6, 2006
Quality of Life
I read an alumni profile recently of someone who graduated in 1950, and is quoted as saying, “I worked there from sophomore year through senior year. The work paid much of my way through college.” He worked as a waiter at the college-owned restaurant. I wonder if you could pay your way through college today, […]
April 5, 2006
Live Better, Longer, and Even Forever
jwz supplies this gem of a link: Awakening Discomforts. Inside the apartments, known as Reversible Destiny Lofts, the floor of the dining room slopes erratically, the one in the kitchen is sunken and the study features a concave floor. Electric switches are located in unexpected places so you have to feel around for the right […]