Archive for July, 2008

Turning ads into art

Saturday, July 12th, 2008

Add-Art is a browser extension replacing online ads with Art.

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Beside the obvious gains - freeing your saturated brain from more advertising - Add Art features curated exhibitions, and creates a new space of expression for artists. Win win right?

If you had one last lecture…

Saturday, July 12th, 2008

Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch, who is dying from pancreatic cancer, gave his last lecture at the university Sept. 18, 2007, before a packed McConomy Auditorium. In his moving talk, “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams,” Pausch talked about his lessons learned and gave advice to students on how to achieve their own career and personal goals.

Intriguing talk, a mix of courage, useful advices, and slightly naive moments you could probably never see in European culture.

One guerilla marketing tactic of the future

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

The Image Fulgurator is “a device for physically manipulating photographs”. It projects a parasite picture that appears on the pictures taken by (unaware) photographers.

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After flying logos (video here) this is another technology that will have advertisers lick their chops in anticipation of all the tricks they will be able to play on the public, at least until the governments figure out a way to control these sure to be wild and intrusive means of capturing the public’s attention. More on this project on the video below: