Caesar Newashish, a 67-year-old Attikamek of the Manawan Reserve north of Montreal, uses only birchbark, cedar splints, spruce roots and gum. Building a canoe solely from the materials that the forest provides may become a lost art, even among the Native peoples whose traditional craft it is. The film is without commentary but text frames appear on the screen in Cree, French and English.
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We Stopped Dreaming | A New Perspective
“We went to the moon and we discovered the earth.”
A great video for the Penny 4 NASA crowd-funding project.
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YouTube Loves Bebo | The Little Things
What’s wrong with the above picture?
Click the ‘share’ button under any YouTube video and you’ll get these options.
It’s not until you click ‘more’ that the opportunity to post to much more popular social sites like Twitter, tumblr, Blogger etc. appear.
So why does Bebo get the nod before these other sites?
50 / 22 / 37 | Irrational Art
Failing to deliver on the majority.
But kicking ass on the minority:
Fifty years, twenty two projects and we’ve failed to get permission for thirty seven projects.
A lesson there maybe…
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Book Binding | Spell Binding
Proving the process over product principle.
For without the back story and insight into the whole 10-year exercise, the outcome would lose it’s importance.
Here’s where to buy the $35 version of the wonderful piece of art (as the deluxe copies shown in the video is from an edition of 26 is $4600, but there is also the regular run of 100 books (doesn’t have fingertabs) in $3200 binding, $2600, and $1800).
Wonderous.
Great Stories | Ken Burns
It’s About Intimacy | The Privacy Debate
The big friends request debate.
I got a ‘friend request’ from gentlemen whom I met briefly at a conference. My approach to Facebook is to use it as a place to cultivate relationships:
- of people I know
- have been introduced to by trusted contacts
- or built up a relationship through other social spaces
*moving to the other side of the planet makes this platform a lot more important medium than normal.
I explained my reasoning to said guy of how I use this platform as a more personal network and also gave him links to this blog plus my Twitter as alternative ways of connecting.
Was interested to receive his take on how he thought “false psychology to disconnect the personal from the professional” and how it was a very old way of thinking.
For me, it’s not about privacy but more about intimacy.
Just as the media landscape continues to evolve so does our use of the many platforms available to us. People forget we can decide how we use them. We can define its uses.
How do you decide to use your social spaces? Do you? Is this thing on…?
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A Brief History of John Baldessari | Education, Take Note
How history should be taught.
I hated art history in school (even though art was the only subject in which I excelled in some small way).
Most of it was taught through text with a few pictures thrown in accompanied by the ramblings of a bored art teacher who was trying his best to make it all come alive.
It didn’t work.
Since we now have the technology, get a kick ass icon with a voice of gravel weave a sweet narrative over some impressive visuals. Let it sink in. Then discuss.
Job done.
Well it left me wanting to know more about John Baldessari.
Found in a random tweet from Wellington City Library.
Suing The American Government | Using The Law To Create Sustainability
Achingly important.
“We’re not asking the government for money, we’re not asking for power, we don’t want to take away the industry’s right to profit. We’re simply asking that the government recognize the atmosphere as part of the public trust to be protected for present and future generations and once and for all to govern as if our future matters.”
From Alec Loorz, 17-year old plaintiff on the Federal atmospheric trust lawsuit and founder of Kids vs Global Warming.
The right to pollute the earth vs the right to protect our atmosphere / environment.
American law, your move.
Can’t find any further information about the hearing on Friday 11th May, here’s hoping it was successful, for all our sakes.
From Youth Group To Sue Federal Government For Not Protecting The Environment | Inhabitat
Currency Of Likes | The Social Shopping Experience
Connecting social to the real world retail space.
*If you don’t speak Portugese make sure the closed captioning is on.
Brazlian-based CEA posts images of their clothes on its Facebook site. When fans ‘like’ the items, the total number is displayed on the hangers.
It can either work to validate the choice or run counter to promote the decision to choose a lesser ‘liked’ item.
Whatever, the execution is wonderfully delicious and has potential in other spaces:
- used in the school cafeteria to decide on which dishes to offer
- employed during a conference as an ad hoc voting system on speakers
- operated by branding agencies to shortlist logo designs
Where else could you see it being used?