Artist, Björk has just founded an Investment Fund to help the Iceland Economy. She has made only a small initial investment, ($800K), which I am sure is primarily a statement of good faith. Others will need to follow suit and contribute to her fund. There is nothing in our recent history that shows those in… Continue Reading
I wrote this as a reply to a post on Creative Destruction, as it relates to innovation. It contains some new thoughts for me, so I wanted to include it here. ______________________ Interesting thoughts. Do you have a good reference for the JP Morgan engineering of the 1907 Bank run? I would like to learn… Continue Reading
This video was produced for the musical/performance group, RadioHead. It uses no cameras. “3D plotting technologies collected information about the shapes and relative distances of objects”. I am reminded how aesthetics are merging with data visualization so that meaning is conveyed through object relationships. This opens up new space for philosophy to once again move… Continue Reading
A brilliant interactive animation. The animation is interactive, so when you visit the site, click inside the frame.
The work of Tara Donovan. Created from simple objects, (such as Styrofoam cups), Donovan creates landscapes that mimic algorithmic terrains.
Their work never fails to create images in my mind, and render my own words useless; the music of Ghost's I've Met. There are now several tracks available on their mySpace site.
A steampunk mobile phone, designed by Arthur Schmidt, of London. “We love the creativity and innovation (retro-vation?) that comes from Steampunk modifications to modern technology. Some great ideas come from taking a completely new gadget and making it something that looks like, and in this case sort of works like, something from the 19th century.… Continue Reading
An interesting use of Microsoft’s touch interface, at the Venice Beinnale. “In short, the installation works like this: visitors can pick up little cards representing the exhibits. Putting them on the table will draw an associative, organic network of tags, media and related projects around them. If you put multiple cards on the table, the… Continue Reading
I usually do not like video which tracks sound, (we used to call it video wallpaper). But this one seems to be more of a map, and has “thingness“. Advanced Beauty 13 of 18 / Directed by Maxim Zhestkov from Universal Everything on Vimeo.
A data visualization or map tracing the movement over the course of a meal.
Today, I was introduced to the work of Karen Armstrong. She is embarking on a global mission, to re-imagine compassion as the cornerstone of religious practice. As I type these words, I feel their dryness, which is the opposite of how I experienced the words of Karen Armstrong. For too long now, politics, greed, and… Continue Reading
Many financial institutions and investors profited on the upside of the housing bubble, and on the downside, by investing in “short positions”. Last summer, there were announcements in the financial news, discussing a meeting in Switzerland, of Hedge Funds who were going to start investing in distressed properties. Since then banks, hedge funds and other… Continue Reading
WRLDs is an organization which develops projects within a web 2.0 framework, addressing a specific field or discipline, helping to create transparency and understanding for the broader public. The first project addresses the financial markets. Future projects will address the sciences. Professionals from the humanities (exceptional artists, writers, and other creative’s), as well as those… Continue Reading
A book is just to be released of photographs documenting the end of the industrial age. These images are more provocative than any I have seen before. It is a collective project by many photographers. Clicking on the image below will bring you to the web site, with images.
Bill Ackman, the brilliant Hedge Fund Manager, who has been 2 steps ahead of the economy over the past decade, was on CNBC this morning. Earlier this year, he announced he was taking close to a 10% stake in Target. He has now created a financial instrument, (REIT), that divides up and sells the value of the land beneath the… Continue Reading