YouAreSoLastYear

Beautiful artwork –

* You Are So Last Year

Les Blogs – conference in Paris

I was supposed to be there too – but reading this post, i start being gratefull for these mad tax guys who took away the money i had for this trip.

“I’m sitting here at a conference that I flew all the way to Paris for.. for two days, and damned if it isn’t full of panels, broadcast mode all the way, telling the audience how it is. And well.. it’s so freaking undynamic. Because it’s not a discussion. These are bloggers. They know a lot. They know what it is. These 300 people make media every day on their blogs and yet, panels are here giving us time to email the office, our cats or the mailman about a critical lost postcard.

This audience is creative, bright, thoughtful and our brains are being numbed to death by one-way talk about how blogs are about losing legacy control and we’re all taking it back. Somewhere there is a tragi-comedy in here. It’s time for a revolt. Please, please, please can we do all conferences from now on differently? For the love of transparency, aliveness, I hope we can.”

I do not think this conference is bad, but as martine pointed, things might need to change.

Conferences around the world are being held everyday, the same way it always has been done, because, well, because that’s the way it has always been! So yeah, it might be time to shake things a little, yeah, i am talking about changing standards! UUUhh, scary hm?

What about attendee becoming speakers? What about speakers having more interaction with the audience? what about the audience moderating panels? what about the panel topics being chosen by the attendee? Switch!

Styrofoam – Nothing’s lost

‘Till i get the time to record this week podcast, i suggest you virtually run as fast as you can and grab yourself this month album : Styrofoam, Nothing’s lost -

featuring collaborators such as members of The Notwist, Lali Puna, Ben Gibbard of Postal Service, this is a MUST HAVE.

* morr music berlin
* styrofoam’s web site
* bleep.com where you can buy this album as mp3’s for 9.99$!

Born Magazine Spring issue now live!

We – me, toine, ph – were the fab 3,
digging deep in creative-mess and geek-i-ness to deliver an experimental piece for this issue of Born mag.

See the piece here: Born mag: Lydia Sparrow.

About the project:
This is an experience where we try to visually measure the impact of art on the viewer – in this case, on the reader of a chosen poem called “Lydia Sparrow”. While experiencing the poem, readers will be asked to identify their feelings regarding what they are reading. This will result in a new piece of art–generated by the impact of the poem on the reader–
that combines random pictures created by random users from around the world. This use of Flickr’s API creates a unique and evolving piece of art in which thousands of humans will be participating.

You are invited to post and/or discuss your art piece here -

About Born Mag:
Born is dedicated to the emergence and continuing evolution of collaborative arts. Founded in 1996, Born supports diverse forums–such as BornMagazine.org and art exhibitions–for creating, viewing, and promoting arts that bring together different creative disciplines. Born’s work has been profiled in numerous magazines and online venues, including The New York Times, BBCi Arts, and Communication Arts, and has won numerous awards including The One Show Interactive, Vancouver International Digital Festival, Barcelona Online Film Festival, and multiple Flash Film Festivals.

Meanwhile, also check out ‘The Letter‘, a flash piece i did in 99 (yes, 99! notice the link on the credits, pointing to mlink.net/~tmdesign!) for Born mag – this piece got a mention from macromedia at the time promoting it as Site of the Day.

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Montreal fame-full? dunno, but they never got so many montreal collaborators work’n on a same issue, that is for sure.

Save the iPod

not only the ipod itself is to be saved, but creators of technological innovations and new business model must be encouraged and supported in their creation and vision – not restricted or treated like thief.

* save the ipod

The mission of the Free Culture movement is to build a bottom-up, participatory structure to society and culture, rather than a top-down, closed, proprietary structure. Through the democratizing power of digital technology and the Internet, we can place the tools of creation and distribution, communication and collaboration, teaching and learning into the hands of the common person — and with a truly active, connected, informed citizenry, injustice and oppression will slowly but surely vanish from the earth. (…) With the Internet and other advances, the technology exists for a new paradigm of creation, one where anyone can be an artist, and anyone can succeed, based not on their industry connections, but on their merit.

Happy bday Freeculture -

* how it all started
* free culture, the book.

So You Want To Be A Design Superstar?

‘We live in, arguably, a fantastic time to be in the design profession. The pages of STEP, Wallpaper, ID and HOW simply drip with hot, new, young influential designers who do cool stuff. They thrill us with their revolutionary aesthetics, impress us with their multimillion-dollar design/snowboarding/music businesses, and how they just won a plum contract to add some hip to a staid old Fortune 500 firm.

It’s heady and inspiring, and like MTV, an endless procession of youth and novelty. Presented in this carefully edited, glamorous way, design seems so easy, ripe for the plucking for anyone with a bit of talent.‘

Being a designer these days, i mean, being a GOOD designer these days, is nothing but easy – you’d gotta be creative, patient, support pressure very well and even know how to stretch out as a rubber band.

A must read for any designer or designer wannabe, AJ’s column on The creative forum website.

En feu sur un nuage – The Arcade fire

If Ian Curtis would be alive, he for sure would fancy them for making out so well with the old and not-so-old of music history.

A short video of yesterday’s Arcade Fire show at the Corona in Montreal can be seen here, as well as pictures over here.

Le gris

c’est moche, c’est gris, et il fait froid.

Mais le gris, comme le noir, a pour effet de rendre aux autres couleurs toute leur puissance – remarquez le orange et le rouge dehors, ils sont plus vivants que jamais.

‘Caus its friday

Schneider TM Reality Check video -

Reality Check live at Berlin Volksbühne -

and finally, Schneider TM’s cover of The Smiths’s ‘There is a light that never goes out‘.

Schneider TM’s website.

Xtreme Googling

Les recherches sur Google de votre nom ainsi que la lecture de vos contributions à des listes de discussions et/ou blogues font partie intégrante de notre processus de recrutement. Via A Frog in the Valley.

Vos employeurs vous googlent. Les employés googlent leurs futures employeurs. Je google de nouvelles connaissances, qui sont ils, que disent ils que font ils. Le monde me google. Googelisation.

MAIL ORDER CHICKENS

Falling for chicken? Then you might want to adopt one -

Chris Cunningham new short film

“Rubber Johnny, Chris Cunningham’s new short film is six minutes and ten seconds of fucked up terror that fuses the music of Aphex Twin with his own unique visual style (see our review here). (…) Chris himself plays the part of Johnny and the film itself became a kind of side project that evolved out of a 30 second promo for Aphex Twin’s Druqks and took several years to complete for both the shooting and the editing.

The film will be released through Warp on May 16, and contains a 40 page booklet of imagery, sketches and photographs by Cunningham.”

Read Pixelsurgeon interview with Chris Cunningham.

Also check out Rubber Johnny’s official website, and director-file’s website for picts.

Flickr pro account to give away

So, why should i give you a flickr pro account?