Someone recommended this blog to me and I really enjoy it. Eric posts a new picture of his beautiful city every day with a brief description or reflection.
Not only do you get to see nice pictures of this great city, you also get a sort of “insider’s” tour and discover new things you might not have otherwise known about.
It’s great to check out especially before traveling there. You never know what great things you might find!
Caught a bit of "Before Sunrise" on TV. This is the poem that the guy by the river wrote and recited to them. Beautiful.
Daydream delusion, limousine eyelash / Oh baby with your pretty face / Drop a tear in my wineglass / Look at those big eyes / See what you mean to me / Sweet-cakes and milkshakes / I\'m a delusion angel / I\'m a fantasy parade / I want you to know what I think / Don\'t want you to guess anymore / You have no idea where I came from / We have no idea where we\'re going / Lodged in life / Like branches in a river/ Flowing downstream / Caught in the current / I carry you / You\'ll carry me / That\'s how it could be / Don\'t you know me? / Don\'t you know me by now?
A fantastic group of artists from Sydney called The Glue Society has created a group of images they call The Bible According To Google Earth, meaning that they took images from Google Earth and reworked them to look like events from the Bible were actually taking place. Aside from being beautiful and dramatic images, this project, as this post on Creative Review suggests, aims to help people ask questions about technologies that they are accustomed to trusting, like satellite photography, in a creative and unique way.
It seems that future works will include images of famous mythological and historical events and I can’t wait to see them! Being a lover of history and mythology I always find it exciting to be able to see how these events might have looked like in a realistic way, rather than just imagining them.
I don’t really know what implications a project like this might have, but art has always been one of the most interesting, beautiful and powerful way to help people question their reality. By mixing modern technologies and traditional subject matter, The Glue Society is highlighting a timely and important question in an age where we have millions of sources of information, most with questionable reliability, and where accountability and transparency are becoming more and more important and being demanded with increasing fervor.
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Tags: accountability, transparency, satellite images, Google Earth, digital age, Bible, art
This is so great!
Starting on December 4th, Chris Brogan, a social media consultant, has decided to dedicate his next 100 posts to “helping you grow the value of your social media and social networking efforts.” The “Social Media 100″ series already started out with some great tips and information with posts like “Social Media Starter Pack” and “Help Someone Understand Social Media“. So be sure to check it out and offer some ideas on what you would like him to cover!
For more social media resources, be sure to check out the post “Everything a Beginner Needs to Know About Social Media“. It’s always being updated with new information!
Finally, here is the link to the company blog I am helping with:
www.refineandfocus.wordpress.com
There you’ll find some great tips on how to use interactive media to get the best results, as well as lots of links to resources, great blogs and experts and more.
I’ll still be posting here, only less often, so please come back and check it out!
So sorry I’ve been away for a few days, but luckily, I’ve been pretty busy with work and other stuff. But I haven’t forgotten about you, so, to make up for it, here is a great blog I StumbledUpon! It’s called MakeUseOf.com and basically it’s tons of lists and reviews of great web services that the writers think are cool, as well as free and useful. The blog gives us many themed lists with short reviews of each site or service, the Directory 2.0 helps you browse the various lists by topic, the Geeky Fun tab gives us fun images and videos from around the web and the Podcast tab has a list of great podcasts. Great resource. Have Fun!
Connected Ventures is the company behind the CollegeHumor Network, which includes CollegeHumor, Busted Tees (which I love), Vimeo and a couple of others. Like so many other new web enterprises, the company is made up of very young and intelligent people who are contributing to the changing corporate environment. Being part of a successful business no longer has to mean confinement to a 6×6 gray cubicle for 9 hours doing the same, uninspiring work every day. Don’t believe me? Check out some of Connected Ventures’ videos on Vimeo (this link is for one of the employees and not all of her videos are of work). If thats not changing corporate culture, I don’t know what is.
Obviously, when Connected Ventures is looking for people to hire, they are aiming at a very specific group of potential applicant, i.e. people like them. So it makes perfect sense for them to use one of their own allies, Vimeo, to show the world what it’s like to work with them. The videos are fun, youthful, irrelevant, energetic. If you are young and smart, why wouldn’t you want to work there? But that doesn’t mean that other companies, looking for a slightly different profile of applicant can’t use the plethora of Web 2.0 tools and mediums to promote their own unique company culture in order to attract the right applicants. In fact, I think that this is a fantastic way to do it. No matter how innovative or traditional your company, if you have an environment or culture that sets you apart, share it!
