February 2011
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Urban Renewal (via Financial Times)
Nothing better captures the hubris of the pre-credit crunch economy than the frenzy that surrounded the brash young urban art scene back in 2007. It was led by the ubiquitous yet faceless hooded graffiti artist Banksy, with his gently satirical spray-can art on walls from the East End of London to the Palestinian West Bank. Banksy’s work, and that of his ranks of imitators, sparked a...
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I'm listed in Tumblweeds under art, economics,...
I’m listed in Tumblweeds, a user-generated community directory that rates Tumblr bloggers by their number of followers. Find me listed in #art, #economics, #culture
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“But I came up in the underground though, so I’mma spend another 10,000 for...”
– Drake - “Show Me a Good Time”
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“This business is changing, and one of the things that has always remained...”
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Ethan Kaplan, the popular SVP of Emerging Technology for Warner Music Group has left the company. Kaplan has not announced where he’ll land, but he will continue running the R.E.M. fan site Murmurs.com. While praising his team, Kaplan was also not without criticism. (via Hypebot)
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“Literacy is an unresolved, old problem. I think the new struggle is for us to...”
– Pharrell Williams - MIDEM Keynote 2010
To briefly clarify the statement. He was not asserting that literacy is not a significant problem, but rather that becoming technologically illiterate, given how fast new technologies are diffused, is an equal problem facing teenagers from disadvantaged...
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“Is it really hurting you if the person really loves you and they really love...”
– Pharrell Williams on piracy (MIDEM keynote, 2010)
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“The less I know about other people’s affairs, the happier I am. I’m...”
– Ron Swanson
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The Best of Junya Watanabe, Paris (via The...
(via The Sartorialist 1.23.2011)
Found these images to be hugely inspiring. I used to rock the last look about 10 years ago. The constant movement of fashion is fascinating, as are the reasons for why the system works as it does. The latter gets into issues of intellectual property protections (or the lack of them) and the question of whether such an open system propels the market...
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“From the truthful lens of the artist, from the production(s) of our creative...”
– J N O M I C S
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“Influence is not influence. It’s simply someone’s idea going...”
– Jean-Michel Basquiat
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“This is a song for the genius child.
Sing it softly, for the song is wild....”
– Langston Hughes - Genius Child
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“The places where people assemble based on passion are usually the places where...”
– Jon Cohen Co-CEO, Cornerstone (via Influencers film)
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“An influencer is somebody that other people listen to and react to.”
– Jeff Staple - From Influencers film (R+I Creative)
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Social Animal →
We are living in the middle of a revolution in consciousness. Over the past few decades, geneticists, neuroscientists, psychologists, sociologists, economists, and others have made great strides in understanding the inner working of the human mind. Far from being dryly materialistic, their work illuminates the rich underwater world where character is formed and wisdom grows. They are giving us a...
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“Creativity is the combination of the resources and the way that we use them.”
– Aloe Blacc
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WatchVisions of Visionaries: Aloe Blacc (via MADE)
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Kenya's Banking Revolution →
To meet the future of retail banking, cross Moi Avenue into the rougher part of downtown Nairobi, pass the Chicken Spot restaurant and squeeze between four stalls selling counterfeit mobile phones, and you’ll reach a door — and behind it a tiny room containing a hat stand, a wall calendar, a strip light and a desk.
Patrick Maina’s offices don’t look like a bank, his bank — Safaricom — doesn’t...
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China's Evolving Interest in Hollywood
China’s Colonization of Hollywood (via Fast Company)
The Chinese Film Industry Is Ready for its Close-Up
“The strategy for China’s film industry is to go abroad. It is a goal for the future and matches China’s fast development,” says Yimou.
Chinese Bidding for MGM (via China[dot]org[dot]cn)
Once a studio giant in recent years MGM suffered a series of financial...
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“In fact, to every young person listening tonight who’s contemplating their...”
– President Barack Obama - State of the Union, 2011
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SoundCloud Expansion into San Francisco (via... →
According to the company, it currently has 2.8 million registered users. SoundCloud seems to be on the up and up of late, rolling out a newly updated iPhone app with a “Record” capability, as well as new apps for Android and the Mac App Store.
We’re interested to see what else the company has up its proverbial sleeve when it touches down in San Francisco.
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“The future is ours to win. But to get there, we can’t just stand still. As...”
– President Obama - State of the Union, 2011
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“I like the cut-and-paste attitude of hip-hop. You can often hear where one...”
– Chris Ofili - Artist
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“None of us can predict with certainty what the next big industry will be, or...”
– President Barack Obama (via soupsoup)
Bravo Mr. President. Bravo.
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La Roux - Quicksand (Boy 8-Bit Remix) →
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La Roux - Quicksand (Boy 8-Bit Remix) This song is for preview only.
Dig.
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WatchPresident Barack Obama: State of the Union: Winning the Future, 2011
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“This is our generation’s Sputnik moment”
– President Barack Obama - State of the Union, 2011
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“The gap between high and low culture is almost gone. In a literal sense, a...”
– Takashi Murakami
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The Future According to Schmidt: "Augmented... →
Schmidt got to the good stuff: The future is mobile, he thinks, driven by the “device of our time,” the smartphone—and the tablet. Children now have two states of existence, aided by this trend—“asleep or online.” Within two years Schmidt sees smartphone sales outstripping desktop PC sales, and the mobile sector is growing eight times faster than...
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