October 2011
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London Art Market is Flourishing | 6 Indicators →
London is a key place to connect with collectors, especially those based in the Middle East.
Many blue-chip galleries are expanding opening their first, second, or third spaces in London.
The market is experiencing a “flight to quality,” according to Harry Blain of aforementioned Blain Southern.
Also according to Blain, there is little speculation in the market right now.
A bad economy means...
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Think | w/ Google | Quantifying People
Think back to the first time that you went online. Browsers were clunky. Having enough bandwidth to watch video was a pipe dream. Connecting online with people you knew was hard. How things have changed. There are two billion of us connected to the internet across the globe. By 2020, there will be five billion people accessing the internet on over 50 billion devices – phones, tablets, TVs,...
September 2011
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A Goal | Do 'the Risky Thing' in Digital... →
The case for why a graduate student should take a chance on an innovative project—a dissertation in film studies that builds its argument in both video and text form, for instance, or a project that uses geospatial technologies to map literary movements—is pretty straightforward: Real innovation requires risk. Writing a standard dissertation that meets everyone’s expectations for what a...
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Fashion Bloggers Get Agents | The Fashion... →
The advent of agents who specialize in fashion bloggers points to the evolving influence of blogs. Once considered fashion-obsessed amateurs, style bloggers have matured into tastemakers and savvy marketers who can command four- and five-figure fees from brands. Even mainstream agencies are joining the action. This spring, the popular blogger Bryanboy signed with Creative Artists Agency, a...
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“I had nothing else to do. Writing gave me something to do every day.”
– William S. Burroughs (via theparisreview)
Love the simplicity and focus on this statement.
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“Artists are trained to work on the minutest of details while simultaneously...”
– John Maeda | RISD | Dean | Digital Artist
A means to improve the quality of the U.S. workforce; teach art in our schools.
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Does Economics Still Progress? | Failure of... →
What I’d add to that is that at this point it seems to me that many economists aren’t even trying to get at the truth. When I look at a lot of what prominent economists have been writing in response to the ongoing economic crisis, I see no sign of intellectual discomfort, no sense that a disaster their models made no allowance for is troubling them; I see only blithe invention of stories to...
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Oh. I think that computers and the advancedness of computers hasn’t changed art very much. It’s enabled more to happen. Again, that counts a bit more. Better resolution, longer lengths, more color variety, but all in all it’s the same thing. It’s what experience can I deliver to you that is provocative, that can change how you think. How can I, the art piece, change...
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WatchProf. Joseph E. Stiglitz: The State of the Global Economy (by World Bank)
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What Steve Jobs Taught Me About Growth | Nilofer... →
When Jobs said, “Fuck the channel,” he taught me something: our job as innovative business leaders is to manage the present while inventing the future. We must recognize that we are always a product of what we’ve done and who we aspire to be. It is not enough to lead our current businesses; we must also lead our future businesses.
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“I don’t buy this whole notion of two cultures, of an artistic and scientific...”
– New Head at Fieldston School Is an Unconventional Choice - NYTimes.com
Hope for an improving future in our schools.
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Netflix Secures Streaming Deal With DreamWorks |... →
The Netflix accord, which analysts estimate is worth $30 million per picture to DreamWorks over an unspecified period of years, is billed by the companies as the first time a major Hollywood supplier has chosen Web streaming over pay television.
Self-fulfilling prophecy? Markets evolving.
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“Tumblr has come far since we began our journey,” said Mr. Karp. “From the early...”
– David Karp
Tumblr Lands $85 Million in Funding - NYTimes.com
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Marx's Economic Evolution | Mary Gabriel | via...
The Parisian Roots of Marx’s Economic Theories: Mary Gabriel
How Marx Came to Discover the Alienation of Labor: Mary Gabriel
When Marx Met Engels, the Renegade Industrialist: Mary Gabriel
A little Sunday evening history lesson.
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The Art Market | Asian Art Sales in New York →
The Asian art sales in New York, which concluded after we went to press last week, showed a continuing appetite for Chinese works of art, but marked weakness in other fields, such as Japanese and Korean art. But as the proverb goes, “Trees can’t grow up to the sky”, and while some big prices were set, there was marked resistance at the higher levels, particularly over $1m. The New York market...
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A Phenomenal Piece of Journalism | The Fraying of... →
The more I travel, the more I observe that Americans are becoming foreigners to each other. People in Texas speak of people in New York the way certain Sunnis speak of Shiites, and vice versa in New York. Many liberals I know take for granted that anyone conservative is either racist or under-informed. People who run companies like Amazon operate as though it never it occurred to them that it...
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“So is even the same concept of elegance changing?
KL: Sure. Elegance is...”
– PAPERMAG - Karl Lagerfeld Chats With Us At Milan Fashion Week: “We Have to Think About What People Wear in Their Real Lives.”
Possible the most quotable designer in the world.
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Foldit | Gaming | Scientific Progress
Thoroughly enjoyed the following post from Andrew Mcafee highlighting the need to foster both intrinsic and extrinsic motivation in games-based crowdsourcing communities. The same lessons have been taught to the business community, that workers are incented by more than financial reward, they want to feel that they are contributing to something and have a clear objective surrounding their daily...
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5 Primary Trends | London Fashion Week
The handling of trend as a means to push new ideas through the market is something I greatly admire about the fashion industry. It epitomizes the ability of free markets to dictate preference and incent the development of new products. The trends that follow were taken from Refinery 29.
Extra-Long Fringe—Boho fringe has taken a futuristic turn. This extra-long fringe almost look like an...
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“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done...”
– Peter Drucker, management consultant, professor, and writer (1909-2005)
Wisdom.
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French banks could tip Europe back into a... →
Conventional wisdom may now be only half right when it comes to solving Europe’s mess. Fixing the sovereign debt problem is still necessary, but it may no longer be sufficient. Europe must also move quickly to stabilise the banks at its core in ways that go far beyond what the European Central Bank announced on Wednesday. As senior BNP Paribas executives prepare to tour the Middle East in an...
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INNOVATION and the NECESSITY of UNDERSTANDING...
The executives behind some of today’s most successful products and services—think Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, and Michael Bloomberg—all share an ability to experience the world through the eyes and emotions of customers. They use themselves as starting points, asking “What do I hate about this product or process?” They catalog every frustration, time-wasting...
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NIKE | BETTER | WORLD
Beautiful design, and inspired, good business. Visit the site to experience next generation web-design.
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STATE OF THE INTERNET 2011 | INTERACTIVE...
Created by: Online Schools
Wonderful work.
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INFOGRAPHICS | THE FUTURE OF | FAST COMPANY
3 TRENDS THAT WILL DEFINIE THE FUTURE OF INFOGRAPHICS | FAST COMPANY
HTML 5 - Assuming Apple continues to ignore Flash.
Real-time Data Visualization - Click here for something incredible.
User-Interface Design
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The Making of an Exclusive | WSJ
Ms. Solomon and nearly every other buyer attending the shows are on the hunt for an exclusive, the industry term for a runway look that is later revamped to make it unique to a particular retailer. When a must-have item comes down the runway, she immediately thinks, “How can we Bloom-itize it?”
Making of an Exclusive
Alice + Olivia
Bloomingdales “Exclusive” based...
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“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is...”
– Antoine de Saint Exupery (via infiniteappetite)
In art, in design, in business, in economics, this statement holds.
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