American Apparel Lets the Consumer Decide
Wednesday, den 15. April 2009
American Apparel is no stranger to controversy. In the last couple of years they’ve induced the ire of zoning boards, spawned a league of proto-porn copycats, and were even denounced by Woody Allen. At the focal point of detractors’ arguments against the brand is the use of blatant sexual imagery in their advertising. Perhaps as a result of bad PR, law suits, and the general confusion surrounding the brand’s messaging, or maybe just as a show of good will, the LA based cotton clothing purveyor is… Continue reading American Apparel Lets the Consumer Decide
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LAPP: Light Art Performance Photography
Wednesday, den 15. April 2009
Germany-based LAPP takes inspiration from light drawings and incorporates the element of performance into their single shot-photographs.
[via Colour Lovers]…
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Organizing Around Food Democracy in Brooklyn
Wednesday, den 15. April 2009
It’s clearly conference season, but one recent and worthwhile addition is the massive community-based affair masterminded by the Park Slope Food Coop called the Brooklyn Food Conference. Featuring workshops approaching issues as diverse as Policy, Economic Development, Access, Health, Sustainability, and Organizing, the massive conference expects nearly 2,000 attendees. Five main co-sponsors, Caribbean Women’s Health Association, Brooklyn Rescue Mission, World Hunger Year, Brooklyn’s Bounty and the PSFC, and over 120 partner groups, have jumped on board for the inaugural event.
One… Continue reading Organizing Around Food Democracy in Brooklyn
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iPhone With RFID Reader
Wednesday, den 15. April 2009
Touch is a research group exploring the way mobile phones communicate with the physical world. One of their latest experiments involves attaching an RFID reader to an iPhone. When the phone is close enough to an RFID tag attached to certain objects, different actions or windows are triggered on the phone. In the demo, the creators have linked favorite videos, ads, and their podcasts to individual toys that could represent objects at a store.
iPhone RFID: object-based media from timo on Vimeo.
[via Engadget]… Continue reading iPhone With RFID Reader
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Review: Active Campaign’s email marketing software
Wednesday, den 15. April 2009pWhich platforms do you use to promote your blog?/p
pThere may be Twitter, social bookmarking sites like Stumble Upon or Delicious, other blogs and other social networks in your list./p
pThese are all external platforms that you may use to promote your blog - or I should better say, you use these external platforms to communicate with the target market./p
pNow what about your blog? Which features of your blog do you use to communicate with the target market / visitors / readers!/p
pTraditional blogs mainly use post content and comments to communicate with the target market. And sometimes they actively promote blog feed to hold the existing reader base./p
pHowever if you follow the recent trend in professional blogosphere, people are employing alternative platforms to keep in touch with the target market. For example, they are not quite satisfied by offering content as a post. They move a few steps ahead and offer more content as newsletters. Professional bloggers like Darren Rowse is also following the trend in his blog. And another big name Jason Calacanis tried to shift his communication channel from blog to a personal mailing list./p
pEmail marketing today is not just about selling products or informing the existing users about new arrivals. It is more like a viral communication medium and you can easily put it inside the #8220;permission marketing#8221; bracket. More importantly email marketing does not require huge technical knowledge or investment. It is as easy as publishing a blog post./p
pTake a look at a href=”http://www.activecampaign.com/12all/”Active Campaign#8217;s email marketing software/a and their a href=”http://www.activecampaign.com/12all/feature_tour.php”features/a. It will not take more than 2 minutes for you to understand why you should or should not invest in email marketing./p
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Renew Newcastle
Wednesday, den 15. April 2009
Renew Newcastle is a new initiative which makes use of vacant or abandoned buildings within the Newcastle Central Business District. Headed by Marcus Westbury, a writer, broadcaster, festival director, media maker and Newcastle local, the not-for-profit company connects artists, cultural projects and community groups with vacant spaces in an attempt to temporarily make use of and maintain these buildings, whilst supporting the creative community.
While the long term prospects for the redevelopment of Newcastle’s CBD are good, in the meantime many sites are boarded up, falling apart, vandalised or decaying… Continue reading Renew Newcastle
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Emily Valentine Bullock’s Found Animal Art
Wednesday, den 15. April 2009
Over the last decade Australian artist and jeweler Emily Valentine Bullock has developed a distinct style using feathers found from “road kill, cat kill and dead pets.” Her series of feather-covered canines attempts to tackle changing attitudes towards the use of animal and bird parts within fashion. The artist has recently been sourcing her feathers from found carcasses of the Indian Mynah bird, an introduced species commonly found… Continue reading Emily Valentine Bullock’s Found Animal Art
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Finding Missed Connections via GPS
Wednesday, den 15. April 2009
Japanese-based Hitomebo has developed a phone application that uses GPS technology to allow users to record their crush spottings. In the style of missed connections, users can then try to connect with other users with the aim of facilitating hook-ups. Though details are still sketchy (unless you can read Japanese) it looks like dating could get even more digital.
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Boxed Water is Better
Wednesday, den 15. April 2009
With only 14 percent of disposable water bottles making their way to U.S. recycling plants, it’s no wonder designers are flooding the market with eco-friendly alternatives. Boxed Water Is Better is:
Part sustainable water company, part art project, part philanthropic project, and completely curious.
The Michigan-based company creates each water box using around 90 percent tree matter sourced from certified and “well managed” forests which continuously replant harvested trees. Boxed Water Is Better is also shipped flat to reduce carbon emissions from transportation, filling each box as demand is created.
The company returns… Continue reading Boxed Water is Better
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Gannon’s Mutant Toy Musical Instruments
Wednesday, den 15. April 2009
Musician Aj Pyatak, aka Gannon modifies old toys and electronic gadgets into mutant retro-futuristic musical instruments. He’s taken everything from an old Atari video game cartridge to vintage toy keyboards and warped their insides to pull out all new noisy electronic sounds. This process is commonly known as circuit bending.
MAKE brings news of one of Gannon’s fantastic creations, the Speak n’ Spellbinder. It’s a mash up of a Speak and Spell and a Rock Band Guitar controller. Watch the Speak n’Spellbinder in action below, and… Continue reading Gannon’s Mutant Toy Musical Instruments
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