A High-Tech Edge on Black Friday

Smartphone Apps Track the Latest Deals, What's in Stock; Reveal Your Location and Get a Coupon.
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The Passenger. Have Fun!!

A one-man project created between 1998-2006. Find out how and why at: http://www.chrisj.com.au

OnInnovation: America Invents!

Join the imaginative, ingenious, restless and resourceful people who simply haven't settled for the status quo. People who have sought - and found - radically new ways to do things. People who have challenged the limits of what's possible, developed bold solutions to big problems, and transformed the world. Whether you know it or not, you're one of these people. We're betting that you, too, can change the world. And we're here to inspire you to do exactly that. OnInnovation : America Invents! - user submitted videos

The next 160 seconds will demostrate haw you can combine this inspiring content and powerful search features to bring innovation into your classroom, boardroom and living room.

Source: OnInnovation

Enter the virtual celebrity

Hatsune Miku appeared on the show is looked like a little girl round 16 years old, with green hairs and short dress. The character's developed by Crypton Future Media in 2007. She is the combination between real human-beeing voice and Advanced Vocaloid Software of Yamaha.

Source: Sentient Developments: Enter the virtual celebrity: "Some mild futureshock for you: Didn't William Gibson predict this?"

Exquisite Corpse and The Addams Family

While Tim Burton is preparing his new movie (I can´t wait to watch it), he propouse all of us to join Cadavre Exquis. This experiment storytelling runs November 22 - December 6, 2010. Tim Burton uses Twitter to create a collective story. Anyone can add Tweets as often as wants to the story in sequence, building on the last line revealed. The best Tweets of the day will be selected to build the story.  What are you waiting for? Send your tweet to #BurtonStory

Now If you leave me, I will do a mash up between Charles Addams and Tim Burton. This month Mental Floss magazine @mental_floss has an excellent article about the life and work of Charles Addams. The article entitled "Light Heart, Dark Humor. The Man Behind The Addams Family" written by Linda Rodriguez McRobbie describes him as "Cartoonist Charles Addams WAS Almost as bizarre as the characters I drew. His MOST famous creation, The Addams Family, has been reincarnated time and again during the past 70 years, coming back to life from the grave. Are morbid historical drawings? Sure. But They are also inmmortal." Honestly I think this description fits with Tim Burton.

After reading this great article, I started thinking about the similarities between these two creators...

Both of them have  exhibited at the MoMA. Both of them have a morbid sense of humor but Appropriate to the masses. Both are mass.media.stars each one with his own style. Charles Addams was illustrator that worked for the major NY advertising agencies and The NewYorker magazine in the golden age of american advertising, reflected in the successful TVserie Madmen. In the other hand Tim Burton and Pixar's John Lasseter were classmates at California Institute of the Arts. The California Institute of Arts was the epicenter of the earthquake that has shaken and reinventing the animation industry with a new kind of engineers and designers. At the end and despite everything; We are children of our time.

Therefore, there is probably no artist today who possesses the sensitivity and talent to bring us a version that will undoubtedly please the Charles Addams himself. Charles came to say that it was not a fan of his own TV series, since the family the evil half of what it should be.
Now we just need to wait for the film has finished and enjoy:)

Sources: MentalFloss Magazine, @mental_floss, @realadverblog, Wikipedia, BurtonStory, TheArtDepartment..among others :)

The Future Of Paywalls: Microtransactions, Buy-Ins, And Content Wars

The Future Of Paywalls: Microtransactions, Buy-Ins, And Content Wars