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“Moving Stills” is a short 10-minute documentary created back in 1978 to show how New York-based photo agency Contact Press Images operated. It’s a fun blast from the photographic-past — a world where images are captured on expensive rolls of film and where editors review photographs on a lightbox with a loupe.
"Moving Stills" (1978) by Behnam Attar from David Burnett on Vimeo.
http://www.photoxels.com/how-a-picture-agency-worked-circa-1978/
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Hans Rosling says there’s nothing boring about stats, and then goes on to prove it. A one-hour long documentary produced by Wingspan Productions and broadcast by BBC, 2010. A DVD is available to order from Wingspan Productions. Director & Producer; Dan Hillman, Executive Producer: Archie Baron. ©Wingspan Productions for BBC, 2010
A powerful video from Resource Interactive shown at the Shop.org Annual Summit on how mobile, social media and geolocation will change shopping. Forever.
Souce: youtube
This monday begins Enter 5. Fifth Biennial ENTER multimedia deals with DATAPOLIS. Introduces visitors through exhibitions, symposia and performances, artistic reflection of contemporary urban reality, as it helps us to capture and convey new information and communication technologies. The exhibition will offer original audio-visual representation of data flowand signals that flows invisibly around us or take place in social networks. An important part of the exhibition will also feature projects at the interface between design, architecture and fashion, which combines sensitivity to environmental issues.A special feature of the exhibition will be the de facto connectivity and data sharing between some parts.
Some of the featured projects are the Face to Facebook Alessandro Ludovico, Paolo Cirio. http://www.face-to-facebook.net/
Face to Facebook is part of The Hacking Monopolism Trilogy. Face to Facebook is the third work in a series that began with Google Will Eat Itself and Amazon Noir. These works share a lot in terms of both methodologies and strategies. They all use custom programmed software in order to exploit (not without fun) three of the biggest online corporations (Google, Amazon and Facebook), exploiting conceptual hacks that generate unexpected holes in their well oiled marketing and economic system.
Give Me My Data by Owen Mundy is a Facebook application that helps users export their data out of Facebook. Reasons could include making artwork, archiving and deleting your account, or circumventing the interface Facebook provides. Data can be exported in CSV, XML, and other common formats. Give Me My Data is currently in public-beta.
Google has published an online magazine called "Think Quarterly." However, it is a consumer magazine, that speaks of marketing and its sent (on paper) to its business partners in England and Ireland, where his base of operations.
The magazine is designed by the English agency, "The Church of London, has no advertising and is free to read. Most of the content is produced by Google employees, plus some contributions from some English media journalists.
Here you can read it and download it
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THERE ARE TWO TYPES OF PEOPLE IN THE WORLD: those who make an effort to learn another language, and the British. I’ve been trying to buck this national stereotype recently, by brushing up on my French. read more and have fun
Great monthly column written by Sam Delaney for Ryanair magazine. You can read full content here>
Follow him in twitter @DelaneyMan
Danny Robins has a certain je ne sais quoi. ILLUSTRATION: SPENCER WILSON / SYNERGY ART
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