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

UncrowdSourcing nº2

The purpose of this section is reliably collecting those sentences or paragraphs created by artists, writers, philosophers and innovators. Sometimes we read statements which have so much truth that should been highlighted and recognized, without adding a comma, without modify its essence and recognizing the uniqueness of each one of them. Make no mistake, I love the Crowdsourcing, but in a world where the idea of the original seems to dissolve in the Crowd. I want to reclaim with this concept the authenticity and beauty of the reflexions and thoughts of only one creator.

12 Nov 2010
"I have a horrible secret to admit: I routinely carry out acts of murder and barbarism for fun. I have beaten up old ladies, run over pedestrians while driving recklessly on the footpath, and killed a multitude of gangsters, cops, innocent civilians, and sequined jumpsuit-wearing Elvis impersonators. In acts of gross animal cruelty, I’ve exploded numerous lemmings. I have even
committed genocide, putting entire civilizations to the sword as I ravaged continents as a brutal militaristic tyrant. Worst of all is that though I presently find myself somewhat guilty and ashamed of my actions, at the time it was all great fun. There is no doubt that I laughed hysterically throughout many of my criminal and immoral adventures. I suspect that I am not alone in this concealed shame, and that readers will have similar guilty secrets about what they do in their spare time. Videogames, of course, are to blame for all these activities. Gaming has made me an immoral monster.">
Source: ”The Art of VideoGames by Grant Tavinor"

M&M’S: Find Red

M&M campaign called Find Red. Users can go to YouTube, Twitter, Foursquare and Facebook pages over the next few weeks to get tips that help them to find Red inside Google Street View.

UncrowdSourcing nº1

The purpose of this section is reliably collecting those sentences or paragraphs created by artists, writers, philosophers and innovators. Sometimes we read statements which have so much truth that should been highlighted and recognized, without adding a comma, without modify its essence and recognizing the uniqueness of each one of them. Make no mistake, I love the Crowdsourcing, but in a world where the idea of the original seems to dissolve in the Crowd. I want to reclaim with this concept the authenticity and beauty of the reflexions and thoughts of only one creator.

"All the articles, edits, and arguments about articles and edits of Wikipedia represent around 100 million hours of human labor. That’s a lot of time. But remember: Americans watch about 200 billion hours of TV every year." Source: ”Cognitive Surplus: The Great Spare-Time Revolution”

Google Music

Google quietly launched a new Google Labs feature in India called Indic Music, a search-and-play service that might gives us some clues into how Google Music could look.

More info: http://www.google.co.in/music