http://folksonomy.co/?rss=240 Folksonomy.co is a structured repository of digital culture and creative practice. en-au Creative Commons License: (cc), Simon Perkins Mon, 08 Apr 2013 12:14:50 +1000 Mon, 08 Apr 2013 12:14:50 +1000 Constellations 2.0 http://folksonomy.co/?member=2 60 http://folksonomy.co/Folksonomy.gif http://folksonomy.co/ http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3267 Chasing Ice is the story of one man s mission to change the tide of history by gathering undeniable evidence of our changing planet Within months of that first trip to Iceland the photographer conceived the boldest expedition of his life The Extreme Ice Survey With a band of young adventurers in tow Balog began deploying revolutionary time-lapse cameras across the brutal Arctic to capture a multi-year record of the world s changing glaciers As the debate polarizes America and the intensity of natural disasters ramps up globally Balog finds himself at the end of his tether Battling untested technology in subzero conditions he comes face to face with his own mortality It takes years for Balog to see the fruits of his labor His hauntingly beautiful videos compress years into seconds and capture ancient mountains of ice in motion as they disappear at a breathtaking rate Chasing Ice depicts a photographer trying to deliver evidence and hope to our carbon-powered planet http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3267 Mon, 08 Apr 2013 12:14:50 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3245 Nexus thinking is a new way of thinking that recognises the crucial interdependence of water energy and food - a relationship that forms the core of the Environment Nexus project This new IIEA video explores the deep interconnections between the three essential resources and highlights the need for nexus thinking to help meet the worldos needs as it grows from 7 to 9 billion by 2050 The Institute of International and European Affairs 20 February 2013 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3245 Sat, 23 Mar 2013 11:19:02 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3205 This newscast from KRON in San Francisco in 1981 has been making the rounds recently It s labeled primitive Internet report but what it presents is actually one example of the many pre-Internet efforts that the newspaper industry made to try to plan for an online future - and stake out its own turf in that forthcoming world In the video you can hear Dave Cole say of the Electronic Examiner he was demonstrating We re not in it to make money At the end the announcer points out that an entire edition of the paper takes two hours to download at a 5 hour cost - making this telepaper little competition for the paper edition For the moment at least the reporter declares over the image of a sidewalk news vendor hawking the afternoon edition this fellow isn t worried about being out of a job Though the piece does say that Engineers now predict the day will come when we get all our newspapers and magazines by home computer its underlying message is - Don t worry This crazy computer stuff isn t going to change anything much for now And indeed it took 10 years for any sort of online service to become even remotely popular Almost 30 years later newspapers are still in business some are even still sold by guys on sidewalks It has taken this long for the technology to transform the newspaper biz in a big way But even as the downloads sped up and the connect-time costs dropped the industry held onto that approach instead of coming to grips with the fundamentally different dynamics of a new communications medium What had made sense in the early days over time became a crippling set of blinders The spirit of experimentation that the Examiner set out with in 1981 dried up replaced by an industry-wide allergy to fundamental change Let s use the new technology editors and executives would say but let s not let the technology change our profession or our industry They largely succeeded in resisting change Now it s catching up with them Scott Rosenberg 29 January 2009 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3205 Sun, 17 Feb 2013 17:15:48 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3189 Archaeology is what archaeologists do This answer is not a tautology It refers us to the practices of archaeology And to the conditions under which archaeologists work - the institutions and infrastructures the politics and pragmatics of getting archaeological work done Archaeologists work on what is left of the past Archaeology is about relationships - between past and present between archaeologist and traces and remains Archaeology is a set of mediating practices - working on remains to translate to turn them into something sensible - inventory account narrative explanation whatever Archaeology is a way of acting and thinking - about what is left of the past about the temporality of remainder about material and temporal processes to which people and their goods are subject about the processes of order and entropy of making consuming and discarding at the heart of human experience Archaeological Sensibility and Archaeological Imagination are terms to summarize components of these mediating and transformative practices Sensibility refers us to the perceptual components of how we engage with the remains of the past Imagination refers us to the creative component - to the transforming work that is done on what is left over Michael Shanks http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3189 Sun, 10 Feb 2013 15:23:59 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3116 Binding handcrafted books for me is not merely a way of turning back the clock but a way of addressing contemporary issues both environmental and social as well as aesthetic Michael O Brien Bookbinder A Step Back In Time short documentary about Oamaru s iconoclastic bookbinder Michael O Brien Director Moss Bowering-Scott Research Libby Dallison Executive Producers Richard Bell and Steve Bloxham New Zealand Broadcasting School CPIT Uploaded to YouTube on 16 August 2010 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3116 Wed, 02 Jan 2013 16:56:12 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3099 Landfill Harmonic tells the story of Los Reciclados - The Recycled Orchestra - a youth orchestra in Cateura Paraguay whose instruments are made out of the very trash that the town is built on WHEN FAVIO CHAVEZ AND LUIS SZARAN came to Cateura to start a music school they realized that they had more students than instruments Thanks to the resourcefulness of Cola a Cateurian garbage picker an orchestra came together now featuring violins cellos and other instruments artfully put together from trash Los Reciclados de Cateura now an independent orchestra recently performed in Brazil and Colombia under Chavez s direction Nina Mashurova 12 December 2012 Matador Trailer for Landfill Harmonic The project is being created by Alejandra Nash Founder and Executive Producer Juliana Penaranda-Loftus Producer Rodolfo Madero Executive Producer Jorge Maldonado Co-producer Graham Townsley Director Jennifer Redfearn Consulting producer Tim Fabrizio and Neil Barrett Directors of Photography and Monica Barrios Production Consultant http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3099 Sun, 23 Dec 2012 19:41:52 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3085 Since its start in 1983 the European Union s Common Fisheries Policy CFP has failed to prevent overfishing Over 25 years short-term economic interest and political expediency has landed European fisheries in deep crisis European Marine Programme of the Pew Environment Group http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3085 Thu, 13 Dec 2012 21:47:22 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3024 Sven Birkerts a modern-day Luddite is feeling uneasy about all this rapid cultural change He longs for the slow elegance of print culture So much so in fact that the cover of his new book The Gutenberg Elegies The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age features a fuzzy caramel-colored snapshot of a naturally-lit library which houses the endangered species of digital modernity a leather armchair draped with an afghan droopy lace curtains and shelves of softened leather hard-backs coveting thick yellowed pages and the tidy immutable thoughts of yesterday s literary prophets Birkerts is terrified that his warm dusty paradise is being ransacked and the remaining rubble is merely forgotten or misunderstood in a world distracted by garish pulsing iconography Amanda Griscom 1996 Amanda Scott Griscom 1996 Trends of Anarchy and Hierarchy Comparing the Cultural Repercussions of Print and Digital Media Brown University http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3024 Mon, 12 Nov 2012 17:34:16 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2948 Korea South has recognized design as the future growth engine and has introduced Building a Creative Design Nation as a new government project The Korea Institute of Design Promotion KIDP lies at the center of national design promotion policies KIDP has been putting its best efforts into promoting Korea as a global leader in the design community and as a result has created a global design portal site that will compile design information in an integrated and systematic way Global DesignDB com is an integrated online service system set up to manage the latest design information for designers and others involved in the global design industry It will act as a Design Navigator for anyone interested in design We look forward to your continuous interests and support The Korea Institute of Design Promotion Fig 1 Suzy Sunsook Cho Package Design http suzycho blogspot co uk 2011 04 package-design html http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2948 Mon, 15 Oct 2012 13:48:53 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2925 Here at THE9BILLION you ll find the latest news information and opinion related to living a happier and more sustainable life one day at a time Main categories cover Earth Technology Living Business Politics Culture Entertainment and the Social aspects of life It s estimated that the world s population will reach around 9 billion people by 2050 and then begin to fall We are currently approaching 7 billion Many of us living today will still be around in 2050 The question is given our many social and environmental issues how are 9 billion people going to learn to live sustainably by 2050 John Johnston Fig 1 Greenaid Seedbomb Vending Machine SpontaneousInterventions http www spontaneousinterventions org project greenaid-seedbomb-vending-machine http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2925 Sun, 30 Sep 2012 01:32:05 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2861 Apr egrave s 30 ans doexistence le Minitel soappr ecirc te agrave tirer sa r eacute v eacute rence Les plus jeunes ne verront m ecirc me pas de quoi il est question mais ceux qui eacute taient au coll egrave ge ou au lyc eacute e dans les ann eacute es 90 soen rappelleront peut ecirc tre pour avoir recherch eacute dessus leurs r eacute sultats aux examens du brevet ou du bac Le Minitel ou loanc ecirc tre dointernet Invention 100 fran ccedil aise le 1er r eacute seau dans lohistoire des t eacute l eacute communications agrave permettre la Econnexion de terminaux permettant la visualisation de donn eacute es informatiquesE dispara icirc tra le 30 Juin 2012 et avec lui la machine agrave loorigine du fameux E36-15 amp 8243 D eacute finitivement la fin doune eacute poque After 30 years of existence the Minitel is preparing to take its final bow The youngest will not even see what it is about but those who were in college or high school in the 90s will remember perhaps have looked over their test scores The Minitel or the ancestor of the Internet 100 French invention the first network in the history of telecommunications to allow Eterminal connection to visualization of computer dataE will draw his bow on June 30 2012 and with it the machine behind the famous E36 - 15 E Definitely the end of an era Vincent Laserson 31 May 2012 De Jeunes Gens Modernes http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2861 Thu, 02 Aug 2012 23:14:29 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2836 Design studies like design is a multifarious enterprise A branch of the humanities it comprises a wide range of critical perspectives on the meanings and values embodied in objects and places It examines the forces that design exerts in and on the world - forces design sets in motion but does not control Parsons Masters in Design Studies program places particular emphasis on four points the role of the designer and the design studio in redefining the scope of practice in the 21st century design as an iteration of aesthetic and intellectual histories that continue to inform the present the social political and environmental behaviors and consequences of designing objects places situations and systems today design as the projection of different futures Above all the MA Design Studies program focuses on the development of articulate critical voices that can speak to these issues Students will be prepared to write for the academic context the design community and the larger public realm Working in close proximity to MFA studio programs at Parsons they also have the opportunity to integrate film video and other media into their work Susan Yelavich http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2836 Sat, 21 Jul 2012 18:00:48 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2820 M ecirc me si la publicit eacute commence agrave ecirc tre contest eacute e les anti-pubs les propos sur la suppression de la pub sur les cha icirc nes publiquesa elle reste un excellent m eacute dia de communication surtout si elle est bien int eacute gr eacute e agrave notre environnement urbain En voici la preuve en images avec 70 publicit eacute s agrave la fois dr ocirc les et cr eacute atives Conseils Marketing 6 April 2008 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2820 Sat, 14 Jul 2012 20:44:30 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2792 Internet Archaeology seeks to explore recover archive and showcase the graphic artifacts found within earlier Internet Culture Established in 2009 the chief purpose of Internet Archaeology is to preserve these artifacts and acknowledge their importance in understanding the beginnings and birth of an Internet Culture We focus on graphic artifacts only with the belief that images are most culturally revealing and immediate Most of the files in our archive are in either JPG or GIF format and are categorized by either still or moving image they are then arranged in various thematic subcategories Currently a major focus of Internet Archaeology is on the archiving and indexing of images found on Geocities websites as their existence has been terminated by parent company Yahoo who discontinued GeoCities operation on October 26 2009 Internet Archaeology is an ongoing effort which puts preservation paramount Unlike traditional archaeology where physical artifacts are unearthed Internet Archaeology s artifacts are digital thus more temporal and transient Yet we believe that these artifacts are no less important than say the cave paintings of Lascaux They reveal the origins of a now ubiquitous Internet Culture showing where we have been and how far we have come Internet Archaeology Via Chelsea Nichols http ridiculouslyinteresting wordpress com 2011 11 26 internet-archaeology-the-best-of-90s-internet-graphics http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2792 Sat, 30 Jun 2012 12:22:48 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2791 Terms like Internet caf eacute or cybercaf eacute bring us right back to the 90s along with phrases like web page or digital divide which were invented to describe new hybrids involving analog and digital virtual and real as well as the present and near future It s not that these terms have grown obsolete It s rather that these 20th-century phenomena they once described have outgrown their terminology They were born as metaphors but over time turned into idioms and their analog parts were the first to lose their original meanings People who did not witness the emergence of the web do not fully understand why browser content is still called a page It s has also become unclear what public internet access facilities have in common with caf eacute s yet we continue calling them internet caf eacute s or cybercaf eacute s Olia Lialina 2012-01-10 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2791 Sat, 30 Jun 2012 11:54:50 +1000