brilliant rebranding
5 Mar 2010 by celine
NYC centered
5 Mar 2010 by celine
J’aime New York. Cette ville a changée ma vie. Comme toutes les villes dans lesquelles j’ai vécue, ou c’est vrai. Mais chacune est unique. Et chaque expérience est unique aussi. Que d’uniquesse. Un mot qui n’existe pas peut-être. Que sais-je?
NYC centrée blanc sur noir,
S’imprime dans ma mémoire
Tel une image sur pellicule
…
♥
The Ux as the soul of..
4 Mar 2010 by celine
BE EMOTIONALLY MATURE, FIND MANY WORDS TO EXPRESS EMOTIONS, AS A DESIGNER OF EXPERIENCE, WE MUST EXPRESS EMOTIONS.
Taken from
Mike Kruzeniski – Poetry & Polemics in Creating Experience from a keynote at the IxDA Interation 10
Remixing tv material live
3 Mar 2010 by celine
“Watch and remix TV live” came to me in 2007, as I was watching lots of TV on mute and making stories as people would flip the channels. The game involved reacting fast, creative in making up scenarios, and great sense of humor. It made sense too, at the time, to offer people with a sort of easy console, plug and play style, to remix, save and share. Record and remix TV as you are watching it (adaptable to whichever device you are using to watch and remix). Actions involved: distort, voice over, manipulate colors, slow motion/speed up, add your sound track and more. This idea was illustrated and shown at several conferences/talks/pecha kucha. At the Miptv Millia in 08, as a finalist in the category of New iptv concepts for the BBC, BBC loved the idea! They have lots of material in their archives they want people to play with. Copy right issues aside, I think this game saw the light of day with opencinema.org, BBC was not ready for this type of free for all distorting and sharing content.
Plug it onto online TV, traditional TV, and replay all the content you can eat, mash it up, remix, recycle, create new material that other would also remix. As a user experience designer, I have thought of many interfaces to make the process as easy as dialing a phone number. So that regular people with no particular skills in video editing could take control of the content and play with it generating new messages. Make it easy and fun for people to play seamlessly. There is always room for innovation, even if as of today, many tools exist out there to remix content for free, there hasn’t been a specific way to remix live what you’re watching.
Some drawings..
Jean-Michel Basquiat Documentary
2 Mar 2010 by celine
Trailer of the new documentary Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child.
“in 1986 I filmed an interview with my friend Jean-Michel Basquiat. Our mutual friend Becky JOnhnston asked the questions. Jean-Michel was 25 and at the height of his career. Just two years later Jean-Michel died and I took all my footage and put it away in a drawer.”
Directed by Tamra Davis, the documentary features never-before seen footage of the prolific artist painting, talking about his art, and existing in the two years prior to his death in 1988.
The OST features music from Mike D and Ad Rock.
Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child was released on Feb 21st.
Biography
Basquiat was born in Brooklyn, New York to Matilde and Gerard Basquiat.[3] His mother was Puerto Rican and his father is an accountant of Haitian origin. Because of his parents’ nationalities, Basquiat was fluent in French, Spanish, and English before the age of eleven. He read in these languages, including Symbolist poetry, mythology, and history.[4] At an early age, Basquiat displayed an aptitude for art and was encouraged by his mother to draw, paint, and to participate in other art-related activities. In late 1977, when he was seventeen, Basquiat and his friend Al Diaz started spray-painting graffiti art on buildings in lower Manhattan, adding the signature of “SAMO”. The graphics were messages such as “Plush safe he think.. SAMO” and “SAMO as an escape clause”. In December 1978, the Village Voice published an article about the writings.[5] The SAMO project ended with the epitaph “SAMO IS DEAD” written on the walls of SoHo buildings.
Basquiat dropped out of Edward R. Murrow High School in September 1978, at the beginning of his senior year. He decided to leave his home and began living with friends, earning money by selling T-shirts and postcards on Brooklyn streets, and working in the Unique Clothing Warehouse on Broadway Avenue. By 1979, Basquiat had appeared on Glenn O’Brien’s live public-access cable show TV Party. In the late 1970s, Basquiat formed a band called Gray with Shannon Dawson, Michael Holman, Nick Taylor, Wayne Clifford. Gray performed at nightclubs such as Max’s Kansas City, CBGB, Hurrahs, and the Mudd Club. Basquiat worked in a film Downtown 81 which featured some of Gray’s recordings on its soundtrack.[6] He also appeared in Blondie’s video “Rapture” as a club disc jockey.
In June 1980, Basquiat participated in The Times Square Show, a multi-artist exhibition, sponsored by Collaborative Projects Incorporated (Colab) and Fashion Moda. In 1981, Rene Ricard published “The Radiant Child” in Artforum magazine[7] about Basquiat. During the following few years, he continued exhibiting his works around New York as well as internationally (alongside other street artists) now in the galleries, such as Now Gallery, later promoted by Bruno Bischofberger and other gallery owners and dealers. He later showed at the galleries of Larry Gagosian and Mary Boone.
By 1982, Basquiat was showing regularly, and alongside Julian Schnabel, David Salle, Francesco Clemente and Enzo Cucchi, became part of what was called the Neo-expressionist movement. He started dating then-aspiring performer Madonna in autumn 1982. That same year, Basquiat met Andy Warhol, with whom he collaborated in 1984-1986. He was also briefly involved with artist David Bowes. Basquiat worked on his paintings in Armani suits and often appeared in public in these same paint-splattered $1000 suits.[8][9]
By the mid 1980s, his work was often grouped with Barbara Kruger, whose neon works included slogans like “I shop therefore I am”. On February 10, 1985, Basquiat appeared on the cover of The New York Times Magazine in a feature entitled “New Art, New Money: The Marketing of an American Artist”.[10] Phoebe Hoban, in her 1998 biography about the artist, speculates that Warhol’s death was a turning point for Basquiat, and that afterward his drug addiction and depression began to spiral.[8]
Basquiat died of a heroin overdose on August 22, 1988, at the age of 27.[11]
Gods on Facebook
2 Mar 2010 by celine
Forms of prayers
These beliefs may be that
- the finite can communicate with the infinite
- the infinite is interested in communicating with the finite
- prayer is intended to inculcate certain attitudes in the one who prays, rather than to influence the recipient
- prayer is intended to train a person to focus on the recipient through philosophy and intellectual contemplation
- prayer is intended to enable a person to gain a direct experience of the recipient
- prayer is intended to affect the very fabric of reality as we perceive it
- prayer is a catalyst for change in one’s self and/or one’s circumstances, or likewise those of third party beneficiaries
- the recipient desires and appreciates prayer
- or any combination of these.[citation needed]
The act of prayer is attested in written sources as early as 5000 years ago.[14] Some anthropologists, such as Sir Edward Burnett Tylor and Sir James George Frazer, believed that the earliest intelligent modern humans practiced something that we would recognize today as prayer.[15]