December 2nd, 2007 · Comments Off
Da Vinci’s Laaste Avondmaal in detail.
New York Times, Masterpiece Home Theater:
““Water Lilies” is the second-most-popular cellphone wallpaper sold by Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, which opened a new digital-images shop in September. This service is only the latest future-shock innovation at the museum, a civilized institution that has nonetheless adopted what one tech reporter scarily described as a policy of “aggressive digital-capture.” Having taken high-resolution photos of 350,000 works in its collection, and having magnanimously made almost all of them all searchable on its Web site, the M.F.A. now has one of the biggest image databases of any art museum in the world.”
Museum of Fine Arts Mobile
Tags: art,marketing
October 19th, 2007 · Comments Off
Improv Everywhere (We Cause Scenes): No Shirts
“For our latest mission, 111 men of all shapes and sizes shopped shirtless in the Abercrombie and Fitch store on 5th Avenue here in New York.”
Tags: abercrombie and fitch,advertising,improv everywhere,marketing
April 16th, 2007 · Comments Off
Times: “Britain’s high-street shops have been flattering the vanity of their customers by understating the true sizes of their trousers on the label by an average of 3in.”
Tags: fashion,fcuk,gap,health,hennes and mauritz,jeans,marketing,vanity sizing,waist,zara
April 7th, 2007 · Comments Off
Het boek No one belongs here more than you. Stories by Miranda July. gaat vergezeld van een bijzonder creative en charmante website. (Via svn.)
Tags: design,literature,marketing,miranda july,storytelling,webdesign
September 18th, 2006 · Comments Off
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“Below is an A-Z of retail tricks that we have compiled to empower you before you go out shopping, so that you can buy what you need and collapse our economy! More will be added as we root them out.”
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“how likely are you, statistically speaking, to die from a terrorist attack?”
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“HandBrake is a GPL’d multiplatform, multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 ripper/converter.”
Tags: architecture,marketing,os x,shopping,terrorism,video
March 22nd, 2006 · Comments Off
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“”What went wrong with Friendster? Why is MySpace any different?”"
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“New legislation in France would force Apple Computer to open the iPod and iTunes to competitors — and that’s a good thing for consumers, in the long run.”
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“Apple, whose Macintosh design team once famously flew the pirate flag above its Silicon Valley hideout, immediately branded France’s move “state-sponsored piracy.”"
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“Laura visits Linden Labs, the folks behind Second Life, and learns about this new virtual world.”
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“(…) That leaves Why we built it, How we built it, and what Lessons you might want take away from the experience.”
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“Waar moet een omroep die toekomstbestendig wil zijn rekening mee houden? De ontwikkelingen op rij. Afvinken maar! Klaar voor de strijd? “
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“Getting Real details the business, design, programming, and marketing principles of 37signals. The book is packed with keep-it-simple insights, contrarian points of view, and unconventional approaches to software design. “
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“They (blogs - hvi) are threatening because they unequivocally demonstrate that commercial publishing does not necessarily represent the best writing that is available.”
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“As many people know, today’s Internet has its roots in the huge silk and cotton mills which grew up in the 19th century during the Industrial Revolution.”
Tags: apple,business,danah boyd,design,drm,france,friendster,internet,itunes,linden labs,marketing,media,myspace,nl,publishing,second life,signal versus noise,social networks,vpro
