Conserving Donald Judd at the Philip Johnson Glass House
The Glass House Grounds
To describe the Philip Johnson Glass House as merely that—a glass house—is more than an understatement. As the hub of the 47-acre grounds, the house encompasses much more than simply the minimalist, one room, glass-and-steel structure for which the site is named. The use of glass as a material underscores this broad acceptance of all that surrounds it, simultaneously revealing the interior to the outside (and
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fan strategies
12 Jan, 2012 • posts i've written • 4 comments
As a passionate fan of numerous media titles, I’m fascinated by how digital technologies have enabled fans to work collectively to express their passions and, when called on, to attempt rescuing those titles from oblivion.
It’s led me to write extensively on this blog about fandom and modern fan movements – and to dabble in fanon works myself. I’m also proud to be a Futures of Entertainment Fellow, as well.
For this year’s conference I pitched the idea of building an online community dedicated to collecting past fan attempts to save or resurrect their favorite shows, and to host interviews with major network executives to discuss these movements from the perspective of someone attempting to balance a complex portfolio of titles and advertisers. Unfortunately (and fortunately) there was an embarrassment of riches when it came to other panel ideas and diverse speakers. So this idea was never realized.
Today, io9 published a short list of such successful fan movements.
I still think future fans could use a centralized resource to advise or inform their decentralized movements. I think having execs from major networks take part in a site like this would help humanize the often contentious movements. Someone like Craig Engler from SyFy Networks is a perfect example of one such exec. Sabrina Caluori at HBO is another.
I know a handful of brilliant media scholars that could help moderate interviews and discussions, people like Flourish Klink, Sam Ford, Nancy Baym, or Josh Green.
Additionally, in my past consulting for a trio of media companies, I explored listening strategies that could help these organizations vet scripts and pilots of new titles based on fandom behavior. This sort of predictive analysis would make such a site a valuable place for media companies to participate as well.
For now, I’m just releasing this idea into the wild for anyone to potentially run away with. To me, an idea shared and realized always beats an idea hoarded. I’d love to hear your feedback if you have any.
By the by, SaveMyShow.tv is currently available. Just a thought.
liveintheyes:Gandhi’s 10 Fundamentals for Changing the World…
Gandhi’s 10 Fundamentals for Changing the World (or just Your World…)
We actually googled this to see if it was really a Gandhi list and not on Gohndy list etc. – and it is legit.
Smells Like Entrepreneurial Spirit: Kickstart Foundry’s "Olly"
The Interaction gurus at the Foundry research group of London’s Mint Digital are pleased to announce that their brainchild—or nosechild, as it were—”Olly” is now available through a Kickstarter campaign.
We made a big stink (and yes, a lot of puns) about it last fall, when they first unveiled the device, which is programmed to emit a scent as a cue for a web notification. The
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roundup: 2012 predictions, adaptive businesses, and candy corn
11 Jan, 2012 • posts i've written • No comments
I write these roundups as emails for my company from time to time, and I thought I’d share one with you. Let me know if you’d want to see these on a more regular basis.
Welcome to 2012. We now have jet-packs, augmented reality contact lenses, and time cloaking, though sadly still no hoverboards. Still, the future is pretty awesome. And you might as well be hopeful, only neutrinos (maybe) get to move backward in time, the rest of us are stuck moving forward.
First off, I thought I’d wrangle together the usual suspects of 2012 predictions and 2011 best-of’s for your perusal.
- Seems appropriately meta to start the list with a list of lists of expert predictions
- JWT’s 100 Things to Watch in 2012
- Frog’s 2012 Tech Trend Predictions
- AdAge guesses what social media will look like in 2012
- 30 Social Media Predictions
- Time’s 50 Best Websites of 2011
- The Top 21 Albums of 2011, culled from 120 top 10 lists
In other news, if you want to get a whiff of what happens when you combine business intelligence with real-time adaptation (where all businesses are headed), Wired’s exploration of Zynga and its competitor, Wooga, is a must read.
College Humor used to say that one of the easiest ways to make content that people share is to put candy corn in it. Not the actual treat – something mildly nostalgic and curious. The Restart Page is a great example of nerd candy corn.
A 20-hour work week could save the global economy. It would be extremely difficult, but I think I could sacrifice some of my time in the office for the good of the world. Just sayin’.
Go forth, and be awesome.
Legalize It of the Day
Legalize It of the Day: A 20-year, federally funded study conducted jointly by researchers at UCSF and UAB found that smoking marijuana once a week, or even once a day in some instances, did no long-term damage to the lungs.
The study, published today in the the Journal of the American Medical Association, tracked 5,000 individuals across 20 years, and compared their usage of marijuana and tobacco to their health stats.
Cigarette
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swissted
swissted is an ongoing project by NYC based graphic designer Mike Joyce. Drawing from his love of punk rock and Swiss modernism, two movements that have absolutely nothing to do with one another, Mike has redesigned vintage punk, hardcore, and indie rock show flyers into international typographic style posters. Each poster is sized to the standard Swiss kiosk dimensions of 35.5 inches wide by 50 inches high and set in Berthold Akzidenz Grotesk
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