Tag: art

Boys and girls, can you see which way Twitter went?

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Nothing says Christmas (in the UK at least) than a pantomime. And nothing says innovating online than successfully holding an online pantomime as a piece of performance art. How about a pantomime on Twitter I hear you say- …traditional wait as you all shout ‘how about a pantomime on Twitter?’ at me… Been there, done that, it was cutting edge in 2008. Jon Bounds recalls the bleeding edge of comedy 2.0:  Looking back at the first Twitpanto, which was organised haphazardly and quickly. It stands out for me that it had no commercial or charitable goal. It was purely for

Apparently I am a Freesoul…

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Last year I was contacted by Joi Ito, asking for permission to use one of his pictures of myself in a photo gallery book he was putting together. The book was Freesouls and the aim was: …to put together a photography book which is about all of the inspirational moments and inspirational people from the last year. I have been lucky to be able to capture many of those moments in my photography and I am hoping that a book will be a good way to provide context for and share those moments with a wider audience of people. Here’s

Stanley Kubrick describing Twitter

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Sometimes a passage in a book stands out at me, even though I’ve read it many times before. This, from today, is a classic example of just that: “I don’t think the verb “twittering” seems right. We must decide how these fellows talk.” Stanley Kubrick pp48, The Lost Worlds of 2001, Arthur C Clarke. So what did Kubrick know that we didn’t? And have we got ourselves a “Mineshaft Gap 2.0” between the tweets and the, ehrm, tweezers?