… also her damit, für ein Magazin, dessen nächste Ausgabe zum Thema Macht* mit einem coolen Video von Graw Böckler beworben wird. Kunst ist schön, macht aber viel Arbeit” … dabei sollen die Macher zumindest nicht drauf zahlen. Also, bitte, unterstützt die Leute von 39null, damit sie so schön weiter machen können. Auf zur Crowd-Funding Kampagne!

* mit dabei: Eine Anleitung zu Selbstverteidigung gegen die Macht von Images und Brands.

“Die Süddeutsche wird ja immer besser: Jetzt koordinieren sie bereits Titelbild mit Werbebeilage auf erfrischend subtile Art und Weise.” schreibt Frank Hutter heute Frueh via Email.

Das erinnert mich an eine alte Arbeit von simonex, die collection esthetique (Web’Kunst anno 1999), die auch Aehnlichgkeiten von Bildern aus Kriegsdarstellungen und Mode sichtbar macht.

Intelligent pattern recognition connects images of people and brands with users in the “social web”. Imagine this combined with frictionless sharing of daily life – the Inter-Face between online and offline Identity.

image by ditto

Though the system doesn’t necessarily identify individuals in their corporeal form, it can pinpoint the top influencers on a given social network and give their online identities to companies looking to partner with their biggest fans in promotional campaigns. […]
… users are being sold off to the highest bidder, without any kind of tangible return.
Founded in 2007, Tumblr has long been a sanctum for misfit millennials meticulously crafting identities for themselves by posting and sharing images. Surely it was only a matter of time until the site figured out a way to monetize its sizable cultural cachet, but for a platform that prides itself on facilitating self-expression and a degree of anonymity, it’s an unsettling move at the very least.

thanks Matteo for the link

“These Cycling Desks Charge Your Phone–And Your Muscles–While You Work” is the title of the article on fastco about an installation that reminds me  of “Fifteen Million Merits”, the 2nd episode of Black Mirror, where inhabitants pedal all day in front of screens to power their casting show world.

This might not be exactly the intentions of the designer at WeWatt. It seems they made a piece of critical design without intention.

… then this video is a interesting mirror = the Mad Max of privacy. Hope we find other ways to get back privacy and other civil rights.

Thank you Matteo for link and observation!

or at least intelligently: Talks, Debates and Action at the degrowth conference 2014 in Leipzig.

The focus of the 2014 conference is on concrete steps towards a society beyond the imperative of growth. The conference will give room for scientific debates, exchange between activists and economic pioneers as well as artistic approaches to the subject. Both scientific insights and concrete projects and policies will be presented, experimented with and discussed. It is part of an international cycle of events: so far, there have been conferences on degrowth in Paris 2008, in Barcelona 2010 and in Venice and Montreal 2012.

… a growth-based economic and social system cannot have a future … read more.

The program is rich and covers many dimensions of the complex topic with several facets. The schedule on the web site gains access to the intertwingled papers and events of divers formats = a nice hypertext with a not-so-nice user interface and visual presentation.

via designdesaster

A concise Joseph J. Atick discourse on the power and risk brought by the combination of face recognition, the ubiquity of point-and-shot camera (mobile phones), the availability of identified faces on the web together with public information on everybody:

Atick must know, he “had co-founded one of the original facial recognition companies, Visionics Corporation. Over the years, Dr. Atick co-founded and managed several companies focused on technology transfer and development, and has served as a technical advisor to many high-tech enterprises and organizations, including NATO” says his profile on forbes.

Für eingefleischte Vegetarier nicht neues – gutes Futter, um sich bei Fleischfreunden beliebt zu machen:

DER FLEISCHATLAS 

Daten und Fakten über Tiere als Nahrungsmittel der Monde Diplomatique zum download als PDF.

… the late-capitalist digital death, a media event so intoxicating that even people who are not technically “celebrated” are seconded from their death scenes, to the benefit of nothing.

interesting article about the (social) media echo on the death of Peaches Geldof (the guardian).

den 3 Grundsätzen vom Unternehmer Heini Staudinger (GEA) ist nichts hinzuzufügen, außer vielleicht eine Übersetzung für unsere norddeutschen Freunde ;)

1. Geh, scheiss di ned oa (“Fürchte Dich nicht” würde Jesus sagen ;)

2. Bitte sei ned so deppert (“Sei nicht Naiv, sondern probiere alles gut abzuwägen”)

3. Lass di leitn von da Liebe (“Let Love Rule”)

und ganz nebenbei sagt der Heini ein paar Schlaue Sachen über Branding und Werbung.