Norman McLaren’s 1952 animation ‘Neighbours’ (Voisins) won the Academy Award for best short documentary – despite its violence and crude animation. He intended it as a statement against war and violence, although the entire film could not be shown whole until anti-Vietnam War sentiment created an atmosphere where it could be shown as above. Interestingly, […]
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With the growing interest in eating local and community-supported agriculture there is a real demand for enabling technology to let small producers and community markets advertise their ever-changing menu. Otoyk (Kyoto backwards) is the newest entry in this field; it allows users to submit links to community farms and markets, and visitors can find directions […]
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disco doodles
Jay Silver is a master at technology for touching – his latest product (soon to be sold by adafruit industries) is Drawdio, a tool for making music with your drawings. He takes advantage of the conductivity of pencil lead to make a musical circuit simply by drawing. But to close the circuit you have to […]
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construction costs
Gavin Lee‘s workshop group at Nightmarket ’08 produced a Flash game highlighting the social costs of destruction. Using a Wii remote, users can drive a bulldozer through a landscape, knocking down trees and houses amid satisfying sounds of demolition. After the frenzied destruction, you are awarded points based on the number of displaced people and […]
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black tin 2
Tin Mining In Bangka Island – Click here for this week’s top video clips I’ve talked about the devastation that illegal tin mining has wrought on the island of Bangka (Indonesia), and while preparing my talk for the Nightmarket 2008 workshop I came across this video which gives us a glimpse into the squalid conditions […]
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generating buzz
I recently saw a presentation by Jonah Peretti on his career as an “viral marketing hotdog” (to quote the New York Times). Apparently I’ve had my head buried in sand for the past few years, because he’s made a name for himself as someone who knows how to get notorious and I had never heard […]
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carving cartoons
CraftVillageUK is a web portal for a community of soapstone carvers in Kenya designed to allow them to sell their intricate carvings directly to consumers worldwide. According to their website, the carvers earn four times as much per sculpture by selling through the web, and their earnings represent a significant increase in quality of life. […]
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black tin
Glory is at it again with this amazing report on how tin metal is largely mined and exported against the law. Since the 18th Century tin has been mined and exported from the Indonesian island of Bangka, named after the word “wangka” meaning “tin.” Mining expanded until the 1990s when it was banned by the […]
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