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Frack, no more BSG?
As I do when I find a series I like, over the last couple of weeks I binge-watched all 3 seasons of Battlestar Galactica. I did the same with Heroes. In both cases, eventually the tragic day arrives when I’ve caught up with the States. At best, this habit means waiting a week in between…
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MIT5 ahoy
Wonderful to see the tentative program for MIT5: creativity, ownership and collaboration in the digital age has now been posted – it looks jam-packed with very good stuff, actually. Our panel, Produsing Culture (not ‘producing’ as Axel was very, very quick to point out to the organisers!) has been scheduled for 9.00 Saturday morning…not usually…
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normal room
Some everyday cosmopolitanism at a project called normal room. Normal Room shows you interior design and home furniture from all around the globe. Search our image database and explore the differences and similarities in architecture and home decoration between people in different countries. via boing boing.
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Dumpr Museumr: textual poaching in reverse
Museumr is a new 3rd party flickr toy that lets you stick your own photo in a frame at your choice of museum. More museumr photos. It’s weird that I came across this via my Flickr contacts this morning, while writing a proposal for a paper I hope to give at MIT5 on Flickr, social…
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you looked better on MySpace
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Australian Snapshots
I’ve just caught up with the 2006 Australian Snapshots exhibition: The Australian Snapshots initiative began in August 2004, when 150 disposable cameras were sent to Local Radio listeners across regional Australia with a request to photograph sports, leisure and daily activities that connected their communities. The rationale behind using disposable cameras was to create an…
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lost in light
what a cool idea: This is a project about the 8mm film format. But 8mm is dead, you say? On the contrary! Not only is the format alive with innovation by filmmakers around the world, but hours and hours of Super 8 and regular 8mm film exist in attics and basements the world over—as home…
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post-conference highs
Last week was super-intense, what with presenting the paper on Everyday Creativity as Civic Engagement, which I co-authored with Marcus Foth and Helen Klaebe at the Communications Policy and Research Forum in Sydney, then zooming back to Brisbane to get my AoIR paper happening and throwing myself into conference mode for the rest of the…
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spaces of vernacular creativity
It seems the concept of vernacular creativity has legs that carry it into various disciplinary territories. Interestingly, this Call for Papers for a panel at the American Association of Geographers conference in San Francisco next year uses it in almost exactly the same way as I do. Every day that passes, there’s more stuff to…
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Snap-Shot-City
Interesting looking creative/locative/game project: Snap-Shot-City – A world wide urban photographic treasure hunt – Anyone, anywhere in the world, can play! Snap-Shot-City is an opportunity to participate in the global community by really experiencing the place where you live, with the people you share it with. Become an artist for a day and interpret a…