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Archive for September, 2008


Cinema Nosso

Sep 2008
23
Cinema Nosso is a media arts-based organization in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, that uses film and video as a means of education, empowerment and cultural expression from diverse perspectives. Pip and I will be working with them early next year. Rio, here we come!!

Patrick Dougherty

Sep 2008
23
Dougherty's works allude to nests, cocoons, hives, and lairs built by animals, as well as the manmade forms of huts, haystacks, and baskets, created by interweaving branches and twigs together. Many of his works look 'found' rather than made, as if they were created by the natural force of a tornado sweeping across the landscape. He intentionally tries for this effortless effect, as if his creations just fell or grew up naturally in their settings.

Creative Media Partnerships

Sep 2008
17
Creative Media Partnerships is based in the heart of Belfast's Cathedral Quarter. They are funded by Peace II and the Cross Border Consortium to deliver a two year multimedia arts access project to community groups and schools in Northern Ireland and the border counties of the Republic of Ireland.

MediaFuturist

Sep 2008
15
Nokia's explanation of the 4 screens: Theatre, TV, Computer, Mobile

news // current

Sep 2008
15
you make the news - they put it on television

Is Obama a Mac and Clinton a PC?

Sep 2008
15
On one thing, the experts seem to agree. The differences between hillaryclinton.com and barackobama.com can be summed up this way: Barack Obama is a Mac, and Hillary Clinton is a PC. Entertaining article from the New York Times.

Cynthia E. Smith’s

Sep 2008
08
Cynthia E. Smith is the curator of Design for the Other 90% and manages travel exhibitions at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. Here is her design blog.

TheElders.org

Sep 2008
08
The Elders are a group of high profile individuals who have had much experience in seeking solutions to human rights abuses. People such as Mary Robinson, Aung San Sunn Kyi...

Billboards of US soldiers cancelled

Sep 2008
03
A series of portraits of American soldiers set to adorn roadside billboards in Minneapolis, site of next week's Republican convention, was abruptly cancelled by the billboards' owners, which feared they would be deemed disrespectful to the US military reports the Guardian.

MobileActive08, Johannesburg

Sep 2008
01
The three-day event will convene key stakeholders interested in the use and application of mobile technology in support of social action. Participants will include NGO/nonprofit practitioners using mobile phones in innovative and creative ways; mobile technologists; researchers studying the use of mobile phones; government officials; donors, and representatives from the telecommunications industry.

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