Wired on pop culture

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Wired on pop culture

Here’s one for your arty piercing freaks: Matt Kenyon, AUT Colab resident, walks around supermarkets scanning bar codes with a mouth-mounted camera and wires sticking out of his cheek. On Idealog TV, he shows Deirdre Robert a swag of his latest installations. Love the robot that’s programmed to drink Coke until it self-destructs.

Covered, the movie

Peter Belanger uses time-lapse photography to show us what’s involved in making a cover for Macworld magazine. Much more than you’d think.

Chalk it up

Onto a robot with a feel-good agenda. In support of the Lance Armstrong Foundation to raise awareness and funds to fight cancer, Nike’s Livestrong campaign features the innovative Chalkbot that writes supportive messages submitted online on the Tour de France routes—and sends back an email with GPS coordinates of the location of the chalked message.(Via BitRebels)

It’s kicked off

Semi-Permanent Auckland 09, of course. As this newsletter hits your inbox, we’re at the Aotea Centre with a video camera at the country’s foremost design meet, getting inspiration from creative folk from the global design community.

Keep an eye on our website over the weekend for up-to-date feeds.

Business as unusual

O’BREDIM isn’t an Irish patronym but a mnemonic that we may hear more often in the future, as we look for ways to deal with a depleted planet.

Celsias editor Chris Tobias asks the not-so-small questions on how our business models will evolve in a future marked by uncertainty and climate change, and hits on an unexpected answer, permaculture.

Read what Chris has to say about planning for the unknowable (Wittgenstein would not approve of such thinking) including the 12 Principles of Permaculture on our website.

Wordcamping

Idealog spent last weekend at WordCamp in Wellington, an extraordinary event dedicated to the blog platform that grew into a content management system, WordPress.

We had fun, learnt a lot, and got the inveterate networker Ben Kepes to blog about it. Ben noted what Philip Fierlinger (Xero) had to say on corporate blogging, Doug Casement (Renaissance) on building relationships and pitching to traditional media, Steven Price (Media Law Journal) on how to not get sued to smithereens as a blogger plus Chris Lipscombe (GroundZero) on that all-important thing, being in business.

Tiki Turner

Wanganui-born Dennis K Turner started drawing the tiki in early childhood and never stopped. Now you can see Turner’s tiki at the John Leech Gallery, corner Kitchener and Wellesley Streets, Auckland, between August 18 and September 11.

The exhibition features Turner’s watercolours on paper, and at his request, half of funds generated from the sale of these works will go into a fund that will be used to purchase art for the Auckland Art Gallery collection.

Wibbling

That’s a great name for this effect that shows up when you shoot string instruments with a camera that has a high shutter speed. Consider it coined. Anyone seen a music video featuring it yet?

When life’s a lemon

Apparently over 70,000 AdLand people in the US have lost their jobs in this recession. Lemonade is the movie about people who were once paid to be creative in advertising but are now forced to be creative with their own lives.

Quote of the week

“Some press myths to ignore: That influencing the press takes lunch, trips or tacky giveaways.”

—Renaissance Marketing man and former journo Doug Casement might need a bigger budget for dealing with the media.

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  Juha Saarinen
  Ideologue, Weekly