Reckons
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Safe to say I’m the other side of that infrastructure phase of the last couple of years. Constant exposure to shipping containers and train cars and blah blah blah… they’re all just objects. Shunt’s The Boy Who Climbed Out Of His Own Face put the nail in the coffin. Set on a collection of shipping…
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I remember, at Improving Reality last year, Russell remarking that the important thing about Timo, Jørn and Einar is that their approach isn’t ‘Aren’t these new technologies and infrastructures scary?’ but ‘Aren’t these new technologies and infrastructures full of possibility?’ It makes for good, compelling work from lovely, smart people. The Scandos have released a…
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Frames for where ads are supposed to be. I keep noticing these in stations beyond zone 3, or on platforms that aren’t quite London and aren’t quite the place you’re getting to. It’s quite nice.
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On one level, subsuming “advertising” into “solving our clients’ business problems” is all fine and well – but agencies would do well to remember that often, their clients are asking them to solve their business problems *in the context of advertising*. And even though it may well be ill-defined these days with less of a…
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A couple of months ago I made a few short videos. Two made it to Vimeo – I thought I’d uploaded a third, but it was all kinds of corrupted – and I sort of forgot about them. They’re sketches of something I wanted to build; a script that would pull a given friend’s social…
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Just typed this in an email and I’m popping it here so I don’t forget it… Talkwriting is a different discipline than speechwriting (possibly). You’re using a handful of words and pictures to create a space into which someone can be themselves at an audience. I’m learning that that’s a much more precise skill than…
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Last Friday I talked at The Design of Understanding about comics, specifically two futures for the medium that I’ve been processing for the last year or so. It seemed to go down pretty well, so I thought I’d put the gist of it here and link to a bunch of the things I referenced so…
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The satellite lamps show the behaviour of the GPS network. Each lamp shows how certain the network is of its position by changing the brightness; the brighter the lamp the more certain the position. That means interacting with a system of 32 satellites orbiting just under 16,000 miles above our heads. In my understanding of…
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“I went to the Mass Observation exhibition.” “Was the copywriting better than the photography?” “Y… yeah, actually. How did you guess?” This Is Your Photo is fine. It’s a neat overview of MO, leaning heavily on the Observation aspect. Much is made of the hidden camera and the sneaky shot. But it falls terribly short…
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Listening to Fence Collective‘s collection Fence Reunited this evening. It’s been a long while since it’s been on, and it’s reminding me heavily of the early days of WAW+P. Like a bunch of young indie folk, I got into Fence right about the time King Creosote signed to Warner subsidiary 679. This means I got…
Matthew Sheret 