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LDN24 — data visualization of a day in the life of London
FIELD, a London-based graphic design studio, has created LDN24, an installation at the Museum of London that “draws filmic impressions and the facts and figures of London life into a picture of 24...
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LeBron pulls the plug on Cleveland
from Live Journal Some may argue that writing about LeBron James’ decision to leave the Cleveland Cavaliers to play for the Miami Heat is stretching the theme of this blog. His decision will...
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“Every Life Has a Story”— Employee Education meets Art meets Responsibility
I’m blown away by this video, reportedly produced by fast food chain Chik-fil-A as an employee education tool. The company wanted to encourage its employees to see customers and co-workers as people...
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Social Media & Social Capital (an applied approach)
As an ethnomusicologist applying my training as a researcher and scholar to work outside of academia, I am looking for ideas of how others are approaching putting humanities and social science research...
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Thinking about Research — Short Takes (4)
(1) Insights often come from (or are repeated by) unlikely sources. This is the case today with a blog post from Dan T. Cathy of fast food chain Chik-A-Flik based on a point made by author Stephen...
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Short takes — The changing face of social media (3)
Image via Wikipedia PING, I-Tunes leap into social networking starts off with a tiny hop: An email sent to iTunes users this morning touted its Ping music social network which “lets you follow your...
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The Art of Agency 3 (Asian Improv aRts @ SF State)
From March 2 through March 5, Asian Improv aRts (AIR) and SF State’s World Music and Dance Program are holding a “collaborative presentation of public dialogue, workshops and performances exploring the...
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One for the archives:”Yoga-Tainment for the BlackBerry Generation” (@ East...
I keep an archive of all my published writings (with a few exceptions — encyclopedia entries for example) but somehow this piece from 2010 got overlooked. Yoga-Tainment for the BlackBerry Generation...
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Short takes: different types of “creative metropoles”
Interesting project winding up in September 2011 looks at the different strategies taken by eleven European cities to develop and support their creative industries. The Creative Metropoles project is...
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Short takes: Derek Silvers “Anything You Want”
I’m a little wary of touting the work of “success gurus” (I can’t help flashing on the Chris Farley SNL motivational speaker character Matt Foley) but I make a few exceptions — Derek Silvers is one of...
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