To continue my 'study' into better application and utilization of new media, the internet, through online marketing, social networking and other various forms of communication in this rapidly changing and competitive arena, I have decided to move 'house' in a sense.
It's still in the works, but by moving to my own personal website, I hope to integrate multiply entries, anonymous blog entries in my various blogspot/wordpress/lj sites out there, whether past or present, into one kick-ass location.
The key word here is 'attempt'. Unlike the previous 'attempts' at blogging, my site will continue to be personal and yet professional, in the sense that I will be 'attempting' to apply what I have learned in my years of using the web as well as some of the things that I picked up on the past few weeks reading about the power of social networks' presence in what is the new media.
Print is struggling, to some people dying even. More and more people are turning towards the web for their daily dose of information and while I don't think that web can ever fully replace the feeling of reading something you hold in your hands, I believe that it is foolish to say that the internet won't change the way we communicate. It already has.
But I feel we are just on the cusp of what we can do with the Internet, there is still so much more to it. With this website, I hope to 'attempt' to try to understand better and tap some more of that potential.
And just because having your own site is oh so cool.
The installation works on both auditory and visual senses. There like a certain calmness in the installation, like a feeling of being lost but in a good way. I don't know why but recently I've been very attracted to these types of works. Artworks with a more 3-D feel, like real but totally unreal, if that makes sense.
Here's the description for DesignBoom how the installation works and check out the videos below afterwards:
On a grid of equilateral triangles, Takram designers hung a total of 280 glass wind chimes from the ceiling at varying heights to represent the undulation of a wave. when you walk underneath the wind chime, not only does it ring, but its LED also alights like a firefly. the wind chimes nearer to the ceiling ring in higher tones, and those hung lower in lower tones together offering 10 degrees of tonal expression. and it feels as though you are walking inside a large interactive instrument. additionally, the wind chimes are networked together, so that the sound and light spreads to adjacent wind chimes like ripples in the water. this network system was based on the idea of 'behavior' we observe among certain animals in nature that form groups.
What initially looks like a simple skate video is actually much, much more. Wait for it... wait for it... wait for it... EPIC! And if you think it's just special effects? Check out the reactions of the skaters!
Check out this cool installation by sculptor and painter Stacee Kalmanovsky. The installation was built to look like time stopped and the rain was frozen midway through its descent. Cool stuff!
For the past 2 or so months, Jose Parla has been in Bizen City, located in Japan, working on expanding his work from canvas into a new medium, Bizen Yaki.
Bizen ware is a type of Japanese pottery most identifiable by its ironlike hardness, reddish brown color, absence of glaze, and markings resulting from wood-burning kiln firing.
During the Edo Period, six families were chosen and supported by the Ikeda Clan of Bizen. The Kimura Family is one of those families. Ichiyou Kimura is the second son of Choujurou Yukei Kimura, 13th generation ceramist in the Kimura Tradition. The six families are the Mori, Kaneshige, Kimura, Ohan, Hayami, and Terami -- it is interesting to note that the first three are still potting families.
I find it interesting to see that even an artist such as Parla, who has such a distinct style is still trying to push himself into new horizons. The picture below shows how awesome and detailed his work is. While we think that his hand style might be done freestyle, there is actual words and phrases integrated into his artwork and the picture below confirms it as the is able to transfer his work from paper to Bizen with detailed accuracy.
Designed by M Moser Associates, Ogilvy & Mather moved to their new offices last 2008. A workplace that highlights fun and excitement with the use of the carnival theme, aka "Carnival Of Ideas".
The design was taken from the theme park environment where there are lots of spaces freely flow into each other. The new office is located at the art and culture hub which is a bit farther away from the business district, where the old office was located. Ogilvy Shanghai & Southern China COO Michael Lee says that the employees didn't mind the longer commute to the new office because the new working environment is so much fun.
I thought that having an office like this would be awesome! I love the idea of big open spaces for office design, also the feeling that the office is more than just an office but a part of one's lifestyle. As much as a lot of people hate their office or work, we can't deny that it's part of one's lifestyle as we spend a big chunk of our lives in the office. The last line may be interpreted as a sad way to look at it or if you have a cool office space which stimulates your life, then it could be a positive thing as well. This is the new extension of the phrase, "Work Life Balance". More pictures below:
