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March 7, 2012

1. Dada or just a Red Ball.

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Feb 15, 2012

1. Interactive art or pure kitsch. Hold your judgement till the second half. Van Gogh’s Starry Night– A short video by Petros Vrellis.

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Feb 1, 2012

1. I kid you not. Prototyped by MIT’s Media Lab, the folding electric car is headed for production in Spain in 2013.

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1. Out Sourcing to Crowd Sourcing.  FoldIt and Kaggle and OpenIdeo. R&D just got crowd sourced to gamers and data miners and regular folks like you. Don’t be shy, join a team !

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PRATAAPs PREDICTIONs

THE WAY OF THE DODO.  EXTINCT IN 2012 ?

Jan 30, 2012

1. RIM:  Few can remain king for long in today’s world of musical chairs. Watch out Google, Facebook, and Apple.
2. American Apparel:  Remember Gap in the 1980s? Lose the clarity of your image in the market place and you are toast.
3. T-Mobile: Age of the Goliaths. It’s all about market share and customer service.
4. Tivo: When you can stream everything on to your laptop and handheld, and upload everything to the cloud why Tivo ?
5. Kodak: Digital cameras, then smart phones.  But watch for a reinvention of Kodak around nostalgia. If Vinyl is now re-cool so can Kodachrome.
6. American Airlines: The fickle industry. One minute it’s all about the small and nimble Jet Blues and next it’s the remerger of the fittest.  AA + US Air = American  Air ?

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Dec 31,2011

1. Never heard of BBDO or Daniele Guido ?  Hands down the best print ad campaign of 2011 !!

Sometimes the best things are still handmade.

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12. 20.11 Movie Time

MINDLESS FUN

1. Mission Impossible: The Ghost Protocol

Tom Cruise doing his own stunts dangling from the Bhurj Khalifa in Dubai, BMW concept car racing through the alleys of Mumbai, Kremlin getting blown up, nuclear missile headed to SF, who needs a plot !

3D MAX

1. Adventures of Tintin.

Pronounced Taintain for the non Tintinologists.   A Belgian comic series by Herge (aka Georges Remi). Close on the heals of Scorses’s Hugo, Spielberg’s foray into 3D.   

SUBLIME

1. Pina.

A documentary without plot, narrative or chronological structure.  Also in 3D,  the Tranztheater Wuppertal of Germany by Win Wenders. Is it dance, theater or a film ?

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11:26:11

Crowd sourcing took a new turn….with you behind the wheel.

1. Wonder how the google maps can tell you which roads have traffic backed up and which ones are green ? They don’t. You did . And you and you all together do.

2. Shepard Fairey and Banksy seem so yesterday. JR wins the 2011 TED Prize. Graffiti art just got out sourced and went sureal in scale. Check out 11:46 and 18:04 if you really are on the run.

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Nov 21, 2011 A One Of Friday Nite at the Home Movies 

The first 1:34:57 length crowd sourced film. Life In A Day.  Edited from 5,000 hours of film from 192 countries.  Produced by YouTube, National Geographic and Ridley Scott ! 

From the sublime to profound to the rediculous….bring the popcorn and beer. Its fun!

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11.01.11

2011:  Pay phones died a natural death but Pay by Smartphones just become more real.  Zong, Facecash, OboPay, Square.  Pick your poison.

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