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I spotted this in NYC yesterday.

The Whitney Museum engaging in some creative use of media to promote its Bucky Fuller exhibit.

Using a vacant store 50 yards from the museum, they put up a relevant quote.

Makes you think a little and work to connect the dots.

Is the store part of the museum exhibit or is it an ad?



Posted by Ed Cotton This American Life, the NPR series has made a move into the world of TV with a series on Showtime.

Here's a clip of a story with art by Chris Ware, which is fantastic. It's a great piece that shows how memory plays tricks with us and how two people's version of an event can be radically different. In a way, it explains the problem with real versus reported data.


Posted by Ed Cotton Has Banksy taken over from the  "Master of Light" Thomas Kinkade , as the number one artist in the world? Interesting film showing 1 hour in the life of one of his pieces.
(Via Wooster Collective).




Posted by Ed Cotton creativity + assignment + crowds + prizes = published work (37.76589748519095 , -122.44998693466187) Pixish is a new site from the mind of Derek Powazek that's all about helping creative people get their work published.

The role of the site is to help "clients" connect to a creative community and source the precise images they are looking for.



It's an alternative to the time consuming and expensive process of working with artists and the challenge of using a micro-stock agency.

Pixish also incorporates a voting feature that gets the community to vote on the images that best fit the assignment. The reward for artists is the opportunity to get their work published and there are also some prizes up for grabs.

Clearly this idea flies in the face of the established creative process and its unlikely that professionals are going to want any part of this.

The idea here is to level the playing field and let amateurs and young artists have a shot at the big time and build their portfolios. There are thousands of people out there willing to do this and its likely that the quality of their work is pretty good.

It's another example of the combination of the internet and the crowd weakening the power of the expert. We are just going to see more and more of this in the coming months and years.


Posted by Ed Cotton The visualization of data is fast becoming the next art form.

This is a nice example that comes from JK Keller



Here's how he creates the visuals.

"This is a program I wrote that reads a source text and looks for words that are used repeatedly. The more the word is used, the larger its cube gets. Red cubes are words that are not unique, blue cubes are. The size of the rings is determined by the size of the paragraphs."

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Posted by Ed Cotton Everyone is saying There Might Be Blood is a great movie, but it's particularly important if you are trying to understand America, like most of us are on a daily basis.

It does a great job focusing in on the seductive powers of capitalism and religion and isolating them as the twin forces that help shape the country.

Interestingly, the movie's conclusion, is that in the end, there's very little to choose between them, they are identical twins.

Here's the first spoken scene where Daniel Planview's (Daniel Day Lewis) evolved character is introduced to us.




Posted by Ed Cotton