Saskia Wilson-Brown

July 26, 2009 • 4:31 pm 0

Fluffy Kittens With Mascara in Their Eyes

In my internal debate over whether or not it was worth it to further pollute Los Angeles by driving 5 miles out of my way to buy the one brand of mascara that didn’t cause monkeys to get their eyeballs gouged out, I reached the conclusion that the only way to GUARANTEE that one is acting with ecological responsibility is – sadly – to off oneself.

In the absence of any desire for suicide, I’m going to start planting trees, and maybe show my support to Fritz Haeg’s Edible Estates.

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July 25, 2009 • 2:16 am 0

The mating calls of the uninspired…

Go spill your white wine and your girl power elsewhere.

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July 20, 2009 • 4:13 pm 0

New from Carluccio: ‘Cease & Desist’

From super-talented New York filmmaker John Carluccio comes a new 17 minute short doc about branding, addiction, sneaker culture and legal infringement. All “explored when artist/designer Ari Saal Forman mashers up the lively Newport cigarette brand into a cool Nike-like sneaker.”

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July 17, 2009 • 3:48 pm 0

GO: DIY Days Philly on August 1

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DIY DAYS A ROVING CONFERENCE FOR THOSE WHO CREATE COMES TO PHILADELPHIA: A FREE DAY OF SPEAKERS & NETWORKING.

The WorkBook Project and PIFVA present DIY DAYS Philadelphia on Saturday August 1st  at UArts on the 17th floor of the Terra Building.  DIY DAYS is a FREE day of talks and networking centered on how to fund, create, distribute and sustain from your creative work. After a successful first year that included stops in LA, San Francisco, Boston, NYC and London, DIY DAYS returns with a series of day long conferences for creatives that enable the sharing of work and ideas while providing an important networking outlet with industry innovators.

Many of those working in film, music, design, gaming and tech are wondering how to sustain themselves in challenging economic times. How does one monetize their creative work and get the word out? DIY DAYS aims to answer these questions with a day of – speakers, panels, case studies, roundtable discussions and workshops presented by an impressive list of innovative thinkers and doers.

Acclaimed author and filmmaker, Douglas Rushkoff  (Life Inc., Get back in the box: innovation from the inside out) will open the conference with a keynote on storytelling. Other speakers include Scott Kirsner (Friends, Fans and Followers), Lance Weiler (Head Trauma, The Last Broadcast),  Michael Monello (co-founder of Campfire Media & Blair Witch Project producer), Ana Domb (MIT), Arin Crumley (Four Eyed Monsters), Scott Macaulay (Producer Gumo, Raising Victor Vargas, editor Filmmaker Mag), Don Argott (Rock School), Anita Ondine (STM) Brian McTear (record producer Miner Street Studios), Mark Schoneveld (the Poverty Jetset), Saskia Wilson-Brown (Current TV) and Geoff DiMasi (founder of P’unk Avenue)… And more.

Lance Weiler, a resident of the greater Philadelphia area, and founder of the WorkBook Project and DIY DAYS explains the genesis for the project.  “DIY DAYS is an attempt to pull back the curtain on a once closed industry – to share the process of what it takes to make work and sustain from one’s creative efforts.  Philadelphia has so many talented people working in different areas, and our hope is that DIY DAYS can help to bring some of them together and, maybe in the process, spark some new collaborations.”   The conference runs from 8:30am to 6:30pm on Saturday August 1st, followed by an after party/ mixer to be held at the Brandywine Workshop located at 730 S. Broad Street.

Registration is now open http://diydaysphilly.eventbrite.com but space is limited.

For more information and a full program visit http://www.diydays.com  for more on the WorkBook Project visit http://workbookproject.com

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July 10, 2009 • 3:43 pm 0

A ‘superlative’ (16 pts) ad campaign

From a Jawbone.tv article:

“North American television doesn’t often see ad campaigns like Scrabble’s ‘the Beautiful Word’. Thank god for the Internet. And the French.

Mattel’s Scrabble is the most popular ‘word’ board game in history (deal with it Boggle). It’s traditional, family friendly, and, some might say, even slightly intellectual. So when their new ‘the Beautiful Word’ campaign aired this spring on French television (stations like Paris Première), it raised more than a few lustrous European brows, and soon made its way across the pond and everywhere else, thanks to the Internet, to become something of a viral hit.”

Read the full article here, check out the ads, or download one of the songs! I know it’s big bad marketing, but it’s a good example of how well-intentioned ad agencies can be like the arts patrons of yore.

(With apologies to the Medicis)

Sent to me – originally – by Katie Nestor

Filed under: art & design

July 5, 2009 • 11:22 pm 0

Another thing I wish I had written myself

“i hate your personal brand.”

(Via @povertyjetset)

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July 1, 2009 • 11:37 pm 1

Germans have wonderful words, but they’re also completely bonkers

Ruinenwert is the concept that a building be designed such that if it eventually collapsed, it would leave behind aesthetically pleasing ruins that would last far longer without any maintenance at all. (Thanks Wikipedia)

Schadenfreude is pleasure derived from the misfortunes of others. To wit: Philosopher and sociologist Theodor Adorno defined schadenfreude as “largely unanticipated delight in the suffering of another which is cognized as trivial and/or appropriate.” (Thanks, again, Wikipedia)

Abstoßungskraft is the moving force by which a material cause can act on any other to remove them, e.g. a repulsion force. Kant writes about this in his early metaphysical essays relating to the science of matter, and it has something to do with another wonderful word whose meaning eludes me: ‘Zurückstoßungskraft’. (Thanks to this translation site of German philosophical expressions, and a bad Google translation of this site)

Gesamtkunstwerk is an artistic creation, as the music dramas of Richard Wagner, that synthesizes the elements of music, drama, spectacle, dance, etc. A universal artwork, one which makes use of all or many art forms or strives to do so. First used by German writer and philosopher Eusebius Trahndorff in an essay in 1827,  Wagner used it to describe the Attic Tragedy. (Thanks, Wikipedia & Dictionary dot com)

Volksverhetzung is a concept in German criminal law that bans the incitement of hatred against a segment of the population. You are guilty of this act if your acts are deemed to incite ‘hatred against segments of the population or call for violent or arbitrary measures against them’; or ‘assault the human dignity of others by insulting, maliciously maligning, or defaming segments of the population’.  (Thanks, Wikipedia)

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