Tuesday February 7, 2012
Hello.
Thank you for digging this letter out of your spam filter. (If that happened to you, you're not alone. Hopefully once you've done it once you should start to receive it reliably. If not, try adding rooreynolds@tinyletter.com as a contact.) I'm quite touched that so many of you have signed up for this little newsletter. It's only been a couple of weeks and there are a rather gratifying 182 of you already. Hurrah.
It's exactly one week to Valentines day. Here are some funny cards.
http://theoatmeal.com/horrible2
Or if you get really annoyed by valentines day, try Meg Pickard's classic anti-valentines. (A project she started with David Pannett way back in, I think, 2001.)
http://meish.org/vd
The Death of the Cyberfl�neur
"And why this fear of solitude in the first place?"
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/05/opinion/sunday/the-death-of-the-cyberflaneur.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all
You already know about this, right?
"Our Government Requests tool discloses the number of requests we receive from each government"
http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/governmentrequests/
(see also http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/traffic/ for which bits of the world can't see Google)
Video corner
Robot readable world
"How do robots see the world? How do
they gather meaning from our streets, cities, media and from us? This is
an experiment in found machine-vision footage, exploring the aesthetics
of the robot eye."
(Timo's lovely video inspired by Matt Jones' essay http://berglondon.com/blog/2011/08/03/the-robot-readable-world/)
http://vimeo.com/36239715
PressPausePlay
"...does democratized culture mean better art or is true talent instead drowned out? This is the question addressed by PressPausePlay, a documentary film containing interviews with some of the world's most influential creators of the digital era."
http://presspauseplay.com -> http://vimeo.com/34608191
Vitamins Design's lovely 'Out of the box' concept for Samsung
http://vimeo.com/26489936
Marketing corner *
Marketing people, please just don't be idiots.
"...be very, very careful about any social media campaign that involves automated messaging."
http://therealtimereport.com/2012/02/06/toyota-under-fire-for-camryeffect-twitter-spam-superbowl-promotion/
* N.B. honestly, marketing corner will absolutely not become a regular feature.
Yours sincerely
Roo
Roo Reynolds
@rooreynolds
http://tinyletter.com/rooreynolds
Thank you for digging this letter out of your spam filter. (If that happened to you, you're not alone. Hopefully once you've done it once you should start to receive it reliably. If not, try adding rooreynolds@tinyletter.com as a contact.) I'm quite touched that so many of you have signed up for this little newsletter. It's only been a couple of weeks and there are a rather gratifying 182 of you already. Hurrah.
It's exactly one week to Valentines day. Here are some funny cards.
http://theoatmeal.com/horrible2
Or if you get really annoyed by valentines day, try Meg Pickard's classic anti-valentines. (A project she started with David Pannett way back in, I think, 2001.)
http://meish.org/vd
The Death of the Cyberfl�neur
"And why this fear of solitude in the first place?"
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/05/opinion/sunday/the-death-of-the-cyberflaneur.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all
You already know about this, right?
"Our Government Requests tool discloses the number of requests we receive from each government"
http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/governmentrequests/
(see also http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/traffic/ for which bits of the world can't see Google)
Video corner
Robot readable world
"How do robots see the world? How do
they gather meaning from our streets, cities, media and from us? This is
an experiment in found machine-vision footage, exploring the aesthetics
of the robot eye."
(Timo's lovely video inspired by Matt Jones' essay http://berglondon.com/blog/2011/08/03/the-robot-readable-world/)
http://vimeo.com/36239715
PressPausePlay
"...does democratized culture mean better art or is true talent instead drowned out? This is the question addressed by PressPausePlay, a documentary film containing interviews with some of the world's most influential creators of the digital era."
http://presspauseplay.com -> http://vimeo.com/34608191
Vitamins Design's lovely 'Out of the box' concept for Samsung
http://vimeo.com/26489936
Marketing corner *
Marketing people, please just don't be idiots.
"...be very, very careful about any social media campaign that involves automated messaging."
http://therealtimereport.com/2012/02/06/toyota-under-fire-for-camryeffect-twitter-spam-superbowl-promotion/
* N.B. honestly, marketing corner will absolutely not become a regular feature.
Yours sincerely
Roo
Roo Reynolds
@rooreynolds
http://tinyletter.com/rooreynolds
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