Check out artist Kumi Yamashita’s work on light and shadow. I am fascinated by the idea of completely different elements coming together and the reverse effect of disintegration all in one piece.
Different Skies is an electronic space music festival, a workshop for artists in these and related experimental music genres, a working vacation, an intensive and rewarding creative environment, and many more things. It is held here at Arcosanti, which was recently featured in a New York Times article.
Jim will be performing at Different Skies 2007 [...]
Back in the day, recording artists made the bulk of their revenues from merchandising. Herbie Herbert, Journey’s burley manager, was the first person I was aware of who exploited this fact to great benefit. I was told that Journey made more money from merchandising sales and touring receipts than from their platinum albums.
I got a [...]
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New Japanese (Nissan) concept car, the Pivo 2, makes reverse gear obsolete, and parallel parking perpendicular… and of course it looks like a cartoon character! What would they have to do to this car to make it viable in the U.S.?
If only it could be the DMB…
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Ever wonder why products and services are bad? Shouldn’t companies be able to make their offerings better, perhaps through market research? It may have been clear to us at Matter for years, but it looks like some other folks are finally getting it…
“Marketers generally distrust research and data,” said Greg Stuart, former CEO of the [...]
It was announced last week that Brooklyn has approved $2MM for a new high school dedicated to advertising and media education. Set to open in September 2008, the new school is designed to “foster a relationship between minority youth and the ad industry, allowing students to explore careers in advertising and media while helping to [...]
We talked about subscription versus advertising models for content providers in an earlier blog post. Now one of the biggest bands in the world is demonstrating the “pay what you value” model and the “premium packaging” model for music content. This is the experiment to keep your eyes on.
Radiohead to give away new album
By Angela [...]