My Different Skies friend Dennis’ contribution to some Machinima films made it to the finals of the Machinima Festival Europe 07 .
The series of machinima collaborations that were done, documenting the Second Life media installation called “BLINK”, has been nominated for BEST VISUAL DESIGN for Episode 2, and all three episodes for BEST SERIES and BEST SOUND. Out of 152 submissions, “BLINK” was among those nominated for the final judging.
You can see, and hear, for yourself at these URLs:
It has been said that music is the common language of humans. A white paper by Ruth Simmons on Brandchannel.com writes about how organizations make emotional connections by their use of music.
Whilst music is a powerful medium that can help bring the emotional qualities of products and services to life, more significantly, it can distil a complex social message to its essence. It also has the innate ability to connect at a profound and human level with an honesty that cannot be contrived. Responsible brands are beginning to recognize that there is a difference between just using music in their communications and understanding how music is resonating with consumers, which is demanding a new level of music literacy.
Music is more personal than you thought…
Read the white paper here
Fora.tv is my new favorite website. Here is Andrew Keen in a debate about the premise of his newish book “The Cult of the Amateur—How Today’s Internet is Killing Our Culture”.
As much as the voice inside my head is screaming at me to stop perpetuating stupid YouTube video spam and endorsing the cult of the amateur ascribed thereunto, this is weird and cool.
So I guess I’ll be the one to break the seal on YouTube linkage. I’m sorry.
Steve Martin said, “Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.” In today’s world of fluid context shifts and modal ambiguities, it hardly seems like an absurd or derisive comment anymore (maybe more like a rhetorical hypothesis to be tested).
Case in point is this brilliant experiment that illustrates a certain kind of lateral thinking that characterizes our time: dude has assigned alphabetic code to cell towers that pick up his signal and generate text.
SCAD is offering a Design Management Degree (BFA, MA, and MFA) at their Savannah campus. I hope it’ll take off and be offered in Atlanta, there are some courses that may be of interest to Matter such as:
From the latest Good Experience newsletter…
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Customer experience investments at Marriott and Netflix
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Which is the better “good experience”, consistency or uniqueness? That’s like asking what’s better, simplicity or complexity? It depends on the context. Both are good at different times and places, for different people, for different reasons. What’s unusual, though, is to see one company try to provide both experiences. Here’s a New York Times article on the partnership between Ian Shrager and Marriott…
I heard about these interesting little and cheap ambient music boxes from friends in Canada and bought one for myself. Here’s the story behind it…
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