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At one moment a few years ago (2002) I used my webcam to record what was playing on television at that moment. With war being a major media and political issue at that point I created this short video representing the paradigm used by media to represent the war. With protagonists, antogonists, commenters and embedded media. Making this the way I did was not an attack on media it is a confirmation that visual media needs characters and a plot for representation. By organizing those you can use everything you want to create a story. Representation is all about context.
Eventually no one will escape to the force of portalization. It’s such a contradiction that the search engine that emerged from the chaos of portals is now a victim of its own strategy. Does Google still needs its simplicity? Don’t we got used to websites presenting more information and isn’t a visual hierarchy more important than simplicity? A website needs to be simple, but could the level of simplicity used by Google be underestimating its users?
This weeks Newsweek-theme is about the urban sprawl that will cover the earth for the next decades and how cities will transform and grow closer together to transform into large urban hubs, a so called megapolis. There are some interesting views in the article on what makes smaller a smaller city grow faster compared to big ones.
Everyday I commute to work. I can choose to go by car which gives me freedom, loud music, open windows, traffic jams and parking problems. Or I can go by train which gives me time to read books, make this blog post, do some work, have my neighbor sit annoyingly on my lap and hate [...]
The web is becoming a more live medium, the medium itself isn’t changing it is how we publish to it. I think the ‘live web’ is the most exiting development since the rise of social networks. You write a Twitter notification on your mobile phone, post a picture to the web or stream a live [...]
While waiting for Murcof at the airport we asked Jimmy Edgar if he would like to improvise something on an old Casio keyboard. Recorded on the roof (full recording) of Schiphol (Amsterdam airport / AMS)
The festival was a great success. Exhausting, but really great. During the festival we made around 400 posts on the special [...]
This weekend the Urban Explorers festival is organized in the city of Dordrecht, Netherlands. It’s a three day city-festival about art and electronic music. The main acts for this year are by Plaid and Murcof. It’s a small festival with a very good atmosphere and lovely people.
Eclectro is a festival partner and we (a few [...]
Last week I was reading a Wired article (March edition) about how the video rental service Netflix is awarding $1.000.000 to the person or group who can improve its recommendation algorithm by 10%.
Todays popular websites use smart algorithms to determine what we want or might like. Google is famous for its mix and so is [...]