“What remix culture has taught us is that making derivative works can be a form of real originality, not that all derivative works are original.”
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In a tangential comment on a discussion of meme culture, a reader of Andrew Sullivan’s nails what needs to be said over and over again – creation and “curation”/remix are a spectrum, not a binary dichotomy, and each point of the spectrum has its own sub-spectrum of greatness and mediocrity.
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Slingers comic tease
Watch this video:
Then dig this
So psyched to see this coming to life.
Art by the all too talented Dave Kennedy, words by me.
Work in progress so not sure where or when or how it’ll eventually appear so it’s something else you can kick me about. Pretty neat though, right?
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Stanford’s Carol S. Dweck on how the two different mindsets, Fixed and Growth, pave different pathways to success and lead to a deterministic view of the world or a greater sense of free will, respectively. From Taschen’s Information Graphics.
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I honestly don’t understand how people can (or even want to) work their life away, slaving away in some office, staying in one place for years, doing the same job for the rest of their life, and completely stop focusing on the things they truly love in life. Just to make a buck and buy useless material possessions. How sad.
Work to live, don’t live to work.
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“By creating open source tools that combine consumer electronics, we can discover new aesthetics.”
(Source: http://vimeo.com/)
TEN COMMANDMENTS OF A CON MAN
From the desk of Victor Lustig, the man who sold the Eiffel Tower:
- Be a patient listener (it is this, not fast talking, that gets a con-man his coups).
- Never look bored.
- Wait for the other person to reveal any political opinions, then agree with them.
- Let the other person reveal religious views, then have the same ones.
- Hint at sex talk, but don’t follow it up unless the other fellow shows a strong interest.
- Never discuss illness, unless some special concern is shown.
- Never pry into a person’s personal circumstances (they’ll tell you all eventually).
- Never boast. Just let your importance be quietly obvious.
- Never be untidy.
- Never get drunk.
(Source: learnedastronomer)
Weak ties, thin relationships, & the Social Bubble
Call it relationship inflation. Nominally, you have a lot more relationships — but in reality, few, if any, are actually valuable. Just as currency inflation debases money, so social inflation debases relationships. The very word “relationship” is being cheapened. It used to mean someone you could count on. Today, it means someone you can swap bits with. Thin relationships are the illusion of real relationships. Real relationships are patterns of mutual investment. I invest in you, you invest in me. Parents, kids, spouses — all are multiple digit investments, of time, money, knowledge, and attention. The “relationships” at the heart of the social bubble aren’t real because they’re not marked by mutual investment . At most, they’re marked by a tiny chunk of information or attention here or there.