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      18 Jun 2008

      The art of Serendipity

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      txt: Serendipity - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Serendipity is the effect by which one accidentally discovers something fortunate, especially while looking for something else entirely.
      The word derives from Serendip, the old Persian name for Sri Lanka,[1] and was coined by Horace Walpole on 28 January 1754 in a letter he wrote to his friend Horace Mann (not the same man as the famed American educator), an Englishman then living in Florence. The letter read, "It was once when I read a silly fairy tale, called The Three Princes of Serendip: as their highnesses travelled, they were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of: for instance, one of them discovered that a camel blind of the right eye had travelled the same road lately, because the grass was eaten only on the left side, where it was worse than on the right—now do you understand serendipity? [...] One aspect of Walpole's original definition of serendipity that is often missed in modern discussions of the word is the "sagacity" of being able to link together apparently innocuous facts to come to a valuable conclusion. Thus, while some scientists and inventors are reluctant about reporting accidental discoveries, others openly admit its role; in fact serendipity is a major component of scientific discoveries and inventions. According to M.K. Stoskopf[3] "it should be recognized that serendipitous discoveries are of significant value in the advancement of science and often present the foundation for important intellectual leaps of understanding".
      video: Words and Thoughts in RGB by Eduardo Morais - vimeo.com [vimeo 832162]
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      17 Jun 2008

      I'm a net artist

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      youtube tag: net-art txt + video: net-artist - a3sebastian on youtube.com
      "I'm a net artist: It's a cartoon video with the voice of a net-artist, looking for attention. He explains what net-art is, and the problems he has in order to arrive to people and to be considered as an art maker"
      "now come to Venice, meet the art, it's a honour"
      [youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=hZQF6Q9ISzA]
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      14 Jun 2008

      Blublu: video art

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      If you loved "Muto" have a look at the other videos by Blu, you'll love them as well: always restless, always full of thoughts, simple and involving. And go to www.blublu.org, his site deserves definitely a visit. video: Child by blu on Vimeo.com [vimeo 426534]
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      14 Jun 2008

      What is wisdom in five words

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      txt: Muppets - Mahna Mahna - Hiraeth on youtube.com
      Hi! This video always brings a smile to my face, so I hope it does the same for you. YouTube suggested "wisdom" as an appropriate tag for this video. I completely agree. Yes, the subtitles are in Swedish. Why? I don't know. This thing has been sitting on my hard drive since the Clinton Administration, I can't remember where I got it from. Some other frequent comments/questions about this video, and about the song and its origins, are answered in the Wikipedia entry -- check it out: Mahna_mahna Piero Umiliani
      "The question is: what is Mahna Mahna?" "The Question is: Who cares?"
      Youtube Tags: muppets mahna kermit wisdom [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YevYBsShxNs]
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      12 Jun 2008

      Pop art remix

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      txt: Andy Warhol - Wikipedia
      Warhol's work from this period revolves around American Pop (Popular) culture. He painted dollar bills, celebrities, brand name products and images from newspaper clippings - many of the latter were iconic images from headline stories of the decade (e.g. photographs of mushroom clouds, and police dogs attacking civil rights protesters). His subjects were instantly recognizable and often had a mass appeal. This aspect interested him most and it unifies his paintings from this period. Take for example Warhol's comments on the appeal of Coke: "What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca Cola, and you know that the President drinks Coca Cola, Liz Taylor drinks Coca Cola, and just think, you can drink Coca Cola, too. A coke is a coke and no amount of money can get you a better coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the cokes are the same and all the cokes are good. Liz Taylor knows it, the President knows it, the bum knows it, and you know it." The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: (From A to B and Back Again), 1975
      video: Bill O'Reilly Flips Out — DANCE REMIX - levmyshkin on youtube.com [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j2YDq6FkVE]
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      1 Jun 2008

      We must become the change we want to see in the world

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      "We must become the change we want to see in the world" - M.K. Gandhi txt: Change - Wikipedia
      Change can mean: * The process of becoming different. - Social Change - Metamorphosis - Calculus * Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
      video: Eric Clapton - Change The World (live) - youtube.com [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUXDBK1lZb0]
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      29 May 2008

      What is creativity

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      via: invisiblered.blogspot.com video: Lazy guy gets a lot of Money - playwithreactivity on youtube.com [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPbF-juKsG8] txt: Creativity - from Wikipedia Creativity (or "creativeness") is a mental process involving the generation of new ideas or concepts, or new associations of the creative mind between existing ideas or concepts. From a scientific point of view, the products of creative thought (sometimes referred to as divergent thought) are usually considered to have both originality and appropriateness. An alternative, more everyday conception of creativity is that it is simply the act of making something new.
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      13 May 2008

      Wall Animation

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      via: Wooster Collective link: blublu.org video: MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuGaqLT-gO4] txt: Pink Floyd - Another Brick in the Wall
      We don't need no education We dont need no thought control No dark sarcasm in the classroom Teachers leave them kids alone Hey! Teachers! Leave them kids alone! All in all it's just another brick in the wall. All in all you're just another brick in the wall. "Wrong, Do it again!" "If you don't eat yer meat, you can't have any pudding. How can you have any pudding if you don't eat yer meat?" "You! Yes, you behind the bikesheds, stand still laddy!"
      video: Pink Floyd - Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2 (1980) [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3aIQyL9Mh0]
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      6 May 2008

      Cognitive surplus, gin and art

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      txt: Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - By Clay Shirky
      The transformation from rural to urban life was so sudden, and so wrenching, that the only thing society could do to manage was to drink itself into a stupor for a generation. The stories from that era are amazing-- there were gin pushcarts working their way through the streets of London. And it wasn't until society woke up from that collective bender that we actually started to get the institutional structures that we associate with the industrial revolution today. Things like public libraries and museums, increasingly broad education for children, elected leaders--a lot of things we like--didn't happen until having all of those people together stopped seeming like a crisis and started seeming like an asset. [...] And television watching? Two hundred billion hours, in the U.S. alone, every year. Put another way, now that we have a unit, that's 2,000 Wikipedia projects a year spent watching television. Or put still another way, in the U.S., we spend 100 million hours every weekend, just watching the ads. This is a pretty big surplus. People asking, "Where do they find the time?" when they're looking at things like Wikipedia don't understand how tiny that entire project is, as a carve-out of this asset that's finally being dragged into what Tim calls an architecture of participation. Now, the interesting thing about a surplus like that is that society doesn't know what to do with it at first--hence the gin, hence the sitcoms. Because if people knew what to do with a surplus with reference to the existing social institutions, then it wouldn't be a surplus, would it? It's precisely when no one has any idea how to deploy something that people have to start experimenting with it, in order for the surplus to get integrated, and the course of that integration can transform society.
      video: Clay Shirky at Web 2.0 Expo SF 2008 on blip.tv [blip.tv ?posts_id=862384&dest=-1]
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      5 May 2008

      Yes we Can

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      via: Video From The Cans Festival - Wooster collective txt: www.woostercollective.com
      woo·ster (noun) A street in the Soho section of New York City col·lec·tive (noun) Of, relating to, characteristic of, or made by a number of people acting as a group: a collective decision. The Wooster Collective was founded in 2001. This site is dedicated to showcasing and celebrating ephemeral art placed on streets in cities around the world.
      video: Cans Festival London - KrisBlomme on youtube.com [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DKrxk1E_yw]
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