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- Mar 18, 2011
- 1 min
Today's Obsession: Social Disaster Strategies
Image from the U.S. Navy's Flickr feed At PopMatters, there’s a good look at how the current set of social media tools is being used in Japan during the crisis. This post details a utility that began on Facebook as a group, has expanded onto Twitter with a set of hashtags, a shared folder on Dropbox with downloadable resources, YouTube embeds, Flickr feed embeds, and so on. The interesting thing here is watching how this communication all grew organically—the initial post on
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- Jul 28, 2010
- 1 min
Bad Taste: The Key To Success?
And let’s not leave out the prime example of huge success in the face of horrible design: Google. Google might be this century’s most important brand and yet they have pillaged every aspect of taste and visual beauty—from the logo, to the website, software, and the ads. Who do we blame for this? Say you’re the new head of design at Google, would you dare change a concept that basically got you to a monopoly position? Probably not, right? So we can’t blame the company … Can we
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- Jul 14, 2010
- 1 min
Today's Obsession: CGI as Makeup
“Who doesn’t love Gaga?” asks YouTube micro-celeb-gone-legit Michelle Phan, and frankly, I don’t. What I do love, however, is how she pushes my limits of tolerance for meaningless perversity. Michelle does the same here in this freaky little makeup tutorial to get the same look Gaga sports in a scene from her Bad Romance video. What I find particularly perverse about this piece is that, included as parts of the tutorial, are instructions for altering one’s pupil size with con
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