Archive for August, 2007
1984 The Dawn of Empowerment
Every now and then I have to resurrect this amazing piece of work. Few things change in the world of media or advertising and human behavior but this did.
1984 Apple Superbowl Ad
In the third quarter of the 1984 Super Bowl, a strange and disorienting advertisement appeared on the TV screens of the millions of [...]
Posted: August 18th, 2007 under Astonishing.
Tags: apple, creativity, film, innovation
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Presence. Very.
I found this very interesting. Check it out.
The Stanford Presence Experiment
What creates a sense of presence? – the presence of a live performer, the presence of the past, in a memory, in ruined remains, the sense of ‘being there’ in an online community, in a VR or mixed reality environment?
The Presence Project [...]
Posted: August 14th, 2007 under Working Rambles.
Tags: creativity, innovation, presence
Comments: 3
A Pale Blue Dot
The image was taken with a narrow angle camera lens, with the Sun quite close to the field of view. Quite by accident, the Earth was captured in one of the scattered light rays caused by taking the image at an angle so close to the Sun. Dr. Sagan was quite moved by this image [...]
Posted: August 10th, 2007 under Spine Tingling.
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