Pirolette – a custom-turned object of your profile
Interesting; a custom-turned wood piece to imitate your profile.
Stuff that sparks ideas or imagination for me.
The Long Tail
[Navigated to by way of Steven Johnson’s Blog. Johnson is the author of Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today’s Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter which I read recently.]
Quoting from Wikipedia:
The phrase The Long Tail, as a proper noun, was first coined by Chris Anderson. Beginning in a series of speeches in early 2004 and culminating with the publication of a Wired Magazine article in October 2004, Anderson described the effects of the long tail on current and future business models. Anderson observed that products that are in low demand or have low sales volume can collectively make up a market share that rivals or exceeds the relatively few current bestsellers and blockbusters, if the store or distribution channel is large enough. Examples of such mega-stores include Amazon.com, Netflix and even Wikipedia.
Meaning that if you’re into some obscure punk band that no one but you and two people in Idaho have heard of, some businesses with large distribution channels can provide them to you, and their business on small demand items can exceed business for large demand items. Which explains who so many obscure movies are now being released on DVD, where there’s now a market for them via Internet companies that don’t need to provide a physical store to house them.
Instant labeling tape
Hannes Koch created this cool labeling tape, where you simply black out some lines with a black marker to create the words you want. Fun. I love labels. They are fun.
This makes me want to go home and play with my label maker.
Public Space Games: Ministry of Reshelving
I’m a bit behind on reading Boing Boing, so I’m just now perusing Wednesday’s post about a new city-wide game: the Ministry of Reshelving, by Avant Game, a woman’s personal blog where she discusses some of the public games she’s created and participated in. Basically, following certain rules, you go to a bookstore and take George Orwell’s 1984 and reshelve it in the “Current Affairs” section, leaving notes behind about why. I love it that it’s fun and political, too. Can I reshelve Ann Coulter under fiction? Or better yet, under mental illnesses. This is much better than what I normally do, which is turn right-wing nutjob books around so you can’t see the titles.
I love the idea of public games and have blogged about them before:
26 Things Photographic Scavenger Hunt
New York Games
Design Institute’s Big Urban Game
The Go Game
Ernie about The Go Game
Alternate Reality Gaming Network
The Urban Iditarod
Geocaching – The Official Global GPS Cache Hunt Site
At one time, Lori and I put together a kick-ass scavenger hunt here in Indianapolis. Sadly, we have several teams sign up, but only one team actually did the work or showed up to claim a prize. I think I was so disappointed that I never actually published the game or the answers. I’d love to revisit the idea, though.
Dating via weird high-tech tattoos and cell phones
1. Use this site to create a UPC bar code that contains your personal data.
2. Tattoo your new bar code on your body.
3. Find people who own one of these camera cell phones, and have them scan your tattoo to read your data.
I’m not kidding; this is a real dating phenomenon.
Kinetic Sculptures from Old Junk
I’ve posted several of these links before, but I wanted to aggregate them all in the same spot because they’re interesting. They’re all sculptures made of found objects. We were talking about this in Louisville this past weekend, because I was brainstorming some things I’d like to make, and there were a couple artists in the museum that were fascinating.
Roger Wood’s Klockwerks
Radio-Guy
Eccentric Genius
Steve Brudniak
NAO Design
Jimmy Descant’s Deluxe Rocketships
There’s one of these sculptures at Yats on College
Randall Cleaver
The Ascent Wooden Gear Clock
Ross Brown
Interesting Advertising
This should interest my friend Doug: newspaper readers in the UK are currently being treated to a truly great series of print ads. The Stella Artois adverts place objects that may be familiar to you from various movies into a single landscape, and the challenge is to figure out what movies all the images are from.
The Town [answers]
The Park [answers]
The Beach [answers]
UK fans of the ads are calling them “cinema sudoku” after a popular number placement puzzle craze in Britain and Japan.
Kentucky Art Car Weekend/Chicago Trip
Stephanie and I are going down to Louisville, Kentucky, again this weekend, this time to meet her friend Lisa from North Carolina, who is road-tripping up for the Kentucky Art Car Weekend. Lisa is coming up in a caravan with her friend Sarah, who has an art car in the art car show. Lisa will also be webcamming her trip up, and the show.
Then we’re heading up to Chicago, to visit the Art Institute, the Fluevog Store, The Cloud Gate Sculpture in Millenium Park, and perhaps other Chicago attractions.
‘Cultural Generations’ via wikipedia
via wikipedia, Cultural generations , i.e., “Baby Boomer” and “Generation X.”
Generation X, commonly abbreviated to Gen X, is the generation born after the Western Post–World War II baby boom. Demographers, historians and commentators use beginning birth dates from the early 1960s to the early 1980s.
The term was popularized by Douglas Coupland’s 1991 novel Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture. Before that, it had been used for various subcultures or countercultures after the 1950s.
Generation Y, also known as the Millennial Generation, is the demographic cohort following Generation X. There are no precise dates for when Generation Y starts and ends. Commentators use beginning birth dates from the early 1980s to the early 2000s.
Generation Z is one name used for the cohort of people born after the Millennial Generation. There is no agreement on the exact dates of the generation with some sources starting it at the mid or late 1990s or from the mid-2000s to the present day. This is the generation which is currently being born.
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