Please read this sobering but accurate post from Gia Milinovich after her first visit to TED – the place where the currency is quality ideas, focussed leaders, ambition for change worth working for.
Category: Miscellaneous
Martin gets his Graffiti Festival.
Social Media can lead to Social Action. You may remember this Youtube film from Martin Mullaney which prompted a torrent of abuse from taggers in his Birmingham ward of Kings Heath and Moseley among the 500 or more comments from 46,000 views:
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The resulting conversation has helped establish some local action on tagging, as Martin reports on his blog. Whether it will stop taggers seems doubtful to me, but I’d love to be proved wrong.
Britney, the Brummie and the iPhone – brace yourself for a webstorm
This has to be the perfect web story. It involves Britney Spears apparently dumping her Birmingham bred boyfriend Adnan Ghalib by bunging his iPhone in a swimming pool. For why I’m mentioning it please see the comments at the end of this link.
Pre-Pixelated Clothing
For those planning to appear in an observational documentary you can save producers thousands in post production by buying logo’d clothing pre-pixellated. From Ironic Sans with thanks to BSAG.