“Carnegie Mellon brought together a panel of leading industry experts, faculty and alumni to discuss how the increasing interplay of arts and technology is having a dramatic impact on virtually every aspect of our lives, from business to pop culture, education to entrepreneurship.”
“The Conspiracy For Good is a global movement for change driven by a story, a legendary narrative that the audience becomes a part of and every participant has the ability to impact the outcome of this story. The story will be played out on web sites, mobile devices, at live meet up events in London and ultimately in Africa where CFG will provide significant assistance in a local village.” -Conspiracy for Good
I was mentioned on Mashable
Last night right before I went to bed I checked my twitter account for the last time in the day and saw that Mashable posted about the Microsoft KIN’s viral marketing stunt. They were kind enough to give me and Josh credit for pioneering the Facebook road trip and linked to the first time they posted about my Facebook Road Trip.
Thank you Jolie O’Dell of Mashable. You made a social media artist very happy.
Please go over and comment on the Mashable article. Give me a nod.
This is done entirely with chalk. Don’t watch it through as Dustin suggests, but absolutely scrub through it.Madison Square Park Sunset in chalk. This is a very slow (and long) animation. As slow as a sunset. I would say not to watch the whole thing but then I’d get some wise guy that would watch the whole thing.
This is a Atari 2600 project I’ve been thinking about for a while but never had the chutzpah to go in there and mess around with Assembly Language. It wasn’t nearly as difficult as I thought it was going to be. And after I got the hang of it, it was as exhilarating as learning how to ride a bike for the first time. I had always thought it was too difficult to even mess with, but then I got in there and was doing it. I stayed up till the sun was coming through the windows because I was so excited. Then after taking a quick sleep, I jumped out of bed and rushed over to start messing with more code. I still don’t understand Assembly Language, but I took the piece as far as it is going to go for now. It’s running on an Atari emulator, Stella, which is available as a free download for just about any operating system. It takes a minute to figure out the interface, but after you do, you can play just about any Atari game in the history of the console.
I’m still going to change a few things with the project, but I’m pretty happy with my progress thus far. Plus I’d like to figure out how to actually get it inside a real cartridge, but I’m going to save that for a rainy day.
Here is the Tiananmen Square binary file if you want to run it on your Atari emulator.
I spent about a 2 months filming and editing from my iPhone using a program called Reel Director. I shot overtime I saw a street performer not preforming. I can’t decide why I find this interesting. I think maybe because it’s the unintended, a performer on stage no performing. Attention for a attentions grabbers inverse of when they want it.
Social Media: Art or Science
Social media is closer related to a science than to art.
If you’ve spoken to me about my transition from studying fine art into commercial social media, or if you’ve just shared more then a beer or 2 with me, then you’ve heard me mention how it was an easy and obvious transition. It’s not the same thing, but the common thread is that a social media architect should have a similar understanding of the unique and subjective views of their intended demographic as a successful artist should. The grand designer isn’t meant to push or dictate what’s correct but offer a hand for those who wish to hold it.
However social media is not about searching for questions as art is, but rather about discovery and finding answers like science. Best practices and understanding how ideas spread on social media are still be explored. There are notable effective consistencies like low barrier to share and being as relatable to the people in your demographic as possible, but not until we have a more firm grasp of the human mind will the absolutes that businesses require be discovered.
In the mean time experimentation is the best practice. There are not many absolutes for doing things right on Twitter or Facebook, but unless your testing and experimenting as a scientist would you’re absolutely wrong.
Anybody going to be near Myrtle Beach, SC on Saturday? I was asked to be a guest speaker at Create South.
Here are some pictures I found taken by Marco and Paul.
