Do you feel insulted by this painting? Well, if the question seems a bit ridiculous today, it would not have been if you had lived in the 13th century in europe. You would have been shocked by this painting.
Why? For the very reason that this painting seems common today : it follows the rule of [...]
The inrockuptible has published an article this morning about the print press revenue. It is not good. Roughly speaking print dailynews sale less (in terms of quantity) -2.4% and the advertizing revenue is lowering under the effects of both 1. crisis that lowers the intensity of the advertizing market, 2. competition of many other support. [...]
“Strawberries cherries and an angels kiss in spring
My summer wine is really made from all these things”
Summer is always a strange period… The weather warm, the towns look empty, the days last twice long as they do in winter and the web seems abandonned for beatch or old media. However, it is a very inspiring [...]
A community could be defined as a group of people that shares :
> a place : a place, a website, a house, anything but a common place
> a conversation even silent monks are in a spiritual conversation
> common rules : even if they are not written anywhere
> a langage : a community develop its own [...]
I am very interested in this rock-band name. I think it grasp a strange state of mind that appears in the whole society and especially in the web 2.0 world. Sometimes I wonder if, with comming summer, people do not feel tired of being participative, tired of this collective spirit…
Two facts :
a decrease of the [...]
I have often written about the hints, the signs that reaveals that something has change somewhere. Especially about when a social media can be considered as a success. Today, once again, I am amazed by the ability of twitter’s team to understand how they are a media and how they demonstrate their will to be [...]
Since several days I enjoy looking at the “trending topics” column in twitter. And very often those trending topics are about old TV stars : David Carradine, Zak Morris, …
I guess we cannot really abandon our tender childhood, and TV was at the heart of our childhood. Who will be the has been people in [...]
I am often amazed about how our minds, our way to think, can be frameworked by our habits. Since my early years I have always felt suspicious about steady confortable positions. I think I have been a good ad man because my role then was to unstead convictions.
No, I am working on the web and [...]
Writing my last post “I do not beleive in truth”, I figured out that I melted two ideas (at least). One is the impossibility for any human being to establish “truth” and the other point was the superiority of discussion over any synthesis effort.
This last idea is fundamental as to me. I remember my old [...]
For those who were not in Paris last week or that did not take the time to go to the “Galerie Chappe” hidden in the hill of Montmartre, here is a map that gives the hot moments of Jarvis Cocker’s personal exhibition.
Click the pearl, press play and use the arrows to browse the map.
