Archive for the 'Culture' Category
Somewhere in the clouds of news stories on the web, I found BoingBoing wrote about some interesting bit of research done by a PhD student Danah Boyd. In a catchy titled research called “Social Media is Here to Stay… Now What?”, Danah neatly reiterated the fact that Social Media is what we need in order [...]
The first blog post in the brand new sizzling hot year of 2009!! Hope you’re feeling non-taxated and somewhat adrenalised in this post festive period.
There’s no doubt 2008 was a year full of doom and gloom with so many twisted ironies and occasional idiosyncrasies, but I’m impatiently waiting to see what 2009 holds for pop-culturalist, [...]
Last weekend I decided to extend my cool hunting beyond the usual digging of the search engine ditches and hit the streets of East London to experience its booming street art scene for the very first time.
I wasn’t in the mission on my own, as I joined a two dozens of art hungry bloggers on [...]
While watching this ad video from Adidas, as posted on Brentter, I couldn’t help but think how much the modern service industry has evolved with new and absurd services are being branched out to solve problems in our increasingly complicated existance. Named Break-up Service, the ad’s promotes the Adidas Originals Safety Collection through a humourous [...]
Earlier this week, I got accidentally introduced to Do the Green Thing, a creative movement with an underlining purpose to foster change in people’s perception towards the issue of excessive consumption in the face of global warming.
Founded by a group of friends who worked in creative industry in 2005, the aim of the project is [...]
While the instantly gratified polaroid fun is increasingly becoming a thing of the past, the fans of the polaroid camera are vigorously campaigning to save it in the face of discontinuation of polaroid films by Polaroid Corp. The real thing maybe no longer on manufacturers’ list, but the subculture of polaroid photography still lives on. [...]
The culture analysts at Wired posted a great piece about the evolution of emoticons, a simple text expressions that existed long before the World Wide Web itself. I’d never known who exactly invented it, but it turns out that it was Scott Fahlman, an innocent computer scientist at Carnegie-Mellon University, who first proposed using typographical [...]
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