"The biggest money is in the smallest sales..."
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MANOVICH: DATABASES AS A 'FORM'
"Today, a 'computer age' introduces the database; new media objects that do not tell stories nor contain beginnings or ends but exist as collections of individual items. Database as form."
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AUDIENCE TASTE CULTURES
"Unlimited selection is revealing truths about what consumers want and how they want to get it in service after service, from DVDs at Netflix to music videos on Yahoo!...People are going deep into catalog, down the long, long list of available titles, far past what's available at Blockbuster Video..."
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NOTES ON ESSAY FILM FORM
"The essay film is said to be defined by its exact 'undefinableness', and it's taking pleasure in that."
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NETWORKED MEDIA, PLATO AND A TECHNOLOGIST
Plato on objectivity: "...the discoverer of an art is not the best judge of the good or harm which will accrue to those who practice it..."
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DESIGN THINKING: RMIT CREATIVE INDUSTRIES PANEL
"Design will drive Australia into the 22nd century...design is a driver - we have a different view."
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DESIGN THINKING: CREATIVE HYPOTHESISING
"Currently, it is thought that designers have the right kind of forward-thinking toolkit for dealing with 'wicked problems' - the kinds of problems that only create more with every solution, if there is even a solution."
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REVISITING: WHAT IS DOCUMENTARY?
"... I hope to be able to create sequences that when run together will present aspects of my perception of what took place in the presence of my camera...."
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DATABASES & HISTORY
"Science has provided the swiftest communication between individuals; it has provided a record of ideas and has enabled man to manipulate and to make extracts from that record so that knowledge evolves and endures throughout the life of a race rather than that of an individual."
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CURATION THINKING: THE EMPLOYABLE SKILL
"It means hiring people who have the ability to mix content types, and not be moral about it."
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AN IDEA: DESIGN FICTION
"...an approach to design that speculates about new ideas through prototyping and storytelling."
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STEVEN JOHNSON: WHERE DO GOOD IDEAS COME FROM?
"Chance favours the connected mind."
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FUNDAMENTALS OF LIGHTING WITH VITTORIO STORARO
"I listen to what his (the directors) feelings are…Then I suggest to him what can be done to augment his concepts in the photographic area, how the story can be represented in an emotional, symbolic, psychological and physical way."
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MATTERS OF TASTE
"USS Triumphant wisely replied:
“There are casual fans…and then there are Trekkies. Trekkies come in three categories.
1. People who believe in the ideals and values of some aspect of the show on a religious or almost religious level,
2. People who are obsessed with the minutae of the show, and usually, canon, and,
3. People who find the stuff of the show - phasers, uniforms, Klingon foreheads - to be their playground of choice."
USS Triumphant identifies as a ‘pretty strong a number 1’, “with a touch of the third…and a tiny bit of the second.”
In this post, I look into questions of genre, and their associated ‘taste cultures’ (and assumptions), using HBO series Game of Thrones as a fascinating myth-busting example."
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REALITY - THE BEST KIND OF CONTRACEPTION
"Mummy blogger, Carolin @ Mummy Alarm expresses her overjoyed enthusiasm for watching childbirth on television:
“…I can’t wait to follow the birth stories of this season’s couples. Last year, I was pregnant with Amy and didn’t miss a single episode… I was watching the series religiously and soaked up every little thing like a sponge…”
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TRANSNATIONAL MEDIA FLOWS AS GLOBALISATION
"Koichi Iwabuchi’s article is a fascinating look at transnational popular culture flows alongside the development of communications technologies."
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