social-creature

In Buying In: The Secret Dialogue Between Who We Are and What We Buy, Rob Walker talks about “underground brands”–lifestyle symbols created by independent entrepreneurs. In fact, I actually think it’s easier to think of underground brands as “independent brands,” (cuz what does “underground” really mean, anyway?) much like independent music:
In popular music, independent music, [...]

This whole thing Radiohead’s doing, encouraging remixes of its songs is way clever.

Radiohead, iTunes and GarageBand are giving you the opportunity to remix the band’s new single “Nude”.
To make remixing easy, the separate ’stems’ from the song are available to purchase from iTunes. The ’stems’ available are bass, voice, guitar, strings/fx and drums. You can [...]

just a quick note to announce that the new bonnaroo site i consulted on for threshold just launched yesterday.
it ain’t just your regular music festival website, that’s for sure.
check it out:

we’re embarking on a new experiment for the winter issue of the do lab artist network publication. looking for animators/ motion graphics/ v-fx artists to participate.
full info here:
For the past year we have been producing a quarterly arts publication showcasing the diversity of artistic expression within, and relevant to, the Do LaB’s community. For our [...]

marshall herskovitz & edward zick + the quarterlife crisis + the rise of the creative class + myspace =

marshall herskovitz and edward zwick aren’t simply geniuses, they are CONSISTENTLY the only ones creating television programming that reflects the real struggles of an entire generation.
thirtysomething was before my time, (though i do know it as [...]

a play about cross-cultural communication:
burner - played by someone who is part of the burningman community.
non-burner: played by someone who is not.
- - -
burner: OMG! the man burnt early!
non-burner: what?
burner: have you ever heard of burningman?
non-burner: hmm… looks like some crazy festival in the desert?
B: yeah. they also burn a statue of a man. that’s [...]

(not everyone’s a great photographer. da’s ok.)

one of the projects i’m currently working on involves cleaning some wreckage from a web 2.0-style mess that was never resolved, and is coming back to haunt the client. it’s not huge, but it’s a template, i think, for ways in which web 2.0 messes get made in general, [...]

crowd at LIB07
photo by: fightingwords

this weekend, at a do lab birthday dinner, the other half of the do’s community management team started giving me shit about removing a particular video from the LIB youtube group.
it was this weirdly psychedelic video that didn’t even really show much of the festival (i think most of it was [...]

perhaps it’s just typical to find SOMETHING to dislike about the business 2.0 article about how “burningman grows up” but i can’t help it!
i bet there’s probably even distinct camps of dislike about it, in fact.
camp #1 are the people who dislike that their special countercultural identity-defining ritual is being profiled somewhere so mainstream, and [...]

while usually i am the one trying to express how parties are social media, here’s a fun little slideshow about how your online community is a party waiting to happen.

eventually are we heading towards an understand that any platform which facilitates interaction, community (and identity) development, and experience creation is a social medium?