Social-Creature

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. [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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(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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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? Like [...]

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i am actually blogging about blogging. i really didn’t want to be, but it’s come to this. at the moment i find myself with three different urls–which is 2 more than i want–and, of course, none function properly. first there’s this one. which won’t allow anyone who doesn’t have a blogger account to comment. which [...]

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not sure what would be a good weekend to produce a music festival? should you guess what your community wants? or…. maybe do THIS? if you have an opinion on when you’d like to see LIB08 happen, you too can chime in. in fact, please do. Like this? Share it: Tweet

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LIB07 went off with nary a hitch, and wild success a week ago…finally! i liken the process of working on a music festival to going through labor with 20+ people for 5 months, and when the baby’s delivered it graduates, and moves off to college. so we ushered LIB off, and in the aftermath, as [...]

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