I recently saw a presentation by Jonah Peretti on his career as an “viral marketing hotdog” (to quote the New York Times). Apparently I’ve had my head buried in sand for the past few years, because he’s made a name for himself as someone who knows how to get notorious and I had never heard […]
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being wrong
Patagonia’s Footprint Chronicles is a remarkable feat for a fashion company: a visualization of their products’ global supply chains on a map, along with videos of each step in the manufacturing process, and descriptions of each item in terms of distance traveled, CO2 emissions, waste generated and energy consumption. Not only is it impressive that […]
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farm map
We all know that eating local is not only more efficient, but also more delicious – unfortunately it can be hard to find the variety of foods we eat without resorting to a large supermarket. LocalHarvest is a web resource for finding local farms and farmers markets, including a map of all the farms and […]
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food map
This elegant seasonal food map on Epicurious shows what produce can be locally found in each state for a given month. Maps like this can make it possible to avoid the excessive shipping and stale flavors of commercial produce. In the future a map like this could have infinite granularity, to help people find the […]
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do-it-yourself radio
Last night I met Quiddities‘ Margaret Rosas who was awarded a grant in the Knight Foundation’s News Challenge for Radio Drupal, a project to create open-source internet radio software for streaming and community engagement to be possible even for small, locally-based radio stations. The web is struggling to be democratic, in part because publishing content […]
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open threads 3
Burdastyle is an open-source sewing resource where members upload patterns and visitors can consult instructional references (below) or download pdf patterns (above). By providing instructions for how to sew at the same time as open source ‘code’ for what to sew the site is a real open source free fashion resource. As with free software, […]
Also posted in customization, fabrication, fashion, free & open, futurecraft, materials, open objects, product design, soft/glowing, universal design
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creative commons kiosk
Last week at the Fuori Salone the most memorable event was designersblock: held at a dilapidated public pool in Milan’s Tortona neighborhood, it featured booths by designers and collectives organized under the London-based design collaborative. One of the exhibitors was KithKin’s “Some Rights Reserved,” a kiosk offering creative commons-licensed digital wares at low low prices […]
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animated paint
Flickr introduced high-quality video to its amazing array of social image sharing functionality – a new medium for the web (see the best videos here). To celebrate here is Orit Zuckerman‘s freshly uploaded video of Moving Portrait 2 (above) and this AWESOME three-dimensional image (if you cross your eyes)(below).
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