Welcome to Apple: Cultural expectations elegantly defined …want to swim in the Deep End?

May 9th, 2012 Comments Off

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Who needs Employee Manuals?

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Here is a 3-minute journey through the last 250 years of our history showing the global growth of transportation & communication networks.

May 4th, 2012 Comments Off

A 3-minute journey through the last 250 years of our history, from the start of the Industrial Revolution to the Rio+20 Summit. The film charts the growth of humanity into a global force on an equivalent scale to major geological processes. 


The film was commissioned by the Planet Under Pressure conference, London 26-29 March, a major international conference focusing on solutions. 
planetunderpressure2012.net

The film is part of the world’s first educational webportal on the Anthropocene, commissioned by the Planet Under Pressure conference, and developed and sponsored by 
www.anthropocene.info

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A Figurative and Unique Way to Tell Time: Billy Chasen “People” Clock

May 4th, 2012 Comments Off

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Flexibility is good.

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The secret inspiration of Edvard Munch’s “The Scream” is revealed…we now know why the terrified man is in shock: $119,922,500

May 3rd, 2012 Comments Off

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Norwegian painter Edvard Munch became the most expensive artist at auction Wednesday when his 1895 pastel of a terrified man clutching his cheeks along an Oslo fjord, “The Scream,” sold for $119.9 million at Sotheby’s—the most ever paid for a work of art at auction.

The purchase surpasses the $106.5 million spent two years ago for Pablo Picasso’s 1932 portrait of his mistress, “Nude, Green Leaves and Bust,” as well as Alberto Giacometti’s earlier record of $104.3 million for his 1960 spindly bronze sculpture, “Walking Man I.”

“The Scream” carries its own mystique, having come from the collection of Petter Olsen, a Norwegian real-estate developer and shipping heir who grew up with the work in the living room of his childhood home. His father, Thomas Olsen, a neighbor of Munch’s in the small Norwegian town of Hvitsten, bought the work from the German coffee magnate who likely commissioned it. During World War II, Mr. Olsen said his family hid the work along with dozens of other Munch artworks in a hay barn to protect them from the Nazis, who were destroying artworks they deemed degenerate. Mr. Olsen has said he offered up “The Scream” now in order to fund a museum of Munch’s work in Hvitsten to open next year.

The third in a series created between 1893 and 1910, Sotheby’s version was created with pastel on rough board and offered in its original frame, which is inscribed with an 1892 poem Munch wrote that inspired the work. In the poem, he says he was walking beside that fjord when he sensed “an infinite scream passing through nature.”

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Is Japan The Most Creative Country? Adobe thinks so…

April 27th, 2012 Comments Off

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A recent study by Adobe has revealed Japan as the most creative country. But the Japanese and Americans do not see the Japanese as creative; Americans believe that America is the most creative.

In an interview of 5,000 adults across the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, France and Japan, Tokyo is found to be the most creative city, with New York coming in second.

The study also shows that 80% of people feel that unlocking creativity is critical to economic growth; but only 1 in 4 people feel like they’re living up to their own creative potential.

75% of respondents said they are under growing pressure to be productive rather than creative—the lack of time being the biggest barrier to creativity.

Most of those surveyed feel that creativity is stifled by education systems, and many believe creativity is taken for granted.

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