Posts Tagged ‘New York City’
up there: a documentary on ad painters
May 18th, 2010 by lifeproof
There are big banners everywhere. At Times Square they are huge LED screens that might even be HD. At other places, we see mostly vinyl or paper based banners that are glued to the space… Do you remember a time when those banners were actually painted on the walls… by real people. Here is a short documentary [...]
Tags: advertising, banner design, banner painting, documentary, documentary video, graphic design, history of advertising, New York, New York City, NYC, painting advertisements, street art, street painting, times square, wall painters, Wooster Collective
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share 2.0: culture of sharing
February 21st, 2010 by lifeproof
Last year in May, we were having an informal talk with Jonathan D. Schwartz, Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Cablevision Systems and previous General Counsel of Napster (remember Napster vs. Metallica), as a group of international media scholars in New York City. We talked about his current occupation and his past career activities, but [...]
Tags: Apple, blogger is the new marketer, BookCrossing, Bruce Nussbaum, Cablevision Systems, change of consumer culture, Channel Thirteen, consumer, consumer culture, consumer dynamics, CouchSurfing, CrowdSpirit, culture of sharing, Design Thinking Class, dynamics of sharing, dynamics of sharing in web 2.0, facebook, file sharing, filesharing, Google, IBM, ICQ, internet, iPad, IRC, Jonathan D. Schwartz, Kindle, Mac, Metallica, Microsoft, MP3, MSN, napster, New York City, PirateBay, Robin Chase, share 2.0, sharing dynamics, social media, social media analysis, social media consulting, the culture of sharing, The New School, The Pirate Bay, web 2.0, wikipedia, Windows, zipcar
Posted in Black Yogurt Chronicles, Reminder
virtual protest march on google maps
January 26th, 2010 by lifeproof
I have written an article on the dispute between Google and China for a Turkish newspaper the last week. I stated that The Great Firewall of China was not much different than the firewall that the Turkish conservative government has built around us. When I first returned to Turkey this summer after spending two years [...]
Tags: AKP, ban on YouTube, bobiler.org, China, Google, Google Docs, google maps, Istanbul, New York, New York City, ReadWriteWeb, Tayyip Erdogan, The Great Firewall of China, Turkey, virtual protest, virtual protest march, YouTube
Posted in Black Yogurt Chronicles, PinPoint
Ads in Public Space
October 26th, 2009 by lifeproof
There is an activist artist group in New York that is led by Jordan Seiler, which is acting against the domination of commercial ads covering the public sphere like skin. The group is constantly white washing ads and drawing their own art on them. The companies are constantly coming back and replacing the transformed ads [...]
Tags: ad, advertisement, advertising, commercial, Jordan Seiler, New York, New York City, NY Times, Public Ad Campaign, public sphere, The New York Times
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