Imagine a world filled only with Comic Sans. This tumblr project is either a travesty or sheer genius.
Starting in 2013, yet another copyrighted creative work will be screened exclusively to consumers of a particular combination of products and services and exlusively to those who live in the contiguous 48 states of the USA.
Starting minutes or at worst hours after this, the rest of the world or those Americans who are not Netflix customers, will access the same creative work by infringing on the rights holder’s copyright. They’ll do this using Bittorent, or some sort of file sharing technology - whatever is easiest in 2013. The majority of those who watch and enjoy the creative work will do so without paying for the experience, and the show will be nothing like as lucrative as it should be.
A show will be shown in the US on Netflix only and everyone else will have to wait for the authorised distribution to them. But everyone excluded in the initial deal will just help themselves to the content using technology which is now easy and free.
The studio executives and rights holders will continue to be bewildered as they make less money, year after year. Some rights holders and studios will cease making copyrighted works like this, and will bitterly blame piracy for the now absent profitability. Perhaps there’ll be an aborted season of Arrested Development 3D and a multi billion dollar lobbying effort in Washington to criminalise piracy through trade agreements first, but they’ll eventually just stop and curse our names, when there was nobody to blame but themselves.
Day in, day out, we see content distribution companies continue to make decisions that are just bewildering. Why even attempt to limit the audience this narrowly? Why punish the purchasers of legitimate DVDs by placing anti-piracy ads and film trailers that cannot be skipped on there? Why include activation routines in software that annoys purchasers (dear Microsoft, I’m looking at you) and doesn’t deter pirates in the slightest?
As distribution companies cling to the past, disruption will come - maybe not from Apple and Amazon, but someone will come up with a better mouse trap.
Pretending you know what you’re doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so just accept that you know what you’re doing even if you don’t and do it.
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| — | Bre Pettis and Kio Stark |
I have a theory, which has not let me down so far, that there is an inverse relationship between imagination and money. Because the more money and technology that is available to [create] a work, the less imagination there will be in it.
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| — | Alan Moore |
The future vision in this video is rather sterile - and not all that imaginative. This underlines why the future technology war will be fought between Apple, Amazon, Google and Facebook - Microsoft is struggling for relevance. For another perspective, check out http://worrydream.com/ABriefRantOnTheFutureOfInteractionDesign/.
Super impressive highlights reel from Damien Walters. My favourite move is the somersault over the table, picking up the hat left on table enroute.
Art Exhibit of the Day: In an effort to illustrate just how many photos are posted to the web each and every day, Erik Kessels put together an exhibition for Foam that consists of every single photo posted on Flickr within a 24-hour period.
The result? A ceiling-high stack of over 1 million photos that required multiple rooms to hold.
“We’re exposed to an overload of images nowadays,” Kessels said. “By printing all the images uploaded in a 24-hour period, I visualise the feeling of drowning in representations of other peoples’ experiences.”
Mind not sufficiently blown? Flickr represent a paltry percentage of total online photo uploads. By comparison, Facebook users post 25 times as many photos, every day.
I wonder if we are actually leaving anything of substance behind…
Social gestures (social sharing in the context of a brand, business or person) allow us to easily identify fellow members of our tribe, or those we aspire to join… we are all influential if only to a few and marketers want you to be you out loud so others will buy from them like you do. You are a marketer, like it or not. Now get out there and start sharing — I mean selling.
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| — | From Jason Lorimer, “We’ve all been hacked”. |
![86th Birthday Rage [very long] [first post] [hello!] - Imgur
Love this. How few of us relate the monumental stories that happen in our lives. Maybe we’re ashamed, maybe it’s not casual conversation, maybe we don’t like the spotlight. But it reminds me of the line from Don’t Forget the Sunscreen - ‘Get to know your parents. You’ll miss them when they’re gone…’. From experience, that is the truth. I wish I’d asked more questions.](http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lu9lr9VsAH1qzpzquo1_500.jpg)
86th Birthday Rage [very long] [first post] [hello!] - Imgur
Love this. How few of us relate the monumental stories that happen in our lives. Maybe we’re ashamed, maybe it’s not casual conversation, maybe we don’t like the spotlight. But it reminds me of the line from Don’t Forget the Sunscreen - ‘Get to know your parents. You’ll miss them when they’re gone…’. From experience, that is the truth. I wish I’d asked more questions.
Everyone knew where the windows and the icons came from.
“Well, Steve,” Gates responded. “I think there’s more than one way of looking at it. I think it’s more like we both had this rich neighbor named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it.”
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I am looking forward to reading Isaacson’s biography on Jobs once exams are done…
Whoa. A huge amount of ‘stuff’ has been created in just sixty seconds. And this blog post has contributed to one of 20,000 tumblr posts and one of more than 98 thousand tweets.
Source: Go-Globe.com - Shanghai Web Designers
Sobering predictions for the future (2050) from Lapham’s Quarterly. Underlines the need for change in our thinking - we desperately need to move from a throwaway design society to one that appreciates the need for closing the loop on design, ensuring that whatever we create can be broken down and reused without poisoning those doing the recycling. We as consumers should demand more from manufacturers, but I suspect we’re too attached to $8 fans from Bunnings…
