A few weeks ago Wired Magazine launched a 48-hour, crowd-sourced magazine initiative where they invited anyone to submit work focused on its central theme. For this issue of “The Connective” the theme was Mass Transmission, imagining a world with the internet of everything. While I totally didn’t make the cut with my submission, whoa is me, the… Continue Reading
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The systemic dismantling of what it means to believe
Have you ever wondered why everything in the world is so damn ironic these days? Psy, Bieber, geo politics, consumerism. Everything today either comes with a self-referential set of ironic functions or starts off with the qualifying statements like “I am not an expert” or “I don’t really know first hand but.” It’s as… Continue Reading
What DOVE tells us about how we believe today
Given that I work in media, marketing and advertising I am usually reluctant to critique my own domain, mostly for the reason that it exposes my own self loathing nature. This week however my social feeds have been littered with friends sharing the latest Dove campaign. This version of… Continue Reading
A confused economy or an economy of confusion
I was wandering through the bookstore the other evening, parsing through what seems and endless trail of thoughts, ideas, formulations, reformulations and confusing categorizations of knowledge. As culture studies blend with science which blends with business which inevitably ruins everything one that struck me as odd was the nature of the titles that appeared throughout.… Continue Reading
Better than nothing – The decline of human expectation
It occurred to me this morning as I watched with awe the amount of media coverage being afforded to discount shopping what this signified to us as a culture. Memories of people dying while trying to score a deal at a Walmart ran through my mind, bringing with it the obvious consumerism that grips our… Continue Reading
The new meta #meta
If you look at the world around you it has become increasingly apparent that we are in the midst of a mass migration. This migration isn’t the mega-city migration or the end of the world migration. It is the mass migration of a single species, us, onto a single language, code. Everything in our world… Continue Reading
The alligator and the marshmallow
It was early November outside of New Orleans where I was sat on an airboat skimming across the swamplands at a breakneck speed. There was a dense fog in the air which left the swamp cooler than usual which meant we wouldn’t be seeing many gators. As we skimmed across a small clearing our engine… Continue Reading
Why is it so difficult?
In the past I’ve wrote about gender differences and how they nudge people towards certain behaviors rather than others, and how this represents an opportunity for companies and brands when they design their user experiences. The digital world has made so much progress in designing products and services that are neutral in purpose and forms, but… Continue Reading
The problem with charity today
I was sat in the changing room of a fitness facility where in front me was the requisite pile of men’s magazines aimed to indulge all my manly attributes. As I glanced at the covers of GQ, Essence, Road & Track and Details I came across an interesting title of which I was not familiar.… Continue Reading
The 2012 election signifies a new opportunity
As the fever dies down and the world returns to dealing with the massive issues ahead it is important to take a moment and understand what just happened. Criticize the electoral process, the college, the super PACs, the advertising, the spamming of our news feed, the Sesame Street memes along with the distraction from global atrocities happening… Continue Reading