Daily Archives: October 6, 2008

Emily Allchurch

By Chungaiz | Published: October 6, 2008
  Emily Allchurch subtly and sensitively updates old Master Paintings from the likes of Turner, Whistler, Della Francesca, and gives us an impression of perhaps not only the moment after the scene we know more famously has passed, but also that same scene were it to have taken place today. Graffiti, litter, building works and CCTV [...]
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Interactive Posters

By Chungaiz | Published: October 6, 2008
  This has been around before, but not on TheScrapBook… plug your headphones into these interactive posters for Pepsi and hear some tracks. Probably Brittney or Christina though.
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Dan Witz at Stolen Space

By Chungaiz | Published: October 6, 2008
  Dan Witz is exhibiting at Stolen Space gallery next week. Such great varied work – from street art trompe l’oeil to Hopper-esque street corners with haunting lighting.
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Status Economy – Hipsters vs Geeks

By Chungaiz | Published: October 6, 2008
  Interesting to observe that whilst Hipsters are buying status by fashion and “statement” limited edition gear, that we’re observing knowledge as the true status symbol. No longer are traditional status symbols the preserve of the “worthy” – designer labels, car, watches etc are being bought by every Sharon and Tracey chav with a bank account (or [...]
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Journalism and The Downfall Of Society

By Chungaiz | Published: October 6, 2008
You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Remember the talk from Google that interested me? The one about not having enough time to do real thinking because it’s easier to do the “fast tasks” (immediately do-able) rather than creating space to do real thinking. And my own theory about how we’re [...]
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Video Games Not The Downfall of Society

By Chungaiz | Published: October 6, 2008
  One of my favourite “marketing” books of recent years was called Everything Bad Is Good For You which, explores how popular culture entertainment (TV shows, games, reality shows etc) that is otherwise dismissed is in fact very powerful in shaping our modern thinking. Amongst other really interesting theories, it talks about “telescoping”. Telescoping is what kids have [...]
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Sarah Palin Debating Flow Chart

By Chungaiz | Published: October 6, 2008
It’s funny, cos it’s true. Obama may be everywhere and that might be a bad thing in terms of saturation, voters not really understanding his policies, getting tired of him/his image… but I beg anyone who can to vote for him or else this woman will have a serious chance of becoming President of the [...]
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Skateboarding in Afghanistan

By Chungaiz | Published: October 6, 2008
You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Three Australian skateboarders brought their boards to Kabul and started teaching the kids how to skate to interact with them and develop cross-cultural learning. If you want more information or to assist the project in any way contact them at skateistan.org or skateistan@gmail.com   Skateistan [...]
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