March 2011
1 post
“It makes no sense to have a big corporate infrastructure to do, basically, the...”
– Om Malik on This week In Tech. Replace “media organization” with “theatre” and make other similiar, relevant changes and you have another very timely statement.
February 2011
1 post
“Isn’t this costing you money? Are you bad at business?
There are some...”
– The Alonetone About page
August 2010
3 posts
“The reason most advertising (and artistic endeavors) are lousy is not that...”
– Brian Belefant on 60 Second Director
“To be clear, if the New York Times is to be believed, Verizon and Google...”
– The Economist
“…that we have any regulators at all is a testament, on some basic level,...”
– The Economist
June 2010
1 post
“Ideas are worthless. Execution is everything.”
– Scott Adams
May 2010
1 post
“It is not acceptable to me that 21st century knowledge retention has become so...”
– Understand The Web by Ben Ward
March 2010
3 posts
“Be careful of the “everyones” who say pageviews are imperfect but the best we...”
– John Gruber on Daring Fireball
“But right now, we don’t have functional big banks. We have a cartel run by...”
– James K. Galbraith in “The Nation”
“So a brand that’s been successful for over three decades is now curated by...”
– Amanda Ameer at Life’s A Pitch
December 2009
1 post
“Now there was silence again. This time I was the one not talking. There was this...”
– The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs : A not-so-brief chat with Randall Stephenson of AT&T
October 2009
2 posts
“The central problem — our changing culture. The world has changed, but...”
– Greg Sandow
“We’ve been working ‘outside the box’ for a long time. For...”
– Rosalba Rolon, artistic director of the Pregones Theater in the Bronx, speaking at a conference about the future of NYC Performing Arts
September 2009
1 post
“When you see something that’s taking advantage of new technology to give...”
– Paul Graham on Post-Medium Publishing
August 2009
1 post
“The internet is becoming this thing where it’s just people trying to...”
– Merlin Mann
June 2009
1 post
“That’s because nothing in medicine is without risks. Complications can arise...”
– Atul Gawande in The New Yorker
May 2009
2 posts
“There probably aren’t many jobs that can be reduced to rule-following and still...”
– Matthew B. Crawford in the NY Times
“When I tell people that my iPhone isn’t a very good phone—its reception in...”
– How I got addicted to playing games on my iPhone. - By Farhad Manjoo - Slate Magazine: via Mike Daisey
April 2009
1 post
“controlling the scarcity of something that isn’t scarce can’t work”
– Joey Baker
March 2009
3 posts
“Undo Send for Gmail is all fine and good, but I want Undo Receive, I want some...”
– via Peter Rojas on Twitter
“We need a Coalition for Culture and we need it urgently.”
– From New Music Strategies
February 2009
11 posts
“When bombs went off in Mumbai last November, American Express immediately went...”
– Penelope Trunk via Brazen Careerist
“In other words, brethren in the arts community: stop talking about public...”
– The Nonprofiteer
“Our world, our educational system, and our arts have become Fogelberged. We have...”
– Scott Walters
1 tag
WatchAs a folow up to his music made with a stapler, Diego Stocco creates music with sand!
“All a product is, all a company is, is an an “Idea Amplifier”....”
– Hugh Macleod at Gaping Void
January 2009
10 posts
“Now you see I am also not confusing Art with Entertainment. Because...”
– Robyn Archer in Industry that pays and Art that doesn’t
“– and this is the crucial point: the central premise of there being a...”
– Andrew Haydon in The Guardian
“The old concept of the album is dead. However, we now have an opportunity - if...”
– George Howard in 9 Giant Steps
“Now we can see why blogging and the Net matter so greatly in political...”
– Jay Rosen
“There’s long been a fundamental problem with the green world — the myriad...”
– Joel Makower writing in the Marketing And Strategy blog.
“Before long, it won’t simply be the case that you shouldn’t simply...”
– Mark Hannah in Media Shift
“I think the sticky wicket is this: How do we discuss our own interpretation of a...”
– Meaning
“A successful work of art is not one which resolves contradictions in a spurious...”
– Theodore Adorno - quited in the Marketing & Strategy Innovation Blog
“Guest post: Acting as a non-monetary economy
from The Long Tail by Chris...”
– Adam Gurri writing on Chris Anderson’s blog “The Long Tail”
December 2008
6 posts
“Gioia, a poet, didn’t suggest that people had stopped reading poetry...”
– The Guardian - How To Make America A Nation Of Theatregoers by Alexis Soloski
“…when there is no vision of progress or betterment to unify a society, the...”
– From Kevin Kelly - The Missing Near Future
WatchVALIDATION
Good News - STEIM is saved!
From the STEIM website
Good news We have good news: STEIM is safe and will be able to continue her work. The Council for Culture has reversed her decision, without a doubt impressed by the well over 1000 support letters we received in just two weeks. Insightful, eloquent, personal letters from all over the world. We cannot thank you enough. You helped us realise again how extensive and faithful...
November 2008
3 posts
Very Cool Music from a Stapler →
Music by Sound Designer/Composer Diego Stocco