Molvania

http://www.molvania.com/molvania/index.html


Check it out. Is this:

1. Humorous & benign
2. Humorous but somewhat politically incorrect? Why?
3. Promotes Western negative stereotypes of Eastern Europeans?
4. A very clever parody of travel guides?
5. All, none, other?

THE INTERNET AS PLAYGROUND AND FACTORY

A conference on digital labor. This looks good. Check it out.


On November 12 to 14, Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts will host an international conference, "The Internet as Playground and Factory," which will explore the meaning and changing face of labor in the digital era. For three days, more than 90 theorists, educators, artists, legal scholars, activists, students, programmers, historians, and social media experts will join to re-evaluate what constitutes unpaid labor, value, leisure, play, fun, and exploitation in an economy that is increasingly driven by the expropriation of our online activities.

This event will commence a biennial series of conferences titled, “The Politics of Digital Media.”

Conference website:
http://digitallabor.org/

Charter for Compassion

• RT @TEDchris Special Sunday treat. We've just posted SIX talks to prepare for the upcoming Charter for #Compassionhttp://ted.com @jberrill 2009-11-01

France mulls "health warning" for fashion photos

Pretty much, the French Government wants to start putting health warnings on "enhanced" photographs of people. Yeah.

Something we are all aware of, especially relevant to us as graphic designers. Heres the link:
http://in.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idINIndia-42600920090921

For some reason it reminded me of this too:
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/07/10/iran-you-suck-at-pho.html

Oh, and this too (sorry about all the links, this last ones great though)
http://photoshopdisasters.blogspot.com/

The Day There Was No News - Video

I came across this while blog surfing, and I found the idea and concept very interesting, somewhat moving (and not to mention, a little bit humourous).
I read someones comment somewhere that this is what CNN should do instead of filling in the day with recycled hysteria. I think many news stations should take that advice...

Both of these videos do well to illustrate the old saying “no news, is good news”.

The Exponential Function

Watch the Video on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-QA2rkpBSY

Dr. Albert A. Bartlett, Professor Emeritus of physics stated in his lecture;
that "The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function"

We are living in a degrading world, eco problems is on the rise, financial crisis is nearing its end (possibly not for some countries). We all need to be aware of these problems and aim to change it or perhaps solve it. However, the question that Professor Bartlett ask is that "were we ill informed or did we fail to realize it when it seemed less important?"

We as human beings have the tendency to fail to realize the significance of problems and statistics for the long term. There were a few free-thinkers and theorist who have tried to warn us about the problems we face today and yet the media, corporations and governments accused them of conspiracy and treachery. Isn't it clear that we could have been more prepared of these problems if the media did not, per say, 'sugar coat' the beginning of the problem in the first place; did not soften the significance of the information given to us.

If we thought more broadly and analytically, would we have been able to lessen the problems of today? You decide.