This really weird campaign for the Beneva Foundation (which appears to be based in Romania, even though the ads are Slovakian) assumes that you are aware of some of the most infamous internet shock sites of the past few years. If you are (and I have to admit that I am) then these children’s versions — implying that your kids have visited those sites themselves — are horribly hilarious. If you are not familiar, I will do my best to explain in the most professional manner possible.
Lemon Party (Wikipedia link) is the least shocking, at least in internet terms. It shows three naked, elderly men having a graphic threesome. The ice cream cone seems like a nod to the SFW Porn meme.
The other two are more infamous. See them after the break.
Jan. 18, 2012 is the designated SOPA blackout day. In protest prominent websites: Wikipedia, Go Daddy, Reddit and over 10,000 other sites are planning to go dark to contest two bills working through Congress. The bills will go before the US Congress on Jan 24th, where they will vote to pass internet censorship in the Senate, even though the vast majority of Americans are opposed. The bills are supported by Hollywood and the entertainment industry - Silicon Valley, representative of many who want to kill the bill in the House, say they want to protect rights to free speech, privacy, and prosperity.
The campaign to boycott is mostly crowdsourced in that individuals, groups, organizations and internet business have created their own content to express themselves. Twitter especially has seen large numbers of avatars covered with a black box censored. Youtube, at the time of writing had over 30,000 video results to the SOPA search. Wikipedia is shut down - only with a message requesting Zip codes which directs viewers to contact their local government officials
WANT to PROTEST? If you would like to participate with changing your avatar or shutting down your website for a day here’s a great link http://sopastrike.com/
From Wikipedia:
“Call your elected officials.
Tell them you are their constituent, and you oppose SOPA and PIPA.
Why?
SOPA and PIPA put the burden on website owners to police user-contributed material and call for the unnecessary blocking of entire sites. Small sites won’t have sufficient resources to defend themselves. Big media companies may seek to cut off funding sources for their foreign competitors, even if copyright isn’t being infringed. Foreign sites will be blacklisted, which means they won’t show up in major search engines. SOPA and PIPA build a framework for future restrictions and suppression.
In a world in which politicians regulate the Internet based on the influence of big money, Wikipedia — and sites like it — cannot survive.
Congress says it’s trying to protect the rights of copyright owners, but the “cure” that SOPA and PIPA represent is worse than the disease. SOPA and PIPA are not the answer: they will fatally damage the free and open Internet.”
Two great Christmas greetings from agencies in our world of cause marketing.
The video above is from Acart Communications, the agency where Osocio blogger Tom is working. I guess he is too shy to promote is here :-) I do it because it’s a great video.
Paranoël Activity: it takes a different perspective on that supernatural old guy who breaks into your house once a year while you and your children are asleep.
Written and Directed by Christopher Redmond
Director of Photography: Karl Roeder
Starring: Tim Coderre , Jack Megginson and Bridget Redmond (with a special appearance by Christopher Redmond as Old St. Nick)
Creative Directors: John Staresinic, Tom Megginson & Vernon Lai
Starring: Tim Coderre, Jack Megginson, Bridget Redmond, Christopher Redmond
Agency DETUSCH&LUBA from Copenhagen Danmark made the work below.
It is about food as a huge concern for humanity.
Eat, drink and be merry.
Eating disorder is rapidly reaching epidemic levels across the globe. Today, eating disorders account for more deaths than any other type of mental illness. Getting treated early is vital. The longer an eating disorder lasts, the greater and less reversible the damage becomes.
It can be scary to seek help for an eating disorder but gaining support from a friend, family member or nutritionist is for many people the first step on the road to recovery.
See the overweight version after the break.
Creative Director: Simon de Tusch-Lec
Chief strategist: Louis Paldrup
Photographer: Piotr Stopka
The Ad Council announced few weeks ago the launch of its newly designed website, which will heighten awareness of the significant social issues addressed by its public service advertising (PSA) campaigns and inspire Americans to take action. The website features a new design and additional content to effectively communicate the work, mission and expanded capabilities of the Ad Council. Beaconfire, a web development agency based in Washington, D.C., re-designed the website.
There is a lot to read on the internet about climate change. Too much maybe.
Heimat-Berlin devised a way to make this overload visually pleasant. They called it the ECOSPHERE Project.
It is made for the COP17 Climate Change Conference held in Durban, South Africa right now. It became a project from CNN International for its coverage of the conference.
The idea is that you, the visitor, plant a thought with a tweet. And watch it grow with other submissions. Which makes it a real-time view of the global climate change discussion
Each submitted tweet will stimulate growth in the individual topic plants causing some plants to grow larger or faster than others depending on how the conversation is evolving. The result is an instant snapshot of how the world sees climate change.
The ECOSPHERE Project is a fascinating snapshot of the global climate discussion I experienced myself tonight. It is a journey for hours or days.
Because of the used technique, the microsite is built on webGL, Google Chrome or Firefox is required.
For Osocio this is off topic but it is so remarkable that I want to share it with you. It is a media project from the tech brand Motorola based on the theme “The Future of Abundance”.
Remarkable because of it’s length. 13 minutes in total. But above all it isn’t about the brand itself. It is a vision on our future.
What’s going to emerge next when social media comes to an end? Key persons who lead the cultural context in Japan got together at the “Social Lab 0.0” to achieve an ambitious objective of finding out what’s beyond social and seeking a rich future. The social network can become vicious or at other times, become an innocent baby. What kind of future will it let us see?
Is abundance really our outlook? Hard to imagine.
The new technologies we face now will evolve into something else. Is social media an intermediate stop?
I saw these videos two weeks ago for the first time and since then I’m confused. More questions than answers. But above all a very important question:
“What does abundance mean to us these days?”
Artist Andy Golub specializes in painting bodies and objects. And as an artist, he knows that he has a right to exhibit nude body painting in public places in New York City. To remind the authorities of this, he has staged a number of happenings in Times Square.
Andy’s most recent event, painting g-string clad model Zoe West on August 30, resulted in her arrest. But as predicted, she was later released without charges.
While Golub has certainly drawn headlines with his public displays, he insists it is all done in the name of art. “When the model first takes her clothes off, some people think it’s a stunt of some kind,” he says. “But after the painting starts to take form, people just hang out and watch the painting develop. I think my favorite thing is the look that everyone has when they’re staring and contemplating how the process works.”
We see a lot of nudity in today’s digital media world, mostly because sex and beauty still have an instinctive power to fascinate us. But what do you think of the artist’s motives? And would you feel differently if the model was male, or the painter female?
Most importantly: Do you feel enlightened?
See (censored) mainstream media video of his latest work after the break.
This is the second post today for activists. The first post, the Anti Kettling Kit, is about making fun in an awkward situation.
In this post it is serious business. It is about the threats against freedom of information and expression for activists and independent journalists.
It follow the adventures of a robot called ONO who can see the layers behind information and reveal to viewers the kinds of digital traces they might be leaving behind and how their activities can be tracked and monitored.
The 5 episodes also provide advice on tools and tactics that campaigners can start using to anonymise themselves, protect their data and networks, and generally, be more secure in their digital lives.
In this post the first two episodes. See all episodes on the project website onorobot.org.
“Give-a-Shit.org is not like all those other charities. We’re not asking you to give us money. We’re asking you to Give a Shit. Now, don’t be packaging it up and mailing it to us or anything, just pick a cause, and show us what you Give a Shit about”
Nice new idea and yes I have my best thoughts mostly on the toilet too.
We are determined to harness the power of mass consciousness.
But in our frenetic, fast-paced existence when do folk have the time to really care about the problems of the world?
Well, everyone has those moments of God-given contemplation while on the toilet.
The perfect time for people to give a shit is while having a shit.
That’s how the “Give a Shit” movement was formed.
And that’s how caring became sharing as people shared their shit.
A special video featuring Nikki Reed from Twilight:
Posted by Marc | 10-06-2011 17:51 | Category:
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Scar Tissue is a project by photographer René Clement. His goal is to publish a one-time newspaper entitled Scar Tissue covering significant developments in New York and at Ground Zero during the year preceding the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 tragedy.
René Clement: “In August 2010, I started a year-long journey as a New York based photographer, to create a pictorial study of my home town as it continues to recover from the 9/11 tragedy ten years on. I wanted to feel the pulse of the city to determine if its wounds remain open, have healed or if scar tissue has formed. The past year has been filled with highly charged events in the run-up to the tenth anniversary, with controversy surrounding the possible location of an Islamic Center near Ground Zero, in addition to the death of Osama Bin Laden. The redevelopment of Ground Zero is now well underway, after laying dormant for many years; a gaping hole in the city’s fabric is being mended, and new towers begin to emerge once again.”
“The funds that I am trying to raise will simply cover the printing and designing costs for the free newspaper. Additional costs for magazine or newspaper supplements will be funded by those publications. As you may recall, last year I successfully funded my project Promising Land through Kickstarter, which was published in May 2011. I am very grateful to have this opportunity to approach you once again.”
Scar Tissue is a work in progress and as this project evolves, details will be posted to the updates section of his Kickstarter page, website and blog.
In the Democratic Republic of Congo or DRC, sexual violence is a community-wide problem. Rape, in the DRC has been used as a weapon of war and sadly continues to increase even after. According to the peacebuilding NGO Search for Common Ground or SFCG, it is estimated that there…
In the movie Hot Tub Time Machine, John Cusack goes “back to the future” and discovers that his friend Lou has become incredibly wealthy due to a little search-engine-that-could that he aptly named “Lougle.” It’s a fun example of how an individual’s name can become a familiar household term…
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