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.
Can you imagine that these words are forbidden on the internet? It is in Turkey. (Source: CyberLaw Blog)
Not only these words are forbidden (Yasak) but also many worldwide services which are very common to us all are banned. Like YouTube, Last.fm and MySpace.
Turkish ad blogger and art director Firat Yildiz and copywriter Yavuzhan Gel made these ads for SansüreSansür.
“In Turkey. Internet freedom is under censorship treat constantly.”
Finally the Spanish department of Reporters Without Borders (Reporteros Sin Fronteros) act on Twitter too. That is what this new campaign tells us.
The campaign, released in February 2011, is showing the three assholes from today’s news: Muammar Gaddafi, Robert Mugabe and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
“Reporters Without Borders. Now on twitter @RSF_ES. The media change, the truth remains.”
Nice idea, the Twitter icon drops bird shit. “The media change, the truth remains.”
I did some :30 research: @rsf_es is on twitter since 22 Nov 2009! It’s is a minor detail maybe, but who is telling the truth here?
I can fuss also about the other part of the tagline “The media change”.
I do not. Let’s enjoy watching this campaign: The mouse is mightier than the sword.
Save the Children, Sweden, has an interesting campaign to teach young people the dangers of posting pictures of themselves online.
Called ”Picture Protect”, it invites you to find out if your picture is being used by sites without your permission. You just enter the URL of one of your online pictures, and it tells you all the sites where it appears. (This only works for hotlinking, however, as anyone could pull and rehost any picture without a trace.)
The campaign has an interesting promotional strategy by which users send an e-mail to a friend, and Picture Protect generates a dodgy-looking site using pictures tagged with that person’s name found online.
Immediately after the MDC (Movement for Democratic Change, the opposition party Wikipedia) won elections in Zimbabwe, two Zimbabwean Army soldiers appeared at the MDC offices in Gokwe South. They shot one MDC worker in cold blood outside the office, shot another inside the office and then locked 3 more MDC officials inside. Pouring 20 litres of petrol over the building, they set it alight before leaving. All three men suffered third degree burns before they could break down the door and escape.
It took three days to reach a treatment facility. Once there, doctors had to hide the men because Zanu-PF supporters came looking for them, intending to finish the job the soldiers had started. The young man in the picture, a former MDC secretary for Healing and Intergration in Gokwe South, also lost half his foot in the attack.
In 2009 I wrote about an unusual outdoor campaign for The Zimbabwean, a newspaper produced by a group of exiled Zimbabwean journalists.
Late last year, the situation in Zimbabwe started to deteriorate, and once again The Zimbabwean commissioned a campaign. The bulk of The Zimbabwean’s money is spent on getting newspapers into Zimbabwe, and not media space.
Two weeks ago The Voiceless Campaign launches in South Africa, as billboards across major cities direct viewers to a website where they can read more about the photographs, hear eye-witness accounts and locate the images in context on a satellite map. Visitors to the site can purchase subscriptions to The Zimbabwean, but they can also purchase subscriptions on behalf of reading groups, schools, training colleges and libraries within the country itself.
Launched by Reporters Without Borders in 2008, World Day Against Cyber-Censorship (on 12 March 2011) is intended to rally everyone in support of a single Internet without restrictions and accessible to all.
The fight for online freedom of expression is more essential than ever. By creating new spaces for exchanging ideas and information, the Internet is a force for freedom. In countries where the traditional media are controlled by the government, the only independent news and information are to be found on the Internet, which has become a forum for discussion and a refuge for those who want to express their views freely.
However, more and more governments have realised this and are reacting by trying to control the Internet. Never have so many countries been affected by some form of online censorship, whether arrests or harassment of netizens, online surveillance, website blocking or the adoption of repressive Internet laws. Netizens are being targeted by government reprisals. Around 117 of them are currently detained for expressing their views freely online, mainly in China, Iran and Vietnam.
World Day Against Cyber-Censorship pays tribute to them and their fight for Internet freedom. Reporters Without Borders will mark the occasion by issuing its latest list of “Enemies of the Internet.”
Something to think about. I just wish they had reached out to a friendly ad agency to make them a more shareworthy video.
AdFreak shared this amazing branding project from MIT’s media lab. To celebrate their 25th anniversary, they created an algorithm that generates a unique variation of their new logo. The result is 40,000 possible shapes with 12 color combinations.
For now, every teacher, staff member and student at the school will get their own unique logo, as well as every new student for the next 25 years.
Whether you find the logo aesthetically pleasing or not, the concept is amazing.
Love this Czech recruitment campaign for new contributors, which also celebrates Wikipedia’s 10th anniversary:
It gets right to the heart of what the collaborative project is all about, giving people who have way to much knowledge on a specific subject an outlet for their “nerdy” expertise. As a recruitment ad for authors, it celebrates their obsessions in a funny — but not demeaning — way. For readers, it shows the incredible depth of knowledge that people are adding to the project daily.
The popular music nerd above is the one I like best, since I’m a bit of one myself. (I can name — and own — quite a few of those records.) After the break, a military history nerd and a nature (or is it taxidermy?) nerd.
I found this amazing voice today on Twitter and got a lot of responses with my RT (great tip Lieke!).
The video, originally from The Columbus Dispatch, showing Ted Williams who made some bad decisions in his life. He is three years clean now and wants to make some money with his theatre of mind.
This golden voice perfectly fit in the American radio history or Hollywood voice-overs. I’m sure our visitors from ad agencies or media can help him, hire this man!
And there are some rumours out there about work for Ted.
I recently had the privilege of being invited to speak and participate in the 2012 Design Ethos Conference/Do-ference at Savannah College of Art and Design. The creator of the conference, Scott Boylston, is a longtime friend in the relatively small socially conscious design community and I was delighted that…
Some things in life are easy. We know them, we think of them, we understand them. And then there are those phenomena we would rather not know about. All the bad things … murder, rape, child molestation. We try hard to look away, and most of the time we…
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I found this amazing voice today on Twitter and got a lot of responses with my RT (great tip 
