Live. Play. Create. Imagination For Good.
Sometimes, the things we share online and create together are perhaps most beautiful when they simply, just are. Not because they are clever, or viral, or whatever. But just because. You share. Then in a way, I share your experience. It’s the invisible ink of the interwebs that you can’t just copy and paste.
Image originally uploaded by Andrew Coulter Enright
The iPad as a musical instrument? Let’s take a look-see.
Maybe you like to mess with the classics
Or your nights are spent making music ’round a campfire
You might get your kicks out beats and the sounds of synth
(created on this)
Or you just like to geek out with music and fireworks
Perhaps you like to karaoke. Maybe you play the Ocarina. Just hit record then spin the world to hear global harmonies belted out in passionate unison.
Maybe your air guitar days have become a cyber reality
It could be that you just like to scratch
And when you’re not scratching your rapping
What do you think? A musical instrument? Musical conduit? Sonic expression? Bells and Whistles?
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And now imagine a child living in rural or remote areas with an iPad, or an OLPC tablet. Learning. Playing. Creating.
Now Press Play
Just because I CAN blog about a unicorn singing Culture Club’s “Do you Really Want to Hurt Me”? And because Chewing Gum should be this much fun. Puppets rule, OK?
My seven year old says it’s absolutely “Ridicliose”
via Puppetvision
What do words, technology, transport, perspectives and happiness have to do with the 15th of June in Melbourne?
Read about it here http://the3six5.posterous.com/june-15-2010-jasmin-tragas
It’s my contribution to the3six5 project, created and run by Len Kendall and Daniel Honigman from Chicago. They’re nearly halfway to creating a log of 365 posts from different people around the world explaining how their day went. There are so many unique experiences and life stories being shared, it’s really worth taking the time to have a peek!
From Alex Fuller: “At it’s most basic form, I believe social media is a dialogue. Onamountaintop.com allows users to say whatever it is they want to say with no accounts, no friends and no poking. Once the user’s entry fades to white, their words are gone forever. Just as one’s voice echoes into the valley from a mountain top. Pure poetry.”
So what do you find on this mountaintop? Sometimes the words are offensive. Sometimes it’s almost artistic - like this screengrab I captured this morning. You enter this space at your own risk or advantage – finding creating inspiration, political statements, teenagers (or perhaps frustrated executives) swearing, symbols – or perhaps something that doesn’t even make sense at all.
Useful? Who knows. But what’s interesting to me is this conceptual and abstract view of our social media conversations. No avatars. No ranking. Just a digital log of words that rise and fade over time…
Today’s Wonderment photo sprung out from a patched up, tar-stained inner-city road. I call it “Bull on a Lead”.
What do you see?
Here’s a simple, but very clever conceptual use of social networking.
If you had a long-term illness which made it difficult to get online, but you wanted an easy way to keep all your friends, family and healthcare providers updated on your wellbeing, what would you do? What about updating your social networks with the turn of a radio dial?
I like this. It’s called Buddy. This Dieter Rams inspired social media radio has been designed by UK-based social innovation company Sidekick Studios. It’s described on their website as a post-digital social care service which uses social networks to extend the community of carers around an individual beyond healthcare professionals, to friends, families and peers. ” Buddy Software uses the data collected to co-ordinate the community response, increase staff productivity, and to deliver the ultimate goal, self-management”
From their development blog,
“Buddy starts with a simple, human question, ‘How are you feeling today?’ It’s the kind of question your GP might ask, and better still, your friend. In itself, it’s not a medical prognosis. And that’s precisely the point.”
They aim to see patients treated as people. It takes the whole notion of ambient intimacy to another level and raises an interesting question. Do you think the convergence of social networking and healthcare will change the way patients and carers are provided with diagnosis and treatment? What are the implications of concepts like Buddy?
versions + vision + video + voices + joie de vivre = this:
thanks to the {original} {and to Bernie for blipping the bratpack version a little while back, and Mashable for posting the PS22 version}
It’s been a while since I started writing a post. I mean, since I started writing a post with no name – without a vague notion in mind about the content, the theme, the message, the meme, the photo, the category, the purpose – the question.
So here I am. A post with no name. No tag. No category. No picture. “Uncategorized”.
It just needed to be written.
And now – I think I can start writing again.
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