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Promoting The Sunday Times’ Culture section refresh, the short film “Icons” by creative agency Grey London and directed by Us, features a shifting series of iconic cultural moments from Oscar-winning film Forrest Gump to Auguste Rodin‘s sculpture The Thinker.
Love this, short but really effective at conveying the breath and depth of culture. Here is the making-of, once again, let's celebrate the crew:
Fantastic short film.
An animated musical love story about a young man who lives inside a billboard and is charged with updating the advertisements. When he falls in love with a beautiful lady living across the highway, he has to use the only method he knows to get his message across - advertising.
Co-written, co-directed by: David Bokser & Matt Berenty
Produced by: Kevin Shapiro, Matt Berenty & David Bokser
Production company: Wolf & Crow(wolfandcrow.com) and Obsolete Robot
Music composition and vocals: Hunter CurraContact the film-makers at info@loveinthetimeofadvertising.com
In the age of social media, when cell phones come with camera lenses optimized for selfies, that last question gets asked regularly. So I am going to answer it, once and for all: No. There is no such thing as TMI on the Internet. We are living in a post-TMI age, and everyone needs to deal with it. Preferably by using the “unfollow” button.
There is such a thing as too much information for you. There is such a thing as information the speaker will later regret. But if an audience is willingly and pleasurably consuming the information, then by definition, that is the right amount of information for them. Assuming the information in question is yours to share — your life, your ideas, your stories, your pictures, your theories about elf genealogy in Lord of the Rings — you cannot share too much of it. There are no captive audiences on the Internet. Whereas discussing your sex life at the Thanksgiving dinner table may be TMI for Grandma, discussing your sex life online does not necessitate Grandma’s participation. If you follow someone on Twitter and you find that her tweets are too much for you, then you may unfollow her. If you continually recoil at TMI, it's because you lack the willpower to stop consuming (or foresight to avoid) the information in question. That’s your fault.
Wholeheartedly agree with Maureen O'Connor in NY Magazine's The Cut. This applies to many things beyond "social media," entertainment, politics and even people IRL.
Kevin Kelly shares this amazing fact in a Google+ post:
The largest human migration these days takes place every year around this time: Chinese Lunar New Year. Hundreds of millions of humans take every possible avenue to return to their home villages from the cities they now live in. In a space of about one week to 10 days, 3.6 billion passenger miles will be clocked on trains, buses, and cars. The Chinese search engine company Baidu (Google equivalent) created a heat map of these trips gathered from the locations provided by the smartphones of their 200 million subscribers. The three densest nexus you see here are Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong/Shenzhen.
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