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Tumblr has transformed into a brand-safe zombie of its former self
An interview with a Verizon suit makes it clear that Tumblr is a hollow shell of what it once was. What does this say for the experimentation the web once offered?
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Experimenting our way to purpose
Neil Perkin [http://www.onlydeadfish.co.uk/only_dead_fish/2017/07/the-purpose-of-life.html]: > It’s part of the reason why I have such little patience for the view that we all have one self-evident purpose in life and it is simply a matter of being brave enough to
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Social media sanity checks the Rogue One way
It’s not hard to find this adorable: Yes, it’s the CGI team from Industrial Light & Magic, watching reaction videos to the [trailer for *Rogue One*](http://www.starwars.com/video/rogue-one-a-star-wars-story-official-teaser-trailer), the forthcoming *Star Wars* movie.In a month where we’ve seen so damn many examples
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Influence and power in the age of the YouTube celebrity
YouTube celebrities – like comicbookgirl19 [http://www.comicbookgirl19.com] above – are the fastest growing media stars of our age, yet a group much of the mainstream media seems utterly unaware of. There’s an interesting piece arguing that female YouTube celebrities have greater influence [http://adage.com/article/digital/female-youtube-stars-carry-clout-mainstream-celebs/301119/
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Escaping the tyranny of the team
Team work can be creative and fulfilling. But some tasks are better done alone. Can we design offices to allow that?
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What does it mean to be creative?
Compelling exploration of how creative minds function [http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/2014/12/24/the-messy-minds-of-creative-people/] : > As psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, who has interviewed creative people across various fields points out, creative people “show tendencies of thought and action that in most people are segregated. They contain contradictory extremes; instead
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Naming that GoPro tune
If you watch a number of GoPro-type extreme sports videos, you’re probably deeply familiar with this track: This tune is indelibly marked in my head as the “Le Web tune”, because as I sit in the main stage area, finishing liveblog posts, high-energy GoPro videos are often playing with
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Inspired by the horrible
Negative creative inspiration [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/luxury/design/44377/marc-newson-design-diversified.html] at work: > Picking holes in things is part of Newson’s creative process. “One of my biggest sources of inspiration as a designer is basically looking at things and hating them,” he says, good-naturedly. “I have
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You need a holiday, says neuroscience
[https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2014/08/exhausted-pop.jpg] When you’re two years old, a busy day just needs a restorative nap, while you are carried home by your parents. When you’re older, and your productivity matters, you need more than that: > Increasing
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29 ways to be creative - and the last one's the killer
[via Conversation Agent [http://www.conversationagent.com/2014/07/29-ways-to-stay-creative.html]]
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"Content" is crap
Greg Satell [http://www.digitaltonto.com/2014/content-is-crap/]: > The reason is that content isn’t really king. Content is crap. Nobody walks out of a great movie and says, “Wow! What great content.” Nobody who produces meaningful artistic expression thinks of themselves as content producers either. So the first
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Life through Instagram: the movies
I like this: Lovely example of both how similar photos taken of certain sights can end up, even when “filtered” by Instagram, but also the creative potential of this vast online wealth of creative material we’re building up. [Found via Neil Perkin’s e-mail newsletter [http://us1.campaign-archive2.com/