Phil’s post yesterday got me thinking. At Museums and the Web a couple of weeks ago (check out Charlie’s post), Rob and I presented our paper about online video. At the end of our talk, I was asked if the IMA ever created viral video content. My response was immediate and along the lines of this: I’m not sure a museum could create a successful viral video. It would have to come from someone outside the museum and break lots of rules. But then Phil wrote about viral videos and I started thinking.
The IMA is not immune to the viral video idea. Our first ever YouTube video was conceived as a marketing, viral video in support of an exhibition. That was almost three years ago.
For the last month or so, I’ve had guerrillas and how they market on my brain. I’m particularlly interested in what an IMA viral video campaign would look like. However, even though there are video campaigns out there that have achieved viral success, setting out to make one seems rather daunting. How do people do it? Read the rest of this entry »
Similar to my aggressive alarm snoozing incident this morning, I’m late on this one, but only by a day! I have been clueless (thanks for the tip Kate), but apparently April 27th is recognized as World Graphics Day. According to Wikipedia:
World Graphic Design Day is celebrated on April 27, the anniversary of the founding of Icograda, the world body for graphic design, in 1963. It is a day to celebrate the profession of graphic and communication design. The day has been celebrated since 1995.
Now if we could only abolish Comic Sans! But since we can’t, you should do yourself a favor and meet film director Gary Hustwit (Helvetica) and see his latest documentary, Objectified, which is a film about the creative process of product design. It is at the Toby here at the IMA on May 14th 2009! The film features designers who shape our manufactured environment and our interfaces with mass-produced objects including the people behind IKEA furniture and the iPod. Click here to read more about the event. Hope to see you there!
I get in the design groove by listening to music, and this seems to be all too fitting. Dert’s CMYK ep should help you get those creative graphic design juices flowing. Pay as you please… dope indeed.
Battleship Island - A former coal mining facilty owned Mitsubishi Motors that was at one time the most densely populated place on earth (13,000 people per square kilometer). Viceland, the web outlet of the Vice media conglomerate, takes us on a quick tour and offers up some reallycoolpictures of this “rotting metropolis.” For those of you that are into industrial lookin’ living spaces, check this out for sure.
Goofing Off Boasts Productivity – Another interesting study about how taking a break from work to check out the Internet is good for getting things done. I’d be curious to see the results of a study on those of us who “goof off” for a living and take breaks from goofing off by filing papers and organizing their inboxes.
100 Awesome Facebook Apps – Because I know you love/hate a good/bad Facebook app as much as I do. Notable apps include Picasa (photo manipulation), Goodread (personal book tracking) and “What language should you learn” (self explanatory). There are 97 more for your enjoy/disdain ment.
Monday Music – “My Maudlin Career” by Camera Obscura. Title track off their new album.
I just re-read my article in CeROArt; not because I’m a total narcissist, but because a friend of mine told me yesterday that there was lots of typos in it. The article, “Collaborating in the Public’s Domain”, was published this Wednesday and is about the potential for conservators to find news to work together to preserve cultural property with the help of museum visitors. Daniel Cull reviewed the article here.
I’m kind of surprised that Mr. Cull didn’t beat me up about the 10 or 20 typos in the article. After thinking about this for a while I’ve come to realize that the typos don’t bother me. Really they don’t. I’m more interested in the ideas, the Content written with a big “C,” and feedback.
