Filed under: australia, Digital culture, Emergent media, unbusiness, unconference
Following on from the unconferences here’s another site worth a look :: it’s a wiki at uncyclopedia that’s rather good. The pages on Melbourne & Sydney are particularly amusing…
Check it out :: uncyclopedia
This statement (minus the image) appeared over an expensive shopfront in a fashion store in Melbourne – the work of some disgruntled graf artists poking fun at the overpaid overdressed Melbourne social sets. The store not to be outdone, took a copy of the stencil & printed it onto overpriced t-shirts and sold them instore which I thought was rather amusing. Anyway, here’s the stencil again, this time it’s in Amsterdam…
Amsterdam
Street art is traditionally such an after hours affair but this guy who was right across from my hotel was doing incredible stuff. I know that this style of art has been around for a while but the fusion of spraycans and fine art technique means that the finished pieces look incredible and unlike anything I’d seen before.
What’s more it’s a rare treat to be able to watch a street artist working in front of you. Bet it won’t be long before a big brand taps into this ‘live street art’ idea and uses it for some instant street cred…
Paris, France
In an attempt to regain user preference for the Netscape site AOL have launched a beta version of the new Netscape which works in a similar way to Digg.com. Users post stories of interest and the more votes a story gets, the higher up the rankings it moves on the homepage. The essential difference between Digg & the net Netscape seems to be that Netscape also has a bunch of editor bloggers who pick out the top ranking stories and follow them up with commentary and supplementary editorial.
Check out the full story at :: Tech Crunch
Netscape beta version :: Netscape
Digg:: Digg.com
