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INFO AGENT MAN

18, Apr 2010

Design Fiction has been on my mind as of late. Particularly after hearing Bruce Sterling’s thinking about it’s role in experience design, product innovation and technology as well as other’s speaking from a designers point of view at SXSW 2010. What follows is a design fiction exercise, wrapping a narrative around thoughts about the weird, [...]

I’ve never been a huge Gary Vee follower, but right on for this video.  I think it represents emotions many feel after being so immersed in social media, the info rich web and culture of personal branding world.  The addictive nature, the distractions and the overwhelming opportunity to interact with others can stretch people to [...]

Just bumped into this full case study today while pulling together a presentation and had to share… The Dark Knight “Why So Serious” campaign by 42 Entertainment. While this isn’t new news, it’s an example I’ve used many times to show the depth that online media, social engagement and intrigue can take to promote an [...]

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“This makes Behind the Music look like Disney” Virtually unknown to those outside of his music heights in the UK in the 60s, Scott Walker is both pop star of the boho 60′s pop set, a hauntingly dark musical artist of the ilk of Brian Eno, Trent Reznor and Radiohead and avant guard that explores [...]

Wired Game Life brings us a peek into Remi Gaillard’s latest stunt, real world pac-man.  In a kind of Jack-Ass meets punk’d, our favorite yellow pixel chomper freaks out grocery store patrons, country clubbers and security guards along with his crayola-colored ghost arch enemies. Absolutely hilarious next move from the same guy who’s punk’d Jacques [...]

You don’t need roadies and you may not need instruments (as we know them). Check out UK band The Mentalists as they perform quite well, using iPods and iPhones: tip off by jasonoke.

James Howard Kunstler thinks you are…. (interview excerpt follows): Personally, I think one of our biggest ailments now is the techno-grandiosity displayed by people in the tech sector. There’s some notion that just because we can move pixels around a screen with a mouse, that all the woes of mankind will yield to a set [...]

some people take the test. hotels have offered up an escape: those with a large perv-monkey on their back go to the hollywood rehab-spa. others simply don’t bother and embrace their own digital-Geeking Man yearly. Hi, My Name is Andy.  An I’m a Digi-Holic. If you are as voraciously connected to the marketing interwebs as [...]


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