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These Are Those Things

Timesculpture

Not having cable or being a television watcher, I miss out on some culture, some artistry, some trends. I am glad there are ways to make up for that now. Maybe it’s an odd thing to select to watch advertisements. But when someone reorders the world into new art, I want to see it. I also want it explained. I was glad to find this out there too:

And thanks to The NYTimes YEAR IN IDEAS for tipping me to this too.

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The Next Good Idea

It’s That Time Of The Year Again

When the NYTimes publishes its Year In Ideas issue, its time for rejoicing.  Outside of an election year like this one, nothing helps me get excited for the future like this little round up (well, on a non-personal level that is).  

Wondering about how to spend your weekend or what to read on the john today, read the Year In Ideas.  Well, I guess on the latter option, you should go out and buy the newspaper (remember those?).

I hope to follow up on some of the ideas listed in this issue in the weeks ahead, but they have lots of good ones: the bio-mechanical energy harvester, the bus-wait formula, the climate change defense, the dog-poop DNA bank, fast-food zoning, plants’ rights,  and vending machines for crows, in addition to lots of interesting observations, like the glass cliff women are often asked to jump off of and the reach of wage inequality.
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Truly Free Film

Who Is Doing It Well?

What are some good examples of filmmakers, beyond our TFF Heroes, who are reaching out to audiences early, engaging them with good content, maintaining a rich dialogue with them, and then working with them to get their work seen?  Who are those artists who are providing more than the one way relationship of “here is my film to watch”?  Who has reach beyond the limits of a single film / single platform paradigm and climbed on the cross-platform cohesion engine?  

We want to know.  We want to help your work reach the audience.  We want to show how it can be done.  And we’d like to discuss it.  If you generate this work or just locate it and love it — even if you hate it! — please bring it to us.  Let’s build this list too.
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Bowl Of Noses

Cool Cars #8: Watermelon Car





Thanks to Crooked Brains, this landed in The Bowl.

I guess we’d be the seeds you spit out if we were driving…