More on China and Creativity
Having got my interest in China level up I came across actics’ blog and guess what:
“Hu Jintao, in his speech at the 17th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party stresses the importance of Culture, both for national cohesion and as a development tool.He emphasies committment to spreading internet access, promoting Chinese Creative Industries and […]
Indian Animation
I’ve been getting more and more exposure to the Indian and Chinese entertainment industries and I have to say if I was an economic policy maker I would start chalking these developments on a board and asking how can I change the future. Likewise if my name was CEO Corporation X.
Ten years back we […]
Virtual Worlds Forum
Virtual Worlds Forum is one good conference. After talking to a couple of the people who were there I am convinced that non-local journalists have about five years left before their profession implodes.
That means journalism will be ultra low-paid (most local journalists earn around minimum wage) and the newspapers and magazines that get their […]
The Art Park is Open
Down in Second Life. If you are already signed up to SL you can go direct to Virtual Dublin via: http://www.dublinsl.com/index.php. We are in Dublin 3 down by the river.
Ideas database
I find novel ideas are addictive - the same addiction that keeps us googling when we should be reading books or doing something conventional.
At the pace of a snail I’m putting together examples of creative invention as the case studies for the book and in this month’s Innovation magazine I got the chance […]
Tioti
Glad to see Tioti made its first round of funding today - backed by Pond Ventures who are based in London and Silicon Valley.
I met Paul and Marc last week, the two Tioti founders, and you’d be hard pushed to find two entrepreneurs with a more singular focus. I happen to think the website needs […]
Virtual Dublin
On the subject of art fairs, well not quite an art fair but an art show…. we’ll be putting three of them on in virtual Dublin next week. Paul La Rocque will be providing the art work at an SL fashion show in Virtual Dublin, Ryan’s landscapes will be out on Grafton Street and Nathaniel […]
Frieze Again
Spent a week thinking over the artwork I saw at Frieze and speaking with a few people about it. My enduring impression is the art work - and I saw most of it - didn’t surprise me. I don’t mean it didn’t shock me, but that would be true too. I mean surprise can come […]
Frieze
Punk! I just came away from frieze, the London art fair. In five years it’s become the major autumn art fair and created a lot of buzz for the autumn auctions. Problem? There was only a handful of works that made you think - wow! Frieze.
For example no artworks present dealt with virtual reality or […]
Normal Life in The Future
It is possible that if the childhood obesity epidemic continues at its current rate, conditions related to type 2 diabetes—such as blindness, amputation, coronary artery disease, stroke, and kidney failure—will become ordinary in middle-aged people.
I picked that up as part of some research I’m doing and mentioned it to Roos - she said well […]