Social interactive architecture

Posted on 16/05/2006 by Thomas

Ok, I admit, the three-dimensional browser was a nice idea, but a CRAPPY PICTURE! I just didn’t have the patience.. Whatever, now Stylewalker’s back with some fotos! Taken on a nice and sunny day in Berlin where I met two guys in the street, dismantling a postbox and a big sign: “Look at it and decide what you want to do here!”.

Interesting idea: There was a free space, right next to a café and a house, in Schwedter Straße. The guys study architecture and set up the experiment of letting people give them ideas for some kind of pulicly used space.
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A three-dimensional browser

Posted on 15/05/2006 by Thomas

There is a fundamental discrepancy between the architecture of a browser and the way most people use the internet: The history of all browsers works linear, but our behaviour is not. Merely, it is three-dimensional. Software-development should take this into consideration.
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Science: Masterthesis mindmap

Posted on 08/05/2006 by Thomas

If you are interested in what my master-thesis in communication will be about, click the thumbnail and you’ll see a mindmap.

In the map, I tried to combine all the theories I would like to discuss in the thesis. From organizational theories (e.g. Max Weber, Mintzberg) to the discussion about formal and informal structures of organizations, psychoanlytical organization theory (starts with Freud, happ 150th, anyway!), organizational culture and to my core object: organizational identity. (Albert & Whetten wrote a lot about it)
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The perfect tool for laptop-artists

Posted on 05/05/2006 by Thomas

If you ever tried to control Ableton Live and maybe some synth and effects with a mouse, you will know that there’s much to improve in terms of usabilty. Laptop-musicians dream of some hardware-controller solution that gives them buttons to trigger the sounds from their laptop, like samples, arrangements, effects and so on.

Now here is one fascination toy: Monome40h. It consists of 8×8 touchpads that are programmable via an open-source controlling routine which turns them into keys, radio groupings, virtual sliders, etc., to communicate with ableton live, reason, cubase, logic and alike. To read more and watch a video Continue reading →

The brand is your friend

Posted on 02/05/2006 by Thomas

What might, on the first look, seem to be yet another marketing claim or even a nice way to describe the academic concept of brand personality, now gets a new red-hot quality. The recent strategies of Rupert Murdoch aim to turn the impressive success of MySpace, which is already the second-most visited site on the web (after Yahoo), into an even bigger revenue machine.

He put one of his most skilled multimedia managers to the task: Ross Levinson, boss of Murdoch’s News corporation’s overarching online unit: Fox Interactive Media.
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Pro Loveradio

Posted on 28/04/2006 by Thomas

The best loveparade-event, the Loveradio organized by the public radio station Fritz, might not take place this year. People have started a pro-loveradio-campaign, Stylewalker supports their approach emphatically.

Please tell people about it, write a mail to Fritz-radio and sign the post at Berlin Stadtkind!
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Nike Football Campaign

Posted on 31/03/2006 by Thomas

Certainly, we are going to see a war for awareness in summer when the world is watching the football world cup and the opponents: Adidas vs Nike.

Nike already started a massive internet campaign with “Joga bonito” (Portuguese for “Play nice”). You’ll find many cool movies and a community: www.joga.com (the page with the fastest growing rate of attention lately, as per Alexa.com)

Talk about viral effects: The videos are little masterpieces about how to play beautiful football and the website makes it easy to share. Of course yu can send an email with link, but there’s also a code snippet, people can put into their websites. Here’s an example: Continue reading →

The tipping point

Posted on 29/03/2006 by Thomas

This is about an amazing book I read recently. I am annoying my friends talking so much about it and I use its stories at work.

It is called “The tipping point” by Malcom Gladwell.

It’s not an insider’s tip, especially not in the U.S. and already has had quite an aftermath. Libraries, e.g. were rewarded for new ideas that had spread from the book.
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Guido Argentini at Camerawork

Posted on 23/03/2006 by Thomas

Update:Unfortunately, I had to take the pictures down because it violated the copyright of the artists. Feel free to check the rest of my blog anyway, about art, music, Berlin and lifestyle.
A highly recommended exhibition is Guido Argentini’s “Private Rooms” in Berlin’s most famous gallery for photography: Camerawork. An excellent photographer who worked for glossy magazines and is best in taking elaboret yet crispy pictures of strong women in erotic poses.

The impacting big prints of “Private Rooms” show roles, certainly fantasies and games in between dominance and seduction. Somebody said: “A good mix of Playboy and Helmut Newton”. By all means, he most likely knows how to establish a good relationship with his models.

Cameraworks is in Kantstraße 149. You can see more of his work on his website. Or just
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Guns for sale in GB?

Posted on 15/02/2006 by Thomas

Did you know, in england, they sell guns on TV? Here’s a the Teleshop that put the Movie Icon spot even online!

It seems funny, in the end it is rather sad. More guns than ever sold today. This viral campaign by Amnesty International UK wants to raise attention for an international arms trade treaty which should be initiated by the UN and signed by as many countries as possible.

More info about the viral campaign.
[found via the Chaosradio-Podcast]

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