WTF-Of-The-Day 2: Cultural differences
Watch this. 30 seconds of your life. Warped.
Also watch the related videos YouTube suggests, for more of the same. WTF.
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- Google Earth just keeps getting better and better
- Now with amazing lighting effects (including day/night, sunshine coming through the clouds, etc) - but more importantly, now with StreetView. Watch the video below - what an incredible tool. Think back to human endeavour and exploration over human history; Humanity can be really, really proud of having got to this - a free, publically available, interactive tool with a lot of user-generated content, available to anyone with a PC and an internet connection. ...
- How good is this!!
- del.icio.us Tags: liberty,evil,NO2ID...
- Context is king
- In the 'Tuymans Experiment', Luc Tuymans (widely hailed as one of the most important artists in the world - e.g. the Tate Modern's description here, and the curators describing him in the first minute of the video above) decided to radically shift the context of his art. He reproduced one of his most famous paintings on a wall in Antwerp, to see how people responded to it. Curators predicted 90% of passerbys would stop and contemplate. In fact, just 4% stopped. A painting that in a gallery makes close to 100% of people stop and think for a few minutes, and appreciate the art for the thoughts it made them explore and the new ways of seeing something that it gives them, was remarkably valueless when transposed from the art gallery walls to a street wall. Context turned a 'million dollar' picture with the power to influence people and the way they think, into a vulgar paint daub on an alleyway wall ignored by 96% of people passing by. There are vast ramifications to this point; I would love to hear your suggestions in the comments below. When I watched this video this morning, here are some other stories...
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