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Entries from July 2006

Cameraphone accessories

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July 31st, 2006 · No Comments

Greenbulb have a couple of cheap simple accessories for your mobile phone camera. The greenbulb ‘Colour flash cube’ and the SS mirror to help you take self portraits

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Cool hunting heads online

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July 31st, 2006 · No Comments

In the past magazines used to be the carriers of the latest trends and fashions - Times Online looks at how the new arbiters of style are online, leaving the dead wood media in the dust.

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John Walters Interview

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July 31st, 2006 · No Comments

For the past seven years, John Walters was editor of design magazine EYE. Walters talks to Stephen Heller from AIGA about EYE’s history and what he has done to both preserve its legacy and make it relevant today.

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Street Installations

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July 21st, 2006 · No Comments

Guerilla public art - Mark Jenkins’ street installations

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Photography questions

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July 21st, 2006 · No Comments

10 questions to ask yourself before taking a photograph - What story am I telling? Am I close enough? What is in the Background?

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What kind of genius are you?

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July 21st, 2006 · No Comments

Are you the bloom early fade away kind or the start slowly bloom later kind? Wired looks at the academic thesis of David Galenson and his categorisation of ‘genius’

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Nicolas Roope

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July 20th, 2006 · No Comments

Can an art project make the transition from being ‘art’ to being a mass product? Does the resonance of that product get lost along the way? Mocoloco interview Nicolas Roope ceo of Hulger

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Are cities the new countries?

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July 20th, 2006 · No Comments

Global super-cities are getting bigger, are more culturally diverse and less dependant on the countries that encompass them. How is this changing the city/nation/state relationship?

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Marian Bantjes

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July 20th, 2006 · No Comments

Beautiful, delicate and ornate drawing from Marian Bantjes

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Ethical consumerism

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July 20th, 2006 · No Comments

Food outlets in Britain are finding that their customers do not always purchase their product based on price. It is becoming more common that shoppers are looking at the source and content of their food before they make the decision to buy. These new ‘ethically aware’ food outlets/growers and distributors are not your stereotypical hippies [...]

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