Planet of Aurora by Göran Strand
The promised aurora came at last. Me and a friend went out to capture the beauty, and what a show it was. I made two panoramas of my friend while he was taking pictures.
Behold our planet.
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Jocelyn Duke has a show at Una Mae’s next Saturday. People in Los Angeles: go to it.
In the future we’ll only discuss daily deal sites as a brief symptom of the gradual realization that online populations are populations unto themselves.
Perhaps. I’m not exactly sure what this means, but I’ve been thinking along the same lines recently. I think the Internet is gradually rooting out all “latent groups.” As Mancur Olson postited in his Theory of Groups and Organizations:
Only a separate and “selective” incentive will stimulate a rational individual in a latent group to act in a group-oriented way. In such circumstances group action can be obtained only through an incentive that operates, not indiscriminately, like the collective good, upon the group as a whole, but rather selectively toward the individuals in the group. The incentive must be “selective” so that those who do not join the organization working for the group’s interest, can be treated differently from those who do.
Daily deal sites are selective incentive machines. They’re really good at helping businesses find latent groups and and sell fixed inventories or goods with very low marginal costs (they’re really bad at helping businesses sell goods with significant marginal costs).
What would be nice is to devise a way to create “non-deal” incentives to draw out latent groups. Surely we can figure out more edifying ways to get these “populations unto themselves” to get together. Kickstarter is an obvious example. Meetup kind of is too. Of course, Groupon’s predecessor, The Point, was too.
FWIW, I interviewed Andrew Mason about The Point back in the day. He knows his organizational theory.
If all else fails, I drink half a bottle of rum and play a Handel oratorio on the gramophone. This generally produces an uncontrollable gush of copy. The next morning I get up early and edit the gush… I am a lousy copywriter, but I am a good editor.
David Ogilvy (via austinkleon)
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A parking situation in Sao Paulo. When garages were built for less ambitious cars. (Taken with Instagram at Sao paulo, brazil)
The Muin is The Yird’s ae naitural satilyt (or muin), an the fift mukkilest muin in the Solar seestem. The average centur-ti-center faurness frae the Yird til the Muin is 384,403 km (238,863 mile), aboot thrittie tyms the girst o the Yird.
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breakingnews:
Sixteen-year-old Laura Dekker from the Netherlands sailed into St. Maarten harbor today, completing her yearlong solo journey around the globe aboard a ketch named “Guppy.” - AP
[Image: Laura Dekker poses on her sailboat in 2010. (Judy Fitzpatrick/AP)]
So impressive.
What humans do.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ly5xflHotU1qj5rqko1_500.jpg)
Sixteen-year-old Laura Dekker from the Netherlands sailed into St. Maarten harbor today, completing her yearlong solo journey around the globe aboard a ketch named “Guppy.” - AP
[Image: Laura Dekker poses on her sailboat in 2010. (Judy Fitzpatrick/AP)]
So impressive.
What humans do.
From Steve Jobs, on the plans for Apple’s new headquarters:
One of his lingering memories was of the orchards that had once dominated the area, so he hired a senior arborist from Stanford and decreed that 80% of the property would be landscaped in a natural manner, with six thousand trees. “I asked him to make sure to include a new set of apricot orchards,” Jobs recalled. “You used to see them everywhere, even on the corners, and they’re part of the legacy of this valley.”
More of this, please.
How do you kill the movie and TV industries? Or more precisely (since at this level, technological progress is probably predetermined) what is going to kill them? Mostly not what they like to believe is killing them, filesharing. What’s going to kill movies and TV is what’s already killing them: better ways to entertain people. So the best way to approach this problem is to ask yourself: what are people going to do for fun in 20 years instead of what they do now?
