Zhang Shouwang of Beijing band Carsick Cars plays a takeaway show for us on the roof of his 23-floor apartment building (via dabaoge.net)
Source: dabaoge.net
Please watch this.
And then go out and create something beautiful.
Maybe it doesn’t have to consume you for decades.
But definitely try and create something beautiful.
What new technological developments do you think are transforming our landscape right now?
Now interrogate the underlying assumptions that you have when you think about them.
- How have social networks changed group social dynamics?
- How might QR codes change the linguistic conventions of search?
- How might Augmented Reality usher in a more intuitive visual approach to information?
Less important than the technology is the way humans adapt that technology. If you want a comprehensive and compelling intellectual argument for that, check out Raymond Williams’ Television: Technology and Cultural Form, an absolute classic.
This is a great BBC Arena documentary about legendary science fiction writer Philip K. Dick. It’s in six parts (this is part one) and is a brilliant look at a brilliant, but eventually mad, man.
Watch the whole playlist inline below:
Or click to watch each of the episodes on YouTube:
