World Building in a Crazy World is a presentation by digital artist Jonathan Harris , that's been catching fire in the past couple of days. It's a great reminder that it's often smartest to take the opposite point of view and to value people's intelligence and ability to engage in things with a deeper meaning. Harris seems to be taking a giant knife to the current internet landscape and stabbing a...
I've been mulling over ideas lately, how to bring them to life and how to tease them from groups of people and I recently stumbled upon some writing by Jonathan Harris (co-creator of WeFeelFine ) entitled World Building in a Crazy World . It is comprised of 15 short vignette's centered around his thoughts on where we are, digitally speaking as a society and how best to move forward. A few things jumped...
We've had artist Jonathan Harris come and speak at TheLadders -- he is amazing and the way he utilizes Internet technology and social media to create art makes one feel that we are still at the start of something very big. Maybe even that we are before the start, like early 15th century Florence. (I've cried watching We Feel Fine "performed" in public.") He just released World Building...
In a beautiful thought-provoking project of Jonathan Harris (creator of We Feel Fine – one of the first social web emotion visualization projects), Harris shares some touching personal insights with artistic inspirations relevant to a digital world. In this “World Building in a Crazy World” – Harris suggests 1-2-3 principals for a world building idea [...]
In his latest project, Harris explores the current state of the digital world in 15 short vignettes, wrapped in a vision for our shared future. 2 Vote(s)
I usually focus on blogging for business so it’s nice to be reminded that most of the 170 million blogs out there are by ordinary people writing about their daily lives and personal feelings. It was the We Feel Fine project that was the big reminder - it’s a project led by computer scientist, Jonathan [...]
There’s been a lot of focus on blogging for business recently on this blog, largely due to the research I’ve been doing in the last couple of years for my business book, International Communications Strategy, so it’s nice to be reminded that most of the 170 million blogs out there are by ordinary people writing [...]
On December 1st We Feel Fine: An Almanac of Human Emotion , will be released. They finalized the date for the launch party. It will be on December 5th, in New York City. I can't remember if I blogged about this before or not, but here is what Amazon.com describes the book as: "Product Description In this dazzling exploration of contemporary human feelings, digital whiz kids Sep Kamvar and Jonathan...
A courtyard scene from “Shadow House,” directed by Laura Yilmaz. Screening Wednesday at Regency South Coast Village. The ongoing “Ancient Paths, Modern Voices” Chinese festival is presenting another film screening this Wednesday, Oct. 28 at 8 p.m. “Documenting the Global City: Beijing” is a project by students from the USC School of Cinematic Arts and Beijing’s...
T he letter below was published in the Birmingham Mail on Tuesday 13th October 2009 in regards to inappropriate language used in a headline concerning a young man with Asperger's Syndrome. Immediately afterwards we have printed the Birmingham Mail Editor's reply: The Editor Birmingham Mail Floor 6 Fort Dunlop Fort Parkway Birmingham B24 9FF. 5th September 2009 Dear Editor, Derogatory headline - Birmingham...
by JONATHAN HARRIS , Managing Editor Diet and exercise. Those are the two key elements to health, right? Causecast has already given you our tips for eating locally and going vegetarian , so now we're going to get to the fun part and show you how to stay healthy while having fun with a do-it-yourself dance party. Part 1: Why A Dance Party? Do you really need an excuse? Dancing is fun, active and is...
by JONATHAN HARRIS , Managing Editor People from across the U.S. are converging on Washington D.C. this weekend for the National Equality March , a protest for equal rights for the LGBT community in all 50 states. Among their demands, the event's organizers, Equality Across America , want the rights to marry, donate blood and serve in the military. Organizers are asking those who believe in equal rights...
To protest the continuing suppression of democracy in Burma, Buddhist monk Maung Maung Tate and some companions recently completed a 900 mile march to the United Nations in New York City and a nine day hunger strike. The monks also gathered in protest outside United Nations buildings in New York, to pressure the U.N. Security Council to take action in Burma. Causecast's Jonathan Harris recently had...
The Editor Birmingham Mail Floor 6 Fort Dunlop Fort Parkway Birmingham B24 9FF. 5th September 2009 Dear Editor, Derogatory headline – Birmingham Mail, Wednesday 23 September 2009 We wish to respond to the Editor’s reply to a letter by Jonathan Harris published in the Birmingham Mail on October 2nd and express our organisation’s concern about the inappropriate language used in the...
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