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Robin Hood Tax

Lawrence Garwood — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:43:42 +0000

Liking this..

Turning a crisis into an opportunity
Reminds me of our Dr Evil idea..
Link..

Paris Photo 2009

Lawrence Garwood — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:22:53 +0000

Just came back from Paris Photo, so much fantastic stuff to see. I spent over 6 hours in the main area at the Louvre.. I reckon better than last years session.
Notable photographers were.

Adam Jesppesen

George Rousse

Shinchi Maryama
Last post

Silvio Wolf

Pietre Hugo
Awesome stuff

And of course Daniele Tamagni

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Michael Jackson dies

Lawrence Garwood — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:51:26 +0000

Something I never thought I’d write…ouch.

RIP

Morph flash mob at Tate Modern

Lawrence Garwood — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:37:55 +0000

What a day it must have been… a load of Tony Hart fans gathered at the Tate Modern last weekend, to pay tribute to the legendary children’s TV presenter and art enthusiast via the medium of Morph.

On Sunday, the large gathering of his fans constructed an army of the iconic terracotta modeling-clay character. Some wore bikinis, others wore Kanye West-style sunglasses and all of them were just a couple of inches high.

The group planned the tribute via social networking sites as a way of saying “thank you” to Hart for making art fun.
Link to the BBC
Flickr link

Chris Jordan measures excess through large compositions

Lawrence Garwood — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:19:43 +0000

Chris Jordan gives us a snap shot of humanity through his uber-sized images. He translates unimaginable and hard to fathom statistics and makes them… well manageable and intelligible. He wants to develop a visual language that is to be experienced and felt.

Here’s a link to his site

You can watch the TED conference here.

Goodbye Bush

Lawrence Garwood — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 11:15:37 +0000

This advert from hair removal company “Veet” made me smile.
It’s all about perfect timing if you ask me.

Bruce Lee plays ping pong, own style, for Nokia

Lawrence Garwood — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 10:46:27 +0000

Being that we have a table at our studio, I’m threatening to go to table tennis camp.
Great bit of viral, awesome table tennis skills
Link

An anthropological introduction to YouTube

Lawrence Garwood — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:41:20 +0000

Micheal Wesch is an anthropologist and his constant study of ‘YouTube’ has produced a 55.33 min presentation (presented at the Library of Congress 28th June 2008) and it’s well worth watching.
As an orthographical study of human behavior, we see how we interact with ourselves, friends, strangers and a camera (using computers, technology and a lot of imagination). This film shows you the emotional and touching, experiential side of what YouTube and other social networks has empowered us to do.. its great stuff.
It joins many things for me, connection, cultural values, human behaviour.

He was also responsible Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us which at the time of posting had 7,170,506 views.. pretty impressive and also captivating to watch.

Human choreography and interaction

Lawrence Garwood — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 11:13:56 +0000

I love this… the need to particaipate in getting this massive beach ball to bounce around. A lovely insight into human nature.

Paris Photo

Lawrence Garwood — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:53:59 +0000

Off to Paris Photo tomorrow should be good.