The iPhone is many things, but an art studio or DSLR it isn’t.
That hasn’t stopped some highly creative individuals from using the iPhone to create impressive art.
Exhibit one is Jorges Colombe, the artist for The New Yorker. In May of 2009 he used a run of the mill finger painting app on his iPhone to create his final artwork for that week’s New Yorker. I should probably mention that his piece that week also happened to be the magazine’s cover.
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James Surowiecki’s New Yorker column explores what consumption might look like as we recover from this current recession. He argues it’s unlikely that this recession will cause a permanent shift in our savings habits.
What about claims that the Great Depression created a generation of tighwads?
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It’s easy. Build a service that very visibly saves very large corporations a lot of money on a large part of their expenses. Then integrate that service into their operations so that they pay you a recurring commission on every dollar they spend.
That’s the playbook of StarCite, a software service that automates travel planning and booking for large corporations. Business Week explains their pricing model this way:
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To test your website’s usability, you first need to know what kind of website yours is. What separates one kind of website from another? The difference between different kinds of websites is their innermost pages. These pages are the building blocks of your site.
For a blog, the site’s building blocks are blog posts. For a store, they’re product detail pages. For a portfolio site, they may be photographs, videos, layouts or illustrations. For a brand-experience site, they might be an interactive Flash animation, video or game. And for an informational site—like a newspaper, magazine, brochure site or encyclopedia—the building blocks are articles.
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Bertha Lewis, CEO of ACORN, explaining why we should trust her.
Interesting interview with Jeff Horing, who led the recent funding round for Twitter. You know? The one that valued Twitter at a $1b valuation?
How did they peg Twitter’s value?
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… that movie trailers would be highly targetted. Knowing that the audience is seeing a quirky comedy (as I was tonight — Extract, in case you’re wondering, which was just okay, not great), it seems the studios would take the opportunity to promote other comedies, independent films, or off beat dramas. But you would be wrong. Instead, the trailers featured horror and suspense films. If the “that looks terrible” comments were any indication, those efforts were wasted.
The Society for Improbably research announced this year’s Ignoble Prize winners. Leading the way were:
- Elena N. Bodnar, Raphael C. Lee, and Sandra Marijan of Chicago who won the Public Heath Prize “for inventing a brassiere that, in an emergency, can be quickly converted into a pair of gas masks, one for the brassiere wearer and one to be given to some needy bystander.”
- Katherine K. Whitcome, Daniel E. Lieberman, and Liza J. Shapiro whose work “analytically determining why pregnant women don’t tip over” brought home the Physics prize.
- Chemistry prize winners Javier Morales, Miguel Apátiga, and Victor M. Castaño who grew diamonds from tequilla.
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More Intelligent Life has an article on what happens to authors who wrote loaded, and have sobered up. The conclusion?
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