Five Albums to stream for Free this week by Flavorwire

tinyUNI is the world’s tiniest University that provides digestible shortcuts for lazy entrepreneurs, to start & grow their business. (Instead of watching hours of expensive online courses, we give you the actionable summaries that you can implement in minutes!)

ZeroN can remember how it has been moved. Physical motions of people can be collected in this medium to preserve and play them back indefinitely. When the users move release the ZeroN, it continues to float and starts to move along the same path. This allows a unique, tangible record of a user’s physical presence and motion which will continue to exist even after the death of the person.

BRING THE LIGHT —- JUNE 2012 —- http://www.lucifer.fm

What would be the World without Mark Zuckerberg?

Instead of looking at their contributions, Forbes Brazil has adopted an unconventional view on the business leaders of the world—the impact of their absence from society today.  For example, in a world without Mark Zuckerberg we wouldn’t have had to sit through the film Social Network.  Also check out a world without Bill Gates, Donald Trump, Richard Branson and others.

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Every city is filled with different neighborhoods, but often, you won’t find these places on any map. They’re word-of-mouth zoning distinctions known only to locals. The boundaries are vague and arbitrary, based as much upon the way people eat and dress as real estate prices and income per capita.

Yet if these areas are distinctive to city culture, is there a way that we could measure them and analyze them—map them—scientifically? A team of students (Justin Cranshaw, Raz Schwartz) and professors (Jason I. Hong and Norman Sadeh) from Carnegie Mellon’s Mobile Commerce Lab has done just that. Their research project is called Livehoods, which analyzed 18 million Foursquare check-ins to spot algorithmic relationships between the spots people frequent. “Livehoods looks at the geographic distance between venues, but also a form of ‘social distance’ that measures the degree of overlap in the people that check-in to them,” the team tells Co.Design. “For example, if the algorithm notices that the people that visit a local bar are the same people that visit a nearby restaurant, these two places will be more likely to be grouped together.” As more and more people and places are analyzed, Livehoods clusters this data into what becomes a collection distinctive neighborhoods—places filled with people who enjoy going to the same restaurants, coffee shops, and music venues. And as calculating as the approach could seem, Livehoods’ scientific basis makes it extremely valuable as a social artifact: It defines local culture without the inherent judgement that comes along with human stereotyping.

Read More here: A Map Of Your City’s Invisible Neighborhoods, According To Foursquare | Co.Design: business innovation design)

In this video from PSFK CONFERENCE NYC 2012, new media artists Jonathan Harris talks to the audience about how he walked away from success and notoriety and was inspired to counter current online trends to build Cowbird.com

Here We Go Magic - “How Do I Know” 

Beautiful pencil drawings by Christina Empedocles.

INSTAGR/AM/BIENT: 25 ambient musicians created original sonic postcards in response to one another’s evocative Instagram photos.

Get a free PDF booklet to accompany the album at archive.org.

Download all 25 MP3s for free at http://www.archive.org/details/Instagrambient.

More on the project at Disquiet.com.

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AN INTRODUCTION TO INSTAGR/AM/BIENT

Photos shared with the popular software Instagram are usually square in format, not unlike the cover to a record album. The format leads inevitably to a question: if a given image were the cover to a record album, what would the album’s music sound like?

Instagr/am/bient is a response to that question. The project involves 25 musicians with ambient inclinations. Each of the musicians contributed an Instagram photo, and in turn each of the musicians recorded an original track in response to one of the photos contributed by another of the project’s participants. The tracks are sonic postcards. They are pieces of music whose relative brevity—all are between one and three minutes in length—is designed to correlate with the economical, ephemeral nature of an Instagram photo.

The result of the 25 musicians’ collective efforts is an investigation into the intersection of technology, aesthetics, and artistic process. What parallels exist, for example, between the visual filters that Instagram provides users to transform their photos and the sound-processing tools employed by electronic musicians?

In many cases here, the musicians employ sonic field recordings as source material for their music. In the case of both their photos and their compositions (photography in one case, phonography in the other), documents are altered to emphasize their atmospheric qualities: to eke a modest art out of the everyday.
A Disquiet.com Project
Commissioned by Marc Weidenbaum

Design/Boondesign.com
Cover Photo/Brian Scott

If you have to watch one documentary this months it’s certainly this one.

“Bob Marley’s universal appeal, impact on music history and role as a social and political prophet is both unique and unparalleled. MARLEY is the definitive life story of the musician, revolutionary, and legend, from his early days to his rise to international superstardom. Made with the support of the Marley family, the film features rare footage, incredible performances and revelatory interviews with the people that knew him best.”

Directed by Kevin MacDonald
In theatres and on demand 4.20.2012

Immediate download of 13-track album in your choice of MP3 320, FLAC, or just about any other format you could possibly desire.

XXYYXX is the name of Orlando, FL’s 16 year old producer, Marcel Everett. Marcel works out of his bedroom creating harmonious music that provokes emotion and transmits vivid images of peace and still sadness. His music has been featured on XLR8R, The Needle Drop, Earmilk, Indie Shuffle, BIRP and many more.

One vanishing art that can still be studied in the interstices of the assault of global retail is vernacular typography. All over the world, there are cities and towns that retain their rich traditions of vernacular signage. Unfortunately, the fate of these typographic havens is being threatened by the uniformity of corporate advertising, which ignores and subverts local history and tradition. 

Created by Molly Woodward the Vernacular Topography website seeks to collect and document examples of these vanishing symbols of art and culture.

A$AP Rocky - Goldie (Explicit) (by LIVELOVEASAPVEVO)

Forget Farmville, Cityville and other virtual Facebook cities, for all music and hip hop fans Jay-Z has announced his plans for a Facebook game titled Empire. According to the synopsis of the beta game, “Empire takes you on a journey from the streets of Marcy Housing in Brooklyn to the hotspots of the rich and famous: from hustler, to entrepreneur, to business mogul. But, don’t forget friends and family, or your karma will suffer. Make the right choices and you can have it all: cash, bling, fame, street cred and good karma.” 

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