MONDOFUNZA

I have updated the old Devo song “Mongoloid”:

blogoloid he was a blogoloid happier than you and me
blogoloid he was a blogoloid and it determined what he could see
blogoloid he was a blogoloid one chromosome too many

blogoloid he was a blogoloid and it determined what he could see
and he wore a hat and he had a job
and he brought home the bacon so that no one knew
blogoloid he was a blogoloid his friends were unaware
blogoloid he was a blogoloid nobody even cared
(original lyrics from www.freedomofchoice.com/devo/)

Wikipedia link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devo

http://www.aec.at/en/festival2006/blog/index.asp

International Tree Climbing Day:

“The International Tree Climbing Day is an annual event that has taken place in selected trees since 2003.

The event is organized by Irational - a group of international artist (primarily British) who came together 10 years ago around the domain irational.org.

The next ITCD probably wont happen before 2007 but if you want to learn more about the work and mindset of Irational, you should take a look at the upcomming exhibition ‘The Wonderful World of irational.org. Tools, Techniques and Events 1996-2006′.

The exhibition is organized by Hartware MedienKunstVerein and takes place in Dortmund from August 30 to October 29.

• Hartware MedienKunstVerein • International Tree Climbing Day

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(Via GUERRILLA INNOVATION.)

Operation Best Buy: “

Improv Everywhere is a group of agents (pranksters) based in NYC who organize missions (happenings) in public space. Their intent is to bring excitement to otherwise unexciting locales and give strangers a story they can tell for the rest of their lives.

One of the group’s latest missions took place in a Best Buy store and was carried out by more than 80 agents.

The group met at Best Buy, all wearing blue polo shirts almost identical to the store’s uniform where after they entered the store and began circulating.

They did not claim to work at the store, however when a customer mistook them for an employee, they did their best to help out…

Extensive documentation is available online.

• Improv Everywhere

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(Via GUERRILLA INNOVATION.)

Made in Video: “7th-10th September: Video days on citizen journalism, public secrets and video activism in Copenhagen.”

(Via Artnode Denmark.)

One of my favorite books back in the 80’s was PRANKS by RE/Search Publications. Now the 2nd issue is out featuring interviews with monochrom, Yesmen and others:

RE/Search Publications — PRANKS 2!: “Due This November.
Imagine we are fish swimming in the sea, and no matter where we look we see advertising, branding, marketing, and corporate/governmental coercive messages everywhere. What we once thought of as news, knowledge, politics, culture, art, music, and wisdom has all become one with this ocean of marketing and mind-control.What to do? How to keep one¹s sanity, sense of freedom, and unique identity? What can we do to resist?

Resistance is ultimately dispiriting unless we can also have fun. ³The society that has abolished adventure makes its own abolishing the only adventure.² [Situationist slogan] The last remaining quasi-legal territory of imaginative, humorous, creative, dissenting expression is signposted by pranks.

What are pranks? For us, pranks are any humorous deeds, propaganda, sound bites, visual bites, performances and creative projects which pierce the veil of illusion and tell ³the truth.² Pranks u”

(Via monochrom.at.)

Tveskov har opdaget, at Carl-Mar blogger. Det er i den grad langt ude…:

Nogen skal jo sige det (suk); Carl-Mar blogger!.

(Via t v e s k o v . c o m | b l o g.)

Tveskov har et bud på hvorfor, man ofte føler sig depressiv og nedtrykt og længes efter alkohol og høj punkmusik efter intensive sessions med brainstorming:

: “Der er mindst fem årsager til at mange firmaer er dårlige til brainstorming;

-Brainstorms are often run with poor framing or context
- Facilitation of a brainstorm requires different skills than managing other meetings
- Too few people are involved in ideation
- The teams don’t believe the ideas will we acted on
- There’s poor communication throughout

Amen.”

(Via t v e s k o v . c o m | b l o g.)

The Hartsville Today citizen journalism project has produced a “cook book” aimed at smaller papers without the large resources that many such newspaper-affiliated projects have….

Source: http://www.cyberjournalist.net/news/003703.php

(Thanks to Pete Weiss)

Stort tillykke til Kim Elmose.

Dagbladet Politiken relancerer sig selv som dagblad på nettet - og Kim Elmose fra Ing.dk skal opbygge politiken.dk’s kommende blog-univers med titel af blogredaktør per 1. oktober.
(Via Mediehack.)