Tag Archive: technology

Using iPhone and iPad, Andy Warhol Eats a Hamburger

TweetOkay, this is kinda funny brilliant! DARE, A UK app development company has recreated Andy Warhol’s hamburger eating performance and this time, instead of making a trip to a burger joint, Mr Warhol created a digital one using his iPad as the canvas and his iPhone as his remote palette. ketchup. The original: Artist Spotlight:…

Robots explain the Irish financial crisis and more.

TweetAs we are slurped further into the great wired vortex, robots seem to be the only creatures able to clearly explain complex concepts to an overconnected populace. First, a web designer robot employs a style worthy of Socrates, to clarify technical issues for a client in extremely colorful terms. A Website Designer Meets Clueless Client…

Social Media for Social Change

TweetI’ve been thinking about the impact of social media on social justice and on creating change. In 2008, we saw how the Obama campaign harnessed the power of technology to elect a little known senator to the presidency. In researching the idea of social media for social change, I came across the “We are Visible”…

Fabric in a can – Spray-on clothing

TweetFashion conscious graffiti artists are salivating at the prospect of laying hands on a new invention that allows fabric to be sprayed-on to create t-shirts, dresses and other clothing. This is very timely indeed, as many taggers have become increasingly bored with the usual walls and billboards. Imagine instead, 6 billion potential canvases to tag…

Distracted from distraction by distraction.

TweetI was going to post something, but I can’t remem… Oh – attention spans. What are the real effects of technology on the brain? First, the title of this post is a T.S. Eliot quote referenced in the second article below. Are computers, smartphones and video games as crazy-making as this NYT article (Attached to…