IC as a group is in a unique place: it's high visibility yet it's not confounded by it; we are free to experiment without the danger of "tarnishing the image" by experiments like the one below.
Nowadays, we are recorded all over the place - security cameras, webcams, what not. The world is busy capturing the moment. Let's extrapolate - how will our behavior change in an environment where everything we say or do is potentially recorded, re-edited and put out for the world to see - yet we have no control over how or who is doing it? Can we live with it not on a once-in-a-lifetime basis, but rather as a continuous process, and make it sustainable, and perhaps find an aesthetic of our words and images taking a life of their own?
We could assume that at first people will be more intent on filtering what they say. That's however is only the beginning. Where do we go next? Do we develop a new language of subversion, somehow preventing the attempts to take us "out of context"? Or do we find new ways to explore the avenues that open up when what we are known to say today is not the same thing as what we said yesterday, and won't be the same we'll be known as having said tomorrow? What if we cannot even hope to reconstruct the original? It's a bit like what the borg people do - recording everything - except if they want to remember everything we would take it out of context and forget how to bring it back.
Shall we record IC group meetings from now on for some time? The digital Miranda rules: Everything you say may be used. It may be sampled, it may be remixed. It may not even be you in the end [there's no end].

it's the night before sponsor week begins. after multiple late nights/ 4 hours of sleep kind of thing, one can always enjoy a laugh. courtesy of blogdex :: this is tres cute

http://www.iusedtobelieve.com/

glorianna kindly pointed out a new contraption dreamed up by mike figgis and ben wilson, a royal academy of art student. the rig looks like a steering wheel with a dv cam in the center, so you can steer your way through any crowd of actors who are improving their buns off. it is affectionately referred to as the "figg-rig".

for the hilarious picture of the rig being demoed ask glorianna for the article!

i like this in your face description of those who use microcontrollers and communication devices to co-operate, construct and perhaps even destruct. some good pointers to outside sources on the book's weblog :: smart mobs - the next social revolution.

here's a useful link to a site that could help us all with our webdesign and choice of colors. terribly tasteful indeed.