5 posts from February 2008

Much of today's modern media and architecture has been inspired by artists with leanings that many people consider to be postmodernists. These artists simply defied the convention of the time just as many artists of today defy today's conventions. Here's just a little Van Gogh and Absinthe.

Check out this video of this gentleman telling a number story.

This is not about who you are voting for this election; this post is about how political figures have utilized the power of new media such as the Internet and mobile handheld devices to communicate one message through multiple messengers with unique perspectives. This video utilizes spoken word, poetry, music, drama, news footage, song, dance, emotion, and sign language with powerful graphics and the use of black and white images and backgrounds. Ron Paul and Barack Obama have totally transformed political fundraising and campaigning via the Internet. Political fundraising has become a bottom up process now where ordinary citizens donating small amounts from $25 to $50 to $100 are now creating enough of a financial powerhouse that they are raising money that is comparable to what corporations used to raise and beyond.

In fact, the McCain, Clinton, Guiliani and Huckabee campaigns have all had  fundraising problems that forced them to not pay some campaign workers temporarily or to make personal loans to their own campaigns. I suspect that their lack of knowledge concerning the power of the Internet and new media and devices doomed their fundraising efforts. While Ron Paul is not getting the votes like Obama, he is not going broke on the campaign trail and he may provide a texbook case on how to campaign online and raise funds for candidates who do not have the glamor and Hollywood appeal of a Barack Obama.


The images and the sounds through online sites and social media networks to mobile devices have totally changed the political landscape and more is yet come.

Here is short piece on how one can use the iPhone and YouTube to communicate. This will offer many companies, universities and non-profits a unique opportunity to communicate with a device that utilizes voice, images, music, sound and touch to communicate.  Apple has created a unique opportunity to truly send an integrated message to everyone including the deaf, the blind and people with disabilities through an online service and a handheld device.