July 2012
15 posts
“Dear Sir:
I like words. I like fat buttery words, such as ooze, turpitude,...”
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My new favorite job application letter, from 1934. He ended up winning an Oscar for screenwriting!
(via Letters of Note)
We like words too.
(via good)
A Lil Bit of Change
As multimedia historians, documenting and sharing change as it happened with the world at large, We were there … and so were You. From the announcement of Barack Obama’s candidacy in Springfield, IL, our agents were on the ground and we stitched a quilt of all the memories of people involved in various facets of the Presidential Election by facilitating conversations and preserving...
Campaign Launch →
@lavvocato:
An Official Photo shot by @jgenius #sixwordstories
The starting point for this initiative was to argue that the advancement of American democracy is contingent upon having an engaged and active citizenry. The intent was to evaluate the impact the poor and underrepresented could have if they were equipped and willing to exercise their civic duty. As an example, the progress made...
Campaign Brief
OBSERVATION*: Twitter has been a revolutionary idea but it has not been a conductor of revolutionary ideas. Inquiry: Will it ever? Should it?
*Communicated via @lavvocato’s Twitter account
REPLY: With such an abundance of ideas shared via Twitter it is difficult to say whether any of these ideas are indeed revolutionary. Yet, new media as a whole has become a central component of socio-political...
