Bruce Sterling’s Forecast For The Next 10 Years: “Dark Euphoria” [#reboot11]

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Below is the video of Bruce Sterling’s fantastic session at the Reboot 11 conference. It’s very satirical, grotesque even, and yet pretty thought provoking. I think it was the best presentation at the conference, and his 10 years forecast resonated well with my own sense of where we’re going: “Dark Euphoria”.

5 Penetrating Tips: Learning Online Marketing From Spammers

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I detest spam email as much as the next guy. Last year alone I manually sent thousands of mainly work related emails and probably read ten times as many as that. So it goes without saying that I spend a fair amount of time hanging out in my Inbox. I consider spam a fact of [...]

DIY Zine Culture Goes Digital

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I was asked to talk a bit about Issuu by Zine Arcade, who really liked the possibilities to publish online. Here are a few bits of it (the least promoting parts):
Issuu is the ideal platform for the zine community. I myself have been very inspired by the old b/w DIY culture, and that movement is [...]

Branding the non-brand: The Blackspot Unswoosher

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I just bought a pair of Blackspot boots. You may not have heard of this brand. It’s not a brand; it’s an anti-brand launched by Adbusters, a network of artists, activists and the usual bunch who aim to “topple existing power structures”.
Blackspot took it’s name from the action of erasing the brand of a product [...]

Old media, new strategy: Sell out to readers

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Ok, so maybe the title doesn’t seem so radical. Newspapers have always been sold to readers, right?
Take a look at what the free newspaper Amsterdam Weekly is doing. Facing financial challenges, like most print media businesses do these days, they decided a radical approach: Sell out – to the readers.
So, each page of the forthcoming [...]

Radical drinks pricing policy: Yuppies pay extra

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I wrote about Karierrebar earlier, a rather unique place where art space and bar room melts together.
Now they’ve launched a new pricing polity, courtesy of artist Kenneth Balfelt. According to this, the bartender will decide what you pay for your drinks. The price is set according to social status, sexual orientation, and skin color. You [...]

The promise of art keeps vandals away

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Take a good close look at this picture and tell me what’s wrong. Any suggestions? Well, what if I told you that this plywood wall is located in the centre of otherwise graffiti infested Copenhagen and that it’s been clean like this for at least a month now.
Notice the white sheet of paper to the [...]

This Sunday: Political cinema + art books

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The recent release of RAF-member Birgitte Mohnhaupt and the destruction of the ‘Ungdomshuset’ (formerly hotbed for alternative culture and street-level activism) calls for political flashback … according to these guys, anyway:
STATION 16, a newly formed Copenhagen group dedicated to the exhibition of avant-garde, experimental and underground cinema, takes this opportunity with it’s debut screening to [...]