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Comment on For successful employee engagement in your intranet by Christophe Bruchansky

Christophe Bruchansky — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:40:35 +0000

Thanks for your presentation, it was great! And by the way, you also did a very good job for your @gentry tweets from PICNIC, I remember they were spot on.

Comment on For successful employee engagement in your intranet by Gentry Underwood

Gentry Underwood — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 20:24:20 +0000

Great post! I give a lot of talks about our system at IDEO and the underlying philosophies behind it and rarely do I feel like a blogging summary does it justice… Too often it sounds like a bullet point list jotted mindlessly by someone writing a book report. In contrast, this was inspiring to read.

Finding solutions that simultaneously meet the needs of the organization while motivating individual participation is hard work. At IDEO we feel we’ve still got a long way to go in this respect, but we know there’s no possibility of a successful system otherwise.

Comment on Anthropology on Disney World: consumerism, postmodernism and decontextualisation by Christophe Bruchansky

Christophe Bruchansky — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:08:34 +0000

You can find a new article I have written about Walt Disney World and Heterotopia on http://curatedmatter.org/the-heterotopia-of-walt-disney-world-post-modernism-and-consumerism/

Comment on Anthropology on Disney World: consumerism, postmodernism and decontextualisation by Christophe Bruchansky

Christophe Bruchansky — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 11:39:16 +0000

Thanks for sharing this experience Aries! Whatever Disney parks tried to achieve, personal memories are unique and have their own meanings. The parks are designed for visitors to live predefined stories and to get predefined desires. But reality is different and it would be interesting to hear what is the story people have to tell about their visit. How it differs from the ’standard’ consumption of the Disney product.

Comment on Anthropology on Disney World: consumerism, postmodernism and decontextualisation by AriesAshkuff

AriesAshkuff — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 06:06:32 +0000

Furthermore, though?
I suppose it IS a little screwed up that some of my earliest childhood memories include incessant advertisements for “Kodak.”
Heh.

Comment on Anthropology on Disney World: consumerism, postmodernism and decontextualisation by AriesAshkuff

AriesAshkuff — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 05:57:54 +0000

Wow…

You know, I spent a lot of time at Disney World as a child. We had a lot of, er, “issues” and my mother and grandmother took me there to escape from time-to-time. And, you know? It was a lot like this article said. Disney mixed reality with the fantastic, making the “real” seem a bit less harsh and the “fantastic” seem a bit more achievable. And, for me, this was a good thing.

Although, that said?
They never got me, I never started trusting the corporations.
Heh. Up yours, Wal-Mart!

Comment on Visit at the 10th art biennial of Havana by Havana Biennale: Talkin’ ’bout a revolution « Guttersnipe: Music, Movies, Comics, Books, Fashion

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 01:15:08 +0000

[...] is hosting 52 Cuban artists in addition to Melis, and in keeping with the Biennale’s theme of “Integration and Resistance In the Global Era” the work is edgy and topical, and often moves boldly beyond the white cube. As all art is vetted by [...]

Comment on About curating: Jeff Koons at Versailles by bruchansky

bruchansky — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 23:10:01 +0000

Thanks for the information, I didn’t know that dimension. Here is what I found on http://www.artnews.com/issues/article.asp?art_id=2106:
“Jeff Koons used flowers to represent sexuality in his “Made in Heaven” series. Of his Large Vase of Flowers (1991), Koons wrote, “There are 140 flowers. They are very sexual and fertile, and at the same time they are 140 assholes.” “

Comment on About curating: Jeff Koons at Versailles by gregoire kaufman

gregoire kaufman — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 22:14:48 +0000

Interesting review of the Versailles / Koons confrontation where the strongest symbols of magnificience confronts themselves. I also had the same feeling in front of the flower bouquet in Marie Antoinette bedroom’s. You hardly guess that it’s an add on from the 20th century. I later remembered that the bouquet comes from a serie of Koons called Pornography…