Hasta La Creative!

Voici une sélection de photos d’identité de criminelles des années 1920, exposées en ce moment au Sydney Living Museum d’Australie et accompagnées de légendes à propos de leurs délits. Ces clichés fascinants ont été pris lors de leurs arrestations et documentent non seulement les enquêtes mais aussi les styles et les modes de cette époque.

“Journalism is the new marketing degree” is the slightly sarcastic motto among New York Times staffers, many of them former journalists, who create articles and videos for brands. It appears the same could be said at The Atlantic, which just hired former Time magazine Managing Editor James Gaines to lead its branded-content division, Atlantic Re:think.

Mr. Gaines was most recently held editor positions at Reuters, but he spent the bulk of his career at Time Inc., where he was top editor at People, Life and Time. Mr. Gaines also served as managing editor of News Corp.’s short-lived tablent publication The Daily. In his new role, he will report to Sam Rosen, VP-marketing, The Atlantic.

The last couple of years have seen many publishers build departments to help advertisers create editorial-like content. The Atlantic, for better or worse, has been at the vanguard of this push towards so-called native advertising. In early 2013, The Atlantic was slammed for running a sponsored post from Scientology, but the publication explained itself (“We screwed up,” it said) and produced an internal protocol for accepting and running articles from brands.

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The streaming video service’s plan is part its strategy to appeal to children with exclusive, commercial-free programming that could get parents to subscribe.

Le graphiste Nick Barclay, dont nous avons déjà parlé à maintes reprises, revient avec la série de posters « 3 Colour Star Wars », consacrés à la saga Star Wars et aux trois couleurs qui définissent chaque personnage, à la manière de pantones graphiques et géométriques. La série complète est à découvrir dans la suite.

Spending on movie downloads and video streaming subscriptions in the U.S. will surpass purchases and rentals of DVDs for the first time this year, according to a report from PricewaterhouseCooopers.

Electronic home-video revenue will climb 13% to $9.5 billion this year, while physical sales drop to $7.8 billion, the consulting firm said. By 2017, the electronic revenue will reach $12 billion, at which point it will exceed the U.S. film box office, according to the report.

The accounting firm’s annual outlook for media and entertainment shows that while overall spending will continue to climb, technological shifts in the way content is delivered are creating winners and losers.

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It’s the beginning of a whole new chapter in human history: a hinge point, a paradigm shift in consciousness and an astonishing moment to be alive.

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From Adbusters #119: Manifesto For World Revolution Part 2

It’s the end of the Nation State. It’s the beginning of a whole new chapter in human history: a hinge point, a paradigm shift in consciousness and an astonishing moment to be alive.

We are more connected, deeper in crisis, more adept, faster, more empathic, more afraid and simultaneously more aware than any species has ever been. It’s terrifying or thrilling or mysteriously both depending on your POV and your GPS location.

The fast and furious empire of the US is already in free fall; the signs and signifiers are blaring everywhere. The loot has already been moved offshore. The prison system is booming. Monsanto has patented life and death, mixing them up and street hustling the world in a fatal con of three card Monte. We’ve poisoned our soldiers with depleted uranium and our mothers with toxic plastics. South America is rejecting the yoke of the North. Europe is blocking GMO food, questioning the sanity of its producers and consumers. Asia is steadily gaining ground. And yet American movies tell us that “against all odds,” “what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger,” “the hero never dies.”

In crises people diverge, we either become our best selfless selves: providing food, water, clothing, shelter, comfort, humanity, kindness —rushing in to the quake or paddling in to the flood zone atop a refrigerator or jumping into the burning building— fueled by a fierce love, a deep aha about our interconnectivity, courageous in our vulnerability… OR… we are swallowed up by fear and anxiety shrinking smaller and shirking our responsibilities or still worse biting and clawing over others and killing the planet in the mad wake spewing from the acting out of our deep multi-generational distress.

As multiple systems collapse, escapism becomes harder. The war of words becomes more deadly: traitor, warrior, patriot, egomaniac, spy, dropout, terrorist, freedom fighter, son, partner, friend – each word defines a relationship between people, connecting the framing POV and again the coordinates of where we stand on the map.

It is a real crossroads we are standing at here in this exact moment of our lives. So fuel yourself with love; arm yourself with truth and tenderness; don’t forget to water the garden. Find the courage to tell your own story. Carpe Diem. It is never too late.

— Pia Massie, Vancouver, Canada

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