$8,793 Worth of [digital] art

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Pau Waelder has recently published $8,793 Worth of [Art], a collection of 159 real and false certificates of authenticity, culled from S[edition], an online platform that sells limited edition artworks in digital format. All Waelder had to do was a small ‘hack’ continue

Walden Note money – How would money function within a behaviorist society?

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Designer Austin Houldsworth imagined a monetary system within the cultural context of Skinner’s utopian novel Walden Two. The payment system would challenge the established monetary function of ‘a store of value’, creating a new method of exchange that encourages people to actively destroy their money during a transaction continue

Ways You Can Generate Money From Niche Marketing

Any discussion about making a profit online will almost constantly refer to the term “niche marketing”, often describing it as one of the most effective ways to do this. It’s not a difficult concept to understand as it simply refers to a market sub-division where consumers are looking to purchase certain products or services who can be targetted online. A niche in the market can be a relatively unexploited and moneymaking resource since there are more buyers than sellers or, in other words, fewer competitors for your business. We are going to discuss how to become a niche marketer and establish your own profitable Internet business.

Firstly, you have to find a good niche and the easiest way to do that is to inquire about the possiblities using online resources. By visiting the Clickbank and Amazon web sites, for instance, you’ll quickly realize that there are a number of possible niches you can research. At these sites you can look through the product categories to find ones that are selling stongly and make a short list to be refined at the next stage.

Once you have some prospective markets to look into, you need to begin to do some keyword research to find out if there are niches you can compete in and that have the potential to make you some profit. Tools to help you perform keyword research are in abundance, some free and some you pay for, but the free Google keyword tool is just fine when starting out. The basic aim in keyword research is to start with broad category words and increasingly drill down into longer key phrases that still have a modest search volume. Usually these ‘long-tailed’ keywords will have fewer competition and are the ones you have to be aiming for in your niche market.

Having chosen those longer key phrases with good numbers of searches each month, you can now continue and find those with the least numbers of websites targetting the same phrase. To do this is simple – simply type the term within quotation marks into the Google’s search bar and hit enter. The number of search results that Google gives is an indication of how many websites out there are using your prospective key phrase. Of course, a profitable niche will be one without very many competing websites. A few of these longer key phrases will be the names and model numbers of particular products which are search terms used by people who are about to purchase rather than those merely searching for information.

Having completed the research and decided on a possible niche market, you can now begin to make a site using your list of profitable niche keywords. Numerous people, who are not especially knowledgeable about creating websites, use the WordPress blog platform to get their first site up and running very quickly. WordPress websites are easily crawled by the search engines. If you can obtain a domain name the same as one of the keywords you want to target then this can help your site to get higher search engine rankings. Don’t try to brand names since companies may well object and make you change it.

When you have everything ready, you can get started to monetize your website to produce passive income and eventually sell the website for a lump sum if you want.

My notes from ‘Bitcoin. Alternative currencies reloaded’

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Historian Garrick Hileman, sociologist Nigel Dodd and financial activist Brett Scott reflected on the question “Is Bitcoin the new gold?” Shaking up online and offline worlds, the online currency Bitcoin has increased its ‘value’ at immense speed in the last year. Being immune from government interference and private manipulations, it has been celebrated as a new alternative currency by some and condemned as source of unpredictable risk by others continue

"How to Expropriate Money from the Banks" & other Displaced Legal Applications: an interview with Nuría Güell

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Nuría Güell has an impressive portfolio: she wrote a manual on How to Expropriate Money from the Banks, married a man from Cuba to give him her nationality, collaborated with a famous bank robber to design the plan to rob a bank agency from the high security prison where he was detained continue

Money Talks

L’architecte et designer Alexander Pincus, à l’origine de Pincus A+D, a imaginé Money Talks, un papier-peint composé de billets de 1 dollar. Et finalement, installer un mur avec ce genre de papier ne coûte pas selon eux forcément plus cher. Un choix étonnant à découvrir en images dans la suite.

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Mark Wagner nous propose de découvrir de superbes collages et copies d’oeuvres connues de tous en utilisant des billets. Des créations doublement d’une grande valeur à découvrir dans une jolie vidéo réalisée par Kelly Nyks & Jared P. Scott pour The Avant Garde Diaries à découvrir dans la suite.

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#A.I.L – artists in laboratories, episode 41: Financial subversion with Brett Scott

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Scott is the author of The Heretic’s Guide to Global Finance. Hacking the Future of Money. The book “applies economic anthropology, gonzo exploration, hacker philosophy, DIY culture, and a bit of mischievousness to the world of high finance.”

We’ll talk about the book, the bitcoins and other radical approaches to global finance of course but also about Scott’s plan to start a London-based school of financial activism continue

#A.I.L – artists in laboratories, episode 36: Ilona Gaynor

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My guest tomorrow will be Ilona Gaynor and she’ll be talking to us about forensic science, police reconstructions and the not so technically sophisticated (but very smart) way to rob a bank in broad day light on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles continue

#A.I.L – artists in laboratories, episode 23: Austin Houldsworth

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My guest at Resonance today is Austin Houldsworth, a young designer with whom we are going to discuss money, its physical disappearance and the financial crimes that could be committed within a completely electronic marketplace continue

Crime Pays

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‘Crime Pays’ project is a fictional monetary system set within an alternative present. The project is designed to disrupt the current technological direction of our cashless payment systems by proposing a different system, which demonstrates both the need for accountability and anonymity within our finances continue

Under Black Carpets

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Ilona Gaynor’s new project, works with police reconstructions, cinematic culture and with ‘Forensic Aesthetics’ to design the perfect bank robbery. And i don’t know how she did it but she managed to convince the FBI New York Dept of Justice and the LAPD Archival Department to help her in her study continue

Uncertain Substance: The Viterbi Algorithm

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A speech recognition algorithm searches radio waves for conversations about money. As an ongoing investigation of the Viterbi algorithm, this project seeks to understand the agency of a mathematical entity that operates as structural thread within the fabric of contemporary society. continue

Air Futures, the company that controls the trade of Air Rights in New York

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What would happen if the regulation of air rights was given free rein, if air became a commodity that could be bought and sold? How would the trade physically manifest itself? Can we imagine that one day an Air Bank will open in the heart of Manhattan? continue

Zero evolution / Une idée qui n’a pas trop évoluée

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THE ORIGINAL?
“Help me to evolve” – 2009
“Good ideas bring good results”
Source : Young Lions Competition SILVER
Creatives : Bob Ferraz and Marcelo Melo (Portugal)
LESS ORIGINAL
Experimente Self-Promo “Help me to evolve” – 2012
“Good ideas bring good results”
Source : Vimeo
Agency : Experimente, Belo Horizonte (Brazil)

#A.I.L – artists in laboratories, episode 7

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This week, Joseph Popper proposes to send one person on a journey into deep space from where they will never return, Neil Usher designed a robot that finds human faces in the clouds, Shing Tat Chung looked at what would happen if traders and estate agents gave free reign to superstition and Tobias Revell talks about the timeline that charts the history of power up to the early 22nd century and how that 24/7 banking ship fits into the picture continue

The Arctic’s 24/7 banking ship

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In the early 2040’s an ex-Soviet Arktika class icebreaker was recommissioned to act as an experiment in global finance at 88.7 degrees latitude – the heart of the arctic sea. Here it could circumnavigate the world in twenty-four hours, allowing it to stay in constant contact with trading zones throughout the world. The experiment was a phenomenal success… continue

Creative crisis ? / Épargnez-nous ça !

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THE ORIGINAL?
BankMed – 2009
“Make your money work for you”
Source : Cannes Archive Online
Agency : Impact BBDO (Lebanon)
LESS ORIGINAL
BT Invest btinvest.com  – 2012
“Let money work for you”
Source : Adsoftheworld
Agency : Wild Advertising and Marketing (Singapore)

Book review – Ghetto at the Center of the World: Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong

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There is nowhere else in the world quite like Chungking Mansions, a dilapidated seventeen-story commercial and residential structure in the heart of Hong Kong’s tourist district. A remarkably motley group of people call the building home; Pakistani phone stall operators, Chinese guesthouse workers, Nepalese heroin addicts, Indonesian sex workers, and traders and asylum seekers from all over Asia and Africa live and work there–even backpacking tourists rent rooms. In short, it is possibly the most globalized spot on the planet continue

Uncanny algorithms and superstitious bankers

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The project that Shing-Tat Chung was showing at the work in progress show of Design Interactions, explores a world in which beliefs and rituals emerge from the seemingly harmless private sphere to infect larger and more complex public systems. In times of uncertainty will the population demand an alternative logic to be implemented? This project imagines a stock market in which superstitions abound, producing uncanny algorithms and illogical bankers attired in green suit and Feng-Shui briefcases continue