experiencefreak.com http://experiencefreak.com/blog an experience strategist's musings on how culture, technology and design drives innovation. Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:30:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Experiencefreakcomhttp://feedburner.google.com Perspective: ViceTV Liberia http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Experiencefreakcom/~3/2ErYvntfKjI/ http://experiencefreak.com/blog/2010/01/15/perspective-vicetv-liberia/#comments Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:30:16 +0000 andyhunter http://experiencefreak.com/blog/?p=1091 In case the events in Haiti didn’t remind you that our petty political skirmishes and bipartisan battles are nothing compared to what is happening elsewhere in the world, or that your need to stop putting things on your credit card won’t be the end of the world, ViceTV put things in perspective:

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Presentation by Gary Hoover, entrepreneur-in-residence, UT MCCombs/via Dave Wenger

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]]> http://experiencefreak.com/blog/2010/01/12/im-with-coco/feed/ 0 http://experiencefreak.com/blog/2010/01/12/im-with-coco/ Cool Yule. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Experiencefreakcom/~3/3okIQ9Jw7GU/ http://experiencefreak.com/blog/2009/12/25/cool-yule/#comments Sat, 26 Dec 2009 05:48:46 +0000 andyhunter http://experiencefreak.com/blog/2009/12/25/cool-yule/ …hope you had one. Merry Christmas

(if you haven’t already, be sure to enjoy one of my favorite media traditions next year, the WGN Chicago Yule Log broadcast. Complete with the best in old skool christmas music.)

]]> http://experiencefreak.com/blog/2009/12/25/cool-yule/feed/ 0 http://experiencefreak.com/blog/2009/12/25/cool-yule/ Best Of The Web: David Byrne Radio. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Experiencefreakcom/~3/ie1csVAiHHY/ http://experiencefreak.com/blog/2009/12/22/best-of-the-web-david-byrne-radio/#comments Wed, 23 Dec 2009 04:46:08 +0000 andyhunter http://experiencefreak.com/blog/2009/12/22/best-of-the-web-david-byrne-radio/ seriously. the best radio on the internet, if not anywhere.
(think jonesy’s jukebox ala david byrne, who picks all the playlists himself.)
check it by clicking below.

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DISH
Front Burner: Fried Chicken Back Burner: Burgers

DESSERT
Front Burner: Mini Whoopie Pies Back Burner: Mini cupcakes

INGREDIENT
Front Burner: Lamb Back Burner: Pork

HEALTH TREND
Front Burner: immunity-building diet Chef MD’s Big Book of Culinary Medicine
Back Burner: Dining on Omega 3s

PROFESSION
Front Burner: Butcher (Hipsters have moved from farming to butchery),
Back Burner: Mixologist

DRINK
Front Burner: Homemade Beer
Back Burner: Mad-Science Cocktails
After all the smoke and mirrors, these crazy cocktails
made with essence of bubblegum or pulverized eye
of newt are just too precious, expensive, and silly.

CITY
Front Burner: Vancouver
Back Burner: Barcelona

ENTERTAINING TREND
Front Burner: Potlucks
Back Burner: Formal Dinners at Home

SEX SYMBOL
Front Burner: Sam Kass The baby-faced White House’s Food
Initiative Coordinator has a full plate: Among his duties
are leading official policy to encourage sustainable and
healthy eating habits in our country’s school children,
running the First Family’s garden, and oh yeah,
cooking daily at the White House.

Back Burner: Curtis Stone
He has shown the Biggest Losers, as well as the country,
how to eat healthfully and deliciously, and he’ll always
have a place in our heart. But we’d like to see him be a bit
more creative in his suggestions as it’s easy to fall off
your diet wagon if you’re bored of the same ole
grilled chicken or fish.

[full commentary and list at Epicurious.com Blog ]

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DENMARK-CLIMATE-COP_113933c

[photo by Jens Dige/ ASSOCIATED PRESS via STATESMAN]

As the Climate Change conference comes to a close.. an “agreement” has been signed, an accord consisting of pages of goals and rhetoric on how to achieve change.  A valiant effort, but does it take into account the people involved, economic factors and cultural environment these nations live within?  Likely not….

Complex stuff… and this is not a political statement.  It’s actually just an observation and a great parallel for the times we’re living in.  Whether it’s climate change, politics, Wall Street, digital media and publishing industry, product design, global markets, advertising business, etc, etc …

So much has already been shifting, so much is going to change.

Everything is up for grabs..most everything is ripe for innovation.

“We’re in the middle of a period.. of “combinatorial innovation.” (a period in history where) there would be the availability of a different component parts that innovators could combine or recombine to create new |inventions.”
- Hal Varian, Google Chief Economic Officer

Hal’s view of change is pretty cool for us to think about.. “create” something new out of all the old and new things around us.  But I’d add that being innovative requires more than just solving a problem, it requires a much higher level view of the assets, people, cultural factors and interactions amongst creators and constituents.  It requires questioning the problem statement you are given first.. re-framing it.. then evaluating the system before finding the answer.

So whether you are trying to achieve political resolution, launch a new product or develop a brand campaign next year, ask your self.

Am I changing the parts? Or am I impacting the system?
[h/t Tim Sweeney/Upstream]

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via nikonfestival.com

[via Faris]
http://farisyakob.typepad.com/

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classic (and most overlooked) bowie tune remixed to Horror Classics. Enjoy! .. and have fun on one of my favorite holidays ;)

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