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It starts with 100 ice creams from Ben & Jerry. People bid on them. So far there are bids like theater tickets, foot massages, jackets and more. Those people get an ice cream and then others can bid on those items. For instance guitar lessons, etc. The winning bids then become the next in the chain of giving forward. Or what we like to call Giving Chains. If you are in Holland (it is in dutch only I’m afraid) you could try it out for yourself. Trust me there are a lot of very cool things that are going to be planned for this campaign so keep watching here. It’s gonna be a lot of fun! And I can’t imagine a better company than Ben and Jerry’s to do it with. a real socially conscious company. Viva La givolution!!!

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More Videos from the DLD will follow. Enjoy!

Interview with Tim Kring of Heroes.

This is a great video which is a rant on the iPad. It is a part of a series of rants from Hitler subtitled from the film Der Untergang.

Working with Lode over the past month has been a challenge and also a great creative collaboration. In Holland Lode’s reputation proceeds himself, and to say I’ve sat across from him for the past month concepting is enough to make many people in the biz in Holland nearly break their necks in a double take.

There are big plans and lots of great projects on which I will be working, officially starting on January 1, 2010. All I can say is that Indie is finally a place where the crazy ideas I have and the preachings about engagement and approach of digital campaigns do not fall on deaf ears. Quite the opposite, they are being stimulated. What’s also great about Indie is that they understand how important it is for me to be able to work on purely creative projects and to keep teaching Design for Virtual Theater and Games at the HKU, which they have re-enforced in our agreement by allowing me to work part-time still as a teacher and digital artist.

To get a perspective on how much Indie is prepared to try new things we have projects ranging from Augmented Reality Games to Virtual Flashmob Dance mash-ups in pre-production. A very exciting time, and a very exciting company to work with. I couldn’t have dreamed of a better job at a better company a few months ago. A big thanks to Isabelle O’kane who made the first introduction with Tim O’Kennedy that landed me an interview with Indie. Thanks a bunch Isabelle! Next time out the champagne is on me. Now I head back to the states for the Holidays to reconnect with my family before starting this next adventure. PEACE!

Image by Guido Van Nispen

I search both google vs. bing and see what the Image results are for Gabe Mac. Immediately I have a visual representation of how well each search engine knows me. And let’s be honest a search engine is kind of like your local grocery store or bar. You go there because they know you, no matter if there is a bigger shopping center being built down the way. At least that’s how I am. So Bing if you want me as a user, you better start getting to know me. Google knows me by 77%, and bing only knows me by 11%.

Google Images Search results knows me by 77%

Bing Image Search results knows me by 11%

I know you all think the same way, I just go ahead and say it.

For a direct link to the presentation click here:
http://docs.google.com/present/view?id=df6djpcq_33f875t7fd&interval=60

(side note I just heard about a bong that works on lasers. Are you shitting me?)

Video Mapping on Buildings

Today is the start of the Amsterdam Dance Event here in Amsterdam Holland. To take a moment before you go out this weekend and enjoy dancing, music, clubbing or whatever you feel like with music this weekend have a look at these 2 great talks. One is from Bobby Mcferrin at the World Science Festival and the other is from Itay Talgam at TED. I know the ideas and inspirations I get from watching these 2 talks with regard to leadership, group dynamics, individualism and groups working for a common goal. Watch them yourselves and see what inspirations come to you. Leave any in the comments.

World Science Festival 2009: Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale from World Science Festival on Vimeo.

Steve Francis just came over happy about how his presentation on Transparency went today. It was a real great experience talking with him over the past weeks about the topic and helping him put it into a story to present. I learned a lot about how transparency networks started back in the Yugoslovian War and have now trickled down into today’s social networks with transparency. Over this time I suggested some books for him to read, one in particular really sunk home. It was Rod Beckstrom’s “Starfish and the Spider”. Even though I really love my copy I loaned it to Steve to read. Why do I love my copy? Well Rod signed it for me after we had an amazing talk one night at the DLD a couple years back. Anyway, Steve read it, had epiphanies like everyone does who reads the book, (yes it is a great book you should read it) and told his old CO about it. Turns out his old CO and Rod are already talking together. Amazing how the tribes across the world’s mix. I had such an epiphany with a video Steve now shared with me. David Logan talking at TEDx about Tribal Leadership. An excellent talk, especially if you have read Seth Godin’s book on tribes. Yes you have a lot of reading to do if you haven’t read these books. Anyeway,s enjoy the video and I hope it inspires.

From Raymond’s Entry

This is one of my very favorite moments from VlogEurope 2008 in Budapest – it shows so much of the spirit of Gabemac (tw)

Thanks for being such an awesome, fun guy Gabe!

In this video is also Mindcaster Marc (NL) and Susan Kirkpatrick (USA)

Well as a comic book enthusiast, I have a solution to make comics more green. Hemp! That’s right. Hemp paper is MUCH better for the environment and comics and here is why:
1. Hemp doesn’t need the same bleaching process as trees making less chemical waste.
2. Hemp can produce 4 times what an average forest can produce.
3. Hemp paper is better for archival purposes as it does not yellow as fast like tree paper does.
4. How cool would it be to have a comic printed on Hemp!
And there are trons of other reasons, but the main reason why it doesn’t happen is that it is too expensive at the moment. Why? well, because there is no high demand to produce the stuff. However, throw some money at it from comic book producers and I’m sure the process (which hasn’t changed since WW2, and neither have the machines really) could be made cheaper than wood pulp. Just because it is made from Hemp doesn’t mean that if you smoke it you will get high, like smoking Canibus. Just in case you were wondering.

“Sex in the Desert”
1 oz. Tequila
1 oz. Triple Sec
1 oz. Grenadine
1/2 oz. Rose’s Lime Juice
1/2 oz. Cranberry Juice

Shake well with ice and then strain into a prechilled cocktail glass to keep the Desert cool. And I really believe Tequila should be spelled Tequilllla, don’t you?

update: JT is just the owner of 901.

1. Help people to first get acquainted with Twitter
2. Employee college students and unemployed bloggers
3. Twitter gets much deniro and it won’t go down all the time.
4. We lost twitter just like we lost Second Life already anyway, duh. Time for the early adopters to grab some cash and jump ship man. See you on echo…

Only time I travel is if it is getting paid for by a speaking job or something, which I then couch surf and hang out with some of my great friends all over the world. So don’t feel to bad for me. In that sense I’m blessed. But I digress. I’ve been looking for a job, and I keep getting these type of rejections. Like this one I just got in:

Is saw you application for Producer Interactive Media. Thank you for that. To be frank: I don’t think its the right job for you. You seem way to creative and enterprising for this type of work that is basically organizing, negotiating budgets, making plannings etc. You probably thought It was much more exciting….

No really, I just need the money man! I’ll be less creative! I’ll conform! I’ll wear a suit to work and not my pajamas! I’ll show up at 9:00 in the morning and stay till 5, rather than coming in at 10 and staying until 5 in the morning which I usually do! … … …

oh who am I kidding. New job ad for me. “Creative will live for food!”

-picture by my buddy Rodrigo Sepulveda

To the Lowlands 2009 Crew, “I Salute you…. THEO!!!”

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To all those creatives, artists, dancers, or anyone who feels that inner torment and struggle of, “Can I produce something good enough?” This talk from Elizabeth Gilbert at TED is something you should watch. It is scary how much this hit home, more than any of the books I’ve read on the Creative Process. We do torment ourselves, and let the ego take over with fear. Allowing that ego to fade away, and just showing up to work and let inspiration do it’s job without the fear is probably the best creative process tip I have heard. At times I have felt it as well. I usually call it the “Flow”. When you are in that creative flow, you feel like a conduit and the inspiration just takes hold of you to create. Enjoy.

Last week my sister came over to Europe for a vacation. We started in Amsterdam, chilling in the VondelPark with friends, checking out a few terraces, clubs and the like, and of course rode around on bikes. Then we headed over to Madrid where we start ed with my friend Catalina and met up with friends like Patrick and Henk and made some new friends as well. Then back to Amsterdam for the Appelsap festival in Oosterpark and Acid Jazz in the Sugar Factory before she got on the plane back to the states. It was so much fun, and I have some great videos which I will be posting at a later date. It was just really nice to see her just before she goes to College and study Environmental Sciences. Yes she will change the world I’m sure of it. Although by the end of the trip I think I turned her into a slight Activist. So proud of her.

For more links check http://flashmobamsterdam.tumblr.com

Official video is on the following sites:
Blip.tv
Yahoo Video
Youtube.com
Dailymotion.com
MySpace.com
Metacafe.com

Other Videos on Youtube.com
Interviews and Video from
VJMART.NL
RTL News in Holland

Some Pictures from the event:
Flickr Group
MobyPicture Group
http://events.rvhfoto.nl/

In this interview from , Michael B. Johnson of Pixar discusses tips on the Creative Process. He also talks about moving from an analog to a digital creative process and some of the pitfalls of working virtually as well as some of the pros. Michael develops software for the animators and creatives at Pixar animation Studios, which is known for it’s creativity and 3D animation films. To watch more of these interviews, check the link here.

This is an interview I filmed for Picnic in New York together with my good buddy Kevin Slavin. Kevin is the founder of Area Code and is an extremely smart and creative dude. He develops everything from Urban Games to ARGs, to Cross Media games, and more. Have a look at the interview and definitely check him out at Picnic in Amsterdam this year. In the interview he talks about the Augmented City and how information technologies need to simplify rather than complicate the information we generate around a city.

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North Korea* is suspected in a massive state-sponsored cyber attack that targeted sites in South Korea
And the United States over the past 24 hours.  The attack is a Distributed Denial Of Service (DDOS) attack.  Shadowserver DDOS Stats

http://www.shadowserver.org/wiki/pmwiki.php/Stats/DDoSCharts show yesterday’s activity to be very significant.

The Internet Storm Center has NOT raised the Internet Threat level from Green.

Some of us may be working among these clients (see target list below).  It is not clear whether this is an isolated effort or the prelude to more aggressive activities to come.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2009/07/08/ST2009070801296.html

*Analysts differ in opinion as to whether North Korea has the capability to have executed this cyber attack alone.  Speculation is that collaborators may include China, Iran and possibly rogue hackers from Russia, however no evidence supports this yet.

North Korea has been operating an advanced cyber-warfare training capability out of what is now called Pyongyang College, formerly Kim Il Military Academy and Mirim College.  They have been cited in numerous references as producing 100 cyber-war experts a year for many years now.  Some estimates have been higher.  It has been suggested by some pundits that these reports are South Korean propaganda to increase foreign aid … but current assessments are that the information is accurate about a cyber-war curriculum as well as 100 graduates a year (confidence: High).  This appears to be the first exercise of this capability on a large scale.

The Attack Site (Target) list identified is:

[공격 사이트 리스트] [Attack site list – embedded in the malware]

청와대, 국방부, 외교통상부, 대한민국 국회, 주한 미군, 네이버 블로그, 네이버 메일, 농협 인터넷 뱅킹, 신한은행 인터넷 뱅킹, 외환은행 인터넷 뱅킹, 한나라당, 조선일보, 옥션Cheong Wa Dae, the Ministry of National Defense, Foreign Affairs and Trade, Republic of Korea National Assembly, U.S. forces in Korea, Naver blog, Naver mail, bank, internet banking, internet banking, Shinhan Bank, Korea Exchange Bank, internet banking, the Grand National Party, the Chosun Ilbo…and more.

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1. People beleive they are paying tribute to Michael Jackson, rather than being added to an advertising database of Studio Brussels. See dutch people! The Belgians are not a stupid as you think!
2. The video slides from right to left, rather than the simple cut that the previous examples created. This also shows what is coming next!
3. They randomize the playlist so even coming in at the 1333 entry, it will still maybe play at one point.
4. They have twitter, facebook, share and other ways to share that exact segment. Thus when someone does make one, (and it eventually gets passed through the screening process, which can take a while I tell you.) and sees it on the site, they can tell ALL THIER FRIENDS!!! YEAH!!! WHOOO HOO!! LOOK FRIENDS!!! I’M MOONWALKING!!!!! (although the mailto message is reallllly lame.)
5. You can search for locations, and it puts those in the next cue. Just kind of fun.

However I think there are some improvements that could be made. How to make it better?
1. Allow people to quickly click on a clip they see to add it to a favorites playlist that can then be embedded on sites.
2. ALLOW FOR BLOGGERS TO GET AN EMBED CODE EASILY!!!! Sorry, couldn’t figure it out anywhere.

That’s all the free advice I’ll give. Just because it’s MJ. So for all the other young boys out there that Michael Touched and got them to dance in their pajamas, this is for you.

update: to see this in the site click here.

Besides Megan Fox, and Michael Bay doing Transformers again, I really want to see this movie. Transformers 2 may seem like a cheezy flick, but let me tell you, I was jealous of kids with Transformers when I was a kid. Nope, I wasn’t exactly the rich kid in my neighborhood. I had to settle for the cheap ripoff of GoBots. GoBots were the Ghetto Transformers. I think there were only 6 of them. Three good and three bad guys. That’s it. And not as cool as the big ass transformer toys. You would not be surprised to find GoBots in a Happy Meal. Oh but when that happened! JackPot! To all the GoBot kids out there, I SALUTE YOU!!!

Here is the press release sent out with it.
“Dear I WONDER participants,
The I WONDER section and images made by Peter Funch are online!
The images can be viewed if you added yourself as a member and have accepted us as your friend.
Have fun looking for your image! Don’t forget to add your personal story to your image.”

Here is my story:
Here are some treasures of mine. My laptop, my green hat and my dad’s jacket. This is the laptop that I used for the last few years, traveling around the world talking about video blogging, creating cool projects, from XOLO.TV days through Mobuzz.tv days. The laptop has been through so much (so many stickers as well) that I let it retire at my home to watch films and videos online. I can’t realy take it anywhere nowadays because I abused it so much while traveling. Then there’s my green hat which I bought at Lowlands, and has been with me partying for the last year. That hat has been on many beautiful heads of friends, family, or co-clubbers at night.The jacket is from my dad. He bought it in College just before having me. He wore it to all the great concerts like “The Who”, “Led Zeplin”, “Pink Floyd” and many more. When I turned 16 he gave it to me, and I’ve worn it all over the world to many concerts, parties, etc. In the last 30 years, this jacket has ALWAYS been in style and I always have people asking me where I got it. When I have it on I feel safe, remembering as a kid being held in my dad’s arms while we wore the same jacket.

Do you want to know the amazing story of how video games came to be the way they are today? I found this great 5 Part documentary series that takes us through Pong being made on an oscilloscope( I think ), to the Virtual Worlds we have today. And every beautiful Ms. PacMan, Legend of Zelda, Tetris and Leisure Suit Larry story in between. Although it talks mostly about Atari’s scandals, it touches on others. Like the feud between Nintendo and Sony that dates back to the change from cartridges to disc. I loved this series. It was like my own personal histroy in front of me. Every console, every hype, to live through that. Fuck the Baby boomers and thier Televisions. We have FREAKN! VIDEO GAMES!!!!

You wanna know how long I’ve been playing Video Games? Well, I remember as a kid recording programs over the radio onto a cassette. Then on a camping trip to Washington, to help stop a highway being built in the neighborhood, (my mother the activist), we actually plugged in the Atari to the RV. Started playing the cassette tapes for hours, and finally after about 3 tries it would work!!! Voila! We had an amazing video game with 10 monochromatic pixels. Those were the days when software and games were all free. Now, according to the worldometers, Some 8 million $ have been spent this year on Video Games. Nice.

Discovery Channel - Rise of the Video Game Level 1
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Note to all you “Viral Marketers”. I’m sorry but if you don’t know about video games, you have absolutly no idea why this video clogging Utube.

Link:

update: Crooksandliars.com has more about the details of what happened.

My dad is Qikking at the Chattahoochee Nature Center. My mom works there saving the environment like she has always done. I remember chaining myself to trees as a kid with al the other neighborhood kids, in protest to a highway being built through a park in the area. Great memories. Love my parents for that. And I love my Dad for running around streaming a local charity event. Activism on the internet doesn’t have to be global scale, it can also be local and niche. That’s the beauty in the flexibility of the internet. Reach the world, or just your neighborhood. Either way, it is good. I love the part in one of the videos when the guy says, “I didn’t sign a release” and my dad says, “Yeah well I’m publishing it anyway.” What a rebel! I have the coolest dad. I love him. “Happy Pre-Father’s Day dad!” You’re QIKKING IT!

But now I see also the slew of information and support from things such as the Green Icon creators, Facebook Cause Pages, and other digital support to keep pressure on the press and the media to keep reporting about it. Through that exposure I beleive change does happen. And let’s be honest, it would nice to think about someone else’s problem rather than our own nowadays.

Tomorrow I might be joining, Bicycle Mark along with Amsterdamize and some other people to talk on National Dutch TV, VPRO about Activism and 2.0. I suspect they will talk about the twitter revolution, but I’m not sure if they realize the greats like, InvisibleChildren.com, Josh Wolf’s story or a slew of others. I said once, You want to make a change in the world? The tools are there on the internet. Use them.

Caturday means more cats. Actually I’m more of a dog lover being allergic to cats, but virtually I think they are awesome. Maybe I need a virtual cat on the XBOX like Milo? Today coming from my buddy Nuno is Cats on Catnip. For more videos check his post here.