I think this is a good way to round off a discussion about management theory. How will universities spend the library budget in future? In the rest of the discussion there are various models.Journals can be free if seen as contributing to interest in a project. Books about open source and learning can turn out to be quite expensive.
Later on I hope to write something about 3D printing and art objects. The Work Foundation has done a report about 3D Printing but not included much about sculpture.
In the Phoenix Arts Centre in Exeter there is a current exhibit in the corridor near the kitchen. "An Adventure in Riso" based on images from the 1924 film The Adventure of Prince Achmed by Lotte Reinger. The works were printed by Prt Scr Press using Riso equipment. They were created in a workshop collaboration between artist Oliver Flexman and the University of Exeter Art Society.
The question that comes to my mind is why there is not an offer of prints in an unlimited quantity depending on demand. I recently spoke to Volkhardt Muller about Any High Street on the Wild Show / Phonic FM.
He explains the idea of "aura", the benefits of materials that are not easy to reproduce and also limited editions.
I can understand that a woodcut is not suited to a very long run of printing. But a Riso can do quite a lot before you have to start again.
There may be time to discuss this again on the Wild Show. Mostly Phonic FM is music but there is some talk as well.
I notice on Oliver Flexman's store that there is a limited edition of a baseball cap. as memory serves this was displayed at the Phoenix inside a glass case. Would it have mattered if a few had been given away if worn around the building?
The image on the jpeg attached is a start on a poster for Nosferatu, 20 Nov at Exeter Northcott. Please have a look at the Adventure in Riso in the Phoenix Walkway Gallery and suggest a poster design for Riso. The Wikipedia suggests that copyright may be an issue in Germany but not in most other places. Note that this is a design for advertising so there could be more tolerance for using images.
By the way, The YouTube search robot suggests watching this next one when I search on Volkhardt Muller
I am running a bit late, these were taken more than a week ago. I hope there will be enough days with some light so there could be video interviews on these sets. The web is moving on academic publishing and sculpture I think. Continues on Wild Show, music definitely changing. 3D printing at the Phoenix later this year. New gadgets announced next week. More later.
These clips are not very good or very long, but they do show that fairly soon it will be possible to do interviews from central Exeter. Kodak have yet to sell the patents for cameras such as the Zi8 so I am still waiting to upgrade my phone. Taking a card home usually only delays an upload by a day or so.
But here from last week, Chris Norton uses his iPhone and uploads to YouTube within minutes
Then yesterday I met JD and tried out a new Nexus 7
overnight he looked up how to turn the camera by 90 degrees. the new software turned up as automatic download but then you have to enable it in settings. So then-
The Nexus is not designed with a front camera so this is bound to be wobbly. But the Wild Show can continue in the Phoenix cafe as well as on Phonic, 10 -12 Thursday morning. Chris plans to upload by phone from the South West Music Awards and I will try to record this on Zi8. 1 or 2 minute clips is not exactly live outside broadcast but we will keep testing, this is not far off.
But there is no detail on the option of continuing in the UK with a Saturday magazine style and closing for the rest of the week. I think the Media and Education sections are getting to be borderline value. Buzzmachine compares quite well to a Monday.
My local newsagent no longer displays the Guardian well for most of the week, but things change on a Saturday.
According to the Digital Spy-
Its digital revenues increased to £45.7 million last year, but its overall operating losses rose to £31.1m.
Is it time for a rethink on citizen journalism? A different take on the readers? Full disclosure on what happened with Guardian Talk?
Recently Emily Bell wrote about Variety
The purchaser, just to spice things up, is not another long-established media organisation but a "blog company".
My guess is that "citizen journalism" will stay in quote marks till the Guardian runs out of money and something else happens.
This morning I watched the whole of this talk on design science.
Definitely too much for the Wild Show, it would only leave half an hour for music. But it explains where the idea is coming from. If you need to skip through it, roughly the first half hour is about collaboration examples, the next half hour is about design science and the last half hour is questions. Very briefly, there is some recognition for existing design, social science and action learning but still a case in a web context for research funding in some proportion to the space budget over a period up to 400 years.
I have been dipping into this sometimes but I think the future of the design science DJ will depend on shorter explanations.
However it is worth viewing for the positive motivation in engaging with technology. I like the comparison of engagement and experimentality. I was reminded of the Lancaster project on Experimentality and had a look at a recent paper -
There are some interesting ideas about Kondratieff cycles but I can't see where activity might follow from this style of writing. Design science has a lot to contribute to experimentality.
This post is to add to conversation during the Wild Show on Phonic FM. I am gradually doing more connected to the Management Theory at Work conference that continues online. This week I played again two clips from a podcast about copyright and creative industry. They are already on YouTube from a previous broadcast. But I don't think we have understood yet what is meant by copyright industies, creative industries, and especially the term "barbarian" which appears to include the UK and USA media style. We have considered the idea that radio presentation is barbarian but this week we established that Radio Luxembourg presenters were not pirates although they did innovate.
The clip on YouTube, starts with Will and JD then the extracts after about 12 minutes -
I realise some of the ideas could take up too much time for a music radio show. So there will be mention of this blog and the YouTube record.
I also have started to think that it may be too much to expect us to apply design science to our work as DJ as well as understanding design science enough to find clips about it. So far Chris seems to accept the idea that there is design ahead of a show but JD is not sure about the "science" aspect. He is probably right that skill is involved. I need to work on reducing the pauses before the music.
Still trying out the Nexus 7. Seems to lose all power when recharging. Not sure why. OK now, suggest check that it is turned off not just resting.
I have a credit from Google Play so thought about buying some Touch apps from Adobe. Turns out none of them work with the Nexus 7. Search finds this response from Bob Levine on a Digital Publishing Suite Forum
Not sure why there is no icon to start with but now there is. Apparently the camera will pop up in the middle of a Google app but not just as it is. Search also shows a hack to improve the resolution but this is ok for quick clips of comment.
the lighting will improve outside. Wifi ok in much of Exeter.
There is no news on the maps coming back. This was the main thing that interested me. I thought it easier to imagine being in another city if there was an accurate street view.
But I rarely persuaded people I know in another context to follow me. I have used stills to illustrate a blog or add to Facebook etc. I think I will do more of recycling previous stills from the map era. I will still visit Twinity but not expect it as a main focus.
Meanwhile I can think about Exeter as a comparison with Lancaster. Previously most Avatars I knew lived near the LAncaster campus. The situation is usually a tech vision from the Info Lab, critique at the Business School, and some sort of conclusion in public space, either Alexanderplatz or after a bus to the actual city centre.
Exeter area also works as real space, I keep trying the tag #EX1to4 but not much use so far. Could work as local media but it seems people exist in communities of many kinds.