We’re listening to ‘Guuurl’ by Lapalux from the new album ‘Nostalchic’ Continue reading
Author Archives: CuratedFutures
Highbrow Thinking From The Low-Tech Factory
Come see, play and debate at Hotel Droog, Amsterdam on March 21st 2013… Highbrow Thinking from the Low-Tech Factory – read more on Second Sight‘s blog. Continue reading
Engagement @ 4.0…
The Second Sight Saturday session #1 starts with introductions – a small, mixed group with varied professional and personal backgrounds including politics, design, publishing, comms and advertising, all from the Netherlands… and me. A good start. We hear from course leaders Andrea Wiegman and Truus Dokter who speak about their careers in Trends, about Second … Continue reading
The Radical …
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them. – Mark Twain, Notebook 1935 Continue reading
Second Sight Trend Forecasting Course Day #1
You know that feeling when your mind has been blown and simultaneously switched on…?! Well THAT. (A more coherent summary to follow… mayby!) Continue reading
Inspiring Nostalgia In 2033
In the midst of a two-decade period which kicked off the 21st century, there still seems some confusion as to a universally agreed-upon name for these times: the naughts, aughts, zeros, oh-ohs, or 2000s; tens, tweens and teens. How will we look back in, say, 2033 and define the age without a name, much less … Continue reading
It’s Television, But Not As We Know It… Yet?
Will ‘curated viewing’ be the future of television? The Future of Television – a blog post by Robert C. Taylor. Continue reading
Red Hot Pop-Ups (Detail)
Red Hot Pop-Ups
BT, the UK telecoms company, created an ‘Adopt a Kiosk’ scheme to allow local communities and parish councils to adopt their telephone boxes to save them from being decommissioned and removed. It seems the Great British public are sentimental about their traditional red boxes and since 2009 over 1,500 have been adopted throughout the country. … Continue reading
Animation / Film / Take 5_ / Technology
Disney Looks Back To Leap Forward With Oscar Winner ‘Paperman’
Director John Kahrs had a vision for his animated short Paperman. There was just one problem. The technology to make it hadn’t been invented yet. The 6-minute black and white film, which won Disney this year’s Oscar for animated short, tells the classic story of boy meets girl; boy and girl become smitten; boy then … Continue reading
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