Posted by Sam Martin - December 19, 2008
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Posted by Sam Martin - November 6, 2008
Yesterday – the day after an historic election – there was a run on the newspaper industry. People were buying hundreds of copies at a time of their local daily. When newsstands in New York and Washington sold out, crowds were said to have gathered at the Times and Post headquarters looking for copies announcing the new Obama presidency. There were also reports of pilfering at coin operated newspaper machines.
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Posted by Sam Martin - October 23, 2008
In the past two weeks, there’s been at least a dozen stories in the mainstream and not-so-mainstream media about the importance of innovation in a recession. For businesses, refocusing on R&D and innovation really is a good strategy in down times. There’s plenty of historic evidence to back the claim up (the invention of farming technologies and civil engineering breakthroughs in the Great Depression, alternative energy investments in the early 1970s, and a sharpening of Internet business models after the dot com bust in the late 90s).
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Posted by Sam Martin - September 16, 2008
Berlin-based graphic designer Jan Koepper asks an interesting question to go along with his video installation called "Repetition," which he calls "an investigation into the subconscious process of repetition."
I'll paraphrase: "Do we act involuntarily in the routine of our daily lives or are we self-determined and able to create something new?"
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Posted by Sam Martin - September 10, 2008
Habit: “A recurrent, often unconscious pattern of behavior that is acquired through frequent repetition.”
One of the lasting themes of the human condition is getting into a rut, realizing you’re in a rut, and trying to get out of said rut. Some ruts are deeper than others and some are much broader than others. One could argue that the climate crisis is the result of one long, destructive rut. And of course, the deeper the rut and the longer you’ve been in it the more painful and difficult it is to get out of it.
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