Summer Updates!

Hi everyone!!!!!

I am a bum, never checking in!!

BUT I have news from some of the people in our class. :)

Claire:
Last time I talked to her she started her new job as a Media Planner at Butler Shine & Stern(CONGRATS!)

Angie:
She's been applying to plenty of agencies and would like to switch to media (but we all knew that didn't we?)

As for me.... My Internship actually ends this Friday but the T3 likes me enough to extend my internship indefinitely until we can sort my visa issue or until I feel like leaving. We're in talks about future openings but the whole visa issue is being a major hurdle =/

Hi Y'ALL!

Hi there... just wanted to say hi to all of you, I think we should get together before some of us graduate and leave the area! I also just got a job in Paris, I'm starting the planning department of a spin out advertising agency - this is really exciting! I hope to see some of you at least before I leave, sept. 10th!
Hope everyone's doing fine!
Mag

High on Planning

These are the planners at Wieden and Kennedy. We off roaded up to this awesome little cabin at the top of Mt. Hood. We talked about planning. We drank, and watched the sunset.

Solar Powered Charger - In Pink

You can get it in Black, Silver, White, and even Pink. Here's the website if you want to check it out. It looks like it's not quite in the US yet. But you can still order it...

http://www.solio.com/v2/shop/shop2_details.php?product=149

Here is an amazing exhibition in New York City if you can make it...

http://www.chrisjordan.com/current_set2.php

Here is a brief descriptor:

Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on. My hope is that images representing these quantities might have a different effect than the raw numbers alone, such as we find daily in articles and books.

This series will be exhibited at the Von Lintel Gallery in New York from June 14th to the end of July. Opening reception on June 14th. More info at www.vonlintel.com.

Social Slipstreaming

Russel Davies put up a great blog yesterday about what he calls social slipstreaming. Here's the gist:

"I've found a few people online who seem to have similar tastes to mine, but better and more enthusiastic. They're much more likely to seek interesting events out, they're better informed about what's coming up and what's likely to be good and they're more energetic about actually going to them. Their concert-going taste is like mine but better. And what upcoming lets me do is ride their coat-tails to event happiness. I don't have to religiously read Time Out and comb through upcoming I just keep an eye on what they're going to, and I go to some of the same things. (Which is why it feels slightly like stalking, and now I write it down maybe it's more creepy than I realise, hmm, maybe I should stop.)"

Of course, it took a British planner to neatly sum the whole thing up:

"...essentially ’stalking’ someone who is more into something than you (like music or gigs or politics) and using them as a guide to the subject."

He goes on to point out how this is analogous to the way planners gather information on most everything throughout the day. So in the end, what started out as a fresh insight on a new social trend turned into a moral lesson about planning.

Funny the way things go around.

Requests from the firing line

I couldn't resist...

Where are you?

Hi!

So...how is everyone doing? Are you enjoying the trips to France, and Asia, and everywhere else? I really hope that we'll all keep in touch- So, what are the updates!?

MS and Robotics

Seems we’re getting one of our first looks at what Steve Balmer and Bill Gates meant when they said Microsoft's future isn't in OS but in Robotics.

• Mediasurface Computing - from the Fallon Planning Blog


• The Microsoft Surface Website.

The video is particularly fun. All this multi-device human interaction in a tabletop; I have to assume this is the beginning of MS new direction.



No, it's not exactly Short Circuit 3 (excuse the 80s reference, I'm just proving my age here) but its a start in a new direction that doesn't include a box on your desk or kitchen counter. If the most important aspect of robotics is human interface & interaction design, this seems to go in the right direction.

Yes, we all see the iPhone's influence in the interface but MS and Apple have always been rival siblings of the same era. Neither one would be great if the other ceased to exist. Maybe that's why MS bailed out Apple with a 150mm deal back in 1997.

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