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Hot models to get you thinking

October 30th, 2007 · No Comments


Back in November last year I enthused that hot models got me thinking. Well, guess what?  It turns out there are a few other people out there that like hot models.

Check out exploratree - a website full of thinking tools, guides, graphs and models.  Complete with explanations! I can’t wait to check out the site properly. There are plenty of tools futurists use regularly, and a few I haven’t seen before. Let me know what you think.

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The world as a canvas

October 9th, 2007 · 1 Comment


Check out these pics. I’m sitting in the Fair Trade Cafe in Glebe and I got talking to a German photographer. She’s showing me her photos from New York. It’s cool to see how she’s taken other people’s art (buildings, signs etc) and made them her own artworks through composition. It’s cool to think about people using the world as their canvas - creating buildings, signs, parks etc - must be satisfying to create art that people live in, experience and appreciate.

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Category: Understanding people