Author: DXO
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Photo Essay, Albuquerque, NM
I consider photo essays to be compilation art annoatations– taking direct expressions of the world, compiling them, annotating them, and generating new items in the world.
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Photo Essay, Las Vegas, America, June 2015
Over the weekend of June 13, 2015, I went to Las Vegas with my oldest son. We went there as a 16th birthday present to meet up with a group of his kids he met online 4 years ago and who have become some his best friends. I shot about 1,000 pics and whittled them down…
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Found Poem (Bang)
Finds Rose. Rose trying to get open. Fires away. Bang. It’s over. The Bulls win at the buzzer. Derrick Rose nails the deeeep trey for the @chicagobulls win! #TacoBellBuzzerBeaters A video posted by NBA (@nba) on May 9, 2015 at 7:13am PDT
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Random Selection and Food Safety
I love the phrases “randomly selected” in this statement from Jeni’s Ice Cream about their recall of ice cream after listeria was discovered: The impression is that perhaps if that pint hadn’t been picked on by a worker from the Nebraska Department of Agriculture (according to the FDA notice here) that everything woulda been just…
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Popularity + Impact in Volunteer Movements: Alcoholics Anonymous, Poetry Slams, and the Path to Impact for the Civic Innovation Movement
Here’s a presentation I’m giving here later today. Hi, I’m Dan O’Neil, and I want to talk to you about popularity and impact in software. All of us here are somehow a part of the civic innovation sector of the technology industry, which has largely been a volunteer-driven movement. There are some lessons to be…