Note Worthy

There’s a new mashup in town and it’s starting out in two cities, Nashville and Atlanta .

The main premise of a mashup is to bring together the best all around content from new and blog sources to one place. For example, Nashville City Mashup not only pulls in news and blog entries, it also showcases Flickr images and YouTube videos that have been tagged with Nashville.

Following in the footsteps of the Walls With Stuff On them , here’s some more eye/mind snack food.

The ad generator is a generative artwork that explores how advertising uses and manipulates language. Words and semantic structures from real corporate slogans are remixed and randomized to generate invented slogans. These slogans are then paired with related images from Flickr, thereby generating fake advertisements on the fly. By remixing corporate slogans, I intend to show how the language of advertising is both deeply meaningful, in that it represents real cultural values and desires, and yet utterly meaningless in that these ideas have no relationship to the products being sold. In using the Flickr images, the piece explores the relationship between language and image, and how meaning is constructed by the juxtaposition of the two.

GOOD takes a different approach to traditional media:

While so much of today’s media is taking up our space, dumbing us down, and impeding our productivity, GOOD exists to add value. Through a print magazine, feature and documentary films, original multimedia content and local events, GOOD is providing a platform for the ideas, people, and businesses that are driving change in the world.

Their magazine subscription plan is quite unique. You subscribe to their magazine like you would for any magazine, but all of the money goes to the charity of your choice. This of course offers a new paradigm to magazine subscriptions, because you’re actually doing something GOOD by subscribing to it.

GOOD strives to be different (enough) and includes interesting add-ins. Their first issue had two pages of stickers that had all kinds of animals made to look like the blue and red political animals (the elephant and the ass). The idea behind it was that “we need more party animals.”

Although it’s still just a magazine with typical ads, the articles are very interesting and consistent with the image they’re trying to portray. In the fray of an overabundance of magazines, GOOD is just good enough to stand out on its own.