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This week the team discuss changes to Good Beer Week and BrewCon, disputes over covid drinking, and your perceptions around beer ABV strength. Please subscribe and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcasting app. It costs nothing and helps other beer lovers discover the podcast! IBA rearranges Good Beer Week and BrewCon Brewery consolidation in spotlight: US report Lion owner Kirin to exit Myanmar venture COVID drinking dispute continues Portfolio brands growth at Good Drinks Broo touts distribution success Major brands face ABAC Little Creatures partners with Sydney Mardi Gras On-site brewing opportunities in Melbourne Our partners Radio Brews News is proudly presented by Cryer Malt. With over 25 years in the field, Cryer Malt are dedicated to providing the finest brewing ingredients to help brewers create the foundations of a truly excellent beer. Your premium brewing partner and proud sponsors of Brews News. Mailbag brought to you by the New Zealand Ale Trail. Head to www.nzaletrail.com or @nzaletrail on social media to find the best beer experiences in New Zealand. We thank Rallings Labels and Stickers for sponsoring this podcast. Brewers, if you are still applying self-adhesive labels to your bottles and cans, and believe that this is a sustainable solution for your packaging needs, you may want to call Rallings Labels, Stickers and Packaging and discuss your options with them. The team at Rallings will walk you through the various options available to you, that are more sustainable than applying self-adhesive labels which don't help the environment at all. Whilst they do produce self-adhesive labels for many breweries, there is a much better way to ensure that your carbon footprint is lower than what you are currently doing by utilising pre-sleeved cans. Give the guys a call on 1300 852 235 to find out more. Beer of the Week is brought to you by Bluestone Yeast - Australia's first and only liquid yeast manufacturer. Bluestone Yeast have over 100 yeast strains in their Bio-bank and are always adding more. You can reach out to them at info@bluestoneyeast.com.au or call Derek on (03) 8518 3172 and talk all things yeast. Mention Brews News when you order for free shipping on all orders in Dec and Jan. If you like what we do at Radio Brews News you can help us out by: Sponsoring the show Reviewing us on iTunes or your favourite podcasting service Emailing us at producer@brewsnews.com.au to share your thoughts

This week the team discuss changes to Good Beer Week and BrewCon, disputes over covid drinking, and your perceptions around beer ABV strength.Please subscribe and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcasting app. It costs nothing and helps other beer lovers discover the podcast!IBA rearranges Good Beer Week and BrewConBrewery consolidation in spotlight: US reportLion owner Kirin to exit Myanmar ventureCOVID drinking dispute continuesPortfolio brands growth at Good DrinksBroo touts distribution successMajor brands face ABACLittle Creatures partners with Sydney Mardi GrasOn-site brewing opportunities in MelbourneOur partnersRadio Brews News is proudly presented by Cryer Malt. With over 25 years in the field, Cryer Malt are dedicated to providing the finest brewing ingredients to help brewers create the foundations of a truly excellent beer. Your premium brewing partner and proud sponsors of Brews News.Mailbag brought to you by the New Zealand Ale Trail. Head to www.nzaletrail.com or @nzaletrail on social media to find the best beer experiences in New Zealand.We thank Rallings Labels and Stickers for sponsoring this podcast. Brewers, if you are still applying self-adhesive labels to your bottles and cans, and believe that this is a sustainable solution for your packaging needs, you may want to call Rallings Labels, Stickers and Packaging and discuss your options with them. The team at Rallings will walk you through the various options available to you, that are more sustainable than applying self-adhesive labels which don't help the environment at all. Whilst they do produce self-adhesive labels for many breweries, there is a much better way to ensure that your carbon footprint is lower than what you are currently doing by utilising pre-sleeved cans. Give the guys a call on 1300 852 235 to find out more.Beer of the Week is brought to you by Bluestone Yeast - Australia's first and only liquid yeast manufacturer. Bluestone Yeast have over 100 yeast strains in their Bio-bank and are always adding more. You can reach out to them at info@bluestoneyeast.com.au or call Derek on (03) 8518 3172 and talk all things yeast. Mention Brews News when you order for free shipping on all orders in Dec and Jan.If you like what we do at Radio Brews News you can help us out by:Sponsoring the showReviewing us on iTunes or your favourite podcasting serviceEmailing us at producer@brewsnews.com.au to share your thoughts

Clay Shirky has always been an optimist, believing in the potential of the internet to bring humanity together. But recent trends – from the spread of fake news to the rise in online vitriol – seem to have thrown his vision of cooperation and trust into serious doubt. Does the promise of the internet which Shirky has spent so many years touting still hold true? In this week's episode of The Good Fight, Yascha Mounk and Clay Shirky sit down to discuss if social media might be more of a curse than a blessing, whether or not to regulate the virtual public square, and how the internet has turned the world into a “global village.” Please do listen and spread the word about The Good Fight. If you have not yet signed up for our podcast, please do so now by following this link on your phone. Email: goodfightpod@gmail.com Website: http://www.persuasion.community Podcast production by John T. Williams and Rebecca Rashid Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Connect with us! Spotify | Apple | Google Twitter: @Yascha_Mounk & @joinpersuasion Youtube: Yascha Mounk LinkedIn: Persuasion Community Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

     It's that time of year again.  The Day before Black Friday.  Football.  The beginning of a week off from school.  The big day to be in a room with all the relatives for more than 20 minutes, then recover from the experience.  And I think there's something in there about being grateful for something or other, too.        Okay, we'll be serious now.  It's Thanksgiving here in the U.S., so of course we're talking turkey.  Heritage breeds, of course.  We're going to share parts of our conversations with five of those who can talk turkey with the best of them.  You'll hear shared experiences from North Carolina, British Columbia, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and New York.  We're all over the map for this one.     The turkey is even more important to us at BYGF, because it's one of the few domesticated agricultural animals in our production system in the U.S. that actually started on this continent, then was exported everywhere else, instead of the other way around.  There is evidence that people have been eating turkey on this continent for the last 3,000 years or so.  We'll be doing that this week as well, just to keep tradition going. Happy Thanksgiving, world. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/agriCulturePodcast)

Diseño para la motivación intrínseca. El gurú de Internet y autor Clay Shirky (www.shirky.com) dice que las páginas web y foros electrónicos que tienen más éxito cuentan con cierto enfoque del Tipo I en su ADN. Están diseñados —a menudo de manera explícita— para excitar la motivación intrínseca, y tú puedes hacer lo mismo con tu presencia online si escuchas a Shirky y: • Creas un entorno que anime a la gente a participar. • Das autonomía a los usuarios. • Tienes un sistema lo más abierto posible NO ESTOY SEGURO DE QUE SEA PARA TI, PERO quiero hacerte un REGALO (Accede Gratis a mi TEST DISC de Personalidad) ENTRA AQUÍ: https://bit.ly/2Gt89rS Descubre CÓMO ERES y CÓMO TE VEN los demás. ¡Gracias por ESCUCHAR el PODCAST! davidblancoperez.com

This week we talk about carbon capture and storage, floating cities, and perverse incentives.We also discuss perpetuating problems, private prisons, and tax software. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit letsknowthings.substack.com/subscribe

This week we talk about carbon capture and storage, floating cities, and perverse incentives. We also discuss perpetuating problems, private prisons, and tax software. Become a patron on Patreon: patreon.com/letsknowthings When we reach 200 patrons, I'll produce an additional episode each month which will be available to all patrons at any contribution level. For more information about this podcast and to view the show notes, visit letsknowthings.com

Vor einem Jahr - Meine Ziele Mein Ziel am Anfang von 2016 war es, eine Firma zu bauen, die ich verkaufen kann. Oder eine Firma, die ohne mich funktioniert und die mir einfach Gewinne abwirft. Dazu habe ich mir drei Ziele gesetzt: zum Einen wollte ich meine Firma in eine UG oder eine GmbH wandeln, also in eine Körperschaft. Zum Anderen wollte ich Mitarbeiter haben und außerdem wollte ich feste Prozesse etablieren. Nach einem Jahr - Was ich geschafft und gelernt habe Einen Teil davon habe ich auch geschafft: Ich habe nun schon seit einiger Zeit eine Freelancerin im Team, die mir reibungslos meine Projekte schneidet. Im gleichen Atemzug habe ich erstmals Prozesse eingeführt: Ich habe meiner Freelancerin nichts einmalig erklärt, sondern habe immer Videotutorials erstellt, die ich dann auch bei meinem nächsten Mitarbeiter oder Freelancer wieder einsetzen kann. Das hat super funktioniert. Auch mein erstes Podcast-Projekt habe ich in diesem Jahr auf die Straße gebracht, und nun schon mit 25 Folgen, da bin ich ziemlich stolz drauf. Stolz bin ich auch darauf, dass du gerade zuhörst! Mit dem Podcast habe ich für mich einen riesigen Hebel entdeckt. Die Schattenseite des Jahres 2016 habe ich mega viel Output geliefert, ich war teilweise wirklich nur noch am hin und her fahren oder fliegen um zu drehen. Rückblickend kann ich sagen, dass das einfach zu viele Drehtage waren. Ich hatte zu wenig Ruhe und zu wenig Zeit für eigene Projekte. Ich habe gemerkt, dass mein Ziel, die Firma groß und verkaufbar zu machen, nicht ohne Weiteres zu erreichen ist. Und dass ich das vielleicht auch gar nicht mehr will. Ich habe genug! Ich hatte einen tollen Moment in 2016: Meine Freundin wollte etwas auf Amazon bestellen und hatte noch nicht die magische Porto-Grenze erreicht. Also fragte sie, ob ich nicht etwas bräuchte - und ich „musste“ nein sagen :) Das fand ich super, ich habe einfach alles, ich habe genug. Das trifft auch auf meine Umsätze zu: Ich hatte in diesem Jahr wirklich so gute Umsätze, dass mir nix mehr fehlt, außer etwas mehr Zeit. Und da wurde mir klar, dass ich nicht noch 5 Jahre weiter ackern will, um eine verkaufbare Firma aufzubauen. Dabei würde die Familie hinten anstehen, und dass ist nicht mein Ziel. Motivation auf einem höheren Level Da das reine Geld für Brot auf dem Tisch nun nicht mehr das ist, was mich antreibt, habe ich nach einer neuen, höheren Motivation gesucht. Was mich antreibt ist es, Dinge auszuprobieren und neue Sachen zu machen. Deswegen muss ich den Schritt zurück gehen: Was will ich eigentlich wirklich? Was will ich als Alex Boerger in der Welt bewirken? An dieser Stelle diesbezüglich einen großen Dank an Steffen Kessler, der mich auf das Buch „Big Five for life“ gestoßen hat. In diesem Buch hat mir die Grundidee sehr gut gefallen: Jeder Mensch hat einen Zweck auf dieser Erde und es sollte 5 große Ziele geben, die jeder Mensch in seinem Leben verfolgt. Darüber sollte sich jeder einmal seine Gedanken machen, finde ich. Für mich ist eines der Dinge, das immer wieder aufkommt, die Freiheit. Ich will in Freiheit leben, und das geht nur, wenn auch die Menschen um mich in Freiheit leben können. Wenn sie keine Angst haben, ihre eigenen Entscheidungen zu treffen. Deswegen kann ich nur frei sein, wenn ich anderen helfe, auch frei zu sein. Das würde ich im Moment als den Zweck meiner Existenz betrachten: Dass ich anderen helfen will, frei zu sein. Meine 5 großen Ziele Ich will Menschen helfen frei zu sein. Das versuche ich im Moment über Video: Ich bringe Leuten bei, wie sie Video für sich arbeiten lassen können, also wie sie sich auf dieser Ebene etwas befreien können. Ich möchte 1000 Bücher lesen Das Lesen macht mich in sofern auch frei, indem ich mir aus vielen verschiedenen Quellen meine Infos rein hole. Das sind eben auch Quellen, die sich gegenseitig widersprechen und angreifen, sodass ich mir meine eigene Meinung bilden kann. Alle Kontinente sehen und dafür möchte mindestens einen Monat im Jahr unterwegs sein. Davon erhoffe ich mir etwas besser zu verstehen, wie Leben funktioniert. Shirky’s Law zu widerlegen. Shirky’s Law besagt, dass keine Organisation das Problem löst, zu dessen Lösung sie gegründet wurde. Denn dann würde sie sich ja selbst vernichten. Das finde ich blöd und würde diese Selbsterhaltung gerne abschaffen, aber ich weiß noch nicht wie. Wenn ihr Ideen habt, gerne her damit. Eine Familie gründen und genug Zeit haben, um mich gebührend um meine Liebsten zu kümmern. Meine Ziele für 2017 2017 möchte ich meine Firma nicht wachsen lassen. Gleichzeitig will ich es hinkriegen, den gleichen Umsatz zu erwirtschaften und ortsunabhängiger zu werden, also seltener persönlich irgendwo vor Ort sein zu müssen. Wie kann ich das erreichen? Ich habe mir bisher zwei Wege überlegt und bin gespannt auf euer Feedback und eure Tipps dazu. Eine Möglichkeit wäre: Ich verändere mein Angebot, indem ich zusätzlich zu den Videos nun auch die Landingpage für die Unternehmen ausarbeite und Content-Upgrades erstelle, also einen Funnel baue. Mit solchen Marketing Methoden habe ich sehr gute Erfahrungen gemacht. Damit schlage ich zwei Fliegen mit einer Klappe: ich muss weniger drehen und ich kann pro Auftrag mehr Geld verlangen, da ich den Kunden durch das neue Angebot noch mehr Mehrwert bringen kann. Das zweite ist, ich möchte über Schulungen und Workshops Leuten beibringen, Videos selbst zu erstellen und selbst das Marketing zu verbessern. Dadurch hätte ich auch „ausgebildete“ Leute, denen ich kleinere Aufträge, die bei mir reinkommen und für die ich keine Zeit mehr habe, weiterleiten könnte. So würde ich mir also auch ein Netzwerk aufbauen. Als weitere Chance sehe ich, dass viele Unternehmen eigentlich einen nhouse Videografen benötigen. Es fallen doch oft kleinere Dinge an: Mal dort ein Video für Facebook, mal da ein Video für Instagram. Da braucht es nicht immer den ausgebildeten Mediendesigner. Ein Workshop dazu sollte genügen, um die Grundlagen zu erlernen und umsetzen zu können. Zweiter Podcast Für den zweiten Teil meines Plans werde ich noch einen zweiten Podcast machen. In dem geht es dann also um Videomarketing für Videoproduktionen und auch für Inhouse-Produktionen. Für euch heißt das, ihr dürft gerne auch meinen neuen Podcast abonnieren :) Es könnte allerdings auch sein, dass die Frequenz auf diesem Podcast etwas niedriger wird, da ich dann ja zwei zu bedienen habe. Wie immer: Wenn ihr mir irgendwas zu erzählen habt, euch irgendwas gut gefallen hat oder nicht oder wenn ihr mit mir Shirky’s Law kontern wollt, dann schreibt mir gerne eine Mail oder lasst mir einen Kommentar da, ich freue mich! Big Five for Life: https://www.amazon.de/Big-Five-Life-Leaderships-Greatest/dp/3423280190/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1483519710&sr=8-3&keywords=Big+five+for+life Für's Feedback: http://hebelzeit.de/kontakt-impressum/

Every year science fiction writer and futurist Bruce Sterling gives a “state of the world” presentation at SXSW Interactive. We consider his remarks from this year and what they mean for politics, social media and surveillance. iTunes direct link Google Play direct link Additional Resources: WATCH Bruce Sterling’s SXSW 2016 Closing Remarks LISTEN to Bruce Sterling’s SXSW 2016 Closing Remarks Master or Slave?: The Fight for the Soul of Our Information Civilization by Shoshanna Zuboff

In this episode of Sinica, Clay Shirky, the author of Here Comes Everybody who has written about the internet and its effects on society since the 1990s, joins Kaiser and Jeremy to discuss the strengths and weaknesses of China's tech industry and the extraordinary advances the nation has made in the online world. The hour-long conversation delves into the details and big-picture phenomena driving the globe's largest internet market, and includes an analysis of Xiaomi's innovation, the struggles that successful Chinese companies face when taking their brands abroad and the nation's robust ecommerce offerings. Clay has written numerous books, including Little Rice: Smartphones, Xiaomi, and the Chinese Dream in addition to the aforementioned Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations. He is also a Shanghai-based associate professor with New York University's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute and the school's Interactive Telecommunications Program. Please take a listen and send feedback to sinica@supchina.com, or leave a review on iTunes. Recommendations: Jeremy: Among the Ten Thousand Things by Julia Pierpont, and Modern China is So Crazy It Needs a New Literary Genre by Ning Ken Clay: Internet Literature in China by Michel Hockx Kaiser: A Billion Voices: China’s Search for a Common Language by David Moser  

Podcast Highlights with Seth Godin: How the Industrial Revolution turned factory workers into alcoholics Why we deem it of paramount importance to us to know if an idea is going to work  What was it like to be an entrepreneur in 1986 How the connection economy works and what drives it What did Seth’s dad do for a living when he was growing up Why does it matter who cares (and who doesn't care) about our economy today? Why making Art is rewarded more than the cheapest, fastest product. What does Seth do for play and fun    

Podcast Highlights with Seth Godin: How the Industrial Revolution turned factory workers into alcoholics Why we deem it of paramount importance to us to know if an idea is going to work  What was it like to be an entrepreneur in 1986 How the connection economy works and what drives it What did Seth’s dad do for a living when he was growing up Why does it matter who cares (and who doesn't care) about our economy today? Why making Art is rewarded more than the cheapest, fastest product. What does Seth do for play and fun    

In this episode, Joe and Robert discuss LinkedIn's move to make SlideShare PRO free for all.  In addition, the boys discuss the critical role of the editor, Yahoo!'s launch of a new native advertising network, and the end of print newspapers.  Rants and raves include Facebook's tweeking of the news feed and Coin's disaster.  This week's #ThisOldMarketing example: RCI's Endless Vacation magazine.

Author, teacher and activist, Clay Shirky, discusses the visionary insights of Marshall McLuhan as well as his own ideas about the effects of new media and social networking on our society. Shirky's latest book Cognitive Surplus explores how new technology is unleashing a wave of creative production that he believes is transforming the world. Following the lecture, Shirky sits down for an interview with broadcaster Jesse Hirsh. The event was part of the McLuhan 100 series at the International Festival of Authors at Harbourfront Centre.

Author, teacher and activist, Clay Shirky, discusses the visionary insights of Marshall McLuhan as well as his own ideas about the effects of new media and social networking on our society. Shirky's latest book Cognitive Surplus explores how new technology is unleashing a wave of creative production that he believes is transforming the world. Following the lecture, Shirky sits down for an interview with broadcaster Jesse Hirsh. The event was part of the McLuhan 100 series at the International Festival of Authors at Harbourfront Centre.

Mark Cosgrove discusses Watershed's online programme

This podcast briefly describes the two organizing frameworks for the course: transaction cost theory and Shirky's promise, tool, and bargain. Running time about 7 minutes.

This week's show is the second part of my thoughts about craft and art, this show focusing more art.Right off the bat let me confess that not once did I get the title of the book by John Carrey that I keep refering to, which is What Good are the Arts. Terrible oversight on my part and while there is no defense let me repeat that the book and it's correct name is less important to my remarks than the thoughts and ideas that were spurred by it. With that in mind, here's a link to The Craftsman by Richard Sennett. I think it has a lot to say about methods of producing quality work for anyone, including filmmakers.The great thing about having all these diverse sources of information and opinion is not so much the opportunity to learn as it is the ideas and where they take me, and the things I think and believe.I generally find that I come to understand what I think and believe by saying it out loud, either to myself, to others or to you in this time shifted fashion. There's a monitor in my head as the words come out that evaluate the rightness of what I'm saying against what I think. Sometimes when they are at odds I find that what I have said is more true to what I believe than what I was actually thinking. The sense of smell and taste comes to mind as a comparable experience. Often they are very different experiences and one or the other will become the defining sensation.So despite how dense, or confusing this all may sound, I found it necessary to work it out, out loud and as I say in the end, I have a better understanding of how I think and feel on this subject, for the present time.But I feel a need to say these things not only to clarify my own thoughts, but because this is an important issue we all have to face and settle for our own selves. Everyone in the world is a creator and the more culture and technology enables anyone to share to larger groups of people, the more the question of craft versus art comes back at us.Speaking of which, I'm currently reading a fascinating book, Here comes Everyone by Clay Shirky. It addresses the impact of social media on creativity and the changes it has had and will continue to have in the future. You should read it.Finally, as I was putting together the links for this post I came across a comment (goodreads.com) from a reader of John Carrey's book who was disappointed that they didn't finish the book with clearer understanding of what art is. Diana commented that his definition of a work of art is 'anything that anyone has ever considered a work of art'. She goes on to say, "In other words anything, and correspondingly, nothing" A few more thoughtful reviews are found on the Times Online, Denis Dutton Online and The Reason Online. This perspective, which is the cultural norm, that calling something art acts as a qualifier, sieve, gate and value judgment. Defining art is like separating the sheep from the goats. Not only does this approach lead to fruitless and unending debate, I think it's destructive and wrong.I couldn't find a way to artfully add a couple links into the show notes, so I'll just list them here:The Emoti-ChairCBC Spark episode # 71 about the Emoti-ChairHere's the transcript of the show, it may or may not help.Let me know what you think.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -Hi, and welcome to the Video StudentGuy show, the weekly journal of a video student. I'm the guy, Paul Lyzun.This is the second part to a show I posted a few weeks ago, Show #128, which was about Craft. In this show I'm gong to be talking a little bit more about art and some more about craft,I began that show by talking about the path you might follow to make a film. I just wanted to sum it up in a tight little package, from my own narrow little perspective.Along the way I got lost talking about craftsmanship. I don't apologize for wandering off the path, craftsmanship is the subject of my recent film. Craftsmanship is integral to filmmaking, and for myself, the duality of Craft and Art has been a lifelong tug of war.I think I did a passing fair explanation of what I felt craft was, and by implication, what it's value is. I'll work hard not to go over the same ground in this episode. Let me just mention one more time how much I enjoyed the book, The Craftsman, by Richard Sennett, and if you are at all interested, as I am, in the meaning of art and craft, particularly what it means in your creative process, I strongly recommend you find a copy and read it a couple times.The last two things I mentioned in episode #128 that leads into today's portion of the conversation are that art, or better and broader yet, creative expression, is a form of communication, and the other is the question and the book that bears the name, What is Art Good For, by John Carey.Let me start with the idea that I got form the book, which is what good is art for? Let me start with the idea that was spawned by the book, which is, what is art good for?The first thing I'm going to do is dispense with the word Art – it's a loaded word meaning everything and nothing. Just trying to narrow it's definition would take more time than it's worth.I'm going to use "it" in exchange for Art and you can assume when I say "it", I'm saying Art.I want to start off that way because it eliminates preconceived ideas of creativity. It eliminates pictures of what is not art and removes the risk of applying taste and prejudice (same thing? you decide) to the topic.That frees me up for a few minutes to look at the question itself, which is really very telling.To rephrase the question, "what is it good for" is a universal and a common, commonly asked question. It places the focus on the practical and pragmatic. Things exist because they perform a function. In a Darwinian sense, you could say things exist because they're food for something else, or are means of avoiding being food. Every detail in the construction and appearance of everything has a purpose. I believe that's true whether you believe in a higher power or the evolutionary process, or both. This isn't about who's responsible, this is about dealing with the way things are.So, asking what is it good for implies there must be a purpose, that things exist for a reason. As I just describe, I concede they do exist for a reason.Imagine that I made something. At a very minimalist level it is good for being the result of an effort of realizing an idea in the real world, the world outside our minds. We're thinking things all the time. Making stuff up that never was, and is not. But when someone takes an idea and makes it, physically, it becomes separate from the maker, beyond their control.Now, why would anyone want to do that? Well, perhaps to get a more concrete grasp of this idea, Looking at it externally allows me to refine it's nature until it matches my expectations OR it changes the way I think.Once I put an idea in the physical world, my mind isn't solely in control of it's idenity. The world that we both occupy now has some claim to it's meaning and in the process I can change as well as it can.The thing I made changes me.THAT, is the real power of creativity!Being able to change yourself.That makes it worth the effort alone, just to experience change in how I perceive the world I live in.But it doesn't end with communicating with the world separate from myself. When I put it out there in a world of other individuals I open it and myself up to further change through the reactions of other people and how they view themselves and the world, the same world I live in objectively, but not subjectively.It's a means of expressing a human experience and a means of sharing a human experienceSounds complicated eh?Well, getting back to the main question, what is it good for?It's good for changing myself, changing other people – changing the world.What is it again?It is art, it is creativity, it is human expression, it is communication.Everything changes all the time. Scale isn't the issue. We are bombarded, shot through every iota of a moment with information that changes our world view and I'm guessing here, but I wouldn't be surprised if someone told me we don't register most of it.So the volume and the scale, it doesn't matter very much. Everything changes, all the time. You can't take it all in.That's why we're all different right, we are the sum of what we choose to perceive.Now, lets get a little more concrete. I want to talk about the book "What is Art Good For? by John Carey.Because once we get past the abstract, fundamental view I've just presented, things get immediately sticky and oh so thick. Watch out that you don't loose a shoe in the mud.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -I have not read this book, I'll tell you right up front and as long as I'm being honest I'll say that in all likelihood I won't.I think I would enjoy his writing and find I would agree with a lot of what he has to say. I just don't have the time or inclination. I'm not saying this a means of passing judgement on his book, it's just a matter of personal bandwidth.By all accounts John Carey is a good writer and very convincing in his arguments. He is witty, intelligent and dead on in his ability to deconstruct and lay bare the self serving mystification of the art establishment. His books are a pleasure to read. One author thought he was just a little too forgiving in his appraisal of the one medium he feels is superior, but overall, he thinks that it's a good book.I've read a number of reviews and I've put a couple links on the blog page if you'd like to read them as well. After several different articles read, I feel I can made some generalizations (obviously without having read the book) and offer this simple, perhaps unfair generalization.He says that the art culture is pompous and hypocriticaland that greatest art is literature.See the time I saved you!?The primary reason I'm discussing it here is to present an alternative view to his perception that all other creative works are subordinate to literature. And since I haven't read his book I'm not going to indict him personally, he may very well feel misunderstood on that count, I just want to use his premise as a jumping off point for this idea of a hierarchy in value to art – that there's always a pecking order.The more we embrace technology in our lives, the further we become removed from our origins, the places and things that have shaped us as human beings over our time here on earth. Despite the pervasiveness of the technology surrounding us today, it still doesn't have the same impact on the way we think act and feel as "natural" environmental shapers.So, we've surrounded ourselves with an environment of our own making – which is alien to us in a historically cultural sense. Plastic, steel concrete – they register in our higher functioning brain, but not in our unconscious mind, which got us by for hundreds of thousands of years before we began collecting together to build farms, towns and cities.The invention of writing and the ability to read has had a profound impact on our culture, both as a means of advancing it, and archiving it. Certainly our success in living in an artificial environment is due mainly in part to reading and writing. But whatever we've read, whatever has been written, is a memory that connects us to a real experience of something we've felt, touched, smelled, seen and heard at an earlier time. I believe these senses are more immediate and transfer information to our brains in a more visceral and direct way. And yet, the further we move into the future, the less exposure we have to these sense touchstones. It's sort of like living without knowing what the midnight sky looks like without light pollution.How much are we really missing? How much are we really separated from the past, from the real world in terms of the artificial world that we've created for ourselves?Well, if you're honest, you know you can't beat a tornado. The best you can do is hunker down with Auntie Em. And how different is that from hiding from a tiger in a cave.Of course it can be rightly said that writing presents information in an organized manner. After all, how valuable can art be that slips by your conscious understanding and sits like undigested meat in your colon until it finally integrates into your body you're not even aware of the cause of any change that's taken place? Or that change has taken place.Actually, I think change that occurs without knowing is an an awesome power.So think about music, the texture of a basket or the smell of a leather coat. It's a message organized in a different way. Nonlinear, holistic.And you could say that writing has achieved a greater cumulative scale in meaning than any other media, but I reject the importance of volume and scale, in favor of the specific impact a creative work can have on an individual.Let me use a specific instance to clarify what I mean about this unique effect that non verbal art can have on different individuals.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -About communication through the other senses Spark #71http://www.cbc.ca/spark/2009/03/episode-71-march-25-28-2009/I listened to a show called Spark . It's from CBC Radio in Canada. It's a great show. Each show has several stories of different length about current and bleeding edge technology and how it's transforming people's lives. I like it mainly because, although it's all about technology, it dares to find ways in which technology is changing the way we live – as we're living it. Right now! That, is cool.One of the stories in a recent episode, episode number 71, was a conversation about the creation of an emoti-chair, a device which produces electrical impulses, tiny shocks, that are triggered by the sounds in music.When you sit in this chair it actually – it can actually feel like something is touching you. The creators of this technology have developed a new form of expression based on the sense of touch.It has begun to morph quickly. One example is that deaf people can sense music in a greater dimension.Someone who was deaf described how at a party everyone who couldn't hear would hear the music through feeling the vibrations, barefoot, through the wooden floors. The difference with the emoti-chair is that each instrument creates a different sensation. Instead of all of the music coming through as one vibration, you had different vibrations at different locations on the chair, which of course affected different parts of your body. For each instrument. This mechanism allowed a deaf person the ability to experience music through assimilating multiple layers of sensation, in this case tactile, which mirrored closely the manner in which a hearing person experienced music through their ears.Another person, one without hearing limitations found that the emotional impact of the music was intensified with the combination of the sensations that were generated by the emoti-chair. It literally brought her to tears in a way the music did not. Finally, a musician who was composing music for the chair found that he was able to elevate the effect that the chair on the senses, not by writing a great song, but writing the music based on the sensations produced by sitting in the chair.So the chair itself was his feedback loop, not his ears.Is this any less the impact that literature has? Is the argument that literature is more powerful as a single force and to the greatest number of people because of it's ability to cross reference itself and establish a more cohesive, inter-referential whole? Is it because it's easier to document and catalog it's impact that sets it apart in value from all other forms? Is it the consistency of the media over generations that makes it easier to judge?Okay, this is where you're saying, well Paul, you should just read the book and find out. Find out why he thinks that way!Well, my point at it's very heart is that any creative expression has to be judged on it's own and by an individual.So, the first point is that there's all this bogus mysticism about art, and it's being propped up by museums, and art collectors, and art speculators and so forth. That has, for generations and hundreds of years even, affected the way we perceive art. Remember, there was a time when art and craft were one thing. They were just simply creative expressions. At least in western culture, it wasn't until the Renaissance that they sort of split apart. And so there was a humbler form of creativity, and a higher form of creativity.But, that was just simply a societal choice. Up to that point people didn't make that distinction and there was no need to make that distinction. And I believe very much that that was generated by money.If people valued it and therefore they had to identify that it had a special, unique value, that set it apart. Supply and demand so to speak.So however powerful any work of art can be, I just don't believe that there is a greatest hits of art. There is great art, there is universal art, but I think it's important to value work based on a personal level. Just as one's knowledge and understanding of math and science is easier to measure compared to the arts in general, like in SAT scores, so society believes that's the better organized the information is, the better it represents a higher intelligence.After all, isn't that how we were able to create a sophisticated culture? And I'm not saying that we can throw that away, but I think that it would be good to embraced that disorganized, holistic, intuitive aspect of ourselves just as much. This is what we're starving [for], currently, in our cultureSo the idea of having the ability to quantify and categorize and hierarchize and organize art - that makes it much easier sort-of-like to build a mountain of blocks and then see which comes upon top.Is that the reason literature achieves greater significance over the other arts?I'm not going to enter into that argument. I can only say that measuring the value of something through the volume of it's impact is dehumanizing. Creativity is expressed on a personal level and impressed on individuals in the same way. Hundreds of people can view a painting at a museum in a single day. Thousands of people can hear a musical performance at one time in a concert. Millions of people can watch a movie on TV simultaneously. But every person internalizes that experience on a personal level. Painting, music, literature, origami, everything touches everyone of us in a different way at different times and while you generalize about the critical defining characteristics of one medium, you also lose a lot in the streamlining process. And in that process you disenfranchise a lot of people from a lot of creativity.It's not just about what you see and identify as art, it's what you allow yourself to believe what you can do, as far as art. And if you think that knitting is secondary to some other art form, then you're always going to feel like a second class citizen of art. Of creativity, forget the art word.[Streamlining, simplifying art is a form of marketing. For money, for ideology, take your pick. The honest reaction of an individual to a single creative expression cannot be calculated, summed and expressed in anything more than a gross generalization that distorts its value.]But I'm not interested in changing the world on this point. For myself, I feel that holding this thought, this consideration, as I create, will help me keep my balance against any outside pressure of generalized, common knowledge, wisdom and understanding.Well, now that that's over I don't think I enjoyed it very much at all. How about you? It was hard work and I don't think it makes any difference.Well, maybe a little difference. Now that I've written this down and thought about it, I have a better idea of what I think I think, and I can consider whether it makes sense or not. I don't know about you.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -After I wrote all this that I just told you, I had some other thoughts and I decided that, instead of integrating them, I'd just simply leave them as a footnote at the end .I think the reason I'm going on and on about the idea of craft and art is this (and remember when I say art, I mean an expression of creativity and a desire to communicate):Art with a capital A, as I've tried to identify earlier, creates a sense of heightened expectations. Somedays you don't feel inspired, you're glad you can drag your sad butt out of bed and put your shoes on the right feet.Days like that can make you wonder if you should even put in the time. Everyone has days like that and you can't control when they happen. Frankly, I don't want to live with the weight of expectations about what I'm going to do or how well I'm going to do it, while I'm in the middle of my work. I don't want to be distracted, I want the creativity to flow out of me without any speedbumps.That's the feeling I want, regardless of how useful, attractive or successful is the thing I end up creating. When I'm in that frame of mind, what I make is almost always good and whether it's what I want or not, it leaves me feeling good about the work and myself. And that just perpetuates more creativity.[So I think all the talk about art is an after the fact thing. It's hindsight. Who knows how many trials, experiments or dead ends any creative person has to pass through before the finished work of art is delivered. No one wants to know, no one cares. So why do people who are making the thing itself have to think about it.]I know, there's all kind of situations where you have to keep your eye on the deadline, measure the work you're doing against the anticipated product, keeping customers happy, keeping the business flowing.I'm not saying you can dispense with all those voices, I only want to provide a little breathing room so we can create and build, At the same time I'm also listening to myself think, I can watch myself work, think about what I'm doing and have enough presence of mind to evaluate it, or re-evaluate it and then proceed forward to the next step.When the focus is on craft you can have that kind of internal conversation, just you and the thing you're creating. And you can feel good about what you're doing, because you can see how you're doing.Immediate feedback loop.//There's something about big people and little people when it comes to creative endeavors and I don't like the mentality that we qualify the creative value of something based on it's ROI. Yeah, we got a great economic steamroller of a system, but when I make things, I'm answering a need that places money below first place.I'm not saying that we can live in a world where doesn't money matter, only that we should choose to live in a world where it matters a lot less than it does.//If you're still listening, I applaud your fortitude. Thanks for letting me talk this thing out. I think next week I'll do a short show about something superficial.I've got links on the blog to the various podcasts, or books that I've talked about. Take a look at videostudentguy@libsyn.com. You can also leave a comment or a criticism at the website. Or you can send me an email at videostudentguy@gmail.com.Despite how I may come off, I am interested in what you think, even if we disagree. In fact, I reserve the right to disagree with myself sometime in the future.I'm Paul, the videostudentguy, thanks for listening,I'll talk to you later,in the meantime, be creative.Bye

Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations, talks about the economics of organizations with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. The conversation centers on Shirky's book. Topics include Coase on the theory of the firm, the power of sharing information on the internet, the economics of altruism, and the creation of Wikipedia.

Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations, talks about the economics of organizations with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. The conversation centers on Shirky's book. Topics include Coase on the theory of the firm, the power of sharing information on the internet, the economics of altruism, and the creation of Wikipedia.