(EN) How has YouTube interface changed since Google acquisition? Lasse Timmermann and Simeona Petkova from University of Amsterdam  followed the conceptual and methodological framework of  “distilling the ‘textual grammar’ of a website history” and created this video trying to answer the question.
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(IT) Com’è cambiata l’interfaccia di Youtube da quando è stata acquisita da Google? Lasse [...]

(EN) Pedro Cruz created a visual experiment with Processing analyzing the rise and decline of top 4 maritime empires of the XIX and XX centuries. Looking at the video, biology and social phenomena seem closer than I thought.
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(IT) Pedro Cruz ha creato un esperimento di visualizzazione con Processing analizzando la nascita e il [...]

(EN) “Info-activism is about turning information into action”.  In a 50 minutes documentary,  activists around the world explain us what’s info-activism about and give us some real examples to reflect upon. Find  the screening near you or order your free copy, and maybe help them to produce subtitles in your language!
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(IT)“Info-activism serve a trasformare [...]

(EN) Imagine your 10 fingers all active in interacting with computer on a brand new interface. Would it change the way we think and create? Take a look at the future  with this infographic video created by 10/GUI to discover how higher-bandwidth interaction can give desktops new dimensions.
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(IT) Immagina le tue 10 dita [...]

(EN) When computers were not a around, the supercartoon Disney camera was the ultimate tool:  a multiplane camera where every element of the scene has a different distance from the viewer. The video explains how it works.
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(IT) Quando i computer non erano in dotazione, l’oggetto preferito dei cartoonist era la supercartoon telecamera inventata dalla Disney: [...]

(EN) Alternative rock band TMGB made a song about the fundamental elements of Periodic Table, and their music video it’s a stylized infographic tale about them.
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(IT) La band di alternative rock TMGB ha dedicato una canzone agli elementi fondamentali della Tavola Periodica e il video musicale che l’accompagna è una stilizzata favola infografica che li [...]

(EN) It’s a smooth animation the one released by German railway company Deutsche Bahn but I have a few doubts on the content.  I’m starting to be fed up about voices insisting that solution to climate change is  a matter of consumer choice, privatizing responsability and avoiding public protests.
We need large-scale transformations that [...]

(EN) Nitin Nohria and Amanda Pepper of Harvard Business School created this infographics video in collaboration with Xplane to generate a discussion of the value and importance of leadership to address some of society’s most pressing problems. You can give your opinion partecipating to the remix contest: download the  source files and make your own [...]

(EN) The infographics video by 2D and 3d animator David Scharf explains clearly how the concept of security has easily become  the path to a neoliberal police state. The real question is: are we willing to trade our freedom for temporary security?
I wouldn’t forget though that the demand of security is quite common in [...]

(EN) Omid Reza Mir Sayafi was the first Iranian blogger and journalist to die (at 29) in Evin Prison in Tehran. March 18 Movement was born not to forget him and the day he died and to  become a voice for bloggers everywhere who are in risk of being crushed under the heavy machinery of [...]

(EN) WHat exactly do we fear in growing up? A kid tries to explain us. One thing is clear: the bigger you get the fewer places there are to hide.
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(IT) In cosa consiste esattamente la paura di crescere? Un bambino cerca di spiegarcelo. Una cosa è chiare: più grandi si diventa, meno posti [...]

(EN) Pinky and friends visited Slovenia to participate in a series of debates and an art exhibition on radical education. They also went to ROG, the former bycicle factory that became a social center.
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(IT) Pinky e i suoi amici hanno visitato la Sloveinia per partecipare a una serie di dibattiti e a una mostra sul [...]

(EN) In 2007 six Greenpeace activists climbed the 220mt chimney of Kingsnorth power station to protest at the government’s plans to build a new and bigger coal-fired power station: they were accused of causing £30,000 of criminal damage. In 2008 their defence of  “lawful excuse” was accepted by the jury because they [...]

(EN) This cool animated flowchart was produced to launch the fifth season of Weeds, a television series about a widowed housewife becoming a marijuana dealer in a California suburb.

(EN) This infographics is one of the latest you can find on Animal Visuals website. The online project, created by Mark Middleton, provides compelling visuals and interactive media to empower animal advocates, educate the public, and expose the injustices of animal exploitation.
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Life Inc.

(EN) In United States, unlike Europe,  the critical approach to the fundamentals of neoliberism is going mainstream and  many authors go back to the beginning of capitalism to help us put everything in perspective. These are the “heresies” contained in Life Inc.,  bestseller by Douglas Rushkoff:

Money is not a part of nature, to be studied by a science like economics, but an invention with a specific purpose.

Centralized currency is just one kind of money – one not intended to promote transactions but to promote the accumulation of capital by the wealthy.

Banking is our society’s biggest industry, and debt is our biggest product.

Corporations were never intended to promote commerce, but to prevent it.

The development of chartered corporations and centralized currency caused the plague; the economic devastation ended Europe’s most prosperous centuries, and led to the deaths of half of its population.

The more money we make, the more debt we have actually created.

But don’t despair, the crisis is an opportunity to reinstate commerce and communities based in creating value for one another, rather than continuing to extract it for the benefit of institutions that no longer exist.

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(IT) Negli USA, a differenza dell’Europa, l’approccio critico ai fondamenti del neoliberismo sta raggiungendo il grande pubblico e molti autori ripercorrono la storia del capitalismo aiutandoci a guardare tutto in prospettiva. Queste sono le “eresie” del bestseller Life Inc. di Douglas Rushkoff (di cui si parla nel video qui sopra):

Il denaro non è un elemento naturale, da studiare con una scienza come l’economia, ma è un’invenzione con uno scopo specifico.

La valuta centralizzata e solo un tipo di denaro – non inteso per promuovere le transazioni ma piuttosto per promuovere l’accumulazione di capitale da parte dei ricchi.

Le banche sono la più grande industry della nostra società e il debito e

(EN) Soot, also known as black carbon, is the second-leading cause of global warming after carbon dioxide and a leading cause of respiratory illness and death. It comes from diesel engines, industrial smokestacks, residential cooking and heating stoves.
Earthjustice, a non-profit public interest law firm dedicated to defending the right of all people to a healthy environment, is promoting Stop Soot (cool minisite and infographic video!)campaign to put pressure on Obama administration to accelerate the process of an action plan for a black carbon reduction strategy.
(IT) Il particolato di carbone è la seconda causa del riscaldamento globale dopo l’anidride carbonica e uno dei principali responsabili di malattie respiratorie che portano anche alla morte. E’ prodotto dai motori diesel, dalle ciminiere industriali, dai forni casalinghi e dalle stufe per il riscaldamento.
Earthjustice, lo studio di avvocati americani non-profit, che difende il diritto degli esseri umani a vivere in un ambiente sano, ha lanciato la campagna Stop Soot (ottimo minisito e video infografico!) per convincere il maggior numero di persone a fare pressione sull’amministrazione Obama per accelerare l’entrata in azione di una strategia di riduzione del particolato.

(EN) While we were preparing to celebrate Mayday in Milan, a bunch of young artists gathered for a banner making party to paint graffiti banners, screen print bandanas, posters, and t-shirts. Interesting seeing how,  as Just Seed highlighted,  screen printing is re-emerging as a social movement medium.
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(IT) Mentre ci preparavamo a celebrare la Mayday a Milano, un gruppo di giovani artisti si riuniva per un party di creazione di striscioni, bandana, poster e t-shirts. Come  Just Seed sottolinea sul suo blog, è interessante notare  che lo screen printing sta ritornando ad essere un medium dei movimenti sociali contemporanei.