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October 2008 Blog Posts (4)

Shopper's Bush

A finely placed digital campaign has been in place for the Westfield London shopping centre. The various places i've spotted the skyscrapers seems to have worked as I know all there is to know about the largest shopping mall in Europe that is currently making it's first sales at this very moment.

The shopping mecca sports over 265 retailers, 47 eateries, plus dedicated nooks like The Village for haute couture and Southern Terrace for… Continue

Added by mark stone on October 30, 2008 at 11:02am — No Comments

Can a real restaurant be an art installation?

To be honest, I think no.

Flash, is a 'Pop-Up Restaurant': a temporary restaurant opening as an installation within an art exhibition for 80 days only. The 80 days is the period of that the 'Contemporary' exhibition happens at the very respectable Royal Academy in London. The RA, as an institution has… Continue

Added by mark stone on October 30, 2008 at 10:38am — No Comments

Marketing and elections unite black and Jewish Americans to vote

Sammy Dvis Jr. has always been the most famous black Jew in the world however, the Jewish and black worlds are nearer than you think. I think Obama could be a bit Jewish, err, despite being Muslim. No pork products allowed either way!

In religion, one popular black religion is Rasta which has strikingly similar elements to Judaism. Judaism and Rastafarianism has strong connections, being it beliefs, events which happened to them in… Continue

Added by mark stone on October 29, 2008 at 4:29pm — No Comments

How did the ancient's TXT?

Memory Cloud is a new interactive public art event put on by Minimaforms the art/architecture hybrid company and the ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts). Text messages are grafted onto plumes of smoke in an interactive exhibition fusing ancient and contemporary forms of communication.