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Ji Lee is one of New York City’s most prolific street artists. Lee’s day job is in advertising, and his art is a reaction to the prolific and uncreative advertising on our streets. He is most well know for the “Bubble Project,” where he placed empty speech bubbles on outdoor advertisements and allowed the city to fill them in. Here, we’re highlighting the Abstractor Project an easy way to adjust digital billboards in your neighborhood, and turn them into them art.

WWF: 9/11 ad by DDB. What's next -holocaust images for McDonald's...

Gordon Brown (UK Prime Minister) was a surprise speaker in the first session of the TED Global Conference in Oxford -where he argued that we've reached a unique moment in human history: we can use today's interconnectedness to develop our shared global ethic -- and work together to confront the challenges of poverty, security, climate change and the economy.

Part of the 'Dream The Impossible Documentary Series", Failure's core message runs deep and has more to do with the human spirit than it has to do with motorsport or automotive manufacturing (the arena it's presented in). Perhaps we should take more time to reflect upon our failures rather than conceal them; failures can be profound moments of discovery -not shame.

Tim Brown demonstrates

In this Ted.com presentation (:30 minutes in length), Tim Brown demonstrates how, as adults we learn to fear the judgment of our peers. He explains how professionals need to relearn how to be playful in the work place. Go back to the things we learned as a child: Exploration, Building and Role Play.

Quickly conducting several games from the stage to the audience, Tim demonstrates how as adults we:

• self-edit as we are coming up with ideas – our desire to be original is a form of editing
• forget to be open to the questions: what is it? AND what can I do with it?
• need to use the materials around us to get our point across (lots of great prototyping examples in the last half of the presentation)
• should “try-on” experiences, as a form of role play

Beck Hansen, the art-rocker who broke out in the 1990s by combining hip-hop and folk music, is in the midst of an ambitious summer project, and he's sharing it free of charge online, contributing to a five-fold increase in traffic to his Web site. In lieu of a new Beck album, he's releasing a Velvet Underground album by Beck. Working with a rotating band of friends and musical peers, he reinterpreted the 1967 debut release by Lou Reed's edgy rock group. "The Velvet Underground & Nico" featured signature songs such as "Venus In Furs" and "Heroin."
more: via online.wsj.com