Sunday, April 23, 2006

Earth Day



sorry this ain't yellow. but earth ain't very yellow these days. check out the video- the blue fellas kick butt.
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Wednesday, March 29, 2006

Asia's Rise: the West's demise?

kicking western butt.

asia is turning out to be a big pain in the ass to the, ahem, west. why are the coolest countries in the world, with so much "power", beginning to fear the third world and developing asian nations?

unfortunately, the answer is more of a retrospective. history's habit of repeating itself is what seems to be Asia's power. we might be wintessing the second 'funky 60s' very soon indeed. with a booming majority of the expanding population between 18 and 25, the asians can more than overcome any hurdles through mere quantity of workforce. best part is, they also have quality on their side.

the west has always undermined the asian intellect. now's payback time.

armed with open minds and determination, the asian youth's drive, intelligence and innovative capabilities are a force to be reckoned with. with the next dot com boom around the corner with web2.0, and an outsourcing industry already depriving the west of jobs, south asia's only doing too well. will it last?
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I wouldn't even say Asia, for that matter, in a decade or so, I'm pretty sure India would be busting the West's ass...countries like Japan are already there...but I'm wondering, is it about beating the West at their own game, where they decide the rules...or do we just make up a whole new game of our own???

6:18 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

why a whole decade??? why not now? india's aready busting ass trying to beat china to the moon by 2008. read this article by bruce sterling of wired. he talks about the asian space race. mars is apparently the next move. already, its been widely acknowledged that the indian nuke scientists are among the best on the planet.

as for rules made by the west, hehheh, nobody wants them to be a global watchdog.

7:47 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

2/3 comments are yours.

If you are talking about india, I really don't think it's remotely possible.
"We have quality and quantity on our side"

We don't have discipline to make it work. Just not possible. I have to go bac to the age old "govt", but then, our government is but a reflection of us. Very confused but sure views i have on this topic.

8:08 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

nikhil: are you reading comments or counting them?

read about the BPO industry in india to get some perspective. as for discipline, that's relative, dont you think? politics are but politics. but the youth don't need politics to be entrepreneuring no?

8:37 PM  
Blogger Nishant said...

let's hope.

but on the comments side, jackasses, all of you. especially aj and nikil. bickering little fuckers.

2:49 PM  
Blogger Raj Beniwal said...

Very true...
Asia is one of the biggest threat to all developing countries..

But, let bring your notice to what might happen within Asia..
My personal experience - China can provide a solution at 50% or my be at one third of the price of Indian Solution.
Only thing makes us better than them (atleast for now) is our graduates and low MTI.

Now, after say 2-5 years.. moere than half of business coming to India would shift to China.

Just a food for thought.

As Kotler said - Future is not novel, it has happened somewhere in some degree.
What is happening to developed countries now; might happen to India after 5 years.

Cheers,
Raj

2:53 PM  
Blogger AJ1 said...

yo raj,
you forget we indians have a huge advantage from the chinks- we speak english :)
very well too.

4:08 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

You are all deluded.

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Tuesday, March 28, 2006

Guerilla see, Guerilla do

spray that shit!
What was originally a form of displaying disrespect to predominant authority is now the 'coolest' new kid on the media block. ad agencies coin any untried form of advertising 'guerilla' these days.

wikipedia
defines the term as follows:
Guerrilla (also called a partisan) is a term borrowed from Spanish (from "guerra" meaning war) used to describe small combat groups. Guerrilla warfare operates with small, mobile and flexible combat groups called cells, without a front line. Guerrilla warfare is one of the oldest forms of asymmetric warfare. Primary contributors to modern theories of guerrilla war include Mao Zedong, Wendell Fertig, Vo Nguyen Giap, and Che Guevara....

so guerilla marketing is the bastard son of the then innovative guerilla warfare. why coin new terms to solve old problems?

in all probability, the first cave paintings were frowned upon by cave-society. grafitti artists, or taggers are prosecuted for defacing public property. these artists are far ahead of the advertisers. they take their art to where it really matters. in new york, LA and detroit, you will see sexy anti-AIDS and anti-political advertising on street walls. even awesome branding concepts. beautifully executed, with amazing attention to detail. sometimes spanning whole lengths of streets. whats illegal/shameful to some is 'art' to others.

no wonder, trendwhore designers these days take a spraypaint splatter or a funky 'drip' [see above] to spruce up their web-pages or ad layouts. looks good, don't it? take out that dormant spraycan and deface a road sign today.
Anonymous Anonymous said...

IMO, advertisers probably take so much studying and research into deciding what the consumer wants, and how to approach the consumer, that they actually forget to listen to the consumer! Thats probably why graffiti works so well with very controversial topics. There's more emotion in them and its waaaaay more personal...

6:34 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

i agree with that. when an artist is personally involved with the art, it usually speaks volumes more. and artists have always been underestimated.

7:40 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I don't even know if Guerilla Marketing is all that cool any longer. There are so many bad and wannabe examples out there that I sometimes refrain from using the word.

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Sunday, March 26, 2006

The Attention Deficit Generation

kill the media machine
first, there was radio. it was good.

then came the TV. and f*ed up radio's scene. its still around. the mindless media machine. while radio only occupied human ears, TV occupies almost all our important senses. screw the smell and taste and touch. would you really smell/taste/touch when your eyes and ears were completely occupied with a barrage of audiovisual violence, sex and other interesting content, aiming at documenting reality? if reality was so sexy, i'd be really happy to walk around peddling narcotics, with a gun in my pocket to take out anyone bothering me.

then came the net. brilliant technology. it lets me tell you all this, right? for some time, it was good. then, media [read: advertising] came and f*ed it up for the net. with a media so instantly gratifying as the net, the advertisers had to come up with new strategies to capture the attentions of poor, info-overloaded minds. their products are the pop-ups, the banners, the spam, the interactive flash ads, and all other kinds of crap.

finally, advertisers have succeeded in numbing the minds of generations of educated folk. if they keep looking for ways to intrude our consciousness, there will come a day when they'll be left selling their products to themselves.

and what happened to all the real creativity? the only creative people left are, i truly believe, tiny little kindergarten children. for many of them have yet to be destroyed by advertising. bring on the play-doh.
Blogger Nishant said...

well thought out. and i completely agree with that last paragraph. simply superb.

why have you tied it up though? and why advertise for firefox?

lights out, guerilla radio!

3:41 PM  
Blogger AJ1 said...

firefox happens to be the only browser this blogs works on without bugs 100%. :P untested/unguaranteed on explorer.

you know that firefox is open-source right? hail the power of community brains.

6:55 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

after play-doh, its Harry Potter. nooooooo! and what about the advertising on 'RELIGIOUS' channels? geez...us. :P

6:36 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

very good point there jam. whoever came up with the idea of using religion as a vehicle for advertising must be nuts. not that it doesn't work. there're taker for any kind of propaganda. the shiv sena is such an example.

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Saturday, March 25, 2006

Freedom and Money

the best things in life come cheap. or better, free.

im posting this on a free blog. google has given us the opportunity to freely publish any thoughts. it may be politically incorrect / blasphemous. freedom itself is free. especially after the advent of the WWW.

information wants to be free, said Bruce Sterling in the book the Hacker Crackdown [this was the best seller he distrubuted freely, online]. sterling is considered to be one of the planet's foremost technology wirters. he now writes regularly for Wired if he isn't giving a keynote speech at some geekfest. this free informations exists. information always exists. its just naive to think nobody knows. anything can be found on google. provided you know where to look.

one might think google's the noblest- what with the sole puropse of "organising the world's knowledge". why are they doing it? question upon question upon question can make google the scariest corporation ever.

they've invested in brainpower. not in technology. what started as a college project is now making the likes of Microsoft and Skype and Yahoo shit in their tight, formal pants. they've invented new technology to get around problems. theres 'GFS' a distributed filesystem. there s google maps. theres google sms. theres gmail. theres google pages. theres 'AdSense'. see the little ads by gooooooooogle thingy on the bottom right, below the links? this thing reads whatever is posted here and puts relevant text ads in the box. so if i put a paragraph about a particular model of a laser printer, that box would probably sell one to you. scary.

the terms and conditions from google's services, if read carefully doesn't really tell us about what happens to deleted accounts. basically, if i use gmail all the time, i can be pretty sure that google knows me inside-out. even after i delete my mail account. what gives me comfort is the fact that google is hardly dangerous. they gave me free email. and a free blog service. unlimited space, almost. almost no ads. so why should i care? google knows millions of people inside out. respectable. cool.

the best things really are free. but freedom is, again, relative. free of money doesn't mean free of cost, right? if a global catastophe arises, i'll know i should goto google for help. for they'll really know.
Blogger AJ1 said...

the hacker crackdown can be downloaded for free from the project gutenberg site. google it.

project gutenberg is a collection of free text files [sometimes, entire books]

7:28 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

but thinking in a broad perspective... you and me are around billions.. and its hard to get in toplist and our info are mere dust unless we are V.I.P to outer world :-) so we are safe. am I right.

10:58 PM  
Blogger AJ1 said...

you are very right. who cares about one user? one site? one page?

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Friday, March 24, 2006

Aeon's Flux

Caution_Biohazard!

seen aeon flux yet? the makers of this slick sci-fi flick have taken the original, brilliant, anime series by Peter Chung, and repurposed it with hot, hot charlize theron for us to trip on.

the story is set in a dystopia- this beautiful, futuristic city called 'bregna'. i say dystopia, because despite the fact that the city's beautiful, the inhabitants face great pains [constructed reality, yadaya, yes- like the matrix] and try to make sense of the world around them.

thats all i'm gonna reveal, for the benefit of those who haven't seen it yet. the film is filled with brilliant gimmicks from the anime, like the blades of grass, tommy-gun like trees that shoot spikes from fruit pods, water with colloidal particles that send messages from another person straight into the brain, bio- implants that enhance human functions like a zoom eyeball, implanted telecommunications. the arsenal of sci-fiism is killer. a must-see movie for action and charlize theron freaks.

but again. taking something classic and repurposing it has its limits. they've represented peter chung's vision well. but they haaad to overdo it. sigh.

click on the image to get a hi-res version from my DeviantArt page. its' a desktop wallpaper.

Why we can't be Let to Be

we all dream of doing crazy things. some of us go and do these crazy things. some of us keep them in their dream-like states. now what differentiates dreamers from dream-doers is what makes the difference.

see. the dreamers come up with stuff that the non-dreamers call, very often, 'crazy'. now this might seem crazy only to the non-dreamer who has no clue of the dreamers' original dream. for instance, galileo was put behind bars for blasphemy. the non-dreamers used religion as an excuse to prosecute the innocent. our world is full of such troubles. this galileo thing couldnt possibly have been the last time someone's been in trouble for his/her insight. edison? same scene. einstein? same scene. poor, poor, poor buggers.

the non-dreamers? they're good people too. their only problem is probably narrow-mindedness. these fellas cant see the dream. because society wants the people to conform. conformity kills dreams.

when will we learn to shun society? will we ever?
Blogger Nishant said...

very cool design.
kind of makes it hard to read though.

that having been said, yes conformity kills dreams but dreams are personal things. not stuff people go mouthing off about. you didn't see ol galle or eddie or stein go yakking about stuff the moment they thought of them. they took their time, cultivated it, perfected it and most importantly, believed it. that's the difference.

but yes, point noted on the non-dreamers, but who are these people? last time i checked everyone had dreams of their own. so if you actually look at it a little harder it's in fact the dreamers that are narrowminded and arrogant, for the simple fact that they believe there are non-dreamers about.

somebody pull the damn stick out!

12:02 PM  
Blogger AJ1 said...

yo oc,

bout dreamers: dont you think there could be some dreamers that have dreamt their dreams for so long that they've perfected them? like what about inherent perfectionists that have been forced into conformity? even by a small, cole-knit society of conformists? what if...?

about arrogance: yea- i think its both subjective and relative. the dreamers find the non-dreamers arrogant and vice-versa. conformism tends to lead to such arrogance, doesn't it?

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Monday, March 20, 2006

I Hate CSS

What i thought was going to be a simple task has turned into a monster i hate playing with. this damn blog will never comply. to my wishes that is. i've been editing the code on and off for days now. this officially sucks.

Does anyone know how to fix the comments section? i need to make everything appear in the DesignScience template. no blogger bullshit. i've succeeded in getting rid of the blogger bar. how do i rid of the 'floating' text? which part of the code controls the comments bit?

sorry, i dunno CSS. anyone who can help will be very welcome.
Blogger paperdoll said...

css?

http://www.myspace.com/canseidesersexy

;)

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