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The giver

Welcome to Idealog Weekly, the free email newsletter for New Zealand commercial creatives, entrepreneurs and anyone rich with ideas.

The giver

Cory Doctorow is one of the more famous names on the Internet, thanks to the massive BoingBoing blog and writing rather well on issues ranging from sci-fi and geek obsessions to copyright and politics. He also likes giving things away—creating something and then letting other people have it for nothing.

Despite that, Doctorow still manages to make a living from his writing. Wondering how? Read Stephen Jewell’s interview with Cory Doctorow in the current Idealog and he’ll tell you.

And if you’re up for the freebie, download Doctorow’s latest book, Little Brother, from his site.

Somebody’s mother

As Joey deVilla says, they ran some weird ads back in the day.

Sure, smoking makes you look cool

At Idealog, we’re sympathetic to the plight of today’s smoker, so we’d like to ease the burden. Take these mittens, for example, that do away with one of the great inconveniences of being socially ostracised: cold hands while puffing outside to further personal cancer and emphysema growth opportunities. You’re welcome.

Levitate me

We love this miniature Maglev ‘steam’ train, showing just how the magic magnetism works. Kottke points to a Scientific American article predicting a trans-Atlantic Maglev train could travel between New York and London at 6,500 kilometres per hour. That would require the train to run in a vacuum inside a suspended tunnel. Hey, if John Key can put $50 million towards a cycleway, surely Uncle Sam can build a hypersonic underwater train?

Voices wins award

And a hugely coveted D&AD pencil too for Saatchi Sydney, for a clever ad made with Kiwi mobile advertising heroes The Hyperfactory. The spot for the United Nations Voices Project marries mobile technology with creative thinking to give voice to those who don’t always have it.

Job of the Week

Interactive Senior Creative (P0509)

Digital Arm of Advertising Agency • Wide Variety of Clients • Superb Role

Our client is part of an international agency network and has a vast array of clients.

They are looking for a hot senior creative, who along with having great concepting ability has and is a hands on designer.

This role will work very closely with the Creative Director, nutting out creative concepts and then delivering outstanding work.

For this role you will have experience in a similar senior interactive role, be ready to step up to the mark and really show what you are made of. If you have won awards for your creativity, then that will be seen as a bonus although not a requirement—as you work will speak for itself.

This is a leadership role, you will have a number of direct reports and be able to share you knowledge and assist in their growth and development.

If you feel this is the right next step for you, please send your details to Louise Lawton at Portfolio Recruitment on 09 379-9303, or apply on our website.

Super Semi-Permanent

This year’s Semi-Permanent looks like a stunner, with an impressive line-up of speakers from the UK, US, Australia and of course, New Zealand.

Matt Aitken from Weta Digital will talk about his work on Dambusters, Tintin and other films; then there’s Alexia Sinclair from Australia who has a few words about her photography to share.

The United States contingent comprises illustrator James Jean, motion graphics specalist Arvind Palep and graphics designer David Carson.

Britain features strongly this year with wunderkind graphic artist, illustrator and record label founder Kate Moross; masters of graphic design Tim Beard (Bibliothèque) and Harry Pearce (Pentagram); plus Philip Hunt from animators Studio AKA; and Sanky from digital artists AllofUs.

All household creative names, in other words, and there are two more speakers to come, so make sure you’re in Auckland on August 14 and 15 to catch Semi-Permanent at the Aoetea Centre.

As an additional draw card, organisers The Church are holding a We Can Create campaign with prizes to be won during Semi-Permanent.

Tickets for Semi-Permanent are available from The Edge online or phone 0800 BUY TICKETS. Early birders get in for $210 if they’re salaried/waged, or $120 for students. Dilly-dally, and those figures go up to $250 and $150 respectively. Deluxe VIPs like yours truly have to fork out $500 for the tix.

DAW09 warm-up for SP09

You don’t need to wait for Semi-Permanent to get your design fix. Design Assembly’s Winter 2009 event is next week, on Wednesday, June 24.

Raul Sarrot will talk about designing for tough times and Ralph Matthews is on the edge of interactive and intelligent design. Scott Bell will round up the evening with websites without comprise and with client expectations.

Design Assembly 2009 is held at AUT’s Art and Design Faculty, St Paul’s Street in Auckland. Find room WE336 to catch Messieurs Sarrot, Matthews and Bell’s talks. Afterwards, there’s a closed function at nearby Brooklyn Bar on Queen St to continue the conversations.

RSVP on the website.

Quote of the week

“What it’s really saying is that you no longer have a role in talking to government or your neighbours when you lose your Internet connection. For any individual who is part of the digital society, it’s a death sentence that removes their ability to participate.

—Cory Doctorow on the real consequences of S92A’s ‘ultimate sanction’

More at Idealog online

Read more on our website: web exclusives, opinion, creative directory, Idealog TV, the Idealog blogs and the Idealog podcast. See you at idealog.co.nz.

  Juha Saarinen
  Ideologue, Weekly

Previously in Idealog Weekly …

October 30, 2009: Man of the moment

October 23, 2009: By the numbers

October 16, 2009: Pavlova principles

October 9, 2009: The secret of the songbook

October 2, 2009: Free and easy

September 25, 2009: What the world wants

September 18, 2009: A slice of the pie

September 11, 2009: Walking man

September 6, 2009: A calmer kind of business

August 28, 2009: We have issues

August 21, 2009: Mincing about in waistcoats

August 14, 2009: Wired on pop culture

August 7, 2009: Trust is not a commodity

July 31, 2009: Fuzzy logic

July 24, 2009: Game of life

July 17, 2009: Grape expectations

July 10, 2009: Blade runners

July 3, 2009: Free: another word for nothing left to lose

June 26, 2009: Poorly pleased

June 19, 2009: The giver

June 12, 2009: Buggy on down

June 5, 2009: Brand Cambo

May 29, 2009: When the going gets tough, go proactive

May 22, 2009: Bayerische Wasserstoffmotorenwerke

May 15, 2009: Rugger blogger

May 8, 2009: Get on our cloud

May 1, 2009: Easy Tiger

April 24, 2009: Tiki tacky

April 17, 2009: The not-so-great indoors

April 3, 2009: A site for sore eyes

March 27, 2009: Dual control

March 20, 2009: Worth their Alt

March 13, 2009: Biofuels or bio-fools?

March 6, 2009: It's electrifying

February 27, 2009: Experience-rich and theory-poor

February 20, 2009: It's a hundred-and-fourteen-pager

February 13, 2009: Own your mistakes

February 5, 2009: Rules—made to be broken

January 30, 2009: Money: that's what I want

December 5, 2008: Framed by the thousands

November 28, 2008: Spank-branding novelty next week

November 21, 2008: In the Loop

November 14, 2008: Your good health

November 7, 2008: Misfits of science

October 31, 2008: No absence of colour

October 24, 2008: Plain-speaking Peri

October 17, 2008: Rebels with a cause

October 10, 2008: Seoulipsism

October 3, 2008: Fall seven times and stand up eight

September 26, 2008: Don't label us

September 19, 2008: Bloody Graham

September 19, 2008: Dream proposition

September 5, 2008: Taxi!!!

August 29, 2008: Up-Skilling on Idealog TV

August 22, 2008: 144 pages of pure pleasure, plus politics

August 15, 2008: Wash down that Lovemark with a Steinie

August 8, 2008: Strange journey

August 1, 2008: SMElly and happy

July 25, 2008: What a dive

July 18, 2008: Softly and woolly does it

July 11, 2008: The saviour from Timaru

July 4, 2008: Last laugh

June 27, 2008: King Kev

June 20, 2008: Slow ART

June 13, 2008: Killing two birds with methane

June 6, 2008: A combine harvester

May 30, 2008: Gold paint

May 23, 2008: Rock, out

May 16, 2008: Goodwill hunting

May 9, 2008: No wine jokes please

May 2, 2008: Who's bad?

April 24, 2008: Succession success

April 18, 2008: Out now or thereabouts

April 11, 2008: Paint by numbers

April 4, 2008: Reincarnated good

March 28, 2008: Making it

March 20, 2008: Knock three times

March 14, 2008: The customer is always tight

March 7, 2008: Beautiful words

February 28, 2008: Goodnight, I'm off to work

February 22, 2008: The art issue

February 15, 2008: Straight to the top

February 8, 2008: H for hot

December 13, 2007: Nothing in common? Perfect

December 6, 2007: Who needs a beer?

November 30, 2007: Dirty secret goes public

November 23, 2007: Don't speak

November 16, 2007: Worthy work (and free beer)

November 2, 2007: East meets best

October 25, 2007: Raid the fridge

October 19, 2007: Looking good

October 13, 2007: Can't miss it

October 5, 2007: Fresh meat delivery

September 28, 2007: If the walls had eyes

September 21, 2007: Phoenix rising

September 15, 2007: Can we fix it? Yes we can

September 6, 2007: Feats of social engineering

August 31, 2007: Doesn't bite

August 24, 2007: Telling us where to go

August 16, 2007: Tomorrow time

August 10, 2007: Going West

August 3, 2007: How to ... be your business

July 27, 2007: Freaky food

July 20, 2007: Meet the neighbours

July 12, 2007: Free Hollie

July 6, 2007: Green queen

June 29, 2007: The truth about youth

June 21, 2007: Walk this way

June 14, 2007: Times ten

June 7, 2007: The ape woman needs a label

June 1, 2007: Impossible is something

May 25, 2007: Yeah, we're still here

May 11, 2007: Trophy time

May 3, 2007: Friends with the band

April 23, 2007: Why worry?

April 19, 2007: Done by the big jobs

April 12, 2007: A rockin' good read

April 5, 2007: No fear

March 29, 2007: Out to pasture

March 22, 2007: Hip-hop and The Human Touch

March 15, 2007: Crazy Frog and Billy T

March 10, 2007: The Benadryl edition

March 1, 2007: We can be Xero

February 22, 2007: Back on board

December 15, 2006: Free beer

December 8, 2006: December 8, 2006

December 1, 2006: December 1, 2006

November 24, 2006: November 24, 2006

November 16, 2006: November 16, 2006

November 9, 2006: November 9, 2006

November 3, 2006: November 3, 2006

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