ESPRESSO might seem an odd name for a bookmaking machine. But the wardrobe-sized apparatus at Blackwell, a bookstore in central London, and 30 other locations worldwide can print a paperback in about the time it takes to make and drink a shot of caffeine. A black-and-white printer produces the pages; a colour one the cover; they are then glued together by a third device which sits behind Plexiglas for passers-by to admire.
Desde que Richard Florida acuñó el concepto "creative class" las ciudades parecen haberse embarcado en un concurso de belleza para atraer y retener a los individuos creativos. De hecho, parte del trabajo que desarrollamos desde Industrias Creativas apunta a consolidar a un sector que siempre estuvo presente en Buenos Aires.In this discourse the traditional skirmish lines seem to be skewed. All of the ire from the left seem to evaporate into a vacuum of hugs from what we thought was the right. In Hamburg the artists occupy, and the city sends talkers and crews to make sure the building is safe. In my interview, I ask this guy tough questions about the exclusion of race and Hiphop from his ideas and he invites me to answer them myself on his site. Coming from the “Fight the Power” generation, this is certainly not what I expected when challenging a dominant ideological discourse. Sometimes I don’t know what the hell is going on myself. All I can say is that, for now at least, it seems to be as broad a conversation as you want to have. Yes there are still barriers but, surprisingly, listening seems to be an emerging trend. I think people are still correct to question the root of that - why are people listening? – but in my opinion, it’s more important that people like those students are taking the time to grow and use their critical skills to make this discourse broad enough that their content and concerns can either find their place within this discourse or expose where improvement of it is necessary. That’s a creative class if I’ve ever seen one.
En Youtube puede encontrarse una buena muestra de lo que están produciendo los futuros alumnos (como por ejemplo el video que ilustra este post). No cuesta mucho imaginar la aplicación de esta tendencia a otros ámbitos. ¿Por qué no completar las entrevistas laborales con un poco de histrionismo frente a la cámara? Por otro lado, sería interesante abrir la administración pública a través de videos cortos en los que los funcionarios pudieran contar su día a día (algo que hace dos año que viene haciendo Aire y Luz, proyecto pionero en Latinoamérica).It is reading season at the Tufts University admissions office, time to plow through thousands of essays and transcripts and recommendations — and this year, for the first time, short YouTube videos that students could post to supplement their application.
About 1,000 of the 15,000 applicants submitted videos. Some have gotten thousands of hits on YouTube.
Tufts, which, like the University of Chicago, is known for its quirky applications, invited the YouTube videos. Along with the required essays, Tufts has for years offered applicants an array of optional essays — “Are we alone?” is one of this year’s topics — or a chance to “create something” out of a sheet of paper. So it was not too far a stretch, this year, to add the option of posting a one-minute video that “says something about you.”
