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  • Autumn Hand
  • Url: http://www.autumnhand.com
  • Posts: 6
  • About the user: Born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.A. - Y'all. Studied Fine Art at the University of Cincinnati College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning (Oil-painting and video editing never got along so well). From there, New York City was the place to be. Gigs ranged from photo editing for renowned party-photographer Patrick McMullan to being a receptionist to Donald Trump for a day. Ultimately the most fruitful work came from implementing and maintaining the video department for Landov.com - an image rights management agency. New Amsterdam was then traded in for the original Amsterdam - and now all that experience comes together in the Mastering of Media at UvA.

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Thanks For Sharing; Gratitude to Social Recommendation and Cool Friends

Autumn Hand | 01 November 2011, 10:18 pm | tags: , , , , ,

“Knowledge sharing and creation is at the heart of innovation in all fields – science, art and business – and innovation is the driving force for wealth creation… Information can be transferred in great torrents, without any understanding or knowledge being generated. Knowledge cannot be transferred; it can only be enacted, through a process of understanding, through which people interpret information and make judgements on the basis of it. … Great tides of information wash over us every day. We do not need more information, we need more understanding.” Charles Leadbeater, Living on Thin Air, 2000.

iPhone Art : This Century’s Modern Art Movement

Autumn Hand | 31 October 2011, 12:18 pm | tags: , , , ,

Smartphone technology established its omnipresence at the arrival of the 21st century. For better or for worse, digital handheld technology has become a defining element of this millennium. The gadget’s pervasiveness combined with its seemingly limitless assortment of program applications has spawned something of an art trend – nay, art movement. As with any millennial development, this movement unsurprisingly has co-opted a brand name moniker; iPhone Art… Certainly, other smartphones are capable of running art-making applications, however, the iPhone and its pioneer multi-touch interface, launched the innovation that transformed the portable communication technology into a the fancy pocket-fingerpainting-machine it is today.

Blendr. It Won’t Work – How About “Straight” Grindr?

Autumn Hand | 10 October 2011, 9:00 am | tags: , , ,

Blendr is a geosocial networking application allowing users to connect with nearby people based on common interests. Created by the same developers as the “hook-up” app Grindr, the focus Blendr has on meeting people through common interests and platonic friendships is wholesome objective which has provided much chagrin to the Internet at large.

Your Baby Will Google You

Autumn Hand | 06 October 2011, 5:33 pm

Whether by design or by default, the current generation whose lives are playing out in social networks, in the blogosphere and throughout the Internet are leaving traces of their lives online. Controversy was anticipated as guardians and future employers gained access to the user content, but another demographic may stimulate more acute repercussions. As this generation procreates, their offspring will get online too and, ultimately, have access to the unedited version of their parents’ online conduct.

Book Review: The Book of Ice, by Paul D. Miller (DJ Spooky)

Autumn Hand | 18 September 2011, 11:55 pm | tags: , , , , , , ,

In December 2007, composer and artist and writer Paul D. Miller a.ka. DJ Spooky a.k.a That Subliminal Kid boarded a decommissioned naval ship and traveled to Antarctica. The book that resulted from this journey is The Book of Ice, but the book is not about that journey.

A Domain By Any Other Name

Autumn Hand | 11 September 2011, 10:02 am | 1 comment | tags: , , , ,

Websites are headed towards major name changes. Recent amendments have authorized the creation of a porn specific .XXX domain, allowed non-Latin alphabet characters into the address bar, and most significantly freed top-level domain names from the conventional endings of .com, .org, .edu, et al. When these changes trickle down to the average user, the Internet will never be the same.