is a magic
                 number!




Beeker Northam
OFFF 2011
@dentsulondon
@beekernortham
Variations on a
Year Zero theme.
(Other) Moore’s
Law
(Other) Moore
Information-Doubling (2003)
                                                           50,000 years

                                                           1,500 years

                                                           200 years

                                                           10 years

                                                           18 months

                                                           1/1000
                                                           second

                                                           2015




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvcPVxzhTLQ 56.00 - 58.05
(Other) Moore’s Law



        information




                      time
The seagull effect
Edward Lorenz




                Meteorologist,
                mathematician, and
                pioneer of chaos
                theory.
The Lorenz attractor, 1963


Planetary and
stellar atmospheres
may exhibit a
variety of quasi-
periodic regimes
that are, although
fully deterministic,
subject to abrupt
and seemingly
random change.




                       Borealkiss
                       http://vimeo.com/19380697
The seagull effect
Media
pluralism
c.19th   c.20th    c.21st


                  interface??
Timeline of communications



                                                                                    PCS

                                                            RADIO                INTERNET
                                                                                              MOBILE
                                                                                               WWW
                                                          TELEGRAPHY    TELEVISION


ALPHABET       PRINT   ADVERTISING          PHOTOGRAPHY      FILM      COMPUTERS            WWW


2000BC     0   1500       1600       1700      1800         1900          1950                    2000
Timeline of communications
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2000BC      1000BC     0        1000        2000
Time is a design material
                                                            Film is important
                                                            because the
                                                            things we do are
                                                            embedded
                                                            in time and
                                                            because they
                                                            have to be
                                                            unpacked in time,
                                                            even if they can
                                                            be described or
                                                            drawn.
                                                            MATT JONES




http://www. ickr.com/photos/blackbeltjones/5706872802/in/photostream
The
mediapocalypse!
“Channels.”
“Channels.”
Search +                   Media +
              E-commerce
advertising                advertising
Merchandise              Product



                         Invention     Media
                                      platform
                                                       AGENCY INVENTS
                                                       WITHOUT A CLIENT


                                                                           Software


                                           Content
                                           platform            Service




One medium                                            All of media!




     AGENCY ADVERTISES
      CLIENT’S PRODUCT
                         Repetition
Generation M
http://www.johnsphones.com/
http://www.newspaperclub.com/
Uncanny valleys
The uncanny valley


      response to robots




                           anthropomorphism
The uncanny media
     valley
                advertising
                          response to robots




                                                anthropomorphism
                                               culturomorphism [sic].




It occurred to me that this must have occurred to me at least partly because of once reading
Russell Davies’s thing about direct marketing. So a link to that’s in order...http://
russelldavies.typepad.com/planning/2007/11/the-uncanny-val.html
Craft and
collaboration
Craft and “the workmanship of risk”.
Collaboration
Nonsense and
magic
Maywa-Denki
   and taking nonsense seriously.




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4sB3xwU2FU 35.00 - 1.35
Kermit’s rulespace




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPKng8j9Mnw
7.50 - end.
Suica Penguin
Making the world
If there’s any
excuse at all for
making a record,
it’s to do it
differently, to
approach the work
from a totally
recreative point of
view … to perform
this particular work
as it has never
been heard before.
And if one can’t do
that, I would say,
abandon it, forget
about it, move on to
something else.



GLENN GOULD 1968
Year Zero
Year Zero.
Thanks!

OFFF 2011: Zero is a magic number!