Category: Customization
Sex & Drugs & Rock’n’Roll & Statistics
| October 13, 2011 | Posted by Sophy Bot under Customization, Internet culture |
It started off with an innocent text message: “So you coming out tonight?” This from a friend of mine inviting me for a night out on the town. When I told him that I’d be staying home to research my book instead, he told me I was boring, and I jokingly wrote, “Nah, I’m more of a sex, drugs and rock’n’roll type myself.…
If you print it, they will come
| September 26, 2011 | Posted by Sophy Bot under Customization |
These days, everything is customizable. From t-shirts to sneakers to chocolate and beyond, you can get just about anything made in the singularly right shade of you. And for those times when you don’t want to take a pre-made product and add your own personal touch, you can always just print one up from scratch. Last week, PSFK posted about Origo’s 3D printer…
Sharpie and the self-expressing life
| September 20, 2011 | Posted by Sophy Bot under Customization, Identity |
A new TV ad by Sharpie asks a simple question: what would life be like without self-expression? Maybe a better question is this: at what point in our cultural evolution did self-expression become such a big part of our lives? Sharpies were originally reserved for architects, advertisers, businesspeople, artists… specialists, in other words, often in creative fields. The new ad implicates that we’ve…
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