Z+Blog!Pointers and commentary on the future of design, branding, innovation, new media, sustainability and other emerging issues.Las Vegas Olivo Barbieri- April 21, 2006 Jennifer Fiore, one of our Z+ photographers (and fantastic artist to boot!), just tipped us off to the work of Olivo Barbieri. Photographing from a helicopter 300-500 feet above the ground with a large-format camera and a tilt-focus lens, Barbieri captures the artifice of cities while also rendering their emotional legacy in our minds and our culture. These shots of Las Vegas look and feel like tiny toy models. How appropriate given a city constructed solely to fulfill the American ambition to..http://www.zpluspartners.com/zblog/archive/2006_04_21_zblogarchive.html#114563087825566156 In the Continuum- April 13, 2006 Art has a way of articulating something that the libraries full of statistics can never seem to manage. That's probably why the new play In The Continuum, dramatizing the devastating problem of HIVAIDS among African and African-American women, is such a profound experience. The play, written by playwright-actors Danai Gurira and Nikkole Salter (pictured above), follows the stories of a married Zimbabwean woman and a 19-year-old girl from South Central Los Angeles over the course of 48 hours. It.http://www.zpluspartners.com/zblog/archive/2006_04_13_zblogarchive.html#114495666702975543 Two Amazing Statistics- April 6, 2006 It's a rarity and a delight to hear CEOs say something that is truly memorable. Yesterday, I heard two.I'm in Rome attending IBM's Business Leadership Forum, a private conference of 500 CEOs and senior government leaders from around the world. The theme of the event is innovation, and in his opening remarks, Sam Palmisano, the CEO of IBM came up with this chestnut:"Last year, human beings produced more transistors (and at lower cost) than they did grains of rice.It turns out that statistic is...http://www.zpluspartners.com/zblog/archive/2006_04_06_zblogarchive.html#114431335974523319 |