Hilary Radley - a star outerwear designer from Montreal

Hilary Radley is a name all Montrealer's interested in fashion should know. 

 

Quote:

"Montreal - based Hilary Radley is today North America's premier outerwear designer. Her laser sharp attention to detail, innovative use of textiles and technology has made her the trend-setting innovator in this category.

...Considered by her peers as the "Designer of the Decade", a distinction bestowed on her recently by Elle magazine..."

 

Frank Piller's blog on Mass Customization

 

Excellent blog on Mass Customization by Frank Piller.  Check out the Wine configurator post that describes how a Canadian company has built a toolkit on the web to create your own blend of grapes, yeast, alcohol content, and oak tastes. All at a very attractive price!

 

Here is how Frank describes his blog:

"Notes and ideas on mass customization, personalization, customer integration, and open innovation -- strategies of value co-creation between suppliers and customers. This blog continues a long running newsletter, published and edited by Frank Piller, TUM / MIT, since 1997."

SHARE - a community jam session

The Montreal SHARE group gets together twice a month for a high tech audiovisual community Jam session.

 

The next one is February 25th and coincides with the Montreal's "Festivale en Lumière" "nuit blanche".  Collaboration with Elektra.

 

Quote from the site:

"SHARE Montréal est une communauté d'artistes performeurs et chercheurs en arts interactifs et médiatiques fondée en mai 2005 par les artistes Jean-Ambroise Vesac, Marie-Hélène Parant et Katherine Liberovskaya auxquels se sont joints Sabina Sariyska, Céline Seman, Danny Perreault, Sylvain Cormier, Eric Filion et i8u pour faire de ce projet une réalité vibrante.

SHARE Montréal réuni deux fois par mois des artistes vidéo, audio, nouveaux médias et même performeurs pour qu'ils expérimentent de nouvelles avenues artistiques ensemble. Chacun apporte son équipement, portables, instruments, senseurs, caméras, et se rencontre pour "jammer" et explorer ensemble. Tout artiste qui désire se joindre à nos soirées pour improviser est le bienvenu."

The Laws of the Virtual Worlds

Is it possible to say that virtual world users have real world property interests in virtual objects?

 

This paper entitled "The Laws of the Virtual Worlds" by F. GREGORY LASTOWKA and DAN HUNTER examines this question and whether avatars have enforceable legal and moral rights.

 

 

 

Tailrank is a Memetracker?

I came across a new buzz word in the web/blog space today:Memetracker.

 

I was curious to find out what this is all about. So here are my findings.

 

First, what is a meme?  A "meme" is any "idea, behavior, style, or usage that spreads from person to person within a culture".  The term "meme" was coined by Richard Dawkin's around 1976 to represent a cultural equivalent of a gene.

 

Therefore a meme tracker is an aggregator of ideas compiled by searching lots of blogs and prioritizing the most popular ones..

 

Tailrank is an example of a memetracker.   Tailrank, like memeorandum.com creates a so called "living" newspaper totally generated on the fly (every 5 minutes) with content from people's blogs.  Sounds a bit like what EPIC 2014 (a future history of the media by Robin Sloan and Matt Thompson) was talking about.

Create your avatar at MVM?

This is an interesting undocumented feature at My Virtual Model. Click a link below to go directly to a questionnaire to create your model.  You can use any MVM enabled site.  Below I am using H&Ms.

 

Try creating your Male Virtual Model or Female Virtual Model

 

Many people would like to create their avatars using MVM.  Any comment?

Plastic Surgery and your Virtual Model

Visit this site for a free consultation on your personal plastic surgery plan.  Now imagine combining this with your personal Virtual Model?  Ouch!  Do you think people will be more or less willing?  Thanks Alex for finding this.