by JAK | Aug 9, 2015 | big ideas, culture, industry futures
Much has been written about the future of music over the past 20 or so years as the internet has made universal distribution a technical possibility. Despite a few breakthrough success stories like Justin Bieber (discovered on YouTube) and Lorde the increased...
by JAK | Jul 16, 2015 | big ideas, culture, films, industry futures, video
Some days I want to remix everything. I’ve been like that for 40+ years (for me) and now the technology makes it easy to do.* It started with music. After a few listens to a track I always want another version. Am I a creative megalomaniac? Not really it’s...
by JAK | Jul 10, 2015 | culture, films
This will be my first film festival since getting Netflix. It makes picking which films to see a bit different as a fair number of the documentaries will turn up. Sure I like to see film on a big screen and the non English language ones are less likely to make it to a...
by JAK | Jun 2, 2015 | culture, video
Back when I was a teenager in rural New Zealand I voraciously read the novels of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. I started with One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, The First Circle and Cancer Ward. In a 1970’s world we were still concerned with the Soviet Union and...
by JAK | May 21, 2015 | culture, industry futures
The short answer is no. A news story this week 5 Banks to Pay Billions and Plead Guilty in Currency and Interest Rate Cases “Adding another entry to Wall Street’s growing rap sheet, five big banks have agreed to pay about $5.6 billion and plead guilty to...
by JAK | Apr 9, 2015 | big ideas, culture, TEDx
Back in 1810 on May 3rd Lord Byron swam across the Darnadelles Straits apparently inspired by the legend of Hero and Leander where Hero swims across each night to be with his lover on the other side. In 1979 Sir Bob Harvey ( TEdxAuckland 2015 speaker) did that swim...
