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design for disruption: gopro.

design for disruption: gopro.

Dec 12, 2014

patton-gopro-hero4-1gopro’s top-of-the-line hero4 black

eric woodman, who founded gopro, the miniature camera company, in 2002, said on sixty minutes that “it has revealed the hidden perspectives of human life.” yes, he had a stock to sell, and we expect boasts of profound impact for their products from entrepreneurs post steve jobs of course, but that is a surprisingly profound insight.

the gopro allowed people to record and share their best waves in surfing, their wildest leaps in mountain biking –and now their adventures driving.

above> photographer eric sterman using a phantom drone and hero 3+ shoots surfing the bonzai pipeline last december 2013.

gopro is helping to bring the dashboard camera into the main stream. bmw and mini now allow for control of the gopro camera from the vehicle software. the gopro seems on the verge of making the great leap that navigation units did a few years ago, from techie accessory to next cool thing. and they may fundamentally change the way we drive and think about driving.

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the story of popular dash cams in the us begins with the meteorite that exploded near the russian city of chelyabinsk on february, 15, 2013. it injured 1500 people, caused millions of rubles of damage and made americans aware that many russians had dash cams in their cars–for their own protection. not only did the cameras record celestial events, it turns out, but misdeeds by other drivers and law enforcers, posted online.

video from dash cams has a vast life online. in the u.s. it was mostly police imagery: bizarre driver responses to being pulled over and humorous dancing field sobriety tests. no wonder woodman regards the real product of the go pro corporation not as cameras, not even as compilations of video made with the cameras but as the social media surrounding the compilation of the clips. by letting us record moments of adventure, on the road, or entire journeys and sharing them with other people, dash cams could have the same effect on the experience of driving .

some drivers will want to record episodes of horror or humor, others to document rapid or romantic stretches of road. there is a long tradition of filming drives, but you pretty much had to be a professional movie maker to do it. the most famous example is the cult film of a high speed early morning run through paris made in 1976 by director claude lelouch—director of a man and woman–the high-speed short film c’était un rendez-vous.

it is a very french film and often the flavor of dash cam compilations reflects personality and nationality. the russian compilations suggest the wild west quality of its highways. japanese compilations, by contrast, include terrifying tsunami footage and accidents, maintained by japanese trucking association for safety warnings. but the japanese counterpart of russia’s flying cows is different: the japanese news service asahi shinbun reports that dora dora douga website draws 160,000 monthly viewers to a “beautiful landscape” and “unique scenery” site. the dawn of gifu, a landscape view of gifu prefecture, is most popular.

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another use for go pros has recently been proposed. officials all the way up to president obama have suggested issuing body cameras to police officers to help reduce mistaken shootings. but here too the disruptions of the innovation may surprise: won’t these cameras emphasize the point of view of the police officer more than that of the victim?

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patton-gopro-drone1gopro equipped phantom drone used by police in east harlem building explosion in new york city summer of 2014

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PCAH. What we do. Who we are.

Nov 4, 2009

pcah1PICAH. what we do. who we are.
committee mission
Established in 1982, the committee’s mission is to work with organizations including the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities to encourage partnerships between the public and private sector on cultural projects. The committee also seeks to initiate and support cultural programs, according to its official website.

committee appointees
J. Ricky Arriola
Madeleine Harris Berman
Richard J. Cohen, Member
Paula Hannaway Crown
Christine Forester
Teresa Heinz
Victoria Strauss Kennedy
Bryan Lourd
Anne Luzzatto
Yo-Yo Ma
Liz Manne
Thom Mayne
Edward Norton
Sarah Jessica Parker
Andy Spahn
Jill Cooper Udall
Reginald Van Lee
Agnes Varis
Kerry Washington
Alexa L. Wesner
Forest Whitaker
Anna Wintour
Damian Woetzel
George C. Wolfe
Alfre Woodard

[for committee appointee details]
[president’s committee for arts and humanities]
[artforum] | [unbeige]

Designing obama.

Sep 22, 2009

A 360-page book is full-color and hardbound, documents the innovative presidential via art and design. Scott Thomas, design director of the Obama campaign, has collaborated with artists and designers to create Designing Obama, a chronicle of the art from the historic campaign. Forewords written by Steven Heller and Michael Bierut. Follow on twitter. Funding help via Kickstarter also…The art of an election. 2008. [RK]

The obamas install johns in white house.

May 29, 2009

Johns installed in white house. ruscha, diebenkorn, and rauschenberg. via wsj and @whitneymuseum [PR]

Obama grants $2.3 billion for electric cars.

Mar 25, 2009

U.S. electric vehicles get big boost. Spain is shooting for a million electric vehicles by 2012. via huffington post [PR]

Coke #2 on facebook.

Mar 16, 2009

How two coke fans brought the brand to Facebook fame via adage [PR]

An innovation action plan for Obama.

Mar 11, 2009

Thomas D. Kuczmarski suggests an innovation action plan for Obama. via businessweek [PR]

Obama needs a secretary of innovation.

Feb 13, 2009

Obama needs a secretary of innovation. via businessweek [PR]

Artist sues AP over Obama image.

Feb 10, 2009

Artist sues AP over Obama image. Oh, the artist who currently has a retrospective at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston was arrested there on Friday, accused of illegally pasting his work in places around Boston; he has pleaded not guilty. via nyt [thanks carlyn meyer]

Pepsicobama.

Feb 3, 2009

pepsiobama-5There’s a lot of rhetoric regarding what came first — Pepsi or Obama. (left) Dates not exactly correct but not wrong either – duality in vitro. An unofficial chronology… (more…)

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