That an other effects from the clanning trend that I talk before.....
mardi 8 novembre 2011
Together is about the extraordinary revival of small groups in Britain today.What happens when a room full of people decide to work towards the same dream? Why is it that when we come together in small groups we are so much more than the sum of our parts?
From druids to bingo-clubbers, eco-warriors to flash-mobbers, historical re-enactors to bee-keepers, books groups and knitting circles, W.I.s, Young Farmers and the fan-owners of a football club, Together reveals the true story of modern Britain. The country we live in is in fact an extraordinary composition of small groups powered by shared interests and common ideals. Hemming reveals a different way of seeing society, one that recognizes the massive, untapped potential of these hundreds of thousands of small groups, how they work and what they enable us to do that we can’t do alone.
Witty and provocative, Together gives us an extraordinary cast of characters, a series of unlikely alliances and most importantly, a vision of what we can achieve Together
(source:http://henryhemming.com/?book=together)
The content of the book is very actual, he related to the trends that I work with, for the school project.
I took time to analyze a lot of things and I understood the comments of the author when he says that " a small group can achieve big things ", I understand when I read it that together nothing is impossible, together we can arrive there. However we have to remain close....
'Clanning' and Spirituality:Trend forcaster Faith Popcorn on 21st-century life
By Kyle Roderick
Some of us are wondering, or worrying, about what life will be like in the coming millennium. What does the future hold for elders and aging baby boomers? our children and grandchildren? How will we be living, working, playing?
Since futurists and marketing experts are diligently researching answers to these and other 21st-century-related questions, we decided to call on one of the best: globally recognized trend forecaster Faith Popcorn, founder of the international marketing consultancy BrainReserve.
Popcorn and her staff have been identifying emerging lifestyle and consumer trends for Fortune 500 companies and others since 1974. Documented as having a 95 percent accuracy rate, Popcorn correctly predicted the explosive growth in home businesses, home delivery, stay-at-home working mothers and home shopping. She also foresaw the demand for organic and specialty foods, the rise of fourwheel-drive cars, as well as the failure of New Coke.
The best-selling author of "Clicking" and "The Popcorn Report" shared her visions of 21st-century life with us via cell phone while being chauffeur-driven to her midtown Manhattan office. She began her prognostications by citing the so-called "99 Lives" trend as one of the major, and possibly most powerful, currents of present and future life.
"99 Lives means that we're living at too fast a pace with too little time to do everything," Popcorn says. "This forces us to assume multiple roles," she adds, but it also means that people are working harder and longer than they did before. "Many elders are already on their second careers," Popcorn notes. "In the future, we'll see elders become even more enterprising as they embark on their third and fourth careers." On the downside, however, these elders, along with everyone else, are going to be living at faster paces and in more complex circumstances.
"Time will be the new currency in the year 2000 and beyond," she says. "We'll spend it, save it, invest it and trade it -- the way we did with money in the 1980s and '90s. "For instance, companies will start rewarding their employees with time bonuses rather than money, she says. What's more, people will be searching for extra time in every area of their lives, and this is why "by 2010, 90 percent of consumer products will be home-delivered. Mothers will give children lists so they can shop for the family's groceries and other necessities over the Internet." Kids will also be taking cooking lessons so they can prepare meals for the family, Popcorn says, because so many parents will be working too late to cook dinner.
In addition, while the kids or live-in elders are cooking dinner and parents are commuting homeward or working out at the gym, personal assistants will be running our errands. "Just as a hotel concierge gets tickets to sporting events or arranges a doctor's appointment for a guest, so will the personal concierge" work for overextended people, Popcorn says.
Given that the elder population and 72 million baby boomers are aging en masse, Popcorn says that the "clanning" trend is destined to define life in the 21st century. "Multigenerational families (living together) are on the rise," she says, "and so are alternative families that include single friends or relatives. "Families and disparate individuals will choose to live together for economic and child-raising advantages, along with the emotional and social supports that family-style living can confer. "There is going to be a blending of families and unrelated people that we've never seen the likes of before," Popcorn says. "People are really going to team up and care for each other in profound ways." Gated communities, which she likens to armored cocoons, are also going to become more popular as we strive to distance ourselves from increasingly threatening social realities. As our 21st-century lives accelerate into technologically oriented and depersonalized lifestyles and job styles, "anchoring" will emerge as a key lifestyle trend. Anchoring refers to the desire to reconnect to our spiritual and ethical roots, and taking "what was secure from the past in order to be ready for the future," says Popcorn. "People are already rediscovering their religious and spiritual traditions, or discovering them."
In the next decade, Popcorn predicts that spirituality will become much more integral to daily life as companies and employers begin scheduling meditation or "spirituality breaks" for employees to pray or otherwise connect with a higher power. Noting that more Americans attend religious services than all sporting events combined, she adds: "Pick-your-own religions will become the new status quo. For example, people may combine Jewish ritual with Catholic sacraments and Zen principles."
This multiculturally blended practice of world religious traditions ties in with Popcorn's broad definition of how we will be living in the 21st century. "People are more spiritual, conservative and less apt to spend," she says. "Life after 2000 is going to be primarily focused on living and being rather than on buying and having."
Since futurists and marketing experts are diligently researching answers to these and other 21st-century-related questions, we decided to call on one of the best: globally recognized trend forecaster Faith Popcorn, founder of the international marketing consultancy BrainReserve.
Popcorn and her staff have been identifying emerging lifestyle and consumer trends for Fortune 500 companies and others since 1974. Documented as having a 95 percent accuracy rate, Popcorn correctly predicted the explosive growth in home businesses, home delivery, stay-at-home working mothers and home shopping. She also foresaw the demand for organic and specialty foods, the rise of fourwheel-drive cars, as well as the failure of New Coke.
The best-selling author of "Clicking" and "The Popcorn Report" shared her visions of 21st-century life with us via cell phone while being chauffeur-driven to her midtown Manhattan office. She began her prognostications by citing the so-called "99 Lives" trend as one of the major, and possibly most powerful, currents of present and future life.
"99 Lives means that we're living at too fast a pace with too little time to do everything," Popcorn says. "This forces us to assume multiple roles," she adds, but it also means that people are working harder and longer than they did before. "Many elders are already on their second careers," Popcorn notes. "In the future, we'll see elders become even more enterprising as they embark on their third and fourth careers." On the downside, however, these elders, along with everyone else, are going to be living at faster paces and in more complex circumstances.
"Time will be the new currency in the year 2000 and beyond," she says. "We'll spend it, save it, invest it and trade it -- the way we did with money in the 1980s and '90s. "For instance, companies will start rewarding their employees with time bonuses rather than money, she says. What's more, people will be searching for extra time in every area of their lives, and this is why "by 2010, 90 percent of consumer products will be home-delivered. Mothers will give children lists so they can shop for the family's groceries and other necessities over the Internet." Kids will also be taking cooking lessons so they can prepare meals for the family, Popcorn says, because so many parents will be working too late to cook dinner.
In addition, while the kids or live-in elders are cooking dinner and parents are commuting homeward or working out at the gym, personal assistants will be running our errands. "Just as a hotel concierge gets tickets to sporting events or arranges a doctor's appointment for a guest, so will the personal concierge" work for overextended people, Popcorn says.
Given that the elder population and 72 million baby boomers are aging en masse, Popcorn says that the "clanning" trend is destined to define life in the 21st century. "Multigenerational families (living together) are on the rise," she says, "and so are alternative families that include single friends or relatives. "Families and disparate individuals will choose to live together for economic and child-raising advantages, along with the emotional and social supports that family-style living can confer. "There is going to be a blending of families and unrelated people that we've never seen the likes of before," Popcorn says. "People are really going to team up and care for each other in profound ways." Gated communities, which she likens to armored cocoons, are also going to become more popular as we strive to distance ourselves from increasingly threatening social realities. As our 21st-century lives accelerate into technologically oriented and depersonalized lifestyles and job styles, "anchoring" will emerge as a key lifestyle trend. Anchoring refers to the desire to reconnect to our spiritual and ethical roots, and taking "what was secure from the past in order to be ready for the future," says Popcorn. "People are already rediscovering their religious and spiritual traditions, or discovering them."
In the next decade, Popcorn predicts that spirituality will become much more integral to daily life as companies and employers begin scheduling meditation or "spirituality breaks" for employees to pray or otherwise connect with a higher power. Noting that more Americans attend religious services than all sporting events combined, she adds: "Pick-your-own religions will become the new status quo. For example, people may combine Jewish ritual with Catholic sacraments and Zen principles."
This multiculturally blended practice of world religious traditions ties in with Popcorn's broad definition of how we will be living in the 21st century. "People are more spiritual, conservative and less apt to spend," she says. "Life after 2000 is going to be primarily focused on living and being rather than on buying and having."
It talks about the notions of clanning at 9:00, but all the interview is very interresting....
You should take a look!
I believe that the Human in him, haves the reflexe to group together in front of the uncertain, in front of the things which he doesn't manage to explain or simply to unite against a cause which he believes. I am think that it is the biggest trends. It is trends of the last 10 years. With Facebook, weightwatchers, the movements like Occupy, blogs, tumblrs... all this give more and more visibility to the trend. I think that's the way the world go. We don't have choices againt the environmental disaster, the air pollution, the economic crisis or the war. If we want to make it stop we have to be group.
Generation Y’s most coveted reward: self esteem
Generation Y regularly takes lashings in the media for being the “self esteem generation” or “trophy kids,” raised in an era of coddling and compliments and faring poorly in the workplace without constant praise. A new study raises some new, albeit unusual, alarm bells on this: an article in the forthcoming Journal of Personality article titled “Sweets, Sex, or Self-Esteem? Comparing the Value of Self-Esteem Boosts with Other Pleasant Rewards.” The big finding: young adults like and want moments that boost self esteem more than having sex, eating a favorite food, drinking or pretty much any other pleasurable activity the paper studied.
Participants in the study were asked to imagine their favorite food, sexual activity and self-esteem building experience, such as getting a good grade or receiving a compliment.Then, participants asked how much they “liked” and “wanted” each of those things. The 130 University of Michigan undergrads “liked” and “wanted” the self-esteem boosts more than either of the other activities. Here’s how they matched up:
The researchers then tossed in a few other fun activities, like receiving a paycheck, drinking, even seeing a best friend. Again, self-esteem trumped:
There was a small gender split here: while men valued self-esteem boosts above everything, women put them on par with seeing best friends and getting paid.
How generalizable these results are is a bit unknown. As the researchers Brad Bushman, Scott Moeller and Jennifer Crocker note, “We are unable to know what kinds of self-esteem boosts people were considering.” Either way, they do see the results as a red flag. The paper ends with a reference to Fritz Perls, an early 19th century psychologist, and his stern warning that “Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self-esteem.”
Making a fast introspection of myself, being myself a part this group, I believe that it's not a bad thin. I saw my father and my grandfather working for merciless employers. I know what I want, I know my rights and I refuse to undergo what my parents underwent. I believe that it is important that an employer gives some feedback to the people with he works with, however it is not necessary that this one encourages them in every seconds.
lundi 7 novembre 2011
EARTH MAGIC- Nick Knight
I found this video pretty interesting, the artistical form of the video inspired me, for my school's projects in Fashion design... I will show you some works very soon.
'There was no script. I simply told people I wanted to film my subconscious.' That is director Joseph Lally's summary of his latest film Earth Magic, an art piece exclusively revealed on SHOWstudio and starring a cast of models and actors including Daphne Guinness Jamie Bochert, Sebastian Sauvé and Erik Sage. Eschewing conventional narrative in favour of striking aesthetics, Earth Magic juxtaposes ideas of covert operations and brainwashing with Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream.
(Nick Knight citation:http://showstudio.com/project/earth_magic)
'There was no script. I simply told people I wanted to film my subconscious.' That is director Joseph Lally's summary of his latest film Earth Magic, an art piece exclusively revealed on SHOWstudio and starring a cast of models and actors including Daphne Guinness Jamie Bochert, Sebastian Sauvé and Erik Sage. Eschewing conventional narrative in favour of striking aesthetics, Earth Magic juxtaposes ideas of covert operations and brainwashing with Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream.
(Nick Knight citation:http://showstudio.com/project/earth_magic)
ESSAY ALEXANDRE FURY- Power dressign
That's an essay of Alexander Fury, the fashion director of the web site SHOWstudio.com. This essay intrigued me, I found this essay very Relevant.
Fashion is inherently political. The choice of what to wear each morning marks you out as a sentient being. It is a manner, albeit tacit, of advertising a point of view, a belief system, like scrawling your cultural affiliations across your chest. Fashion, in short, is sartorial propaganda. In a modern world where we afford fashion the status of the politic it is perhaps inevitable that politics in turn are subject to the vagaries of fashion.
Of course one can argue that complicity between fashion and politics is old-school. Louis XIV used fashion as his foremost tool of government: following the Fronde, the civil war that tore France apart, Louis made his nobility so fashion-conscious within the rigid hierarchy of Versailles that they couldn't think of overthrowing him. Elizabeth I used fashion to reinforce her mythical status as virgin queen, expressing the power and wealth her country did not really have. Even her contemporary namesake uses fashion as a political tool, her coronation gown emblazoned with embroidered emblems of the Commonwealth she was barely holding together. What is different now is that it is the system of fashion, the conspiracy of fashion, rather than its sumptuary frills and furbelows, that is being used by politics and politicians to further their power.Today, politics and fashion are in cahoots. Fashion, the ultimate spin-doctor, has been seized upon by politicians as a way to further their endeavours. David Cameron's recent appearance on the cover of GQ was striking because it was accepted as perfectly normal. The only other time a Conservative Party leader appeared on the cover of a fashion magazine, she was played by Vivienne Westwood in Tatler's notorious 1989 'April Fools' edition. If we consider fashion the ultimate means of manufacturing desire, it is only natural that politics should seek to harness its power. Politicians are now airbrushed, sliced and diced into their own propaganda, political campaigns run with the slick gloss of a fashion show, candidates styled, buffed, preened, their answers polished to a sheen.
Jean Baudrillard argued that in a post-modern world, fashion penetrates domains of experience outside of itself: it is perhaps inevitable therefore that in a culture dominated by quick fixes - fast food, fast fashion, fast promises - political policies become short-term. One week it is immigration, the next terrorism, the next monetary union, each one seized, milked and spat out, barely masticated like a cheap high-street trend. We no longer have left or right, black or white, just this season's ever-fashionable middle-ground in a fetching shade of grey.
There is something more sinister in these assertions. If fashion uses politics to add weight to its arguments - whether rebranding their catalogue as 'Manifesto' or using clothes themselves as tools of tub-thumping didacticism - fashion is a convenient distraction and disguise for the more dubious machinations of government. Walter Benjamin described Fascism as “the aestheticisation of politics”: today, the flash and scintle of fashion distracts from policy otherwise too dark to stomach. 'New Labour' branded themselves like a top advertising campaign - a fashion campaign - jumping on the bandwagon of 'Cool Britannia' and using it to consolidate their power. At the same time, Labour's broken election promises (on education, health, crime...) were craftily wrapped in a Vanity Fair veneer of hip. In America, Hillary Clinton appeared preened and poised on the cover of American Vogue as dewy-eyed diversion to her husband's indiscretions and perjury.
Fashion is politics' lambs clothing: if you can dress it up and make it look pretty, maybe people won't notice the ugly things it's saying. Again, this may be ages old - propaganda is hardly a modern conceit after all. But in the past, there was some kind of substance behind the sparkle. Today, image is as good as reality: if you can't have the real Hermès Birkin, a fake looks just the same. If you can't have a real politician, does it matter as long as they look the part? The real influence of fashion on politics is the sad, stark reality that image is everything and policies come a distant second.
Propaganda, propaganda, propaganda. All that matters is propaganda.
...Who was it that said that again?
vendredi 4 novembre 2011
THE INFLUENCERS
There are more than six billion people living on the planet right now, and over 33 million of them live in Canada alone. That's a lot of people making decisions. The state of the world is determined by the choices people make, but as you know if you've ever asked a group of friends their opinion on getting dental implants in Toronto, there some people whose decisions matter more than others. These are the newsmakers, the leaders. They are the people who determine the direction of society. They are the Influencers.
Even though you and I may never make a bigger decision than which firm to turn to for real estate services in Toronto, we still need to do our part in shaping the world. How do we do that? By keeping tabs on the most powerful and influential people. By staying informed about what's going on in the world. And by standing by, ready to take action if the world is going in a direction we don't like. Because as important as these few influencers are, together, we the masses can overwhelm their influence if we all stand together.
So who are these influencers? Influencers are the wealthy, the powerful, the prominent people in our society. Some of their names you may already know - like Stephen Harper, Barack Obama, and Stephene Meyer - while others exert their driving forces from behind the scenes by suggesting new class actions in Canada or delivering reports that change the opinions of the people who make the decisions. We'll introduce you to the Influencers whose choices affect your life, both the ones you would guess are influential, like political leaders - and the ones you wouldn't, like film directors, and outline for you why these people are so influential.
Most Influencers are not born. They are made. Some are shaped into forces for change by others who have seen their potential, while others have made something of themselves after growing tired of driving a Brampton airport taxi. If it's your goal to become an Influencer yourself, our definitions and career paths information will be invaluable to your efforts. We believe any one of us can become an Influencer if we simply put our minds and our efforts toward the task.
Forces for change come in good and in bad forms. Some are obvious, and some are so subtle that they are difficult to trace. We are your source for information relating to both. We can tell you what procedure developed at Resume Writing Winnipeg will sweep the world. We can deliver news, information, profiles, and more - anything that will give you a clearer picture of how the world works. Check out the navigation bar above for our topics and to get your learn on...
(http://www.theinfluencers.ca/)
I believe that we need these influencers. Human, alway needed a hand. All this to begin with the religion religion was there to tell people what's bad or not. However, today, the world became disillusioned with people get loose more and more from the religion. Each person get there own vison but... We still need anybody who have a strong charisma, who have the power to affect the decisions of the others, to change things. Chanel, Steve Jobs, Picasso... They all change the way to think, they gave their own vison.
Even though you and I may never make a bigger decision than which firm to turn to for real estate services in Toronto, we still need to do our part in shaping the world. How do we do that? By keeping tabs on the most powerful and influential people. By staying informed about what's going on in the world. And by standing by, ready to take action if the world is going in a direction we don't like. Because as important as these few influencers are, together, we the masses can overwhelm their influence if we all stand together.
So who are these influencers? Influencers are the wealthy, the powerful, the prominent people in our society. Some of their names you may already know - like Stephen Harper, Barack Obama, and Stephene Meyer - while others exert their driving forces from behind the scenes by suggesting new class actions in Canada or delivering reports that change the opinions of the people who make the decisions. We'll introduce you to the Influencers whose choices affect your life, both the ones you would guess are influential, like political leaders - and the ones you wouldn't, like film directors, and outline for you why these people are so influential.
Most Influencers are not born. They are made. Some are shaped into forces for change by others who have seen their potential, while others have made something of themselves after growing tired of driving a Brampton airport taxi. If it's your goal to become an Influencer yourself, our definitions and career paths information will be invaluable to your efforts. We believe any one of us can become an Influencer if we simply put our minds and our efforts toward the task.
Forces for change come in good and in bad forms. Some are obvious, and some are so subtle that they are difficult to trace. We are your source for information relating to both. We can tell you what procedure developed at Resume Writing Winnipeg will sweep the world. We can deliver news, information, profiles, and more - anything that will give you a clearer picture of how the world works. Check out the navigation bar above for our topics and to get your learn on...
(http://www.theinfluencers.ca/)
I believe that we need these influencers. Human, alway needed a hand. All this to begin with the religion religion was there to tell people what's bad or not. However, today, the world became disillusioned with people get loose more and more from the religion. Each person get there own vison but... We still need anybody who have a strong charisma, who have the power to affect the decisions of the others, to change things. Chanel, Steve Jobs, Picasso... They all change the way to think, they gave their own vison.
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