“Lets start off with a simple proposition: innovation is not the same as invention. Invention is creating a new product or service. Innovation is transforming that product into something that’s useful enough and accessible enough to change people’s lives… The most successful innovators are magpies, taking concepts from many different places and putting them together in new ways. They do more than invent. They identify systems in which their inventions can flourish, and of those systems don’t exist they create.”
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James Surowiecki
The best definition of innovation we’ve read. (via The New Yorker The Next New Thing)
“I’ve seemed to move away from taking a cohesive set of photographs, which is something I’ve noticed ever since I stopped regularly posting to Flickr. I’m reminded of a conversation I had with my friend … not about photography, but music—particularly, the dying concept of the album. She had overheard a conversation in a movie theater about the Beatles, and one of the kids uttered, “I like the Beatles; I have all of their iTunes.” I’ve heard these kinds of exchanges before, but this one is fresh in my mind. These days, we may download a single track, unaware of or uninterested in an entire album. I show a similar disinterest in my photography. Process and context are increasingly less significant. I’m preoccupied instead with creating the perfect shot for any given moment—worthy of an avatar, of a Facebook cover photo—and discarding the rest. A single unit is easier and faster to create—and consume.”
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On (New) Ways of Photographing and Consuming | Writing Through the Fog
It’s interesting - Instagram has perfected the single unit / social object / photo experience. And products like Vine and Cinemagrams have followed suit - but we don’t think that’s the end all and be all of images and photos. There’s got to be more. The interplay between one and many is certainly fascinating.
