Mike Arauz's Blog – The Archives

It's my favorite time of the week, when I carefully collect the very best favorite links, photos, and videos from the past week on my Tumblr blog.The web was overflowing with good stuff this week.


The National Library of Wales added their photo collection to the Flickr Commons:




A stop-motion animation fan-made music video for Death Cab for Cutie's "Little Bribes"

Death Cab for Cutie - Little Bribes from Ross Ching on Vimeo.

BBH-Labs announced a radical new agency where they only ask you to pay whatever you think their work is worth: Agency Nil.

Hank came up with a radical idea. Forget begging your way onto the bottom of a long and fairly shaky ladder, working to cover expenses. Hell, why not just launch an agency instead? But an agency with a difference. An agency that doesn’t charge. Agency Nil - Will work for all it's worth.

Theresa Andersson is a one-woman band:




A collection of beautifully designed quotes on Flickr:




Sparked by Tumblr's recent addition of a stats page, alicetiara wrote a great post about how these kinds of digital measurements become a stand-in for social status. She gives us a few things to remember:

1. They are always stand-ins for more complicated status measures.


2. Techie/geek/engineer types love quantified metrics precisely because they facilitate comparison.


3. Quantified status metrics spur competition and therefore increase user action.


4. Social status is an under-studied, under-rated aspect of product design and motivation for user action.

Keep an eye on Rocketboom's own video tracking website, Magma (still under development). From NewTeeVee:

Magma, a viral video tracker built by the Rocketboom team, was revealed in a sneak peak for attendees of the NY Video group last night. I selfishly love this idea, even if it’s a ways from being a business, or even a working service.

Found this photo of one of my favorite French actors, Louis Garrel, and many other incredible portraits on hedislimane.com




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