Vincent Turner - Innovation, Design & Music

.. time to think

2009-10-14T11:36:52Z

We measure the success of our countries by their GDP, the virtues of our people by their personal wealth and the health of our species by our ability to challenge our mortality. None of which seem to measure the quality, subjective or otherwise, of our existence or endevaours.

are we turning into customusers?

2009-08-29T00:09:33Z

Infact, it seems that the things we want to acquire today are mechanisms to allow us to do stuff.. rather than things in their own right. The only point of owning something is to be able to have control of it so you can use it whenever you like. Ownership equates largely with convenience.

revisiting the cafe

2009-08-15T00:14:29Z

it's interesting that our intent to be efficient often drives a reality much different

an entre to opera

2009-07-17T09:26:12Z

A little aside from my usual posts on innovation, design and change to tell you about a more personal experience of mine in recent times.

balancing form and function

2009-06-28T01:20:17Z

Beautifully 'designed' items of form and function, in so far as they do something and look nice. One caught my eye particularly, a rock covered in orange calfskin leather masquarading as a paperweight.

What's in a name?

2009-06-17T01:53:00Z

No, not some study on how your name affects your socioeconomic standing (read up on this theory in 'freakanomics') but more the focus we put on developing a name for ourselves in our chosen field of passion or commerce and perhaps the negative effect this has on what else we think we can do.

It's not a popularity contest

2009-06-11T21:35:14Z

It doesn't take a rocket surgeon to work out the flaw here... so, with the wisdom of crowds and the 'viewed' counter based content profiling/ordering in any of our major content sites today such as newspapers, share prices, video (youtube), music (pick a site), photos (flickr etc) are we creating a similiar paradigm online?

is a competitive market the answer?

2009-06-06T10:46:22Z

Our resources are lost to competitive endevaour not collaborative gain

Bring the noise!

2009-05-25T10:28:38Z

Hi All,

not so much a blog post as a little heads up. I am closing down my www.vinae.com.au djing website and bringing the content on that across to here. So you will now notice a new section which is djing sets. I am going to be recording a whole bunch of new sets as well and will blog those here as well.

Enjoy

Don't we already have a National Broadband Network?

2009-05-24T00:36:53Z

Surely this is a very limited use of this saturated and ubiquitous piece of hardware found in every shop where there is any civiliasation.