Digital Death
On December 1st, Hollywood died a digital death. The world's top celebrity tweeters sacrificed their digital lives to give real life to millions of people affected by HIV/AIDS in Africa and India. Here is their full last tweet and testaments until $1,000,000 is raised to buy their lives back via www.buylife.org.
UPDATE:
Celebrity Twitter Ban Campaign a Bust, Can't Raise $1 Million; Stars Freak Out
December 07, 2010 | New York Post
Celebrities were so frustrated with the time it took to raise $1 million for Keep a Child Alive's "Digital Death" campaign, they persuaded a wealthy savior to give them $500,000 so they could get back on Twitter.
.hiv
.hiv is a global idea to fight HIV and AIDS. By the end of 2010, the number of people diagnosed with HIV would have reached 150 million.
AIDS continues to be a deadly diagnosis and to help stop it nonprofit organization Dot-HIV and Hamburg based agency Kemper Trautmann have launched a Facebook campaign, whose goal is to use the power of the Internet and establish a new top-level domain (such as .com or .org): .hiv.
Every website in the world could soon have the domain name ending .hiv – and while the content of the sites remain the same, you would do some good by using the .hiv-version of the website as every time someone visits such a website, the owner would donate a small amount of money to the Dot-HIV charity – or pay a monthly rate for the use of the domain name ending.
For more details visit www.dothiv.org/info.
Talking Tree
Everybody has an opinion on Nature. But what about Nature’s opinion? EOS magazine decided to give Nature the means to talk. A 100 year old tree, living on the edge of Brussels, was hooked up to a fine dust meter, ozone meter, light meter, weatherstation, webcam and microphone. This equipment constantly measures the tree’s living circumstances. And translates this information into human language. Then, the tree lets the world know how he feels.
Visit www.talking-tree.com and follow the life of the talking tree via YouTube, Flickr and Soundcloud.
Slow Down!
Marking the back to school term, Preventable together with BCAA Traffic Safety Foundation and the District of West Vancouver have launched an optical illusion geared to making drivers slow down at high-risk intersections.
The optical illusion is of an illustrated girl chasing a ball with signs leading up to it saying "you're probably not expecting kids to run out on the road" to prepare drivers.
The installation is meant to draw attention to the risk of children running into the street and was carefully tested before being put in place. It has been in place for a few days only and is being monitored as a pilot to ensure pedestrian and driver safety are not risked.
For more details visit www.preventable.ca
POWA Neighborhood Experiment
This social experiment was carried out using hidden cameras in a townhouse complex in Johannesburg. The message is pretty clear..."Don't condone violence by doing nothing".
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