Netdiver magazine

Feed your mind – #001

How Companies Turn Your Data Into Money by Max Eddy

Companies collect our personal data online and use it to target us with ads, among other purposes (or how companies turn you into money.

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16 Characteristics of Critical Thinkers by Deep Patel

Critical thinkers are focused on constantly upgrading their knowledge, and they engage in independent self-learning.

ndlr: Must read!

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DuckDuckGo – the search engine that doesn’t track you!

ndlr: Been using it for a few years now – all searches you do are not recorded and NOT batched to a monstrous data retaining centre for further mining. Not as Gee do.

Must use!

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I ditched the Mac for the iPad, and I’ll never go back by Jesus Diaz

The iPad Pro has changed my life, and I don’t care about desktop computing anymore.

ndlr: I own one (first gen) and DO all my generative art + art / photos editing on it!

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While cheats and swindlers may be a dime a dozen, true con men are elegant, outsized personalities, artists of persuasion and exploiters of trust. — Scott Monty

Eyeo brings together a community of people drawn to the intersection of art, data and creative technology lead by passionate thinkers and makers.

You’ll love it. (And it’ll be better with you there.) Converge to Inspire.

Upcoming: June 3-6 / 19

To all the artists who dedicate their efforts – resources – dreams – LIFE to making this world more beautiful! Don’t give up – no matter what – the world needs you.

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ndlr: Today is International Artist Day and to celebrate it yearlong – I have kicked off a new category on Netdiver: ART!

Stef Thiele is a painter living in Hamburg and happens to be the one artist – I admire the most. Her work is so modern and versatile. It can even translate well into marketing campaigns..

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Having observe her evolution over the past year or so – is an indication of greatness in becoming. She is the first artist I feature on Netdiver mag. Not the last! Stay tuned.

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Excerpt from her artist manifesto:

I am a viking. But despite my own uncompromising determination, my works consist of a difficult-to-describe mix of euphoric "what if’s" and melancholic “could have been’s”.

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The yearning for spontaneity and freedom collides with the compulsion to try to foresee the future and plan it meticulously. This is translated into busy, colourful compositions that are seemingly unable to find a clear focus.

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Often whole pictures are buried beneath the surface of a completed work, with only tiny parts of the past peeking through the hundreds of layers of thick brushstrokes and poured and thrown acrylic paint. Each picture is a battlefield – a back and forth between giving up control and winning it back.

Follow her i/G feed!

Predicted years ago that we were embarking in the ‘age of images’ meaning that our communication currency would become exclusively visual. Marco Simonetti did a photographic essay on that topic.

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The only way to ‘decipher’ what the image is about is by capturing its Q-R-Code. If you don’t – you (and I) will judge the ‘story’ based on our subjective sensibilities and values.

Take time to view the project. Isn’t this a brilliant social essay?

If and only if, you have used or seen ban.do products will you make sense of the following homage to this entrepreneurial pop girls phenomena.

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It started in August 2008.. and it went ‘boom’ in a matter of a couple of years. Their mission? Stay serious about fun! Follow the link to read about their trajectoire.

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I am using their 19-month planner and I love it! At onset – I went.. mmm.. a bit too girly for me.. but it grew on me and now I am sold. Oh I love stickers too!

The community winnders of the Take 10: Weightless challenge.

This is an Adobe quarterly contest in which you create an artwork under a theme using 10 images (and no additional images).

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Victor Murillo. (Jaw on the floor.)

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Jo Hucek

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Hanene Bouachour

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Alex Plesovskich

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The stock images for this round – were not – huh – exactly a bowl of cherries.

I am not a ‘boarding anything’ type of girl but am fascinated by the designs these boards receive. Please take time to view Gábor Mészáros wakeboards series.

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Oh! And this awesome surfboard!

606 Universal Shelving System. Designed by Dieter Rams in 1960 and made by Vitsœ ever since.

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The most flexible and most ingenious system of shelving that can be use anywhere literally. Some fab examples follows.