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This is our (ongoing) list of some of our favourite online creative magazines, all of which are free for your downloading pleasure - please feel free to submit any we don't/should know/have forgotten about to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it and read all the way to number 10, it's worth it. PS: Please note the copyright laws on ALL the e-mags below - they're working hard to bring you outstanding creativity and content, please respect this by not reproducing their work in any way or form without their permission in writing:

 

1.We'll kick off with Studio83 , a fresh and fun e-mag lovingly put together by the starshaking Johannesburg-born creative designer George Gladwin Matsheke. You can download the latest edition "Modern Man" for mahala ('free' in South African lingo) on the site as well as all previous editions... enjoy.

In a JOVA first we attended a festival virtually, thanks to two cyberspace souls that were able to Represent us at the last minute at the PICNIC Crossmedia creative festival in Amsterdam last week. They've kindly blogged the highlights for us, big shout outs and thanks go to Laetitia Dam and Bertrand Robinne for hanging out on our behalf. Of special interest to us was the Suprising Africa day, that they covered in detail for us. See their photo-story here (video still to come) and read their review below:

 

A new Ecosystem conference

Being music lovers we first stepped in the Flexbar where “A New Music Ecosystem” conference took place. “The music industry is changing. Artists and developers everywhere are working on new ways of connecting fans and bands and developing new businesses along the way”. As MySpace users we were mostly interested in the presentation of new Music websites. The one that caught our ears was Twones introduced by the dynamic and young Tim Heineke. Twones is a music service and a new way to store, organize, find & share music played all over the web

‘Sudan Under My Skin’ is a photo exhibition comprising 35 images encapsulating the recent seven-month experience of Cape Town-based journalist and photographer Yazeed Kamaldien . Please note that this exhibition is also part of the official Cape Town Month of Photography which opens on October 2 2008. "Sometimes a place or experience can leave you scarred. Sudan did more than that. It didn’t just brush my surface; it crept under my skin.I first ventured to this African country’s troubled Darfur region in October 2004. Back then I was working as a journalist with a national daily newspaper based in Johannesburg. I never guessed that I would be back in Sudan. It was a hot afternoon on July 1 2007 when I landed 

Whilst reading up some background info on KK (see below) we were directed to Long Bets, basically an online portal where members of the public are invited to place their bets or predictions about our future or... on the future. A few hard rules: one, betters have to use their real name, two, a bet cannot be changed and three, all winnings become philanthropic gifts:The Long Bets site is ..an arena for competitive, accountable predictions (Long Bets)...a forum for focused discussion and debate about prediction...an attractive tool for philanthropic giving...a way to foster better long-term thinking.

 

 

Power to the people! By now you've gathered our focus is on Belgium for a while. A quick French lesson in homophones and a bit of History before we explain this superb social project "No future without 100 ideas": 100 in French is CENT, the word 'Without' is SANS - both of them are pronouned in the same way kind of like SARN with a nearly silent R and soft N. Belgium is made up of 3 ethnic/linguistic areas - Flandres, made up of Flemish speakers (similar to Afrikaans), Wallonie, which is full of French-speaking citizens, Brussels, which is both languages and the centre of the European union, so very diverse with a lot of business in English, and then in the far West of the country is a little Germanic area which tags onto Wallonie.The country is tiny. The population is just over 10 million. Peanuts. And yet, the people are divided. Simply put, some people (and politicians!) want Belgium to split and for the French half to go to France, the Flemish part to the Netherlands and for Brussels to become it's own state like Luxembourg. Many people are devastated by this thought and

Nice Ad shot in Cape Town, we always wondered who made adverts in the mother city, besides Joburgers of course. In this case, it's the US wood stain manufacturere CABOT who conjure up a big storm off the Cape coast with a cheesy end - nice one. Watch it here on Adverbox .

We're sure you've heard of the Stop Crime Say Hello campaign , if not, it's a superb initiative that's based on a simple yet potent concept, that saying hello and treating our fellow citizens with respect will make all the difference: "by looking one another in the eyes, smiling and saying hello we show respect and restore dignity. these values are the cornerstones of a peaceful and safe society. so powerful, as it is something that each of us can do every day." The South African concept is in line if not ahead of the global communication trend of "encouraging interaction, respect and empathy" between people,  as touched on in our "Meet a Black Person " post. We hope Justin Foxton and his team behind SCSH get the government, NGO and business support they need to truly give the campaign the fuel it needs to go nationwide. The Belgians have a similar campaign which was run in the second week of May this year throughout Belgium, inspired by the sad state of ISOLATION that so many citizens feel themselves living in. Known as Hello Week (Semaine de Bonjour), teams were sent out across Belgium greeting everyone they came across while walking or riding their bike, whoever said Hello back stood a chance of winning 25000 euros - R300k more or less - 500 people also won 25 euros each for replying. 

 

Interbrand and Businessweek have released their list of the "Best Global Brands by Value for 2007". It's a fascinating read and well worth downloading.

Interbrand