Thoughts about the web and viral progression

This blog post from Avi Lowell of Oleh Technologies gives interesting insight as to how and why certain content gets virally spread over the Internet and what the effects may be.

Our “Rosh Hashana” video virals past 50,000 :-) « Olehcreative’s Weblog

TIME magazine's list of The World's 50 Worst Cars Ever

Here you have it:
A list compiled by the world's foremost magazine of 50 of the worst automobiles ever manufactured by man:

Complete List - The 50 Worst Cars of All Time - TIME

Hope you enjoy,
Mike

Better late than never...

A few days after the end of the year Ariel sent me the link to his Blog.
I should have put it online then but forgot.

So...
1. Sorry Ariel for the delay.
2. Checkout http://ariel-interior.blogspot.com/.

Best Regards,
Mike

PS.
My new mail is mike@oleh.com should anyone of you want to drop me a buzz.

HIT ranked among 10 leading academic institutes

Check this out - HIT is ranked among the 10 leading academic institutes in Israel in a survey conducted by MSN Israel.

MSN לימודים - הדירוג האקדמי של ישראל לשנת 2007

I think this a credit to all of us...

I hope you are enjoying your summer and spending at least some of time to go to Art and Design related events.

You are invited to check out events in Jerusalem this week on:
http://www.jlm.israel.net/home

The Jerusalem Film Festival is starting today in the newly renovated Cinematheque building and on Satruday http://www.pacotek.com/ have an event near th Maabada theater...

Hope to see you there.

Mike
http://www.speakitz.com/
Your say Anywhere

Final presentations of the Industrial Design dept.

This is the schedule for the presentations of the final projects being presented by the students of the dept. of Industrial Design (click to enlarge) - you are all invited...

Panel pictures now available in the course gallery

I have uploaded a mass of pictures onto the course gallery.

1. The Panel gallery
2. We are the World gallery - Final exercise of the semester
3. The Tribe - The research of a cultural "Tribe"
   
4. Design in da'Hood gallery - Our neighborhood exercise

Enjoy!
see you next year...
: - )

Mike

Good Luck at the Panel tommorow

Hi all!

1. I want to wish you all good luck at the panel tommorow. Sleep well, wake up early, take a deep breath and BELIEVE IN YOURSELF!
   


2. I opened a Design club on Speakitz - A web 2.0 site with the advantage of allowing you to post notes directly on any site.
   
   Speakitz is now giving away a laptop to the most active member - worth trying out...

See you Tommorow...

GOOD LUCK!

Exercise 8 - The Sweetness After

Prepare a gift for your designated buddy - the format is free.

The present is a personal gift - something you would like to be remembered for or something that symbolises your buddy to you.

This is a great chance to make a final improvement to the impression yu have made during the semester - take advantage of it!

Good Luck,
Mike & Daniel

Mazal Tov Shani

Shani is now officially on line!!!

Woohoo
: - )

check it out:
http://shannyeliahu.blogspot.com

Freedom of Speech just got a whole lot freer

What if we could comment about any page on the web?
Why wonder - we now can!
Check out www.spickit.com

Good Shabbas!
Mike

Exercise 6 – Tribal Design

Since the dawn of mankind we have lived in Tribes.
With the globe shrinking due to improvements in communication we find ourselves redefining our identities. More and more of us see ourselves belonging less to nations and states and more to new tribal like associations: We define ourselves as skaters, tech-geeks, surfers, skinheads, punks, etc…

Over the next week you will conduct a research of the tribe you belong to or a tribe of your choice.

On the first lesson after the Ashram (7.5.07) you will present your research and the process that you have begun (sketches, models) during studio.

On Thursday the 10.5.7 you will present one of the following according to your choice:

1. A bill from your tribe's currency – 2D maximum 20cm*40cm.
2. The prize your tribe gives during it's annual award ceremony (your tribe's Oscar) – 3D 20cm*20cm*40cm.

Good Luck

Yaki is Online!!!

It's time for us to all congratulate Yaki who is our newest Blogger.

Woohoo!!!

http://blog.360.yahoo.com/yakir7x

Yom Haatsmaut Sameach All,
Mike

Mazal Tov Moran!

Check out Moran's new Blog.
Give Moran some positive feedback!

http://mornysh.blogspot.com/